The Last Guardian

[Mavrick]

Unbelievably, after nearly eight years The Last Guardian is actually happening. For real. Not like a joke or anything. Although, talking to Edge, Sony Computer Entertainment president Shuhei Yoshida admits, "If everyone stopped asking about it, probably we would have [cancelled it]".


The Last Guardian revealed a game that looked a lot like the well worn footage last seen on PS3, and for good reason. It kind of is the PS3 game, just reengineered to run on PS4. "We completely rebuilt the game in terms of the technical side," explains Shu, adding, unsurprisingly, that it was "really, really tough". That's where PS4 lead architect Mark Cerny has been able to lend a hand, "Mark is giving advice, as he does to many firstparty projects. Because the tech issue was a big one, Mark is helping a lot and giving good advice, but it’s not like Mark took over the project".

However, while the move was a challenge it's something Shu believes the game needed: "The PS3 code was very optimised for PS3 and it took lots of effort, but still the game didn’t reach the performance it needed, and features were missing. It was clear the game design had to be compromised to make it work on PS3, and PS4 was coming, so we decided to do it on PS4. And it took a long time to rebuild it on PS4, but now we have the tech foundations and toolset and the team".

It's that satisfaction with the game's progress that finally lead to its reveal this year. "The game is in good shape," states Shu, adding, "the reason we’ve shown it at this E3 is we have good confidence in the way development is going". So, after eight years, two consoles and a complete rebuild, the bird cat dog thing is finally on the way in 2016.

http://www.gamesradar.com/last-guard...8d2e6902c5de2a

[Zivouhr]

Thanks. Hopefully by mid 2016.

[Mavrick]

The Subscriber only cover for OPSM UK.

[Zivouhr]

Nice!

I wonder if this will be more open world like Colossus or more like a castle to escape as in Ico.

The true enemies in these games are usually

[Show spoiler]evil spirits.

[TotoroDragon]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

Nice!

I wonder if this will be more open world like Colossus or more like a castle to escape as in Ico.

The true enemies in these games are usually

[Show spoiler]evil spirits.

I think the premise of this game will be you build up this creature to fight a threat or it becomes the threat to humanity & dies at the end.

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by TotoroDragon

I think the premise of this game will be you build up this creature to fight a threat or it becomes the threat to humanity & dies at the end.

Cool if we get a choice of how to develop the giant hybrid dog.

[Hellraiserfan]

Originally Posted by TotoroDragon

I think the premise of this game will be you build up this creature to fight a threat or it becomes the threat to humanity & dies at the end.

I'm going with the second one. Team Ico's games always have a depressing feel to them. In SotC it sucks to find out the Colossus you are killing are

[Show spoiler]really protectors.

[Zivouhr]

That was an unexpected twist, agreed. I noticed his

[Show spoiler]veins would grow darker as he absorbed more of the spirits, so I was thinking something wasn't quite right with what was happening.

[Derb]

Amazon.ca has this as cover art. It looks like a photoshop from one of the images in the first post.

[Mavrick]

I hope that NA get decent artwork this time around, I can't say they've had much luck when compared to the EU artwork on ICO.

[dyne]

Wasn't one of the releases double sided?

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by dyne

Wasn't one of the releases double sided?

The HD collection had a double sided sleeve. The original SotC on PS2 had almost identical art to the EU except the colour timing was different. Considering Sony thought the box art sucked for ICO in NA I expect they will make as much effort with it as they did SotC.

[Zivouhr]

So I can imagine translating all of the code from the complex set up of the PS3's architecture to the PS4 PC inspired coding was no easy task, and good to hear Mark Cerny was there to offer tips so this Last Guardian project can finally see the light of day on PS4. I don't care if the graphics are PS3 quality only in 1080p, I just want to be able to play the next chapter in this saga of games from the old Team Ico.

[Shin-Ra]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

The HD collection had a double sided sleeve.

[varmintx]

The Last Guardian Will Be Present At Tokyo Game Show 2015.

[Zivouhr]

Good to hear it'll be shown there. I hope they set a release date of Spring 2016 at the latest.

[varmintx]

The argument made for why it skipped Paris:

“Development is going well, but because it’s about the story, we don’t want to show too much. We wanted to show that it exists, it works, it runs. It’s not like we won’t show anything before launch, but I think we will try to limit what we show about the game.”

[The Apocalypse]

That quote is hardly encouraging. "It exists."

[supercutz]

Originally Posted by The Apocalypse

That quote is hardly encouraging. "It exists."

I'm not worried. There's likely not much new that they want to show compared to what was revealed back at E3 (4 months ago).

[Talal86]

Originally Posted by The Apocalypse

That quote is hardly encouraging. "It exists."

they're talking about E3, at that time we didn't know (or weren't sure) it existed