The reviews and comments of this game are all wrong: everyone keeps saying "Its minecraft meets Diablo". But its not. For one - its not minecraft gameplay at all. My 3 year old nephew, (and the reason i tried this trash), just keeps saying "why cant i build anything or break anything". if you cant do either of those 2 things, then its not minecraft. Its a skin, a minecraft skin a on a terrible game. Which if you are going to ""skin" a game - this franchise is actually terrible for it because minecraft is blocks, it looks like shit. So its a shitty skin that makes this game look bad. (But you might see a creeper!). Its all completely underwhelming and boring.
And to say its like Diablo is insulting to Diablo. Its so shallow. Its a bland and outdated looter crawler with a minecraft skin. Its literally the worst of this style game Ive played, there are 20 better versions of "this" out there. Microsoft should be embarrassed that they released this, and are wasting a 4 billion dollar license. Go get Titans Quest instead. Or Torhlight. Or Diablo!
In fact if you have Gamepass, and want a game like this for a kiddo, but better, (better colors, you can actually break stuff, etc). Try RiverBound.
Just to counter the "negative" Goose Game review, (and no it doesn't make me toxic Bsmittel).
This is a game that genuinely I haven't heard a bad thing about before just now; just about everyone I know personally, (just look at the comments), loves. And its the first game at my house that literally everyone is playing, (ages 38, 37, 10, and 3). It has a wonderful fandom. With loud laughs from the kids and communication at dinner about what the goose just did, or how we did something. -- I dont think being surprised/disappointed by the reaction of the whole table on a site i pay for makes me toxic.
Everyone has opinions, I hate 30% of the games they like; thats fine.
Jeff hates Red Dead and thats nuts to me, but I think Mario maker is not fun at all.
Goose Game is not a masterpiece. Its a goofy downloadable game. I am fine with any game they dislike.
For me, its not that they dont like the game, its why it stumped them... The tough puzzles and the clunky mechanics were their critiques, and I couldn't disagree more. 1) they couldn't figure out the puzzles my 10 year old can; 2) they cant do the mechanics that my 3 year old can.
Hearing Ben say that they, "would like this if you could just run around and do goose carnage", um you 100% can. My nephew just sits for 20 minutes pulls pumpkins and gets chased and laughs. I got bored doing it, but you can just do random crap like Noby Noby Boy as long as you want. He has also solved some puzzles on his own, (I read to him because he cant read).
But also just like i loved the trophies in Noby Noby Boy, (because otherwise it wasn't a "game" just a "simulator" - and the trophies really guided your experience), the notebook stuff is basically suggestions. You do have to do a certain amount to progress -- but like "the hat" they are bitching about, i got to the next area without doing that at first, you can just skip it. (Also its super easy to get his hat multiple ways, Ben was right, just take his hat and he puts on the sun hat - you are over thinking it maybe!?).
On it being clunky - not more than its supposed to be - the puzzles may be hard to think of at first, until you observe peoples patterns; but they are all pretty simple - and the mechanics arent hard to get around at all -- i tell my almost 3 year old nephew what he needs to do - (he has to look down at what button i said almost each time, and his thumbs dont reach the thumb-sticks - so these guys should be better than him) - he can do the puzzles when i guide him. So again -- hearing an adult expert on games struggle with this, its weird.
Being surprised that the game site I go to didn't connect with a game we currently love doesn't make me or my niece and nephew toxic. I just want to let people who may not play it now because of the negativity -- who wont hear about it on "game of the year podcasts", its great! Great for kids!!!
Luckily in the next podcast they seem to like Concrete Genie which i also think was a breath of fresh air.
I so wish you guys shared a podcast room still. Next group impatiently knocking on the door reminding you they need the room in 5 minutes.... You just giggle and spray another blast onto your knees.
Wow. First off, yeah comments sections can always go batty - but if you think THIS is bad -- i came from a review on YouTube - "worth a buy" guy - from the UK somewhere - he's got like 250K subscriptions -- and his comment section was AWFUL, (not sure if he inspires that, I just subscribed after a few of his videos, but i might leave that one...), makes these comments seem like peace, love, and understanding.
He played through and hated this game. He pointed to the awful checkpoint system i dont hear anyone here commenting on - if you die you go back to the checkpoint (there is no mid-mission save wtf?). And if you use all your ammo on a boss and die, you checkpoint with no ammo. That does seem terrible.
He loved being able to shoot a guy in the head and he dies in the old games, this replaces it with health bars. Which he points out, like Alex found, that if you come across an enemy that is just artificially higher level than you, you're dead. Again, not very Wolfenstein (makes me think this was/should have been a different game or new IP and the Wolfenstein name was slapped on? I heard thats what happened with Prey?).
He hated that you repeat the same levels over and over. It seemed very "handholdy". He hated that you had to swap constantly between two types of ammo for certain enemies because a guy artificailly needs "striped ammo" (like picking the right pokemon type). Again, just things that arent very "Wolfenstein" and dont sound fun.
I was on board, those all seem like valid criticisms. I was going to pass on this game. BUT THEN....
-- it went off the rails big time, (especially in the comments), and it turned into "you play as two crappy weak girls, how would you even hold guns... everyone in the hideout is women, where are the marines?" (*probably dead from the nazi war id think?). It just turned into women bashing, and "this game is stuffing SJW crap down our throats!".
Suddenly i was like; "are the criticisms of this game even valid now? Or are you looking for something to hate because you are playing as these ladies?"
And seeing as the comments there were 60% bashing women 40% bashing gameplay....
It was unanimous there that this was a bad game, but i cant trust why they thought it was bad.... So i came here to watch, and surprise the review seems more positive. Hmmm... ha-ha -- and again -- if you think comments here are bad -- those turned into "women should lose the right to vote/anti-SJW/women are ruining everything/dark government conspiracies.... holy hell! Again, not sure how much that YouTuber feeds into his INSANE audience, but I almost unsubscribed right there... it was so crazy i couldn't tell if people were being sarcastic? Like when i see someone say something about flat earth? Surveys show they are majority of the time just trolling... But yeah, it was gross.
Anyway, I agree that lots of game mechanics seem odd choices. I have a feeling this will get very repetitive. But it seems like knowing what it is ahead of time, this will be an okay game on sale; and we learn that all comments sections are usually bad, but some are worse? ha-ha :)
Rental vs Owning:Brad: "if I rented it, it wasn't a very good game". Not necessarily. Obviously you wanted to buy the classics, but I got suckered into buying some real pieces of crap too! (NES X-Men because I was a comic geek, Mickey Mousecapade as a gift from Grandma oooooh...). And some of my favorites were rentals I never bought like Castlevania 3!!!
At my house, my Dad hated video games. He has come around now. But when me and my brother had an NES - it was one game each at birthdays, and one game each at Xmas. Sometimes I could get another relative to drop cash on an extra game at one of those holidays. But my brother wasn't into games like me. So you are talking 4-6 new games a year tops, that's it. And with no allowance there was no way I was buying games on my own (being 6-12 range at the time of NES).
But I could always get money for rentals, and my Dad never seemed bothered by that. So every weekend was always the excitement of going to the rental store, (our video store was themed, had really cool decked out rooms for every genre - from Saloon doors and cactus for the Westerns, to the horror room looked like Evil Dead shack and had spiderwebs and creepy lights etc); the joy of getting a game for the weekend, usually with a buddy. Picking by cover art. Hoping our saves carried over and we got it the next weekend again if it was a game we were trying to keep playing. And then of course trading games and borrowing games from each other was huge with me and my friends. i had a friend who would always get the brand new games, and once he was done i could usually borrow them...
i remember a time, like Rorey and Bionic Commando -- me and my bro did something good, and my Dad let us get Mega Man 2 out of the blue, (only time I ever remember getting a game not at a holiday), we beat it that night, my brother was pale white and like "DO NOT TELL DAD WE BEAT THIS IN ONE NIGHT!!!". Luckily i enjoyed MM2 and played it over and over again anyway :)
N64 4th best console ? Hmmmm its opinion obviously. But I dunno... Its hard to separate these things from nostalgia, and who you were and how old you were when you played these games first.
I go: 1) SNES; 2) NES; 3) Gamecube; 4) Switch, (it will jump ahead of Gamecube by the end of its life I'm sure), and then 5) Wii U and 5) N64 are tied for me, then 6) Wii simply because of the motion control which made it a garbage system.
I feel like Wii U is ahead of N64 on my list because honestly the Wii U and its virtual console were not really that off from the Switch library right now. And i liked the tablet and the Pro-Controller better than the N64 pad by a mile. Switch will pull ahead when it gets its own identity more - but yeah, right now i think Wii U is 5 for me and N64 is *5.5.
Its all opinion of course. And not everyone owned or got to play every game. And not everyone likes games you might like; even a game like Ocarina which got a 10 and people gush over - I liked Windwaker better! (Or saying a system has the best Smash Bros means nothing to me, i hate Smash bros.). And even one important game that means a lot to YOU can really factor in - Final Fantasy 1 on NES has so much weight for me for instance. But then its been out on 5 other platforms now...
New systems get to stand on the shoulders of giants, (something I think Switch is doing to the Wii U like a vampire with all the ports its stealing -- its basically like the Wii U might have well not existed at this point), so sometimes its hard to balance whats more important -- obviously the new systems get to iterate with sequels and benefit from new tech and game design and ports/collections, but old games have the history and influence factor...
Looking at it through a lens of "How much do I want to go back and play it?" - i recently just bought a $70 CARBY HDMI adapter for my Gamecube which I kept all these years, (better deal than the $150 EON and works just as well), but dont really feel the need to drop that for N64 which I got rid of anyway - so thats my answer right there - Gamecube over N64!
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