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@gameragodzilla @katiekats Literally a longer dev time than DNF if you include the time it was on the drawing board.
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@gameragodzilla @katiekats If DNF's development was troubled, Last Guardian's has been absolutely tortured. We've seen games where this has been so that the better game could merge (see Doom 4) but we've also seen plenty where this is because they had no clue what they were doing. Se we'll see.
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@gameragodzilla @katiekats Shadow of the Colossus is the kind of thing modern From Software aped to end up making Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, which may or may not be your thing but you can't deny that they were hugely influential. (You can see the influence in the differences between Souls and King's Field) The thing people seem to forget about Team Ico though, …
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@katiekats @gameragodzilla Ico forgot the whole game aspect. If it came out today, it'd probably be called a walking siumlator.
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@gameragodzilla @katiekats It's variable. It's a little like Sunless Sea in that the actual good moments are quite good, but there is a lot of dead space in between them that drags down the pacing considerably. A lot of people would argue that this time is used for exploration and they're not wrong, but the exploration aspect is kind of boring. This isn't like …
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@gameragodzilla @katiekats "full length escort mission that didn't suck" is mutually exclusive :P
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@gameragodzilla @katiekats From Software basically ended up doing the "Team ICO game" better than Team ICO did.
As frustrating as the Dark Souls controls can be on PC, DS1's environmental storytelling is second only to Thief 2 in my book.
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