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— đ ÎLISTÎR đ (@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-playâthe work of working a gameâis fundamentally irritating, at least in comparison with other media forms. Itâs 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 donât 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 âgrindingââ completing boring, repetitive tasks to advance their characterâs abilities in order to make progressâa term that exactly mirrors the drudgery and toil of labor....When you first realize that youâre doing the job of a gooseâor a personâs idea of a gooseâs job, I guessâthe 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 birdâs awkward lumber gets in the way of the tasks itâs supposed to make funny. Craning the gooseâs 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 pubâs 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, âcrossing over from a lark to a possible civilizational threat,â as he put it. The truth is both worse and better. The goose isnât really wreaking havoc, it turns out. The goose is running errands.
...When you first realize that youâre doing the job of a gooseâor a personâs idea of a gooseâs job, I guessâthe 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 birdâs awkward lumber gets in the way of the tasks itâs supposed to make funny. Craning the gooseâs 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 pubâs 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, âcrossing over from a lark to a possible civilizational threat,â as he put it. The truth is both worse and better. The goose isnât 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQza5GO1Oe0
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
"rake in the lake we out here" is how i handled that too
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
i saw a townsperson today irl i totally wanted to honk at
― alomar lines, Saturday, 9 November 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 15 November 2019 11:28 (four years ago) link
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).
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 15 November 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link
it is, regretfully, a better meme than it is game. but what a meme.
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 November 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
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.
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
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.
― na (NA), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Friday, 15 November 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
otm x2
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
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'.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
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)
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 November 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
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
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
JimD otm
― gbx, Friday, 15 November 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link
Agree 100%, I had a great ol time
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!đ (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 05:38 (four years ago) link
I played only the first couple levels of this but then roasted a goose for Christmas dinner and then had a very terrifying nightmare afterward about the last few levels of this
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 26 December 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
untitled goose game 2: digestion and decay
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!đ (Karl Malone), Thursday, 26 December 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.comicskingdom.com/sally-forth/2019-12-26
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
ha, wow
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
what sort of cunt has a go at his own mother for buying his daughter an expensive games console
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:34 (four years ago) link
Lego Ideas submission
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/54583f1d-a62f-4791-89b8-999ac31b522f
― koogs, Thursday, 23 January 2020 09:44 (four years ago) link
https://mailchi.mp/househou/goose-news-issue-4012500
Q: When? Where? How much?The two-player update will be available for free to all owners of Untitled Goose Game on September 23rd, on all platforms.
Q: Can we play through the whole game with two players?Yes! You can play the game from start to finish as two geese. Your saved progress can be played with either one or two geese, so if youâve started a game in single player, you can get a friend to join in and help you out (and vice versa, if you and your friend do such a bad job cooperating that you have a falling out and you need to go back to single player).
Q: Can I play with a friend online?This update is local-multiplayer-only, which traditionally means that youâll need to be in the same room as someone to be a goose with them. On some platforms, you may be able to play over the internet using streaming. For example, Steamâs Remote Play Together, or PlayStation 4âs Share Play. Weâve tried this ourselves and can confirm it works quite well!
Q: Are there other updates with new areas coming soon?We donât have any plans to do this at the moment. We consider the world of the goose game to be âcompleteâ, and to us, adding new sections would feel like stapling on bits to something thatâs already a whole. Weâre very proud of the game as it exists, and for this update we wanted to put all our effort into making that game enjoyable for two players.
Q: Can one goose drag the other goose around in a box?Of course.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Of course.
So will, say, the farmer chase one goose and not the other? I assume both geese have to be onscreen at the same time.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link