Nerd³ Plays... Shadow Of The Colossus (The Blasphemous Remake)

[@colincorcoran9652]

He's said 'blasphemous' here more than in his video of the game 'Blasphemous'...

[@WtfYoutube_YouSuck]

It's blasphemous because it lacks real-time horse testicle physics.

[@timothymenard4946]

This whole video is like "oh no she's hot." but for a game.

[@W0lfguard1997]

Now I kinda want the series NerdCubed Blasphemy which basically just means that it is a Plays video but of a Remake

[@CookedBamboo]

Started with the xiii video, didn't it?

[@3DMasterST]

Would it include both good and bad remakes, or just bad?

[@W0lfguard1997]

@@3DMasterST Anything where the original was good. Because it is blasphemy to try and remake/improve it. :D

[@kazmark_gl8652]

I have no idea why Dan was ever against this. its absolutely gorgeous and was the perfect remake as far as I could tell. for me I did that magical thing for me where the game looked exactly like I remember it looking as a kid.

[@experiencecookie]

the reason he called it blasphemy because they changed the soundtrack a bit

[@PlaysRyan]

Because Dan is known for being a contrarian.

[@reecesibley3710]

He still likes the game tho

[@lordporpoise8761]

Yeah it's wonderful. There's also a very obscure secret they added that was a nice touch too

[@lawthirtyfour2953]

They fucked up a couple things. 1. Wanders face, it just looks off in addition to missing the clear anime influence the original had. 2. The colors and tone just feels off to me very often was overblown in the original, but that's part of it's charm.

[@niallcurran466]

I remember watching the original video he made on the old game. So many memories

[@JFORCEuk]

When NerdCubed was better..

[@foxrumor]

@@JFORCEuk Nostalgia's a funny thing. Tbh, there was a period where his videos were kind of bland and not very funny, but his recent videos have been really good.

[@JFORCEuk]

@@foxrumor never seen Little and Cubed Era then?

[@carpmma5132]

I’d never heard of the game before I see the original video even tho I grew up with a ps2

[@carpmma5132]

Still yet to play it seems such a good game

[@annaisannaing]

"All music is in-game music. It makes me want to blaspheme."

[@seantaggart7382]

Yes

[@Zambad]

Oh man, thank you for that throwback

[@JSKWilson]

On this episode of Nerd³ Plays... Dan tries to deny the truth but is forced to concede by these big, fluffy bois.

[@ThatsGoodToast1]

Just remember Dan, the ps3 version has bugged out grappling physics compared to the original, while this basically has the ps2 game running under its hood for maximum accuracy, much like the recent Demons souls remake.

[@armorwolf7934]

Really the ps3 version has bad grappling physics that’s my favorite version

[@XenoWalkerEVE]

Dan being tsundere for a game is not what I expected

[@shandiemann6934]

13:54, I remember when Dan fought the third colossus when i was about 10 years old, and to this day it is one of my core memories

[@KnightOfAwesometon]

I would kill to see Dan do a remastered completes on this game. It's so fucking amazing. And yes, it would be hilarious if he just dubbed the audio from the old videos over it.

[@schmibbly3180]

Who would you kill?

[@shawbag11]

Honestly nothing wrong with the remake tbh dan is just a old man :P

[@Brandon_J]

He’s kidding.

[@someguy9052]

@@Brandon_J he’s not, given his track record

[@Brandon_J]

@@someguy9052 The joke is just that. He usually hates remakes and remasters. They’re usually terrible. But he likes this one, and due to his stubbornness, he refuses to admit he likes it, so he’s exaggerating/playing on tiny issues to appear like his opinion hasn’t changed. But he makes it obvious because it’s funny. That’s the joke. You can hear it in his voice anyway when he’s serious or genuinely unhappy with a game. Or when he’s kidding. And he’s definitely kidding for a laugh and a play on his really stubborn and narrow minded personality. At least with games I mean.

[@fernandoflynn]

@@Brandon_J he is in the vid but the reason he avoided it till now is that they remastered the soundtrack, but that word means something else in music than gaming. He's said so himself plenty of times.

[@Brandon_J]

@@fernandoflynn Yes I know. Point is hes exaggerating the things he dislikes for the sake of a joke, on his stubbornness and usual disliking for remasters/remakes.

[@Stannard1603]

I love how Dan is basicly like *"how dare you improve an allready perfect game"*

[@Samtino00]

"What's the third colossus again? Is it the big guy with the spirally tower?" Well, they're all big guys, it's in the name

[@noellefinch6807]

Dan, when someone asks for your hand they usually don’t mean payment

[@SKUMDOGMATT]

I haven’t watched nerdcubed in years man, probably since 2013... I remember watching his original vid on this game. Just his voice alone is flooding me with nostalgia

[@Stargazeer]

Difficulty settings should NEVER be shunned because it not only allows people who don't have gaming as their entire primary hobby/job to play and enjoy a game, it also allows people with disabilities to play games they would otherwise not be able to play.

[@netherwolf3012]

I see it as also adding replayability and extra challenge depending on the game. Like in RE7 madhouse. Or Timesplitters 2 which changed the level depending on difficulty.

[@jonaht9588]

Dan has said before on streams that he agrees with that line of thinking. I have no doubt it was just used as a joke like the rest of his 'Blasphemy!' jokes

[@teneesh3376]

But there are better ways to make the game more easy. Or developers need to make better ways to have "difficulty" settings. A lot of them are just flat out lazy with it. Making ememies more spongey. Not really incresing the difficulty, just increase how long it takes Games could be easier from certain items. But if difficulty options need to be there, change enemy placement, only increase how much damage they do but do not increase health. If a game has puzzles, exploration and combat, seperate difficulty options for both. Actually, just give us seperate options to tweak but keep the easy, normal, hard as templates. Mega man 11 suffered from this. I wanted the checkpoints of normal, weapon energy to refill when and die, and I wanted infinite lives. But I couldn't because certain elements were tied to certain difficulties

[@commisaryarreck3974]

They should be shunned at every opportunity because they are never done well. It just results in higher difficulties becoming cheap damage spunges and the AI being kneecapped because they need to appeal to the mentally challenged Aside from devaluing the experience for everyone else. Because games aren't for everyone. Nothing is for everyone and that line of thinking has killed too many franchises with mediocre garbage appealing to a "wider audience" that never wanted to play it to begin with. Anyone can play, not everyone should be pandered to. That only creates generic garbage Easy mode shouldn't exist. It's existence in games merely leads to worse games. There should only exist intended and hard mode rather then developers kneecapping the game to appeal to a fringe Want to argue it, Pathologic 2 got slammed for being "too difficwult" for punishing you if you die. Yet if these punishments weren't a thing death would become trivial and savescumming the method around it. You'd never have a reason to gut someone and slice out their organs to sell them for money or trade them for food. No reason to enter a random house in a plague ridden district to ransack it looking for food and clean water Hell it also destroys newcomers perspectives of certain games genres as enemies might do half damage, be completely retarded and die in a few hits. Say the original Dawn of War and it's expansions where a squad of guardsmen with glorified flashlights could take down a Space Marine in a few hits

[@teneesh3376]

@@commisaryarreck3974 I think you are also playing the wrong games when it comes to difficulty options. Yes, a lot of games just change the damage values, but there are other games that changes it in another way Halo changes enemies and how much damage enemeies do to you, but you still do the same amount of damage Kingdom hearts 2 does the same thing Difficulty also changes how puzzles are done, not just combat. Modern games have difficulty options changing how hard the puzzles are and exploration. Difficulty options aren't inheritly bad. It's just done bad in a lot of games

[@Jesthers]

Hard mode actually puts more sigils on the colossuses, it's a really cool way of creating difficulty for players (like Dan) who have beaten this game before I think you had to unlock it in the original? But it's neat to see it available from the start, given that this is a remake and many have probably already beaten the game before

[@simoncharb.3284]

Please do "Nerdcubed completes The Last Guardian"! That would be amazing!

[@Kataclysm113]

You know what i've realized i want now? another remake. because good lort do i want to see Shadow of the Colossus but with ray tracing.

[@Nathan55411]

Maybe nothing really reaches the sense of scale in this game, but I think one game that comes close is in that final part of Jak 3 when you're chasing the giant final boss and then you have to climb onto it because it turns out it's basically a literal moving level

[@randsaw666]

everytime he said "Blasphemy" i thought of "welcome to the church of england, cake or DEATH?"

[@alphahunter7009]

YOU NEED TO DO ANOTHER COMPLETES WITH HARD MODE AND NIGHT FILTER IF YOU CAN, I LOVE THIS GAME BECAUSE OF YOU DAN THIS WOULD BE AMAZING TO SEE AGAIN AND REMINISCE

[@mathieumarlaire]

The original shadow of the collusus possibly has the worst feeling controls of any game I have ever played in my life

[@vandecayear10]

Have you played the last guardian? Haha

[@bt1234567892010]

in its defense, it was groundbreaking and very experimental, nothing was ever done like it, it could obviously be done way better now, but reminder, SotC came out in 2005, a LOT of games didn't have as good of controls as they do now.

[@hannibalshaco2291]

most people don't realise that wander was meant to slowly after every kill to have cursed skin and horns eventually but that got removed and added as a skin you apply

[@hadriangonzalez607]

If he already done a let's play of this game.. And is doing it again.. Wouldn't this be a sort of remake? Blasphemy!!

[@lawthirtyfour2953]

Well this isn't the same game so nah.

[@megamihestia4049]

Nostalgia is the best filter of all.

[@DriftySquid]

He should do a night mode, mirrored map playthrough as a series. At least a mirrored map mode. Just to have the series again

[@thjage]

14:50 that horrifying moment you miss a spider with a broom and it crawls up the handle

[@wumbosaurus9121]

One time when I was working in the waterways, we were loading the water weed onto the truck with pitchforks and saw a big spider. I didn't wanna kill it so I tried to move it out of the way with the fork, but it disappeared somehow. Didn't think anything of it. Later when we were dumping the weeds, I undid the latches on the truck and then felt something tickle the back of my neck. Thought it was grass so I grabbed it and threw it on the ground and just about shit myself when I saw the "grass" crawl and skitter away. Fecker was hiding in the hood of my jersey the whole time.

[@tom05011996]

Who else wants shadow of the colossus VR now?

[@ianmiller6040]

There's a VR recreation of the temple in VR Chat. It's great.

[@-Infex-]

But vr can only give you a good sense of scale and have you do archery and climb things

[@splatooey9015]

I would shit myself for eternity

[@azrielsatan8693]

Its called Jet island. Well its not really the same but it still involves fighting and climbing on giant monsters in VR.

[@AustinWelles]

@@-Infex- 3rd person VR is a thing. I've done it by modding GTA and it works surprisingly well. Hellblade is the only official 3rd person VR experience I've played and it was one of the most memorable VR titles I played last year.

[@Jan_Iedema]

The opposite of humid is arid I believe...

[@MZZE-my7hz]

So what I'm taking from this is Dan is looking back at one of his overreactions and considering that he may have overreacted xD

[@ruinfox4108]

i love that Dan hates the fact he enjoys this remaster. that brings a smile to my face

[@fernandoflynn]

The mad thing is the only reason he's been avoiding this is cause they remastered the soundtrack, but that means a COMPLETELY different thing in music than games.

[@JoshDudley]

Honestly I would watch the hell out of a shadow of the colossus remake completes

[@laughercake3156]

One tiny detail they didn't put in the remake was the stamina regaining in short breaths when surfacing for air. a small shame it is

[@JoshDudley]

it's so fun to watch dan admit he loves a game for some reason

[@flinchfu]

Fun fact: In the original SOTC on PS2, if you hold or wedge the "gallop" button (X or whatever) and let the horse run aimlessly, it'll never get hung up on edges or corners... you can leave it and It'll traverse the map for hours!

[@flinchfu]

I'd leave it running while I slept... Sorta like a scrolling Salvador Dali painting.

[@flinchfu]

Clipclop clipclop clipclop clipclop

[@tortoiseoflegends4466]

Dan should play Jet Island for fighting giant monsters with a sense of scale

[@xbloodkiss.]

YES UES YES YES YES YES PLAY JET ISLAND PLEASE DAN PLEASE PLAY JET ISLAND

[@NJDJ17]

12:57 'Oh I've seen this internet video, it's not good' .. O.o

[@biggiesmalls6270]

I feel like I should know what is he referencing?

[@YouGuys]

@@biggiesmalls6270 BlackedDOTcom

[@gittonsxv126]

What the hell is Dan on about, this remake is damn near perfect and beautiful?

[@teneesh3376]

It's a joke

[@lawthirtyfour2953]

@@teneesh3376 It's not, he thinks is gorgeous with some changes he doesn't like.

[@GlitchTheF0x]

@@lawthirtyfour2953 You talking about the face, mate? 'Cause that's the only thing I remember him complaining about in this video. Did you even watch the same video as the rest of us?

[@lawthirtyfour2953]

@@GlitchTheF0x The face is what I referring to, and the area being less desolate than the original.

[@GlitchTheF0x]

@@lawthirtyfour2953 It's still a joke calling it blasphemous.

[@voraito]

Aw he didn't see the blasphemous horizontal flip mode.

[@ThKillinJo]

Those patreon intros are great

[@naibakie8519]

Oh geez. I keep getting reminded of star-gate recently. Are we in peak nostalgia territory for it?

[@BunniMonster]

No kidding, seeing reaction videos to it popping up in my sidebar and just yesterday I was recommended (And watched) a video where some guy built a miniature stargate with an infinity mirror, working DHD, ring and chevron locking system.

[@Fintank_]

Shadow of the Colossus feels like a Ghibli film

[@megalukester98]

If you care to check it out, there's a game called Praey for the Gods in EA right now on steam that's directly inspired by SotC. It's fun, but definitely not as polished. Much smaller team made it.

[@Xorua]

Why is jump not bound to triangle, the worst possible jump button? Blasphemy.

[@TheIshikawaRin]

Still waiting for a NerdCubed Completes of the remake, would be a nice revisit since its been 7 years since the original Completes

[@Procrastian]

I would not be opposed to a full play through of this

[@samuelmaltby625]

I like it how now he can literally do whatever he wants. And we will not care and enjoy it just as much.

[@orrindekock8598]

i love the contrast between one day the XIII remake which is objectively terrible, and the next day the Shadow of the Colossus remake ending with Dan saying "Remakes are good"

[@timmurphy4844]

Never played past the second Colossus cause I never got why I had to kill the massive creatures I just wanted to left them live.

[@bt1234567892010]

yeah that's kind of the point of the game. Wander is going around killing these giant beasts, in a world where they don't hurt anyone, just to resurrect the princess, and if I recall not for any reason except he wants to be with her.

[@Jarvalicious]

“The lighting is so good” “The shadows are so good” “BUT HIS FUCKING FACE”

[@MartimusEins]

they even did something for people who searched for the 17th colossus! its a nice thing they did with this one! still loove the ps2 one, too!

[@TheBlockSmiths]

I would love nothing more than for them to remake this game but include more of the original planned Colossi (of which there were 48).

[@stoneapollyon8313]

i remember when this game came out on the ps2, now this game is just getting an annual remake...

[@vinciere3594]

I had the same opinion Dan did about this remake for a long time. You don't need to remake a nearly perfect game. But seeing how Bluepoint did it from a Digital Foundry video sold me on it. Almost the entire original game code is still running underneath, but now it looks even better. So all the physics and interactions are the same, movement is the same, but it's absolutely gorgeous.

[@robertwyatt3912]

Technically you don’t unlock a rocket launcher, you just unlock the rockets. You have the launcher from the beginning of the game.

[@eatenbyghouls1849]

The remake is better in every way From graphics to controls honestly

[@oneofmanyjames-es1643]

DO NOT BLASPHEME! DO NOT BLASPHEME! Damn I need to rewatch that Doctor Who episode...

[@crane8819]

Being able to play The Last Guardian at a decent framerate is better incentive to get a PS5 then all of the launch titles combined. When I played SotC no PS2 I was mostly a console gamer (my PC sucked) and didn't care as much about the framerate but by the time TLG came out I was used to 60+ fps so it was brutal trying to play it. I finished it and it's a great game but it was rough on my poor eyes lol.

[@soperharvey]

Is the Patreon intro a Foil Arms and Hog reference?

[@winch2342]

All we need now is shadow of the colossus vr

[@ldrthnbmbs]

god I saw this and it brought back memories of watching the livestreams he did live so I had to watch immediately

[@MrLego3160]

Honestly the worst thing about the sotc remake is the wrong filter is on by default

[@jamesbeeks2377]

I’ve wanted him to play this for so long

[@Turbopotato3000]

tbh it feels rather close to the orginal. does bring me back to the lets play, and in my mind the games look excately the same, but im sure if i compared the footage it'd be quite diffrent

[@Thrawnio]

No fucking way. After years... its come back

[@TheZyzxx]

How I wish I owned a PS4 to play this game.

[@TheZyzxx]

Wait, I do, it just died a month out of warranty in 2016 and I've been using it to prop up my PC ever since.

[@Ooffoop]

@@TheZyzxx I’m surprised mine hasn’t died yet I question what the he’ll happened to yours to kill it

[@AronT260]

@@TheZyzxx did you stamp on it or something lmao or are you just a r/pcmr mod lmao, something up your bum

[@strangely2663]

@@AronT260 sounds like hes just mad his ps4 shat out, wouldn't you be?

[@TheZyzxx]

JustAron No, just didn’t boot one day. Used to light up before switching itself off, but now it just doesn’t turn on at all. I’m salty that it died so close to the warranty.

[@jordanhall8691]

Good god I forgot the entire reason I watched stargate was to understand your references

[@ianmiller6040]

Ooh! I love Shadow of the Colossus! My PS2 can barely run it, but it's great.

[@fullforce1gaming338]

can we see a full play through? for nostalgia?

[@Necromorph790]

HEY DAN, EDF HAS A LOT OF SCALE TOO NOW COME ON THATS BLASPHEMOUS

[@brigidrockne9113]

This is great now do a completes series on it!

[@sylveriron2575]

Honestly, the only thing I hated about this game is Wanderer's face. What made up for it was, ehhh... Dan. It Agro with the sword. Agro is best Horse. Screw Epona.

[@sylveriron2575]

@@yannatoko9898 the horse's name

[@sylveriron2575]

@@yannatoko9898 sh-t misspelled it, one sec. Thanks

[@no_mans_player6227]

Aww hes protective of his game

[@pedroscoponi4905]

I'd totally watch a full playthrough of this - is it recorded on twitch or nah?

[@astronautical1060]

Back in 2014 he did a "Completes" series on SoTC which was streamed, he compiled it into a playlist on YT if you're curious.

[@xtremeplayer1000]

Anybody else miss the whine of the cooling fans in his older videos? Strange

[@neb1006]

Nerdcubed completes again!

[@Biscotum]

What was actually blasphemous was the PS3 version that had Wander stagger for way longer than he was supposed to, making the game way, way harder.

[@ocelot20]

Last guardian runs at a rock solid 60fps on the ps5

[@madman19931612]

14:35: -200

[@whoisthisguy128]

I know Dan's actually good at the game, and Matt has the ability (not that he would) to edit them out, but I really wanted to see a -200 reference in the video :(

[@jonhrolfsson6952]

NERD³ COMPLETES SHADOW OF THE COLLOSUS... AGAIN!!!

[@mageless8192]

I JUST STARTED WATCHING SG1 AND HE MAD A STARGATE REFERENCE YESSSSSSSSSSSS

[@uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug185]

One of my favourite videos, but renewed

[@amjf04]

1:12 look, that dude died like a year ago. You can't just go using year old memes, be original. This is the way.

[@icewitchisla1981]

So I honestly think that the Dark Souls games also do a good job of scale and making you feel small but it's not as good as this because most of the big things in Dark Souls can't be interacted with.

[@HighOnTacos]

This was probably an amazing game for the PS2, but can you imagine if it had come out today, without being a remake? It'd be a cool indie game at best, and be poorly reviewed for repetitive gameplay.

[@grimtree5590]

i've been watching ever since the lbp2 and 3 phase of this channel but i find it weird i have never commented

[@UltimateWildWolf]

I wonder if the developers original intention was to make the player feel bad for killing these huge monsters or was it just a coincidence that players felt that way?

[@JoeWuhPuh]

I remember watching the completes live all those fucking years ago. It was in 20-fucking-14. Jesus wept.

[@ryanfarrugia2195]

i remember when you played the original that was in 720p

[@Toomuchsaucelmk]

I haven’t watched you in so long seeing you play this is like a trip down memory lane 👌

[@Koenhardstyle]

Take a shot every time Dan says blasphemy. And do not blame me the following morning, you are your own person.

[@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy]

1: "Which had a framerate of about 8." Wait. Wait. The PS2 version HAD a framerate? 2: Seriously. Screw 4k. 4k is not at all needed. I am perfectly happy with my 1080p monitor. Just give me 60FPS at 1080, and it is perfectly-good.

[@dinodare1605]

By the PS10 we'll have the photorealistic remake.

[@AGamingZebra]

so uh....Nerd3 Completes Shadow of the Colossus 2 Electric Boogaloo?

[@Massgaming2202]

nerd cubed completes shadow of the colossus remake when?

[@UltimateWildWolf]

I am sad that I never played this game as a kid. I always saw it at the video store, but I thought it looked stupid. God I wish I tried it then.