Journey

I certainly see where HC is coming from here though. I've never watched Sherlock but thought I may one day get round to seeing it. My two housemates spent a few weeks not shutting up about it and quoting it all the time and now I never want to see it advertised again, never mind watch the thing.

I was not aware you could even buy the game in-store. xD Use PS Store, according to Gamestop's website (it is a download there, too) it's the same price anyway.

EDIT: I can understand being less inclined to watch a TV series if people are annoying when they talk about it, because you don't pay to watch a TV series and you can still get around to it in your own time anyway. If it's something I'm willing to pay for in the first place then I wouldn't let someone raving about it stop me from giving it a go. And I can understand that if you are living with the person in question then you can see this as a case of "You know what, you talked about it so much I'm going to not watch it to spite you" or even "If I watch it now, you're all going to think it's just because you raved about it, so I won't!". But I don't think that this Gamestop guy is going to lose any sleep over a guy he doesn't know not buying the game. I can however understand not buying it at that store, definitely.

You can't get it in store. I think HC meant that if he went on about ACIII then he wouldn't buy it from that Gamestop

correcto!

Oh. In that case, my original point stands. :p

i would have burnt that gamestop down
with the family still inside

This is why I'm glad they sell PSN cards at my local pharmacy :p.

Anyway, just beat the game. Holy crap that was amazing... I don't think I've ever been so emotionally invested in a game's last 20 minutes. HC, I know employees at Gamestop are annoying, but you HAVE to get this game, especially if you initially wanted it to begin with.

Ok I bought it, I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as Flower, made by the same company, which is longer and cheaper. Still nice. I want to try this companion thing, but apparently no one I'm friends with has Journey.

Loved it. Same as you though, I didn't find it to be quite as awesome as Flower, but I attribute a lot of that to it not being quite as astoundingly different as Flower. Flower was totally out of the blue, I had nothing to go on except the vague recommendations of a few reviewers that it was not to be missed and totally different than other games. I think that gave it a significant "wow" quality. With Journey I kinda knew what I was getting into beforehand, which probably lessened the impact. Also the gameplay itself is more conventional than Flower. Humanoid, jumping, platforming, collecting trinkets for powerups, etc.

I'd offer to play with you, but the Journey multiplayer system is totally random. I'm frankly very surprised you haven't run into anyone though. I played through it the day it released for the PlaystationPlus presale, and in the credits it lists the screen names of the people you ran into or travelled with. I think I had 6 or 7 just in the one playthrough, and none of them were names I recognized. If you were moving quickly instead of meandering and taking it in, you may have run right past them though. You don't get any kind of notification or anything, they just kind of spawn into your game and you wander across them. I found that I came across several of them by listening for the little magical/musical pings you can make. You can often hear them if you can't see them.

I will say the last level has a totally different emotional impact travelling with someone rather than going it alone.

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Originally Posted by Hypoallergenic Cactuar

Ok I bought it, I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as Flower, made by the same company, which is longer and cheaper. Still nice. I want to try this companion thing, but apparently no one I'm friends with has Journey.

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You don't need any of your friends to have Journey to do anything in Journey. That's the beauty of it - strangers aren't total wankers in this game. It takes all the things you judge gamers over and removes them and leaves you with just the game as it should be played, and it's rather inspiring.

Did you play it on your own, and not online? That's cah-razy, man! Nobody should ever play the game alone unless they have already completed it with strangers and are just getting trophies unlocked.

I was all alone for both playthroughs.

Pause.

Press Square to get to the terms and conditions for online play.

Accept the terms.

Have fun. :)

nothing happened when I pressed square

When you pause the game at any time, do you see the option to view the online terms & conditions or whatever? Are you logged into the PlayStation Network (or whatever it's called now)?

I am logged in but nope.