It wasn't just memory limitations, but also that many of colossi removed were taken out for gameplay reasons. The dev team couldn't find the means to make many of these colossi battles control well, while others (like the hawk) were scrapped because they too closely resembled other battles.
Actually no, the game unused those colossi because all of those colossi needed a bigger arena which the ps2 cant handle it can barely handle the retail version roc was a flying bird which had fully functional AI although the game required a bigger map for roc sadly roc was unused and the idea used for Avion Avion is the idea for roc avion Geometry file codes shows us the original size Avion was a different looking bird that can blow flames and it was twice the size of today's avion so technically avion is roc the one that was really completely unused was avion but ueda liked the idea of avion so he replaced roc |2 the spider's arena was behind the entrance to the forbidden lands in the e3 demo you go out of bounds you can see its land Chunk's although spider needed a special attack which in the e3 demo you can attack with the sword on agro it was apparently removed in the retail version of the game sirius had to be removed because the colossus had no arena because they're out of ps2 memory so a colossus roaming around the land was a bad idea so he was removed so far till this day one of the unused maps exists which is the beta dam where the devil was supposed to be fought other than that no, shadow of the colossus is a good game beautiful and amazing story line with i will always love that game no matter what just imagine the game with all the colossi😥
I wish they would have add all of this colossi to the game but can you all agree that this video looks like one of these videos that say disturbing images with spongebob song
Just imagine Dionin instead of the sand snake (can't remember it's name) as the 10th collossi in the cave would be terrifying with that giant gaping mouth charging at you
SotC leaves me with a very strange, deep lonely feeling. Almost like one would feel like being stuck, alone, in an empty world. Ico, too, but to a lesser effect. Although, that game is beautiful for different reasons. But SotC, imo, is so much more emotionally potent.
ico and sotc are both amazing games and both connected to each other through small details but they are completly different types of games. ico is a puzzle game and sotc is a kill big creatures game.
you can tell they were because there were some areas that looked like a place where you could fight like they were going to put more colossus in the game.
If you don't know by now and haven't finished the game, the way to get on to its hand is when after he loses his knife you should get in front of him and allow him to hit the ground with his foot. But when he hits his foot down he also throws his hand forward against the ground. From there you just jump on his palm and finish him off.
4 player co-op with horses and the extra weapons and all the colossi are active simultaneously, just a rip roarin' clusterfuck in monster land. no linear story, just unbridled madness!
@WanderxRebirth It's Dormin's character model, the one you control at the end, without shadowy particle effects. Wander is to the far left, and the other three characters are Emon, a sword guard, and a crossbow guard. None are unused.
Originally, they wanted 48 Colossi but reasons were deadlines, difficulty putting them in the game, improve some of the games flaws, and some were prototypes of ones in the final game.
@MrTerminationful Thoughs are similar designs, but different than the final. Notice phalanx has more spikes, and in another picture you'll see he has stone wings with red carvings. The malus version looks more organic, and a little different.
Information on most of the unused colossi was in the Japanese SotC art book, and Ueda also talked about a few of them in an interview with him in a french magazine.
I would've loved to have fought one of those big ass dragons 0:42 instead of the wizard at the end of the game. Can you imagine seeing that thing rising up from some colossi graveyard or the ocean to the south and it just lands smack dab in front of Wander.
I have a great idea for SotC 2. You start off with the princess and are blessed by the Voice in SotC 1 so you are much powerful. This times, the voice opens a secret way into a whole other area. As in sotc 1, you learn the collosi are good, in this one you have a choice of siding with the black voice killing good good collusi, or bad collosi, each are labeled differently on the map. Wonder (main character) opened the path to the new area by killing the final collosi.
I kinda wish they would have kept the dragon, the worm, the spider, and the white yeti/gorilla-looking thing. Maybe the demon/gargoyle too. These colossi looked pretty epic.
yea i saw something about that. they had a video of 4 people that kinda looked like ico with the horns on thier heads attacking a colossus. that would have been awesome to have.
man i wish they had these Colossai in SOTC, maybe some secret Colossai you can only find at certain times and places and if you got all of them, it would be a new ending
If Sony made a "Concept Of Colossus" game, I would totally buy at least 2 copies...as long as Fumito Ueda isn't allowed to put any years-long finishing "touches" on it. Really, what a waste of those awesome monster designs.
The designer originally wanted 48 Colossi in the game. Obviously we got quite a bit less than that, but several of these were in various stages of development before the ax came down on them. The spider was taken out because you had to swing the sword at his legs while riding Argo which was a unique mechanic only to that colossi, and they felt that it would hurt the integrity of their tale to include him. I respectfully disagree but it is what it is.
I think fighting these unused ones would be even harder that fighting the original or the ones in the game...and i really like the designs on these... :3
@mrmariomike I know you posted this a while ago, but whatever. SotC was originally going to be an online game, thats why it has multiple characters in the screen cap; the reason they look weird is because they used a modified Ico model as a placeholder.
0:51 that collosi's place has actually been sorta found its just a white (snow) place that wasnt fully cut out of the game its found by nomad0168 and the reason he has his arms up beacuse he was supposed to hang from the crystals on the ceiling of the cave
@TheCodefinder But just quickly, your saying their not changing anything in the game just the resolution? Will the colossi look any different (and I don't mean resolution wise). Bleh the game is addicting, I don't play video games alot but this is one I just can't put down
@Oyvind21 Possibly, but the game was supposed to be very big so you could explore random areas and stuff. But I did wish that some of these colossi were still in the game. 16 was fun, but it wasn't enough.
@TheCodefinder Yeah I know about that one but couldn't it be impossible to be in the same place? Not only was it a forbidden place to be already but they bridge was broken and the only ones left were the baby and the woman. I wish they'd make the SotC different in the next one but then again I can understand why they wouldn't or add any cause you have to change the story if you did that. Gawd I wish I had ps3 I only have ps2 :(
They scrapped them because the physics didn't work properly. It would take a lot of effort to get them going, and rebuild the map to place them all. I don't see it happening.
This video should be called "The History of SotC Testing". Plus, they should make a DLC where you have the entire map of SotC with all the Colossi Roaming around but instead build another bridge behind Malus to the beta Forbidden Land to see all the old stuff. So they could just add the Unused colossi walking around.
You could start an entire new sotryline, or Wander and the girl (oh lord i forgot her name O_O) found a way out of that hellhole, and found out there are MANY more colossi to be fought, all still under the control of dormin.
@WanderxRebirth Well, why does it look like a heartless? And why are there 3 other people at the bottom? And it doesn't look any of them are the wanderer. It sorta looks like a taller, standing version of dormin though
only if the creators would have finished there ideas and put all the collosus that they wanted to in it would have been an even more amazing game and i think it would have been cool to fight more flying collosus
Hmm.. When I played this game I found a lot of odd and mysterious empty places which looked like there was going to be a colossus there... I guess, after removing 35 colossus from the game, they kept the terrain where the "supposed" colossus where ment to be.... Am I on to something here?
@mrmariomike It seems to me that it's probably the original model for what Dormin was going to look like. I suspect at one point they planned him to be the last boss, and just scrapped the idea.
Anyone notice that he's wearing outfits other than those found in the game? Unused content is always so interesting. It makes you wonder why it was cut and what if it were still there.
He didn't say that it had to be these unused ones, just new ones. Besides, you can always tweak difficulty either by nerfing their attack power or changing their attack pattern/temper. I think the real problem had to be either technical limitations or about reaching a deadline. And of course some of the design, how ever cool they may be, are too far away from the style of the final game. Therefore, they could definitely show up again in a future online Nico project if anyone were to do it.
Imagine designing and modeling all these colossi and not including them in the game. I think a lot of these colossi should have been used! 16 isn't enough!
Not at all.. Because I saw those photograph for the upcoming shadow of colossus 2... The graphic is very different and th colossus doesn't look like this anymore
they really need to make a sequel, this new one looks cool, but nothing like sotc. if they put in extra stuff for the remastered game id definately buy it
@TheCodefinder Thanks =) Yeah I almost beat the 15th last night but gosh I've had enough haha, I've been playing almost none stop since yesterday. I stopped playing the game when my PS2 broke and I couldn't get past the one in the stadium thing with the lighting breath. But my boyfriend bought me another one (sweetie) and so I've been playing it religiously since lol. He has a big screen but I don't know how well the graphics will do on that. I really wish I could get that new game blarg.
Who knows? We might get to see them in the PS3 release, for all we know. But about half of the colossi there were put into the game, just with different design. Also, The worm colossi was taken out, due to it's difficulty level, and to it being overpowered. I'd like to see the gargoyle or the dragon get made into it, though.
i think they should have made a colossus that had no legs and instead of legs he had something like a chinese temple from his belly downward and you have to climb the temple to kill him that would rock
@Loyd64 do you know what colossus the worm spawned from? i read something that he is activated by killing another colossus. Im guessing the 7th one (electric eel) but that's just a guess.
Different tastes I guess. I still think Ico is more emotional - alone for the fact that you're a child, you're trapped, you don't know your enemies and you have a non-verbal bond with another child. SOTC on the other hand, I like more for it's gameplay, freedom, extras, overall fun factor.
It wasn't just memory limitations, but also that many of colossi removed were taken out for gameplay reasons. The dev team couldn't find the means to make many of these colossi battles control well, while others (like the hawk) were scrapped because they too closely resembled other battles.
don't you mean ROC?
Actually no, the game unused those colossi because all of those colossi needed a bigger arena which the ps2 cant handle it can barely handle the retail version roc was a flying bird which had fully functional AI although the game required a bigger map for roc sadly roc was unused and the idea used for Avion Avion is the idea for roc avion Geometry file codes shows us the original size Avion was a different looking bird that can blow flames and it was twice the size of today's avion so technically avion is roc the one that was really completely unused was avion but ueda liked the idea of avion so he replaced roc |2 the spider's arena was behind the entrance to the forbidden lands in the e3 demo you go out of bounds you can see its land Chunk's although spider needed a special attack which in the e3 demo you can attack with the sword on agro it was apparently removed in the retail version of the game sirius had to be removed because the colossus had no arena because they're out of ps2 memory so a colossus roaming around the land was a bad idea so he was removed so far till this day one of the unused maps exists which is the beta dam where the devil was supposed to be fought other than that no, shadow of the colossus is a good game beautiful and amazing story line with i will always love that game no matter what just imagine the game with all the colossi😥
The spider colossus would've been epicly terrifyingly epic.
YEAH!!!!
With the HD version they should have added these as DLC
1:15 was originally named "Dionin" for "The Darkness".
They kicked it for being too powerful. That would have been a fucking awesome battle.
0:50 monke
Imagine fighting all those on ps3 especially in 3D :"(
What about the ps4 remake
RYU-ZO cant wait for the PS5 remake 😂
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0:40
What I wouldn't give to to have been able to fight that one ;3;
It would have been soo awesome D:
The spider colossus is legitimately frightening.
If they make a second game, Mono should fight these to make Wander normal.
the song maked me cry a bit but i would love to fight all of those unused colossus
I thought monkey
I'm pretty sure the colossus at 1:51 is an earlier version of Malus.
Shadow of the colossus remake didn’t bother adding in the unused colossus’s and making an alternate ending…
1:56 man, that spider one gives me goosebumps. I'd kill to play that one. O_O
I wish they would have add all of this colossi to the game but can you all agree that this video looks like one of these videos that say disturbing images with spongebob song
They originally wanted 48 but decided to cut it really short
Just imagine Dionin instead of the sand snake (can't remember it's name) as the 10th collossi in the cave would be terrifying with that giant gaping mouth charging at you
SotC leaves me with a very strange, deep lonely feeling. Almost like one would feel like being stuck, alone, in an empty world.
Ico, too, but to a lesser effect. Although, that game is beautiful for different reasons. But SotC, imo, is so much more emotionally potent.
The first one looked amazing. And kind of eerie. I love it.
Ahh man, i just love that pure breathing down the back of your neck feeling when a Colossus pops up and starts chasing you.
i think they should make a second shadow of the colossus. would be sweet! i would play it no matter how bad it could be.
0:46 I bet that's the beta of dormin
1:53 that's malus beta
plus some others are also beta of the released colossi.
still some of those looks awesome.
ico and sotc are both amazing games and both connected to each other through small details but they are completly different types of games. ico is a puzzle game and sotc is a kill big creatures game.
you can tell they were because there were some areas that looked like a place where you could fight like they were going to put more colossus in the game.
If you don't know by now and haven't finished the game, the way to get on to its hand is when after he loses his knife you should get in front of him and allow him to hit the ground with his foot. But when he hits his foot down he also throws his hand forward against the ground. From there you just jump on his palm and finish him off.
i cant wait till the last guardian
4 player co-op with horses and the extra weapons and all the colossi are active simultaneously, just a rip roarin' clusterfuck in monster land. no linear story, just unbridled madness!
Well damn. I would have liked to see these in there. Definitely would have added more game time.
@WanderxRebirth It's Dormin's character model, the one you control at the end, without shadowy particle effects. Wander is to the far left, and the other three characters are Emon, a sword guard, and a crossbow guard. None are unused.
Originally, they wanted 48 Colossi but reasons were deadlines, difficulty putting them in the game, improve some of the games flaws, and some were prototypes of ones in the final game.
his legs also didn't always stay on the terrain and would clip through the ground.
also, he was probably just too terrifying to put in the game.
1:11 that one was "Dionin". That would have been an awesome colossus but it was to powerful so it was scrapped.
Most of this pictures are just a reject texture for colossi that are in the game
these were excluded due to difficulty but i agree wholeheartedly they need to extend the game
@MrTerminationful Thoughs are similar designs, but different than the final. Notice phalanx has more spikes, and in another picture you'll see he has stone wings with red carvings. The malus version looks more organic, and a little different.
Information on most of the unused colossi was in the Japanese SotC art book, and Ueda also talked about a few of them in an interview with him in a french magazine.
I would've loved to have fought one of those big ass dragons 0:42 instead of the wizard at the end of the game. Can you imagine seeing that thing rising up from some colossi graveyard or the ocean to the south and it just lands smack dab in front of Wander.
Need to get a petition started for a second SOTC with THESE colossi. That worm one is a genius Idea
I have a great idea for SotC 2. You start off with the princess and are blessed by the Voice in SotC 1 so you are much powerful. This times, the voice opens a secret way into a whole other area. As in sotc 1, you learn the collosi are good, in this one you have a choice of siding with the black voice killing good good collusi, or bad collosi, each are labeled differently on the map. Wonder (main character) opened the path to the new area by killing the final collosi.
I kinda wish they would have kept the dragon, the worm, the spider, and the white yeti/gorilla-looking thing. Maybe the demon/gargoyle too. These colossi looked pretty epic.
Oh, and the colossi at 0:07 WAS real, but it wasn't used in the game, it was scrapped.
yea i saw something about that. they had a video of 4 people that kinda looked like ico with the horns on thier heads attacking a colossus. that would have been awesome to have.
man i wish they had these Colossai in SOTC, maybe some secret Colossai you can only find at certain times and places and if you got all of them, it would be a new ending
If Sony made a "Concept Of Colossus" game, I would totally buy at least 2 copies...as long as Fumito Ueda isn't allowed to put any years-long finishing "touches" on it. Really, what a waste of those awesome monster designs.
The designer originally wanted 48 Colossi in the game. Obviously we got quite a bit less than that, but several of these were in various stages of development before the ax came down on them. The spider was taken out because you had to swing the sword at his legs while riding Argo which was a unique mechanic only to that colossi, and they felt that it would hurt the integrity of their tale to include him. I respectfully disagree but it is what it is.
Here's hoping the re-release of this game comes with these, and possibly new features.
Some of these are super freaky
there was also a problem with him that if he stepped on you it was a 1 hit ko.
Also some of these are just older versions of existing colossi like at 2:14 it was Phalanx's older version
I think fighting these unused ones would be even harder that fighting the original or the ones in the game...and i really like the designs on these... :3
That demon-like Colossus could've been in the game. Most of the unused collossi are similar to what the actual game has.
most of them are the first model of the actual colossus XD
I think that a big spider and an elephant would be some awesome concept XD
@mrmariomike I know you posted this a while ago, but whatever. SotC was originally going to be an online game, thats why it has multiple characters in the screen cap; the reason they look weird is because they used a modified Ico model as a placeholder.
These colossi look downright demonic, like something you'd see from a Devil May Cry game or even Doom.
@MrCbone93
there is trailer for second its just not public because they dont want spoilers to put it on youtube before they do.
0:51 that collosi's place has actually been sorta found its just a white (snow) place that wasnt fully cut out of the game its found by nomad0168 and the reason he has his arms up beacuse he was supposed to hang from the crystals on the ceiling of the cave
1:54
Uh, that's the final collosus.
@TheCodefinder But just quickly, your saying their not changing anything in the game just the resolution? Will the colossi look any different (and I don't mean resolution wise). Bleh the game is addicting, I don't play video games alot but this is one I just can't put down
@Oyvind21 Possibly, but the game was supposed to be very big so you could explore random areas and stuff. But I did wish that some of these colossi were still in the game. 16 was fun, but it wasn't enough.
@adensem It's supposed to be a self-imposed challenge. Like "Yeah, I'm badass. I can beat these huge eldritch monsters with less health."
some of these would have been very interesting to see
I've heard that the worm onr from 1:15 was meant to be triggered by beating another colossus.
I wish I kinew what that colossus was though
@TheCodefinder Yeah I know about that one but couldn't it be impossible to be in the same place? Not only was it a forbidden place to be already but they bridge was broken and the only ones left were the baby and the woman. I wish they'd make the SotC different in the next one but then again I can understand why they wouldn't or add any cause you have to change the story if you did that. Gawd I wish I had ps3 I only have ps2 :(
phenix, malus demon, a gargule, a dragon, a T pose dormin, a monki, a worn, a another dragon, a another demon malus
They scrapped them because the physics didn't work properly. It would take a lot of effort to get them going, and rebuild the map to place them all. I don't see it happening.
Some of the colossi weren't removed but they were redesigned as the ones we know now
no every one of these is a original colossi but yes there are beta versions of early colossi here
@@justallanv9409 they do look similar to the ones in the game
This video should be called "The History of SotC Testing".
Plus, they should make a DLC where you have the entire map of SotC with all the Colossi Roaming around but instead build another bridge behind Malus to the beta Forbidden Land to see all the old stuff. So they could just add the Unused colossi walking around.
You could start an entire new sotryline, or Wander and the girl (oh lord i forgot her name O_O) found a way out of that hellhole, and found out there are MANY more colossi to be fought, all still under the control of dormin.
@WanderxRebirth Well, why does it look like a heartless? And why are there 3 other people at the bottom? And it doesn't look any of them are the wanderer. It sorta looks like a taller, standing version of dormin though
only if the creators would have finished there ideas and put all the collosus that they wanted to in it would have been an even more amazing game and i think it would have been cool to fight more flying collosus
1:55 is the first idea for the last colossus...most of the pictures are just first ideas of the colossi that are in the game...
The main character is the 17th colossus u will see at the end of the game
That's not a Colossi, that's Dormin. The guy who's been bossing you about all game
the one at 1.00 looks amazing, deffinatly my favorite
Hmm.. When I played this game I found a lot of odd and mysterious empty places which looked like there was going to be a colossus there... I guess, after removing 35 colossus from the game, they kept the terrain where the "supposed" colossus where ment to be.... Am I on to something here?
@mrmariomike It seems to me that it's probably the original model for what Dormin was going to look like. I suspect at one point they planned him to be the last boss, and just scrapped the idea.
1:25 and 1:32 that would have been AWESOME! But scary too I think. That colossus looks fast and powerful. O_O
Anyone notice that he's wearing outfits other than those found in the game? Unused content is always so interesting. It makes you wonder why it was cut and what if it were still there.
The Colossus at 1:29 would have been perfect to jump off the side of Agro, y'know, using the acrobatics you never really use...
Dragon was taken out because it was too similar to Phalanx.
I hope they make a shadow of the colossus 2 and put these colossi in the game.
He didn't say that it had to be these unused ones, just new ones.
Besides, you can always tweak difficulty either by nerfing their attack power or changing their attack pattern/temper.
I think the real problem had to be either technical limitations or about reaching a deadline. And of course some of the design, how ever cool they may be, are too far away from the style of the final game. Therefore, they could definitely show up again in a future online Nico project if anyone were to do it.
well the only thing i know is that theres a rumor that the colossus of 0:05 is the 17th colossus. Thats all i know.
well we'll have to look forward to how awesome the last guardian is
Imagine designing and modeling all these colossi and not including them in the game. I think a lot of these colossi should have been used! 16 isn't enough!
They should have put these in the hd version as a bonus or something. Would've taken some work, but it would have been great.
these are the first ideas of colossus thats it
It's not EXACTLY the same, but Hold Me Closer Giant Dancer does that.
Not at all.. Because I saw those photograph for the upcoming shadow of colossus 2... The graphic is very different and th colossus doesn't look like this anymore
they really need to make a sequel, this new one looks cool, but nothing like sotc. if they put in extra stuff for the remastered game id definately buy it
@HylianSpirit i agree but some how the loanlyness makes the game more misterious and actually makes it better.
@TheCodefinder Thanks =) Yeah I almost beat the 15th last night but gosh I've had enough haha, I've been playing almost none stop since yesterday. I stopped playing the game when my PS2 broke and I couldn't get past the one in the stadium thing with the lighting breath. But my boyfriend bought me another one (sweetie) and so I've been playing it religiously since lol. He has a big screen but I don't know how well the graphics will do on that. I really wish I could get that new game blarg.
A lot of these are just prototypes of the actual colossi. 1 and 13 are definitely in this video.
Who knows? We might get to see them in the PS3 release, for all we know. But about half of the colossi there were put into the game, just with different design. Also, The worm colossi was taken out, due to it's difficulty level, and to it being overpowered. I'd like to see the gargoyle or the dragon get made into it, though.
i think they should have made a colossus that had no legs and instead of legs he had something like a chinese temple from his belly downward
and you have to climb the temple to kill him
that would rock
its also a puzzle game...the colossi are the puzzles
god i miss this game....i cant believe i sold it
tell me why the 15th colossus was a disappointment.
@Loyd64 do you know what colossus the worm spawned from? i read something that he is activated by killing another colossus. Im guessing the 7th one (electric eel) but that's just a guess.
Different tastes I guess. I still think Ico is more emotional - alone for the fact that you're a child, you're trapped, you don't know your enemies and you have a non-verbal bond with another child.
SOTC on the other hand, I like more for it's gameplay, freedom, extras, overall fun factor.
@ elchanta64 I think its just a unused model for the 16th Coloosus
they need to make these to fight in a multiplayer campaign