When I got my PS4, one of the first things I did was peruse lists of downloadable games in search of some quick, cheap content. Gotta build up that library quick, you know? Backlog be damned. I nearly pulled the trigger on Goat Simulator, one of the dumbest games I've ever seen, but balked at the ten dollar price tag. Eight bucks and I just might have. Five and I probably would have.
But I'm glad I didn't, because hey, wouldn't you know it, just a few days later Goat Simulator was announced as one of the Xbox One Games with Gold for the month of June. I downloaded it earlier tonight, dicked around with it for a few hours, and can now safely say that there's really no reason for anyone to go out of their way to acquire or play Goat Simulator.
The game is described as a "physics playground," and that about sums it up. Yes, it's hilarious and stupid to fling a goat around at traffic, people, and gasoline canisters in order to rack up points in a Tony Hawk-like manner, but there's only so much carnage one goat can create. Thankfully the game came with all kinds of "cheat" toggles - giving my goat a jet pack, for one - and instead of getting stale after twenty minutes or so, the appeal here may have lasted a full hour. I went twice that long, mostly in pursuit of a few pesky achievements, and now that I've boosted my gamerscore by, oh, a hundred points or so, I think I'm good with Goat Simulator.
Ugh... Yeah, I also saw this one as a free download this past weekend. I think I made it about 8 minutes before shutting it off and uninstalling it forever. Clunking controls. Mindless tumbling around. No sense of what I'm suppose to be doing. I dunno...
ReplyDeleteI get that it might be one of those "it's so bad that it's good" type of games, but I just wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I spent one more second playing this piece of shit.