Journey

[Piecewise]

Stop reading this and go buy it.


No, seriously, stop reading this and go buy it.

If you don't go give money to these people who have done more to advance the gaming medium as an artform then anyone else in the past roughly half decade then you don't deserve to have that console any more. Journey is practically transcendental, blending every aspect of its world, sound, art direction, and minimalist story together perfectly to create a single mindblowing work. Playing it brings forth the childlike wonder and deep curiosity usually only drawn out by the works of Team Ico and hayao miyazaki; every wonderfully rendered environment draws the player into the world, every ruin and crumbling tableau begs you to discover its secret past, and every lost and lonely player you meet becomes an instant companion in that empty, empty world.

I could go on for days, but yeah, seriously, get this game. I don't care if you have to turn tricks or beg on a street corner to scrounge up the money, it will be worth every penny.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Youknow, unless you dont own a sony-console.

 

[Evilpigeon]

I have to wait til I get back from university to buy it on PSN Why ThatGameCompany release their stuff on pc? It's awesome and I want to pay them for it.

 

[El Luck]

No, I don't think I will.

 

[DioWallachia]

Youknow, unless you dont own a sony-console.

Or unless you live in a country that sucks too hard to even afford anything and only by making threads i can get to know or even inspire people to buy something as High art as Journey

 

[Nikolaz72]

Youknow, unless you dont own a sony-console.

Or unless you live in a country that sucks too hard to even afford anything and only by making threads i can get to know or even inspire people to buy something as High art as Journey

Im not really interrested in buying a playstation-anything? I really dont know what it is you are trying to say. I was merely pointing out that some of us maybe wanted the -game- but didnt ahve the right -platform-

Making artsy games is fine but I think making -exclusive- artsy games is stupid. You had to make it on a PC anyway so the port (IF you dont wish to increase the graphics) Is mostly, if you dump it down, about changing the buttons you press. I guess the reason here is that they were contracted by Sony, and 'if' the game sells bad because they only released this niche game on -one- platform. They will only have themself to blame.

 

[spartan231490]

Nope. Probably not. I approve of video games being art, just as much as i approve of movies being art, but I don't watch artsy movies and I'm not going to play artsy games. Though if what you say is true, props to the developers.

 

[DioWallachia]

Youknow, unless you dont own a sony-console.

Or unless you live in a country that sucks too hard to even afford anything and only by making threads i can get to know or even inspire people to buy something as High art as Journey

Im not really interrested in buying a playstation-anything? I really dont know what it is you are trying to say. I was merely pointing out that some of us maybe wanted the -game- but didnt ahve the right -platform-

Making artsy games is fine but I think making -exclusive- artsy games is stupid. You had to make it on a PC anyway so the port (IF you dont wish to increase the graphics) Is mostly, if you dump it down, about changing the buttons you press. I guess the reason here is that they were contracted by Sony, and 'if' the game sells bad because they only released this niche game on -one- platform. They will only have themself to blame.

I was just saying that you cant afford a particular console and i cant afford a particular.....well anything really. So maybe you can wait for a port while you can surf the net around to see if the game is worth his reputation so we can see more of them regardless if they had to make a deal with the devil (Sony)

 

[DioWallachia]

Nope. Probably not. I approve of video games being art, just as much as i approve of movies being art, but I don't watch artsy movies and I'm not going to play artsy games. Though if what you say is true, props to the developers.

Maybe you have a bad impresion on bad art games. After all, nobody knows what in the fuck is "Art" anymore so you can't really blame them for trying. If this is really a High Art game that its also fun (as Jim Sterling said in his Destructoid review of Journey) then i will buy it.

 

[DioWallachia]

The way you waxed lyrical about it makes me want to ignore it. Even though I know how incredible it looks and I've heard such great things.

Your £5 modern art review of it makes me want to stay as far away as possible for fear of affiliation.

So well done....

http://www.destructoid.com/review-journey-223030.phtml

A real review by Jim "The Man" Sterling

Thank Jim for me

 

[DioWallachia]

Their album! Go buy it! :3
If it's even possible to get hold of a physical copy today.

OT: Oooh. A game. Pass. Asian games tend to rub me the wrong way with the lame symbolism and overacting and pathetic character design.

Nobody said its a JRPG or even mentioned the stupid characterization that people may recognize as something of a JRPG. You are jumping to conclusions and the developers arent even japanse nor the game was made in japan, it is from North America

 

[DioWallachia]

The way you waxed lyrical about it makes me want to ignore it. Even though I know how incredible it looks and I've heard such great things.

Your £5 modern art review of it makes me want to stay as far away as possible for fear of affiliation.

So well done....

http://www.destructoid.com/review-journey-223030.phtml

A real review by Jim "The Man" Sterling

Thank Jim for me

I know how good the game is, I've seen the first like 10 minutes of it. I'll certainly be buying it when I get a new TV for my room. But I just can't deal with pretentious warbling like 90% of the OP.

It just puts me off.

I am afraid that more is coming in our way. Not only because people may try to get revenge on a bad sequel (*Cough*ME3*Cough*) by buying this game but also for the people who are too insecure about the "Games are NOT art" issue and will try to "recruit" as many people as possible. Cant really blame them really, after all the video game industry seems like the last bastion for creativity in the modern world since the film industry is dead (Transformers and thousands of sequels/remake/regalore/etc) and literature is deader than dead (Twilight)

 

[DioWallachia]

Fair point there. But I looked it up and I still stand by what I said. It's still very asian looking.

Asian or.....Middle Eastern? That may sound like unfortunate implications if you dont choose your semantics carefully (just ask Roger Ebert).

Besides, i can say that Star Wars: A New Hope looks very EASTERN since the very moments on the movie are people in long robes that are (you know) usefull for a desert-like environment.

 

[Lionsfan]

I would....but I don't have a PS3....

 

[DioWallachia]

Bastion seemed to escape a lot of the pretentiousness. That might have been because of it's relatively familiar gameplay. But I'd certainly consider that game art. From it's visual flare to the soundtrack.

If we could just talk about how good journey is and not rip off the moustachio tweaking critics handbook by throwing in words like 'transcendental' and 'minimalist' because we think it makes it sound more grown up, well that would be super.

Ok, hmm...

Journey is super because you can fuck around with the enviroment and enjoy the scenery while you endure a journey that will eventually teach you a lesson that wont hit you over the head as many many many other games/movies.

Oh and you can also fuck around with the enviroment along with other people in multiplayer even if you cant communicate or even know their names

There i have done it, a description that doesnt need mustachio critic appeal. The game is FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCKTASTIC.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

Their album! Go buy it! :3
If it's even possible to get hold of a physical copy today.

*snip*

Glad I'm not the only one who came in here thinking about the band. Seriously, I'm about to go to sleep, but Don't Stop Believing has made a comfy place in my head thanks to this thread, and I don't expect it'll be leaving any time soon. >_>

OT: Don't have a PS3. Mostly came in to complain/talk about Journey being stuck in my head. I hope others in this thread are more enlightening towards the topic. ^_^

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The game is utter brilliance.

I went in with no expectations and was rewarded with the most unpretentious 'artsy' game I've ever played.

Fucking loved every second of it.

 

[dimensional]

Was going to get it anyway almost regardless of what people thought of it (unless it was universally slated) I enjoy travelling and have been waiting for a game like this for some time but I am not getting it until its available for non ps network players (hopefully today).

And Star Wars looks and feels the part of a Space Western.

what, are you mad? its a samurai film with asian symbolism done from a western perspective with western sci-fi elements.

 

[DioWallachia]

Was going to get it anyway almost regardless of what people thought of it (unless it was universally slated) I enjoy travelling and have been waiting for a game like this for some time but I am not getting it until its available for non ps network players (hopefully today).

And Star Wars looks and feels the part of a Space Western.

what, are you mad? its a samurai film with asian symbolism done from a western perspective with western sci-fi elements.

eeeeehm nop, it was just another "homage" of the 30's Sci Fi with the added touch of looking like footage of the WW2

 

[dimensional]

eeeeehm nop, it was just another "homage" of the 30's Sci Fi with the added touch of looking like footage of the WW2

What you mean like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers? yeah that would account for the western sci fi parts but the whole concept of the Jedi (samurai) and The force (Qi) is pure Eastern. In fact thats what I said at the start, but I feel we are getting off topic.