This is all rather interesting because the one main thing about the game I noticed immediately, is that everything in the game is able to reset to neutral, which sets it apart from most "stealth" games. It followed in my head that breaking the broom wasn't about destroying it, but in the most common way brooms and mops break - the head coming loose. Because that's something that can be fixed easily, like everything else in the game. It's was a pretty consistent philosophy - at least for those first two areas. I haven't tried the others yet. If you could actually snap the broom, it would stand out as incongruous in my mind, cos it's sort of against the whole idea, which is that the goose is horrible, but not in a nasty way - you can't kill the kid for example, and not for want of trying. You can utterly destroy his mind, but that's about as far as you can go. Nothing every really breaks, it just goes out of the AI's standard loop in some way.

The mop/broom thing might also come from the fact that every weekend I mop and brush both my places of work, and the most common issue is the heads falling off the fucking things. You guys need to get back in touch with common labour again, you've all gone big soft.

I’m stuck on Untitled Goose Game, because it’s a broken mess. I’ve done the last thing you need to do in the two gardens, ‘make someone cut the prize rose’, or however it’s worded. It’s supposed to trigger an argument between the two humans, but he always misses it. When he finds the head, he just reattaches it. I’ve had the thing chopped off five or six times now, but it won’t unlock the next area.

I had suspected the game wouldn’t live up to the first reveal. I’ve avoided videos since then, aware that it would have limited scope. It’s a solid 10-15 minute experience. After that, not so much.

Andy, I don't recall the neighbours arguing about that part. Does the task not get crossed off as soon as the mistake is made?

You access the next area via a hole in the woman's fence/hedge at the back left of her garden. If that's still blocked you might be in trouble. I didn't see why the gap appeared in my playhrough, just eventually found it.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Cosby wrote:

Still enjoying Goose Game. Got one task left on the second area - to break the broom. I thought I'd come up with the perfect solution and was feeling quite smug about it. Then it didn't work and wiped the grin off my face. Slightly disappointing as I felt it was a valid solution but got to be some limits I guess. Other than that I probably enjoyed tormenting the speccy kid a bit too much.

Did you try to

Spoiler:

squash it under the garage door?

because I did, and it didn't work. I didn't manage to cross that one off in the end either.

Not far off
I'm clearly thinking too far outside the box.

Tempy wrote:

This is all rather interesting because the one main thing about the game I noticed immediately, is that everything in the game is able to reset to neutral, which sets it apart from most "stealth" games. It followed in my head that breaking the broom wasn't about destroying it, but in the most common way brooms and mops break - the head coming loose. Because that's something that can be fixed easily, like everything else in the game. It's was a pretty consistent philosophy - at least for those first two areas. I haven't tried the others yet. If you could actually snap the broom, it would stand out as incongruous in my mind, cos it's sort of against the whole idea, which is that the goose is horrible, but not in a nasty way - you can't kill the kid for example, and not for want of trying. You can utterly destroy his mind, but that's about as far as you can go. Nothing every really breaks, it just goes out of the AI's standard loop in some way. The mop/broom thing might also come from the fact that every weekend I mop and brush both my places of work, and the most common issue is the heads falling off the fucking things. You guys need to get back in touch with common labour again, you've all gone big soft.

This makes a whole lot of sense, great point. The game, not the labour thing. I sweep floors, patios, legs - you name it!

Yeah, Cosby, stop approaching this with any sort of sandbox notions of emergent gameplay.

Trying Monster Hunter World. Hmm. The world is beautiful. The handler + 'story' is doing my head in. Combat seems clunky.

Sounds about right. Souls combat initially felt clunky.

At this point it's just a countdown (7 days left) to next week's Disco Elysium.

So I've been playing Sekiro (PC) again, because gamewise it's the polar opposite. And just about perfect. The balance and control of it all is still mindblowing. God it feels sooo good to play.

Yeah, I've been tinkering with my steam profile and hovering over that potential "Favourite Game" showcase I've recently just had one game in mind. 

Beacuse like you say, it is the best.

loool i am getting it for bday, not a dexbro, hope i like it.

edit: changed dexfag to dexbro, because, you know.

edit edit: i can parry! thanks

And stay away from walls or even slightly confined spaces.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Nate's found a glitched chest in Lego Worlds, infinite stuff, it's party time.

Unfortunately you only get 20 or so items at a time, but an Egyptian planet plus megazooka = plenty of chests.

It's good they're still releasing showcase madels, but I'm not holding out for a fix on the gold dragon which is really messing with my OCD as it seems to be impossible to damage and capture them.

Be(a)st game.