also pls do not fuck with real-life geese if you can help it, one of em almost killed one of my college instructors
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
Untitled Geese Game, imo
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
only if they add competitive multiplayer
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 September 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
finished the main game. haven't checked out the bonus stuff yet. i want to replay though because i feel like i got through some levels (particularly the golden bell) via brute force (i.e. just running away) instead of stealth/intelligence.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
the flapping wings button doesn't come into play at all really right?
― na (NA), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
I mean, if you press the button, you open your wings, making you appear larger and more intimidating.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
It's there to make you feel more like a goose.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
It is at least part of the little dance you have to do for the pub people I think
― Evan, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Yes the dance rules
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
wish this was on PS4 so I could play the goose game :(
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
Actually, in our timeline, a goose chased Thatcher out of office, spurring a Bennite revolution and the irreparable decline of the Tory party. The villagers are Marxists.— House House (@house_house_) September 25, 2019
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
in response to
I don't feel bad about messing with the humans in Untitled Goose Game because I know they are all small-town Brexiters pic.twitter.com/sUCGm7T6QH— Paolo Pedercini (@molleindustria) September 21, 2019
fuck i’ve been honking at comrades this entire time?!*SAD HONK*
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/09/a-birdwatchers-review-of-untitled-goose-game/
"But first, I had to figure out what kind of goose I was. There aren’t a lot of large all-white geese with pink bills. I figured it was either the North American Snow Goose or the domesticated form of the Greylag Goose. The shape of the animal and its particular association with humans made it clear I would be piloting the latter."
― koogs, Thursday, 26 September 2019 08:40 (four years ago) link
But first I had to figure out whether this game set in England starred an American goose or an English goose.
― JimD, Thursday, 26 September 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9STHqt_vsCc
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 September 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW7BHABt2nY
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 27 September 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
I think among the best aspects of this game are the fact that there is no time limit and that there are no real repercussions. You can just take your sweet goose time.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 September 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
Can't get the groundskeeper to show up. Grabbed the radio, which turned on, walked around a bit ... turned the sprinkler on ... I know I'm bad at video games but I've never been stymied this early on in a game.
― lost IDM classics (lukas), Saturday, 28 September 2019 04:08 (four years ago) link
Not that I've ever even seen the guy. Maybe I need to do something to make him show up?
― lost IDM classics (lukas), Saturday, 28 September 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
weird. he should be there.rake in the lake time!
― alomar lines, Saturday, 28 September 2019 04:31 (four years ago) link
Rake in the lake! Rake in the lake!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 September 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
he manifested on reload. wish he'd stayed away.
― lost IDM classics (lukas), Saturday, 28 September 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
https://sarahbecan.threadless.com/designs/no-gods-no-masters
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
lol, amazing
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/goose-related-crime-up-2000-percent-after-untitled-goo-1838664670
(that's a good shirt which I don't quite dare wear)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
the end of this game is very good. Deep lore.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 4 October 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
or the end of the "main game" anyway, 100%ing is a task for another time. I liked the goose game but honestly it's not going to unseat Baba Is You for my goaty voaty
this horrible goose stole every single thing in the village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGGJeK49ngQ
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
That's incredible.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
superb
― nxd, Thursday, 10 October 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link
That's Untitled Cassowary Game pic.twitter.com/7GQVlbYf9D— Steve M (@Donnough) October 3, 2019
― koogs, Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
That's like the most Aussie joke ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
lol yessssss
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 11 October 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link
My ex (the game coder lad N) knows the guys who made this, but I guess thats not too suprising, Melbourne indie game industry is p small.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 11 October 2019 05:16 (four years ago) link
Love the final shot of this game, so quietly bone-chilling
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
No one is going to top this opening line for an article about Untitled Goose Game. https://t.co/zSgmNIDwdm pic.twitter.com/GvFhLaWPc6— Pat Ashe (@patrickashe) October 17, 2019
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 17 October 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
that is an excellent piece
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
The developers of Untitled Goose Game saying one of their favourite moments of the games success was @DaftLimmy playing it is very sweet.https://t.co/MjfG9ds2ab pic.twitter.com/boxOevYZws— Matthew Ruddle (@RuddleMatthew) October 16, 2019
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
these guys seem 100% great tbh
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 October 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Beware milkshake goose.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
i was JUST typing that
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChVRPU7CgsI
― koogs, Friday, 18 October 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
untitled resident goose
Untitled Goose Chase? #Modding #RE2 #MrX #UntitleGooseGame @panic pic.twitter.com/IZUGLTxDS6— 🎃 ΛLISTΞR 🎃 (@xZombieAlix) October 19, 2019
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 October 2019 09:00 (four years ago) link
i have three items for this thread.
1. just finished it 2 nights ago! and by "finished", i mean, "got to the end and unlocked all the other checklist items!". i was playing with my partner and we tend to play in 30 minute chunks about once or twice a week, so it took forever.
2. wow, check out this piece in the atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/10/dont-play-the-goose-game/600472/
Game-play—the work of working a game—is fundamentally irritating, at least in comparison with other media forms. It’s easy to pass the eyes over the pages of a book, or to bathe in the waves of image and sound at the cinema or in your living room. Moreover, these forms skip over the boring parts by editing them out: You don’t have to watch a character traverse the stairs, sidewalk, subway, and elevator to get from home to work. But in games, you are the character, and thus you must pilot him (or her, but usually him) through every detail that the simulated world demands. Role-playing gamers sometimes talk about “grinding”— completing boring, repetitive tasks to advance their character’s abilities in order to make progress—a term that exactly mirrors the drudgery and toil of labor....When you first realize that you’re doing the job of a goose—or a person’s idea of a goose’s job, I guess—the game is still delightful, for a time anyway. Then it becomes human work again. The certain sight gag of piloting a virtual goose around gives way to the nuisance of piloting a goose around. The bird’s awkward lumber gets in the way of the tasks it’s supposed to make funny. Craning the goose’s neck to the ground, an act with a dedicated joystick button, still requires the careful mechanical precision whose mastery always precedes intention in video games.The work quickly devolves from curiosity to chore. In each of four major village scenes, the player must complete one compound task on the to-do list: stealing a series of picnic-themed items from a garden and bringing them to a blanket, for example, or a pub’s place-setting components to a table out back. These lists within lists require repetition more than strategy, which is not a bad definition of completing chores. My colleague Kriston Capps worried that the game might endorse furtive evil, “crossing over from a lark to a possible civilizational threat,” as he put it. The truth is both worse and better. The goose isn’t really wreaking havoc, it turns out. The goose is running errands.
...When you first realize that you’re doing the job of a goose—or a person’s idea of a goose’s job, I guess—the game is still delightful, for a time anyway. Then it becomes human work again. The certain sight gag of piloting a virtual goose around gives way to the nuisance of piloting a goose around. The bird’s awkward lumber gets in the way of the tasks it’s supposed to make funny. Craning the goose’s neck to the ground, an act with a dedicated joystick button, still requires the careful mechanical precision whose mastery always precedes intention in video games.
The work quickly devolves from curiosity to chore. In each of four major village scenes, the player must complete one compound task on the to-do list: stealing a series of picnic-themed items from a garden and bringing them to a blanket, for example, or a pub’s place-setting components to a table out back. These lists within lists require repetition more than strategy, which is not a bad definition of completing chores. My colleague Kriston Capps worried that the game might endorse furtive evil, “crossing over from a lark to a possible civilizational threat,” as he put it. The truth is both worse and better. The goose isn’t really wreaking havoc, it turns out. The goose is running errands.
there's much more to it, too. is this the cover story for the atlantic?
3.
https://i.imgur.com/bDl6wHY.jpg
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
I hope Bogost didn't come up with that headline.
― jmm, Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
that's the 3rd in a series, he did "video games are better without characters" and "video games are better without story" and this one is "video games are better without gameplay" but i guess the editor changed the line
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
ha, i very much doubt that he did. bonus points for working "anserine" into a mainstream publication!
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
all 3 are otm of course
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
My colleague Kriston Capps worried that the game might endorse furtive evil
so dumb
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 24 October 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link