Quick Look: Journey Beta

I would love to see a Dune game using this engine..... FATHER!!!

I'm not sure I'll buy this game anyway, but if they force you to control the camera with the sixaxis, well that's a deal breaker.

All that sand is making me thirsty.

I'm totally into this. Looking forward to it. 

I don't get it. What's supposed to look beatiful here? It's a bunch of sand. That's all I see. One colour, no music, no voice, little gameplay. I'm sorry, I'm yet to be convinced.

@BartWux: There was music. Apart from its atmosphere, I doubt it has much to reveal in a demo. Flower, too, wasn't the sort of game that was easy to get without playing to the end, if even then.

How dare video games be different, how dare they break out of the mold... Comments here prove all people want is the exact same game everytime and are scared of everything that is "interesting/new"

@BartWux said:

I don't get it. What's supposed to look beatiful here? It's a bunch of sand. That's all I see. One colour, no music, no voice, little gameplay. I'm sorry, I'm yet to be convinced.

EXACTLY! We've heard them bitching against brown games for years and yet they're having mangasms over what is quite clearly the brownest game ever...(!) Their impression seems a little forced...

Anyway, I'm not against these kinds of games; I own Shadow of the Colossus (which reminds me: that destroyed bridge in the desert seems awful familiar...), and I'm not saying this game isn't interesting to play, but the hype these guys heap strikes me as rather disproportionate...

There is another play through of this on youtube where the player recording the video runs into another person. Despite myself, I got attached to the stranger as the two "talked" back and forth through the pings, played around and helped each other get glowing scarves. Then, the player's PSN connection suddenly cuts out and the stranger up and disappears. And I really felt this sad sense of loss and loneliness. Call me a bleeding heart or a loser or a dumbass, but the fact that it was able to keep pushing that feeling of isolation is just awesome.

Absolutely cannot wait for this one.

So Patrick wants to have a fun experience with a 12 year old..

God Patrick sounds dumb. (shock)

As other people have already said this game is no different from other multiplayer adventure games go play Myst Uru if you can't wait for this game.

...i wonder what the trophies for this game will be.

sooo the sand rippling out in front of you effect might be a little too harsh.  kinda distracting.

It's amazing how many journey references brad slipped into this quick look. Even the sidebar comment has two of them!

As other people have already said this game is no different from other multiplayer adventure games go play Myst Uru if you can't wait for this game.

I know it's no longer okay to consider any videogames art, that if you dare think anything of the sort you're some kind of self-absorbed wanker etc. But I'm glad there's now someone else at Giant Bomb that can sit in with Brad on Quick Looks at games like this and appreciate them.

This is probably going to be the first game to make me cry in yeeears and years.

The most beautiful game i've seen in years.

This fucking Dead Island commercial is going to make me go ape shit

Holy shit does this game look good.

Sometimes I wish you would refrain from quick looks on some games, this is one of them.

@BartWux said:

I don't get it. What's supposed to look beatiful here? It's a bunch of sand. That's all I see. One colour, no music, no voice, little gameplay. I'm sorry, I'm yet to be convinced.

I think that this game is very striking, and it's elements add up to beauty for me. The lighting, the landscape, the isolation, the minimalist approach, the way it all comes together. Where you see nothing, I see something that I find to be rather remarkable. Not that you're wrong for not seeing what I do, we're just seeing it differently.

Sounds a little weird, but I'm getting a serious Dark Souls vibe from this.