untitled goose game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW7BHABt2nY

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.

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.

Not that I've ever even seen the guy. Maybe I need to do something to make him show up?

weird. he should be there.
rake in the lake time!

Rake in the lake! Rake in the lake!

he manifested on reload. wish he'd stayed away.

https://sarahbecan.threadless.com/designs/no-gods-no-masters

lol, amazing

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)

the end of this game is very good. Deep lore.

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

That's incredible.

superb

That's Untitled Cassowary Game pic.twitter.com/7GQVlbYf9D

— Steve M (@Donnough) October 3, 2019

That's like the most Aussie joke ever.

lol yessssss

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.

Love the final shot of this game, so quietly bone-chilling

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

that is an excellent piece

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

these guys seem 100% great tbh

Beware milkshake goose.

i was JUST typing that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChVRPU7CgsI

untitled resident goose

Untitled Goose Chase? #Modding #RE2 #MrX #UntitleGooseGame @panic pic.twitter.com/IZUGLTxDS6

— 🎃 ΛLISTΞR 🎃 (@xZombieAlix) October 19, 2019

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.

there's much more to it, too. is this the cover story for the atlantic?

3.

https://i.imgur.com/bDl6wHY.jpg

I hope Bogost didn't come up with that headline.

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

ha, i very much doubt that he did. bonus points for working "anserine" into a mainstream publication!

all 3 are otm of course

My colleague Kriston Capps worried that the game might endorse furtive evil

so dumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQza5GO1Oe0

"rake in the lake we out here" is how i handled that too

i saw a townsperson today irl i totally wanted to honk at

this game is not fun, atlantic otm. as a big fan of the anserinae and an ex-gamer who hasn't played anything in the last 5 years, this makes me sad.

might have been more fun with more thought provoking puzzles, fewer fetch quests, and less shitty object interaction (multiple times i've been completely unable to pick up something that's fallen on the floor).

it is, regretfully, a better meme than it is game. but what a meme.

undoubtedly. it's also a good game. but there are tons of good games. the ol' goose game became a meme because it's funny, got hyped up in non-gamer circles more than just about any other game this side of fortnite or minecraft, and so people expect that it is a fantastic game. it's not, it's just a good game that lasts a few hours.

i enjoyed playing the main game but i have very little impulse to go back to do the additional content, especially because it doesn't open up any new areas. i've gone back into the game a few times just to mess around though.

in addition to the memeability i think it also shows a widespread desire for more games that are simple and have you doing something outside of the standard game goals/mechanics/however you want to define it. i think beyond the meme stuff, the goal being to wreak havok and frustrate normal people was also different enough to be a big hook. if it was the same goose and same art design but you had to hop on a bunch of platforms or push boxes around to solve a puzzle it wouldn't be as appealing.

It's a better toy than it is a game (*).

If you go in thinking "right what are my OBJECTIVES, how do I ACHIEVE them" then it's slight, and pretty clunky, and probably disappointing, yep.

If you go in (or even better send a kid in) thinking "I'm a naughty goose! I'm scaring the boy! I'm stealing the sandwich! I'm breaking the fence! Honk!" then it's great.

(*) Which is probably true for a lot of videogames these days really. See also 90% of everything that's been released for PSVR, for example. Or, you know, Minecraft.

otm x2

i played like fifteen minutes of it and it was nice enough but it's much more fun as a meme. it got baconed more or less on contact tho'.

desire for more games that are simple and have you doing something outside of the standard game goals/mechanics/however you want to define it.

and yes, this too. as much fun as it is to check in on the incremental improvements in version 34414 of a dozen different franchises, there's something to be said about something that is relatively unique and fresh (even while UGG's mechanics have many antecedents)

The mechanics partly remind me of ancient ZX Spectrum classic "Skool Daze" and yeah I would like more games like that, or better still more Walking Sim + Shenanigans games

JimD otm

Got this for PS4 and it's the first game I can play with my wife since, idk, Inside? We had a good ol' time setting up the goose picnic although it took us like an hour, lol.

Just checking in on this thread as I finally got it and finished it and... what's up with people knocking this as a game? I thought it was pitched really well, just tough enough to keep it interesting but simple enough that I never got too frustrated. I could have done a couple more levels but I think for the price there was a reasonable amount, and being short it kept up the fun of being an impish goose all the way through.