Talos Principle

Pretty basic philosophy, but somewhat more than just popular stuff so it was alright for what it was trying to do.
Like, the moment he told me not to go up the mountain, all I wanted to do was go up the mountain.
Most puzzles are good. A handful of stars are just bullshit. Dlc was more of the same but harder, which was again mostly good aside from a few bullshits.
The baroness should have been randomly populated, kinda like messages in dark souls. That would be my only complaint since otherwise it was a waste.

The story behind how it got made is pretty neat. They were developing puzzle elements for Serious Sam 4 and made a bunch of test areas for them. At one point one of the devs started making the puzzles as hard as he could and the rest of the team had a lot of fun trying to solve them, and they realised they were having so much fun puzzle solving that they could make a whole game around it.

One of the greatest games I've ever played. All puzzles, including the stars, are reasonably solved without assistance. Music incredible, environments comfy. The writing, specifically the MLA, is absurdly good.

Gehenna is a great experience, and I think a lot of people here will identify with the writing. Specifically the overzealous administrators, the deep consequences of shadowbanning, and the online world we're all trapped in

One of the best puzzle games I've ever played.

I bought it before VR took off in hopes of being able to play it in VR, but I STILL haven't bought a headset.

100% agree, RtG is one of the best DLCs ever made imo, the puzzle difficulty, the level design, the god damn text based adventure was 10/10 kino.

Overall Talos is the second best puzzle game of all time, only behind Baba is You.

t. Someone who has played every puzzle game under the sun

I checked out the gameplay. The maps look like they were torn straight from some free Unity map file.

It's a good game. It does run into that problem that a lot of 'self contained sequential puzzle room' type games have where after you get used to the current mechanics of the puzzle components you kind of just fall into a sleepy routine when you enter a new puzzle where your brain just goes on autopilot and you just try everything with everything and everywhere until, eventually, it works. Obviously some of the harder/later puzzles manage to avert this, but a good part of the game can be breezed through.

The idea of the story is decent enough. Just kinda bogged down in execution. I don't think it's the be all end all of puzzles though. I feel like those who credit it as such have barely played many puzzle games in their life.

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Definitely one of the best puzzle games ever made. Everything about the game just screams SOUL. You can tell it was a labor of love. The graphics, the music, the writing, the ambience/mood of everything, the voice acting of Elohim, the amazing final level + ending. It's all so amazingly well-crafted.

The only slightly negative thing I have to mention about the game is that the story can be perceived as hamfisted for some people. Other than that, it's straight up a 9.5/10 puzzle game. Looking forward to the sequel.

>The QR graffiti is just robots shitposting
>The DLC even introduced an AI run Zig Forums.

It warmed my heart and made my brain hurt. Sure the philosophy was college entry level, but it was something that wasn't just good choice/bad choice.

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>Recorder puzzles PTSD

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>kept forgetting you could pick up the fans until pretty much the end of the game
still annoyed at myself over it just something about it didn't click in my head for some reason.

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No that's SOMA

They took that out in an update and put it onto a pillar.

Also eastereggs - holy shit, the eastereggs.
It felt like finding that stuff was like 1/3rd of the whole experience.

Tom Jubert wrote the story for this game and The Swapper and they're both great imo. Talos Principle has some really tough puzzles too if you go for 100%.

Only issues I had with it were the completely fucked up hint system, the repetition in some of the later puzzles and the Serious Sam-ness of the area design, as in most of them being flat planes with nearly every wall at a 90°angle.

It's so good even I liked it despite not actually liking puzzle games. That said I was too dumb to finish it without a guide.

>Pretty basic philosophy, but somewhat more than just popular stuff so it was alright for what it was trying to do.

And I'm perfectly fine with it.
The writing never really came across as pretentious or as if it was written by someone who sniffs his own farts unless done deliberately but instead had a sometimes quite humorous and amusing tone to it that kept the player engaged without ever really looking down on him.

god tier soundtrack

GOTY 2014

great, but the dlc kicked my ass

it also makes sense given the plot, you wouldn't want to be throwing anything beyond basic at someone who knows nothing at all yet.