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Get Ready For Some MMO in Your Goat Simulator

You have to admire how much free stuff the developers are giving away. Good on 'em.

Nov. 17 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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Goat Simulator

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U wot m8

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Is this the paradise gamers have been dreaming of? #HellOnEarthForever

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Yeah....no.

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Not only is it awesome that these guys are giving away more free content, I particularly love the way they are mocking people on the internet who think making games must be super easy. Bravo!

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Free is a good price.

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What!

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Hah, that was a neat trailer. I really liked the spoof to just click a button to auto generate a world.

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When they say "MMO simulator", I wonder if there is as much MMO as there is Goat in this? Like, it looked like it had MMO trappings (health bars, names above heads), but is there actual multi-player? Not that it matters, it's still hilarious.

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I think MMO´s are now officially done. How can one top a goat MMO game?

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Well screw Dragon Age, here's my fantasy game

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This is what I want to see from games. Chaos. And the conceit that the developers actually know it is a game. I hate the restrictiveness of so many of today's games. You have a medium where you can virtually do anything why limit yourselves with earthly physics and tired tropes.

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Pick it, pack it, fire it up, come along

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This might be enough for me to actually get Goat Simulator at last. This is the second dumbest thing I have ever seen, I love it!

Also having had to use Unreal Editor in the past, HAHAHAHAH! That shit at the start was pure comedy gold!

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I'd play that, sure.

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Should have left that dropdown box at "anime," imo.

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Alright, This is it guys, video games have gotten too weird for me. I'm out.

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THREE DAYS

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So what class build are you guys going to go with? I think I'm gonna roll up a Goat, but I might also subclass Goat too.

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So what class build are you guys going to go with? I think I'm gonna roll up a Goat, but I might also subclass Goat too.

I'll be rolling around with "Microwave With Legs" class.

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@megasheep said:

When they say "MMO simulator", I wonder if there is as much MMO as there is Goat in this? Like, it looked like it had MMO trappings (health bars, names above heads), but is there actual multi-player? Not that it matters, it's still hilarious.

The reason the game currently only has local splitscreen multiplayer is that the devs had trouble making the physics engine work properly in online play, since the ridiculous physics engine is kind of the entire point of the game. Who knows, though, maybe they figured out a way to make it work. :)

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Goes to show how bad a game Destiny really is.

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Who knew creating patches was THAT easy!

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Great developer

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I was excited and then I saw the 20-11 part. There's no 20th month! That's a mean joke...

No, but seriously, this is the culmination of every video game that's ever been released. What we have here is a meta commentary on the player's desire for freedom and fun. In early video games it was up to the player to devise his or her own setting and storyline due to technological restraints. Now, in most games, players have their narrative and gameplay experience overly saturated with summer blockbuster style pre-requisetes of core genres and hand holding. Goat Simulator is the antithesis of this where freeform fun takes priority with the contrasting effect of less is more. It's following in natural progression of the Minecraft clones. Many players enjoy building their own narratives, and considering what's usually provided for them, are right in lusting to do so. Maybe one day the guiding narrative in more AAA games will catch up to modern expectations of storytelling. Maybe one day there'll be a 20th month...

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@bambam15: other places in the world write it a different way than north america.. so 11/20/2014 is 20/11/2014.

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lol

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@wandrecanada said:

@blupotato said:

So what class build are you guys going to go with? I think I'm gonna roll up a Goat, but I might also subclass Goat too.

I'll be rolling around with "Microwave With Legs" class.

For me it will be Magician Goat

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So they really are going to release this on the same day as dragon age (in eu).... they are actually going to do that.

I so want to contribute to that joke in the perfect way by finally buying goat simulator and forgetting about dragon-age! But i just cant!

You Bastards! You beautiful Swedish bastards!

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Stupid Brilliance in action, folks.

Vinny, I trust you have this downloaded already? :D

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Was that a T-Rex?

fuuuuuck.

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GOaTY.

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Makes no business sense not to charge for this. What's the endgame for this company? How are these people eating? Seems ambitious enough that you could get a sizable chunk of your initial audience to purchase it. Just sayin', free stuff is cool and all but i'm ok with people making a living.

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VINNY: you know what you must do.

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The slow-mo fence explosion is too good.

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Makes no business sense not to charge for this. What's the endgame for this company? How are these people eating? Seems ambitious enough that you could get a sizable chunk of your initial audience to purchase it. Just sayin', free stuff is cool and all but i'm ok with people making a living.

i thought paying for things nowadays was what sends everyone into a tizzy.

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@nardak: seriously this is amazeballs

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@bambam15: its another format for the date, not 20th month-11th day, but 20th day-11th month: nov 20.

Unless you were just crackin' wise

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Can't wait to do some raiding.

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YES!

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Didn't know I wanted this haha but I do.

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Great Trailer, Good Goat

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I feel like I should buy this game just because of this trailer...

I'll wait for the next Steam Sale.

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THANK YOU

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Holy shit.

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@nardak said:

I think MMO´s are now officially done. How can one top a goat MMO game?

He's right. (turns to yell at imaginary factory workers) Lock down the MMO wiki page! Stop the MMO plant! No more MMO's, MMO's are done because MMO Goat Simulator is coming. That's it folks, time to clock out off the MMO factory for good! Hope you have your MMO pensions cause you're gonna need 'em!

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video games is back!

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Oh, that's brilliant! Dumb as shit, but brilliant.