The Witness - I purchased this during the steam summer sale as it had rave reviews as was only like £6.00. Normally I'm not a huge fan of puzzle games, but I thought a change of genre would be good.
>I was wrong Zig Forums
Let me explain
I was expecting loads of cool unique unorthodox puzzles. Places barrels in floating water, to unlock a tomb etc.
Balancing balls on a floating pineapple, or whatever the fuck...
Unlocking call tombs and shit, moving around torn up picture pieces to form a riddle or something...
>But no, literally all the game is what's in the pic >This game literally could have just been a sideshow >It could just literally have been a fucking mobile game, you know those ones that are free but bombard you with ads 24/7
The 3d environment is a lie. This game is a lie. I've been lied to and I'm pissed.
Uncharted literally does puzzles better than this game... Think about that for a moment
A relatively large part of the puzzles requires some interaction with the environment to work. But yeah, this game is not as good as some people say. But it is interesting.
Jace Sullivan
you didnt realize what this game is for 5 FUCKING HOURS when its obvious after the first 5 minutes you absolute dipshit
No it isn't. I thought the puzzles would be different. But there all the fucking same.
It would be like if you purchased Max Payne 3. Expecting there to be like 30 different levels with different environments and enemy locations. But every level was the exact fucking same.
Asher Ortiz
It literally has environmental puzzles. You are either retarded or baiting of you haven't encountered a single environmental puzzle.
Cooper White
Hmmm this is in my cart. Might remove.
Jacob Cox
Get it. Play it. Then tell me if you agree with my take.
Gavin Bailey
I personally very much dislike the damn game, but this is 100% YOUR FAULT, OP. You are the idiot here. You have literally infinite options to research the game before buying it. Every piece of gameplay footage, every single review, even the fucking official trailers and descriptions of the game actually tell you that all of the puzzles are based of the same principle.
This game never pretended to be a point-and-click adventure of physics puzzler or anything of the sort. Even if you somehow missed that, the opening of the game lets you know this in several minutes, giving you an option to refund.
You are an idiot, a cretin unable to do fucking basic research, and blaming others for your own utter incompetency. You are everything wrong with this industry.
And the fact that Witness happens to also be a piece of pretentious garbage does not change anything about that.
Bentley Walker
I enjoyed it a lot, got 40 hrs or so. It's a good puzzle game with a large variety of puzzles, but they are all solved with variations of the line grid thing. How you reach the solutions is the neat part, as they're constantly adding new rules or subsets of rules or environmental cues like broken branches in nearby trees or reflections or otherwise innocuous objects that in reality are all placed for some purpose.
But it will always be lines.
John Campbell
>No it isn't. I thought the puzzles would be different. But there all the fucking same. Why? Why the fuck did you expect that? Are you brain-damaged?
Andrew Gonzalez
>unique unorthodox puzzles >placing barrels in floating water I guess babby's first Half Life physics puzzle is "unorthodox" now.
Jackson Rodriguez
>>And the fact that Witness happens to also be a piece of pretentious garbage does not change anything about that. This is honestly my only gripe with the game. I played literally one of those recorders and decided never again. But the puzzles themselves are nice and depending on the zone, pretty challenging. Most just require you to think a little out of the box and use your surroundings to find the answer.
Jack Fisher
I finished the game but I still have no clue how the tetris puzzles were supposed to work.
Daniel Perry
BECAUSE IT'S A FUCKING $50 PUZZLE GAME THAT HAS RAVE REVIEWS, ARE YOU RETARDED.
Blow has a fundamental problem, which is that he is obsessed with proving how smart he is and how he is above his players. Which is made even more sad by the fact that he IS genuinely quite clever, and pretty good game designer - it's just that his own insecurity constantly gets the better of him, and his game suffer for it. I think it was even worse with Braid - especially with the god awful epilogue that literally sucked out any joy out of the otherwise really good ending - but Witness suffers from this as well.
The guy is an obsessed postmodernist and really, REALLY thinks himself smart for it, and it just gets on most people's nerves after a while.
I personally also happened not to enjoy the gameplay of the Witness, but that is a matter of personal taste - I can see how other people may have had a blast with it.
>ARE YOU RETARDED. Says the person who literally does not check even the damn trailer for the game, much less ANY degree of other gameplay footage or fucking READ the rave reviews you complain about to begin with?
Do you not realize that this whole thread is laughing their assess at you at this point? You are in the most brain-dead and idiotic community in the world and somehow you manage to out-retard them by a country mile, chump.
You are the very last person in the universe to have any right to insult anyone's intelligence. It does not get any dumber than you are. It's physically impossible to be dumber than you are and still breathe.
You. Are. AN IDIOT. PLEASE fucking carve that realization into your memory.
Oliver Ortiz
It has puzzles. They do what puzzles do, stimulate the brain, encourage creative thinking and observation. Any other expectation is your own fault.
Nathan Clark
This is like buying a blue Gatorate, drinking it, and being mad it isn't red
Matthew Miller
Stephen's Sausauge Roll is another expensive-ish puzzle game that has only one main puzzle mechanic yet capitalizes on it to the fullest. Why do you think all puzzle games should be half-assed Mario Party Minigames? Do you have ADHD and need completely different gameplay every 20 seconds?
Liam Lopez
It's $40 with constant sales, and like everyone else is saying, the first trailer in Steam even shows you that every puzzle is like this. I can't speak about the environmental puzzles like the obelisks because I still haven't figured them out myself. But there are other factors to each puzzle, like the ones where you have to use the glare of the sun to find the answer, or the ones where you use the branches of trees to find the answer or my least favorite, water puzzles.
Thomas Sullivan
This game isn’t structured well enough, it takes endless trial and error to be introduced to a puzzle’s basics. You slingshot endlessly around the island looking for the puzzle they wanted you to solve first so that you can learn how it works. This process takes far longer than it should because there’s nothing guiding you to the correct starting location at all, and it boils down to blind luck
