NOCLIP Pocket E18 - Checked-Off's Gun - Untitled Goose Game

Knock the podcast on its bottom. Welcome back to Pocket! Today,
we’re going to be talking about contemporary internet darling
Untitled Goose Game, which is a puzzle game where, unsurprisingly,
you play as a goose. As a goose is want to do, you spend the
majority of your time attempting to accomplish goals that, in the
grand scheme of things, mostly just annoy people into fits of rage.
The systems behind this are predominately physics and interaction
based, using the game’s fairly limited mechanic set along with your
understanding of character’s patterns and behaviors to accomplish
your goals, but the context it is all set in is what gives the game
its charm. Is it worth the hype? Is it correct to say that a public
bemusement over a game about an irritating goose is hype? We dive
into these questions and more as we talk about the cultural reasons
this game seems to have become as popular as it is, expectations
and experiences within the world of the game, and what it is about
this game that reminds us of Napoleon Dynamite. Thank you for
joining us this week to talk about Goose Game. As is tradition,
we’re a couple weeks behind popular discourse on this one, but
we’re really outdoing ourselves next time as we’re talking about
2012’s Little Inferno, placing us squarely 7 years after its
relevant popularity. Hopefully you’ll join us then.