Just played Journey for the first time online today... Anyone else get a warm, fuzzy feeling when you played with another player online and they are courteous enough to help you find the sigils AND they finished to the end of the game with you? Without having the ability to speak or write to each other in the game made it even more interesting and conveyed such a deep, meaningful feeling... I think only people who HAVE played it online before will understand what I mean. :)
It's an interesting method, and actually pulls more ideas of body language reading into the mix than anything else. When I played, after getting lost in the snow, we found a little alcove to recover in and then my partner set off, I was a bit delayed but saw him just about through the snow. As I was looking around for another alcove or something, I realised we'd walked this way before and were going the wrong way. But my partner was too far away for me to call to him, and once we'd gone far enough to be out of the snow, I couldn't find him anymore, he'd gone. After playing with him since the beginning, it felt like I lost someone really close. So head hanging I marched on up the mountain again. It's a unique experience each time, and strangely emotional for some cloth characters with eyes. Very good, very recommend a play.
I feel like I had a pretty unique first experience with Journey, because I played it with friends luckily it's ALL ON TAPE
