Games We Love but Wish We Could Love Playing
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It seems Amazon France might have slipped the possibility of a Team Ico collection. They put it up on the site, most likely to receive early pre-orders. Amazon has had moments like these and they turned out to be true, as well as false.
Hate to say we told you so. But we told you so. Amazon France has listed the Team ICO Collection for June 2011 at €69.95.
We were previously been told that the pack is coming, and that it will include PS2 classics ICO and Shadow of the Colossus.
A further report cited it for a Q1 2011 release.
Sounds as though Sony’s very keen on the whole remix idea: SCE Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida said at E3 that more HD collections are being considered.
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If you have a very strong computer, which I do not, you can emulate the games on pcsx2 and render them in full 1080p, install dualshock3 controller drivers to your computer, and mirror the on-screen image to your hdtv with an hdmi cable, which basically means you can play ico/sotc in full 1080p HD on an HDTV w/ a ps3 controller already, if you're willing to spend all that money on a beefy computer and go to the trouble of setting it up.
here's a vid of a guy with a hell of a computer emulating @ 1080p. his is 16:9 widescreen, in fact, he's actually rendering at a higher resolution than 1080p so that he can crop it into 16:9 aspect ratio and have it end up at 1080p.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neF2-jWyWNM
in fact, this 1080p setup is better than the 720p that a ported collection on the ps3 would produce, but there is one good thing about the port:
it would be in true 16:9 widescreen. ico has no option for this; you can go into the options in sotc and change the aspect ratio to 16:9 but it is not true quality. it actually just deletes rows of pixels so that it looks normal when stretched out, but this results in loss of quality. i would like for this collection to come into existence because that way, someday, when ps3 emulation is possible, we can render it however big the hdtv's of the day are (maybe one day we'll have 3240p?) and have it be true 16:9 without cropping. that would make these games truly timeless.
Excuse while I go change my trousers.
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