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I feel like that game literally changed my life in the 2 hours or whatever it took me to play it.
That game is so beautiful. It made me a better person.
I was absolutely entranced.
My sister plays the game a lot.
She's earned the white robe, and plays regularly to show other players around, and draw them hearts in the sand/snow.
That's really adorable, thanks for sharing!
Very cool. Thanks
I saw so much praise for this game, which got me to buy. Then I genuinely felt like I played a different game than everybody else.
Not that I thought it was bad or anything, I just walked across the landscape for 2h15m and then haven't thought about it since.
The amazing part for me is running into a stranger and we have to communicate with the limited system in game. Outside of that it's a competent "walking simulator" with decent puzzles and great art. If that's not your thing I get it.
Wait that other person I saw was a real person and not an NPC?? 🤯
Yup. When the game ends, you will see a list of player IDs you've met during your journey
Regular players are red, think if you meet someone in white, they 100% the game
IIRC white means you got all the secret glyphs in one playthrough.
Nope. White are real people, too. You respawn white back at the beginning (i think you have the option to, so you could stay red as well) if you managed to find all the glyphs. Ive been the White Traveler lots of times.
I played with my friend over Discord and somehow we got matched with each other the first time, so we didn't get to play with strangers or anything. Still was fun though.
My partner and I had VERY different experiences.
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I played and got a friend right away, my friend was VERY chirpy and led me around and when I had to poop I tried to communicate it and they KNEW… They were the perfect partner. I really felt like a made a deep connection with this person I couldn’t communicate with. I teared up and when their Steam name showed at the end credits I added them immediately and we have a long chat about our experience.
My partner? First friend joined, was a speedrunner. Just ran ahead without so much as a chirp. Nobody else was joining so we started over. Got another friend who randomly dropped out after a bit. Finally found another friend who also just left about 3/4 of the way through. Frustration; quit.
After I unlocked the White Robe I used to go back into games and find people. Then I'd just chill with them chirping, giving subtle hints on where things were, and being patient while floating around levels. It remains one of my favorite games of all time.
That’s totally what my person was doing, and they definitely had white robe. Bless you for making people’s experiences amazing. You’re the best kind of player!
Oh, sorry. I was absolutely mesmerized.
I'll be remembering it for quite some time.
My mind is still spinning.
This was exactly my experience as well! The same thing happened with Witcher 3. Sooo much hype but no matter how many times I’ve gone back to it, I just can’t get into it.
Dang, you're patient. I played this back on PS3. Does it even have online players anymore? They are an integral part of the experience, IMO.
I had someone with a super long scarf play basically the entire second half of the game with me. So fun to find ways to communicate with just the little pulses we had.
!Also absolutely heartbreaking when wet froze together at the end!<
I also played their other game Flower, on the PS3. Probably the only time I've enjoyed using motion controls on that system.
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I didn't see anyone else, and that does sound like a cool mechanic, but this was perfect for me on its own.
I was very happy to find this community because I can wait decades to play a game.
I've never heard of this game before, but was going through all time best game lists and there journey was on igns, and it sounded too good to not immediately investigate.
That's a shame there aren't any players any more.
I'm a patient gamer, too. I almost never buy games at full price. But I try to strike a balance with online(-ish) games. Some experiences you just can't have once a game with an online aspect isn't popular anymore.
If you're looking for a similar type of game, I played GRIS recently which reminded me quite a bit of this.
That's how I felt after finishing Outer Wilds.
I wonder if the outer wilds was less successful than it was because there was another game called outer worlds.
I still don't know which game is which, and i played on of them
Some games you sometimes load just to hang around. This is one of those. Lovely game.
I'd add Valley and Sable to this group.
They have another game called Sky
I was just looking at sky on the Play store.
Have you played sky?
I'll have to go back and try their older games too.
Sky is wonderful but after you've played through it and explored around a bit, the content cycle is pretty obnoxious and requires you to really play damn near every day hardcore to unlock all the stuff in their season pass before it's gone. Fortunately 99.9% of it is purely cosmetic and the bits that aren't are just little toys, so you can easily just play it for the actual game content, which doesn't really go away.
I play it all the time. Its Journey with some FOMO, but they bring some items you missed back every other 2 weeks. Its my chill escape.
I've been playing video games for about 30 years and this is hands down one of the best games I've ever played.
Edit: other noteworthy mentions - outer wilds, the original ps2 amplitude, and NieR Automata are some other stand out masterpieces of my life.
I dig outer wilds, I'm writing down the other two now, thanks.
Journey was unbelievable.
I literally could not believe how caught up I was in it while enjoying the entire ride.
It's the one game I would suggest hands down to anyone to play. From non-gamers on up. The game is a short masterpiece and one of a very few to elicit an emotional reaction out of me. I cannot sing it's praises enough.
I'm sad that they had to monetize sky the way they did to keep the service up. It's clearly what they wanted out of journey but couldn't accomplish the first go. If you like journey, play sky, children of the light
Journey is my favorite game, hands down. It was even more magical in the years after its release and there were still a bunch of active players. Did you encounter any others on their journey in your game?
No! I didn't even know that was a thing.
Truly unique experience, I'm still reeling from being in that world and following that story.
Some review mentioned that if you could distill a video game into pure poetry, journey would be it.
That's what got me to check it out, and goddam were they right.
Yeah, my first playthrough, I thought it was just NPCs chirping around me, but it turned out that they were real people! As players got more scarce, it was truly a special experience finding someone and going through parts of the game with them. I remember I encountered someone a few levels in and we somehow ended up together until we crawled up the snowy mountain, trying to keep each other from freezing. Not a single word spoken, yet this game has such powerful messaging.
I hope you get the opportunity to encounter your own Journey companion on a playthrough. :)
That sounds amazing, what a beautiful experience.
It made me a better person.
If that is meant literally, how did it make you a better person?
I appreciated the combined poetry of something so much it made me more tolerant, appreciative, optimistic and excited about life and people on the whole.
Turned the dial.
Oh man! I didn't know this game was on PC! Has been on my must-play list for years, but it was a PlayStation exclusive.
Have not – one sentence pitch?
Wandering through poetry.
The soundtrack alone is worth playing the game. The incidental multiplayer where you can't communicate directly and you don't see the name of your friend is brilliant.
It's a game that will stay with you for a long time, sort of like Firewatch in that way.
I sat my girlfriend down to play Journey a few years ago. She'd never played it and went in blind.
The realisation at the end that the other pilgrim was another actual player blew her mind.
I'd never heard from this game and was excited to try it blind, you just made me revive my acct to tell you how upset I am at this spoiler and I don't even know what the game is about!
I played it back when it first came out, and I still pick it up at least once or twice a year just to play it again. It is one of the most beautiful games I have ever played.
Did you get to encounter any other players on your journey? Also, if you collect all of the glyphs (the ones that extend your scarf) you get the white robe. It makes it so that your scarf recharges just from standing on a surface! (And it's pretty!)