Thoughts on The Talos Principle?

overrated garbage
pseudo philososphical
janky serious sam engine that gives you headaches
low tier puzzles

just check the negative reviews. When they all say the same things that means don't trust the overwhelmingly positive score

I loved the egyptian area.

Kinda wished there was more.

interesting puzzles, didn't care for the story though. everyone said it's basically portal 2 so I was expecting comfiness and humor.

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>everyone said it's basically portal 2
the story is nothing like portal, at all. What fucking brainlets played it and thought it was like portal

But Portal 2 is SHIT

best puzzle game you can play, story was way too good for the kind of game it is

The normal puzzles are great, but I have issues with the star puzzles. Too often they rely on using the jump mechanic to "break" a puzzle and get a new solution (like jumping out of a locked area with a cube). However it's impossible to tell which wall you're supposed to be able to jump to because jumping is contextual. Sometimes you'll be able to jump five meters to reach a spot and sometimes you'd just slide off a wall with the exact same model fifty centimeters from you. This makes it very hard to see exactly what you can do unless you methodically check every wall for the footprints.

Jumping in general is pretty weird, to the point where I'm not sure that I completed several puzzles in the dev's intended way

>everyone said it's basically portal 2 so I was expecting comfiness and humor.

The thing is FILLED with both.
Pretty much every area has at least two eastereggs that take the seriousness out of the game and a lot of the writing is also pretty amusing.
And then there is also the option to replace Elohim's dialogue with Serious Sam which throws even the last bit of melancholy out of the window.

>I'm not sure that I completed several puzzles in the dev's intended way

Doing things the unintended way and against the rules IS the intended way and fully encouraged by the devs and the game's themes.
Hell, you can finish almost the entire final puzzle on your own without the help of Shepherd and at the final point where you NEED a second person to proceed the avatar of the level designer would spawn in to lend you a hand.

good game that goes on way too long

>fully encouraged by the devs and the game's themes
I'm kind of a brainlet when it comes to the story, but is the idea that by expressing creativity in your problem solving and thinking outside the box, you're behaving more like a human than a robot like the project intended?

Base game is pretty good if occasionally obtuse when trying to 100%. Expansion is pretty much reliant on knowing about ways the rules don't work - effectively you are expected to find and exploit bugs.

Yes. You break both explicit and implicit rules.

You have not finished the game if you haven't beaten Jerusalem

The sequel will never release

>by expressing creativity in your problem solving and thinking outside the box, you're behaving more like a human than a robot like the project intended?
yep, exactly

>They all say the same things
>Proof that talos haters are NPC garbage

get filtered nig

Yeah but naw. The bugs are left there intentionally and are actual features the game builds the puzzles around. Sure the are "bugs" in that they don't make sense given the obvious rules of the game but It is a simulation, and understanding bugs in the simulation is the same as understanding the rules of the game.

user, the "bugs" you're expected to figure out for the last set of puzzles are extremely obtuse. It's on the level of speedrunners figuring out a new trick after years of running a game.

Yeah, you pretty much have to try random shit until something weird happens, then you spend a little time figuring out exactly what and how to use it. All that try trying random shit is in no way figuring out a puzzle.

got for free from the epic store but strangely they don't sell the dlc on there