Grunden
2650
The back story is this: You’re a goose and you’re an absolute dick.
A streamer titled it Honkman: Blood Money which is a pretty accurate description of the gameplay. With less firearms.
rhamorim
2651
Considering the fact that Tom will say “excuse me” and “sorry” when bumping into NPCs in open world games, a Untitled Goose Game stream would be glorious to watch.
Grunden
2653
The designers of the game have definitely met geese, it’s true.
robc04
2654
I started playing Mr. Shifty from the free Twitch Prime giveaway.
It’s pretty good for a free game. It’s got a mix of teleporting and fighting some baddies, and traps. I’ve only completed 2 levels and level 2 added some interesting wrinkles. How long to beat says about 4-5 hours, which may be a good duration for a game like this.
I enjoyed it… to a point, as usual. I seem to remember the game shifting its simple “ape out” sort of gameplay to force artificial difficulty — basically taking away what was the fun in a game where you just wanted to feel awesome.
But the first half of the game or so is really neat.
Thrag
2656
Goose game is short and it’s not exactly a challenging puzzler, but it is simply charming. I played through it to the end* this weekend while having a lazy Sunday morning on the couch with the wife. It was actually the first time I threw up a game on the TV and my wife enjoyed watching me play. I have to admit I got into it and made sure to honk and display to taunt the humans after every time I got one over on them.
*once you complete the main quest you get a new list of ways to annoy the humans you ran across along the way
It’s amazing to me how the fear of geese appears to be universal. Levi-Strauss wished he had been aware of that, I bet.
Thrag
2658
If one wants to spend an hour laughing hysterically and/or fueling their anatidaephobia googling goose attack videos is worth the time.
This one is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cV4FCwtTEo
Geese. Gah. Played some and it is perfect for a goose. Fear? more like hatred.
We had African Geese on the farm I grew up on. They are very big geese. This flock was not hand-raised and raised elsewhere, not pets. So, I was the enemy. My job in grade school was to dump their water, rinse and clean it, then refill it, sometimes in my school clothes, on the way to school.
So the water tank (old tub) was bigger and heavier than me, any single goose was also bigger than me. I was the smallest kid in my school even in 3rd grade. The paddock under the tank was usually solid mud or ice; very slick … and full of goose poop. Water source was a hand pump that took much of my weight to operate, but at least I could reach it through the fence. Refill was home stretch. But getting it dumped, scrubbed and back upright while a whole flock of geese tried to kill me, and still stay clean enough to go to school, that was insane. Figured out ways to do most of it while on (or in for safety) the boards of the fence. Those GD Geese.
Oh yes, I look forward to being the goose this time. I come by my opinion honestly!
Thrag
2660
After watching that again I realize the lack of a hiss button in Untitled Goose Game is a critical omission.
You also never can get as physical as the real ones (or the game would have been rated R for violence or something I guess). Have to tune down the reality to keep it lighthearted!
I was laughing when I was a kid at my mom’s warnings about geese. I was a city kid, I didn’t know better. Years later, a proud teenager on a sunny day, I was biking and exploring the countryside on vacations when I took a little detour up a slope on the side of the road to go see what looked like a nice row of little houses. There, I was met by a single goose. I was just cycling carefreely, it was in the distance minding its business; then it turned its gaze toward me. And it started chasing me. I went down the slope on the other side, and the thing was still chasing me, seemingly impervious to the fact I was supposed to outrun it. It chased and chased me for what seemed like a neverending stretch of road.
I’ll warn my kids about geese.
A year and a half later, the full game seems to have been released.
Who will be streaming? ^.^
MrTibbs
2663
Oooh! I need to see if I received my Kickstarter key. Thanks for the heads up. Are there any reviews yet?
None that I could quote, but I’ve looked at screens and the prose seems to not be up to par. Or maybe yesterday night’s Sunless Skies reading by Tom spoiled me. And maybe those are early access screen grabs.
I’ve dived into a bank with lunatics to find a hidden safe after finding a Key on the ground. These tasks were fun and interesting.
I am guessing you had to be there.
I’m being an ass, but at various points during my reading, I was wondering what the author was refering to.
It’s very much like a Lovecraftian Torment:Tides of Numenara so far.
Pod
2668
I came across this amazing looking game in Steam’s new suggest-o-tron and thought it looked like it was worth playing
What a novel idea for a game!
