GamePro - With Ico and Shadow of the Colossus enjoying a second life on the PlayStation 3, McKinley talks about why Team Ico's first game remains so important to its niche fan base.
They may not be as remembered by the vast majority as other classics, but these PlayStation 2 titles are still significant.
A good number of these games are pretty well-known in the gaming community. I don't know who this 'no one' is, but they might not have been a gamer during the time of the PS2. ICO? The Warriors? BULLY?!? C'mon now.
Not one of these is pretty "forgotten". But what you can forget are bad lists that need 15 clicks.
Because the approval system is fundamentally flawed. The amount shouldn't decrease for approval over time, nobody should be able to have more than one vote, and pending content should be more visible so those measures don't feel necessary to push through less immediately popular pieces.
The number of ways this system can be intentionally or accidentally abused so crap like this can get through has been ridiculous for ages now.
The title is misleading, it should be 15 best ps2 that you always ignored (hence the title of the video).
These games are not unknow but often left out when talking PS2 great game.
The warrior is a great game but let's be frank just mention it in a discussion amongs friends and half the crowd will go " OMG I forgot about that! "
I think that's just a factor of time. Most movies from the 80s/90s that are great are like that with me as well. They're still great, just been so much between now and then that you can't keep it all at the forefront of your mind.
15 games on 15 pages? F*** that. I'll save you a click:
The Thing
Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
Deus Ex: The Conspiracy
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly
Twisted Metal Black
ICO
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
Transformers
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Red Dead Revolver
War of the Monsters
XIII
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
The Warriors
Bully
Agreed. Some heroes put on their pants one leg at a time like the rest of us. Thank you.
I remember and know all the game exceot War of the Monsters...
But maybe my name is "no one"
Last time I checked (a year ago) War of the Monsters was available to buy as a ps2 classic on the ps store. Know I've still got my disc copy and fairly sure it's in my digital library
This video game journalist must not know any gamers, not be on any gaming sites, and is probably young only know of these games because of an older sibling.
None of those games are forgotten and most are spoken of fondly fairly often.
On the 20th anniversary of its release, Famitsu would like to introduce all the comments from top creators around the world to "ICO" that were delivered across the boundaries of the industry.
genDESIGN has released an early development video of ICO in celebration of its 20th anniversary on December 6.
Very special game! I still have the limited edition. The artstyle of Team ICO is very distinct. https://www.videogameshelf....
This was a fun look at Ico. So hard to believe it's been 20 years already. Where does time go?
its a very difficult game and not many can enjoy it or can handle its difficulty, but it is a fabulous and amazing game if you put the time and effort to beat it
just the fact of you been hopeless with no weapon makes it great
Ico is beautiful I'm very happy to have the Ico collection
I never played Ico or SotC when they first released, I've only just received them in the collection about a week ago. I'm about 75% of the way through Ico (from what I understand) and I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
I'd recommend it to anyone who likes relatively slow-paced puzzle/platformer games. It reminds me a little bit of the 2008 Prince of Persia game (the one with the temple of light, Elika, etc...). My guess is if you enjoyed that game you'd enjoy this one as well.
That said, I'm not sure I understand the articles insistence (or princejb134 above me) that Ico is "insanely difficult" - I haven't found it to be difficult at all so far. A couple of the puzzles stumped me for 10 minutes or so, but all in all I wouldn't call this a difficult game.
The author is a bitchy little kid. "I'm better than you because I played it first." Who cares? I played it way back when, and I just hope other people will pick it up.
Finished it for the first time today and it was such a beautiful game. Definitely a classic in my eyes.