Sony Meeting Will Discuss "ICO Collection"

DasBunker - 71 days 15 hours ago

never played any of these games.. i skipped almost the whole PS2-era.. itll be awesome to be able to play them and check for myself if all the praise they get is true :P.. SOTC looks stunning..

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Blaster_Master - 71 days 15 hours ago

They should wait until Sony's motion controller comes out so it can support this game. It would be like zelda on the wii, but better. LOL!

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 71 days 14 hours ago

SOTC + 720p/trophies = happy gamers worldwide

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Ravage27 - 71 days 14 hours ago

finally!!!

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sunil - 71 days 14 hours ago

just make it happen and give it a march 2010 release date :)

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Greywulf - 71 days 14 hours ago

These games shined on the PS2.. imagine the shine on the ps3?

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eagle21 - 71 days 14 hours ago

I LOVE SONY! Please. :)

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Microsoft Xbox 360 - 71 days 13 hours ago

This is probably the best thing I've heard this year next to Uncharted 2 getting 10's across the board.

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xenogamer - 71 days 13 hours ago

i never got to play Ico, but SOTC is one of my favorite ps2 games of all time. Cant wait for this to come to fruition.

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Raf1k1 - 71 days 13 hours ago

These two as well as he God of War games are what I wanted to get a PS2 for. Now I may not have to. I will certainly pick these up the day they are released if they go ahead with it.

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darthv72 - 71 days 13 hours ago

There are a crap load of ps2 titles I would love to see given the hd treatment with trophies. I am actually surprised they havent been doing something similar with ps1 games but oh well.

Is anyone worried that this trend of rejuvenating last gen games may hinder current gen development? While I think the idea of making the old seem new again is great I just dont want studios diverting resources from new IP's into time and effort on their older titles. If there was a company who's job it was to simply recode the old games into hd then it would let the other companies do their thing on new stuff.

I am sure there really isnt much effort to making the old look good but when you have soooo many games from the ps2 with fans clamouring for an hd fix it could get quite backlogged with such a huge library. Not to say ALL ps2 games will get the magic treatment but there are plenty more than Ico and GoW games that could benefit sony ($$$ wise) as well as the gamers.

I like the idea..I am just paranoid that it will slow things down while we all have a resurgance of retro gaming in hd.

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Marceles - 71 days 13 hours ago

"The news has everyone excited, but this new development is enough to make heads explode."

(head explodes)

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ReservoirDog316 - 71 days 13 hours ago

Oh I really hope they can do this. I'd imagine it would sell like crazy since everybody knows how great these games are now.

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Max Power - 71 days 13 hours ago

same here, I unfortunately couldn't afford Ico when it was released, and it always seemed to get pushed aside for another game being released, man am I kicking myself for that delay. Luckily I have SOTC gracing my PS2 collection, but I really want to play Ico, I still look at the mom and pop game stores looking for it. If this is released with the same kind of treatment that was given to GoW I and II then I wouldn't mind picking this up and push looking for the original in the back of my mind for a little bit. But that doesn't mean I won't hunt down a ps2 copy for the sake of having it but then I would just suck it up and bid on ebay for one, if someone is selling it.

@darth... I don't think that this will hinder any game dev time, it just may give people the change to relive fond memories with better graphics, and give people who haven't experienced the games a chance too. And I am sure that devs wouldn't mind a little extra money to help the increasing dev costs.

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Information Minister - 71 days 12 hours ago

And the good news just keep on coming.

Maybe I should play the lottery...

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Cenobia - 71 days 12 hours ago

Yeah, I'm a little worried about that too. Adding trophies must take a lot of work as well (I assume).

These games definitely deserve it, but I'd rather they not go too deep into the collection. They might decide to make this a standard practice and remove any backwards compatibility for the PS4. They could make money on their best games indefinitely.

I highly doubt they would do that, I'm just speculating.

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Face Palm - 71 days 11 hours ago

I never played ICO so a revamp would be great! I never played GoW 1 or 2 so that revamp is great too!

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gintoki777 - 71 days 11 hours ago

day 1 preorder i played/beat sotc and never tried ico due to how expensive it is now so it would be great to give it a try

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hay - 71 days 10 hours ago

Me want! *drools*

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DaTruth - 71 days 10 hours ago

They actually pushed the development of GOW collection onto an small indie developer. They likely wouldn't waste big developers and $100,000 salaries on PS2 redevelopment!

I really liked Ico, but they probably should have wrote Ico2 on the StoC box, because had I known, I would have bought it for sure. I basically only knew about Ico from a demo included with another game, so if the game didn't have a demo, I wasn't buying it; Got burned on commercials and word of mouth a few times(Streets of LA, and that crappy riot game).

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rockleex - 71 days 7 hours ago

Zone of the Enders
Devil May Cry
Onimusha
Xenosaga
Persona
Final Fantasy 1-12? :P

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GWAVE - 71 days 14 hours ago

Good call.

And I'd also like a collection of the three Sly Cooper games.

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nanometric - 71 days 14 hours ago

I vote for remastered MGS and Ace Combat collections!

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Cenobia - 71 days 12 hours ago

If they actually improved graphics and dropped in trophies I could see myself paying $80+.

That could be because I'm biased though. They are my favorite games. I think their value holds to at least $40 each (especially with trophies and graphical tweaks).

What I really want is a complete version of ICO. I didn't get to see some of the extra stuff that the PAL version of the game had.

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miasma - 71 days 13 hours ago

as a matter of fact, I have these two for my PS2, and that is the only reason I kept my PS2. Now I will be able to just have the PS3 for those and GOW collection. Works out great for me, don't mind putting out the bucks for GOW and ICO/SOTC collections.

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sajj316 - 71 days 13 hours ago

Yup. I would not hesitate for remastered ICO/SOTC, MGS series (even though I have the collection), or Capcom collection (RE4, Code Veronica, and Okami).

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Trey4Lyfe - 71 days 14 hours ago

:)

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Chubear - 71 days 12 hours ago

Halo:CE remake coming up soon. You just know MS just has to do it. The money they'll make from simpletons that worship halo would be staggering.

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xcox - 71 days 13 hours ago

yeah i 2nd that
actually, force a minigun to their heads!

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mrv321 - 71 days 12 hours ago

I agree, but to be honest not many people would say no to a gun to the head, because to say no to ICO is litrally not using your head.

The minigun seems like overkill, like a RPG for close quarters... mind you these are Sony's Employees have gotten so much hate they are probably immune to this now.

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xcox - 71 days 8 hours ago

i like the "RPG to the head" idea ;P

seriously, i think sony is on to a real good idea with that PS2 classics remastering business. much better than dumb backward compatibility.

whether it's GOW, R* or Team ICO games, i'll pay w/o whining to get them smooth 1080p 60Hz on my big screen and if they add trophy support, I bet a lot of kids are gonna agree with me.

plus, it might also be a good pretext for experimenting with motion controllers on different scenarios

bubble++;

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