SotC's undeserved praise or How fanboys start a hype from any shit
Half a day ago news got around that the new Team ICO-game had been revealed. Later on, a member of GI themselves declared that information being fake. As it can be said by now, that's right.
In the beginning, all of that was an attempt to fool a certain board, not even neoGAF. That it got posted here was sheer coincidence, but a nice one. When ICO had been released back then on Playstation 2, it got ignored. Its sales were horrible, if i dare to say that...and yeah, i dare. The game was out for quite some time and still nobody noticed. It gained some insider-hype, you know, someone played it and told you how awsome it was. But that didn't help the game too much. THEN SotC got announced. Despite the ignorance in front of its precedessor, SotC was hyped from day one. At first i was happy to see this game from the developer of ICO getting this amount of attention. But that changed. Soon it went from "looks interesting" right into the system war. I don't want to go into detail here, but out of, i suppose so, stupidity, Sony-fanboys chose this game as their holy cow. But not because it was an interesting game, but because they thought they could use this awsome looking game in their childish fanboy-wars. They made SotC something the game just was not and is not. SotC is not one of the greatest action-adventures, and it surely cannot compete with the likes of The Legend of Zelda or other high profile games. SotC didn't have great gameplay. It was searching for Colossi and defeating them, the special thing being the different design of each giant and bound to that the different method of defeating it. SotC was a niche game from the core of its design. It was a game like one of those books or anime or movies or whatever that just not everyone likes, that only few get to find attractive.
But thanks to sheer fanboyism, if you say nowdays "I don't like SotC, it doesn't offer enough" you can be sure to be called a troll, a hater, a fanboy of another system, or whatever. But that's not right. SotC doesn't offer enough, indeed, but that's because of the nature of this game. It was never meant to be appreciated by everyone. Thanks to ignorant Sony-fanboys, SotC was made into a game that is now often called "a piece of art" or "one of the greatest action-adventures, if not games, ever". They put it in line with other games that really offered something. Try saying something bad about this game and you won't get a rest until you supress your opinion or admit that you're a minority of people that cannot see "the truth".
Now, onto "The Last Canyon".
"The Last Canyon" was created from my personal wishes. It's the game i want so bad. You know, flying around, exploring and what not. All that without too much ingame help systems, et cetera. Funny thing is, this whole idea originated as an idea for an upcoming Zelda-game. As a matter of fact i knew that if i keep details about what the game would be like, SotC-fanboys would react to it. You know, keep content away and don't offer much. Combine it with a corny title et voíla, "The Last Canyon" was born.
I take this chance to beg you: Stop hyping Team ICO-games the way you do. They´re awsome games, but only to some of us. They´re not awsome comparing them to other videogames that have...content. If you think SotC had enough content, that's fine, but don't make everyone think that. Just for the record, if anyone didn't get that from this text: I'm a huge fan of ICO and i really liked SotC. So put back your fanboy-hate.
If someone still hasn't charged his fanboy-rage, i hope some of you like the concept of "The Last Canyon". As some even supposed by themselves, the canyons were supposed to features caves of varying size. There should be various scenarios to explore, that you don't think of when first seeing the boring, but because of its scale awsome big desert. Perhaps some developers picks up this idea, i would'nt be upset. And sorry to GI, it's thanks to your awsome credibility and the great job you do that this fake got this big. Take that as a compliment.
To conclude all that, i hope the next Team ICO-game gets the attention it deserves, without anyone being forced into a game he may not really like. And to those who played SotC and liked it but didn't play ICO: Give it a try. It's an awsome game with a boss fight imo even better presented than any colossus in SotC. But that's just me, i'm not forcing anyone
