60_gig_PS3
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Lttp here but I think this is like my new favorite game...ever.
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Flower (PSN)
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practice02
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what was your old favorite game ever?60_gig_PS3 said:
60_gig_PS3
Banned
practice02 said:
I dont know maybe Super Mario Brothers.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Same, it is what it is and should be left alone as a bright symbol of greatness.StuBurns said:
Sapiens
Member
Pretty disappointed by this.
There are so many other games on PSN that you can spend your tenner on.
I was lured by this board to get it, after promises of a transcendent gameplay experience, but it's often frustration.
After one playthrough, that's it. Not much to reflect on or replay.
I'm more of a gameplay kind of guy. I like Street Fighter IV, Warhawk, Resident Evil 4, Gears of War, etc.
Flower just wasn't made for me. It's more geared to the "games are really art, therefore my childish hobby is justified, roger ebert is a jerk" set.
There are so many other games on PSN that you can spend your tenner on.
I was lured by this board to get it, after promises of a transcendent gameplay experience, but it's often frustration.
After one playthrough, that's it. Not much to reflect on or replay.
I'm more of a gameplay kind of guy. I like Street Fighter IV, Warhawk, Resident Evil 4, Gears of War, etc.
Flower just wasn't made for me. It's more geared to the "games are really art, therefore my childish hobby is justified, roger ebert is a jerk" set.
60_gig_PS3
Banned
yeah I see what ur saying. I dont see myself playing it over and over again but it's the kind of game you just want in your collection. To play through every once in a while.
it's exactly what I'd want in a game where you're a flower.
it's exactly what I'd want in a game where you're a flower.
Sapiens said:
That's all it is though. Like yourself I love the games you quoted. Used to be a huge Warhawk player at one stage and Resident Evil 4 is one of my top games of all time. Yet I loved Flower and continue to do so. It just obviously wasn't for you which is a pity as those that really get it seem to come away with an entirely unique experience many games have never evoked from them.
As much as I do agree with many that it does justify gaming as a interactive work of art it was the experience I got from playing Flower that was important to me, not the argument that it would prove gaming can be classed as an art form.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
TTP said:
What would be the point, though...? Controlling it by tilting the DS3 works perfectly fine, I don't see how using a Move controller for the same thing would make it any better. Pointer controls...? Nah.
60_gig_PS3
Banned
maybe people want to feel like Harry Potter.
I really liked it. I have no interest in how people choose to define "art", but I enjoyed Flower for it's sometimes uplifting, sometimes melancholy audio/visual combo. The sixaxis controls worked pretty good, for me it was about just relaxing and going with the flOw rather than rushing from A to B. I don't want every game to be like it, but it's a great little diversion from the norm in gaming.
BlazingDarkness
Member
We've got Journey to look forward toEttie said:Hoped for sequel announcement.
TheJollyCorner
Member
I still want a snow level.
TheJollyCorner said:I still want a snow level.
It would be pretty, but I dunno if a snow level would work with the whole Flower thing.
As much as I liked Flower, there is no need for a sequel. I'd rather see TGC keep experimenting with new idears. Journey seems pretty cool, but for next game I'd like to see something as trippy as flOw.
TheJollyCorner
Member
Snuggler said:It would be pretty, but I dunno if a snow level would work with the whole Flower thing.
As much as I liked Flower, there is no need for a sequel. I'd rather see TGC keep experimenting with new idears. Journey seems pretty cool, but for next game I'd like to see something as trippy as flOw.
move the pedals, melt snow, make grass grow= magic
Journey will be awesome. I can feel it in the fl0w of my penis.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Sapiens said:
I'm a pretty stolid, emotionless guy so I totally get where you are coming from. I was swayed by the hype and bought the game. Played through it and yes, it's pretty but it's also simple and boring from a gameplay perspective which is what matters to me. I would rate PixelJunk Shooter much higher than Flower. Like you I apparently don't "get it". But I don't "get" Gran Turismo or other realistic driving games either, and people love those too.
So I guess what I'm saying is that sometimes a game other people love to death just doesn't work for a person, and since that person literally can not understand what's so great about it he thinks that everyone who did was either high at the time or has ulterior reasons for doing so. But really they just love the game, and like a colorblind person guys like you and I are lacking the gene that allows us to do the same. They can't ALL be wrong, so I just shake my head and let them enjoy it.
TheJollyCorner
Member
Snuggler said:
spErm...?
yeah... too much... :lol
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
I think, to be fair, it is geared towards the "I want to experience an exploration of the effects of man on nature from the opposite perspective, to perhaps feel a more emotional connection to it. At least for a little while." set.Sapiens said:
It was a powerful experience for me, and definitely one of the most memorable things I've picked up a dualshock for.
Weird bump but I was thinking about this game today and I think I was able to get more people to play this game than any other game. Like, I would show it to my friends and they would be immediately fascinated with it and want to play through it right away. A lot of these people didn't regularly play video games at all, super casual fans. Basically I'm saying this game is brilliant and fuck yeah I'm going to play through it again.
Acquiescence
Member
Love this 'game' so much. Fills me with joy.
-bakalhau-
Member
I played it when I had a PS3 for a month at home when a friend went on vacations... I loved this game. So much that I could never dare to start the (what I think it is) the last level. 18 months later I'm still missing the last level, and I still don't have a PS3. When I get one I'll replay the whole game and it'll be just as awesome.
FoxhoundNL
Member
Seems to be quite a special game, this Flower. I even got a friend of mine to play it, who's usually mostly into shooters/space alien shit like Halo, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Metro 2033... Anyway, he was genuinely enjoying Flower when I let him play it, he even tossed in the words genius and beautiful, which I had never expected him to say about Flower.Acid08 said:
Haven't played it since I first completed it, because my PSN account was apparently shared too many times when my ps3 died (lost Store games.. smh).
Thinking about rebuying it once Journey hits, a (temporary) prixe drop would be nice then!
biggersmaller
Banned
Fun? Yes. Relaxing? Naw. That game is arcade all the way.