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0 pointseps5mo ago0 comments

To each their own. I found the Witness to be excruciatingly monotonous, forced and, ultimately, boring.

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I enjoyed the Witness for a while but I bounced off it pretty hard in the Mountain. It wasn’t until I watched a let’s play on YouTube that I learned there was a film room, a hidden cave complex under the mountain, a time trial, and other optional secrets. I can absolutely understand a certain type of gamer liking this but for me Talos Principle (both 1 and 2) is peak puzzle genre.

That said I’ll probably buy this game if it comes out next year.

blarg15mo ago

What did you think of the puzzles?

tzcnt5mo ago

I found them quite boring since they are all repetitions on the same theme - just drawing lines on a square. It could have been a mobile game. The world doesn't feel connected to the puzzles, and the exploration aspect of it could have been a completely separate game. It feels like two games glued together, which is IMO not a good design.

It's also not a game that's very demanding from a technical performance perspective, and really has very limited numbers of active entities / animations, so why should I care about his opinions on game architecture or anything else?

0x1ceb00da5mo ago

> I found them quite boring since they are all repetitions on the same theme - just drawing lines on a square.

And programming is just pressing buttons on a keyboard.

sean_bright5mo ago

> It could have been a mobile game.

I tried to play it on iOS and found the controls clunky. Interacting with some of the puzzles was difficult with my thumbs in the way.

epsOP5mo ago

Monotonous. More of the same. I mean, I can appreciate the creativity behind squeezing every drop from the concept, but I saw no fun in solving them.

IshKebab5mo ago

I like puzzle games (Baba is You is fantastic) but I also didn't get far into The Witness. Braid was fantastic though.

I think 3D FPS is generally a terrible interface to puzzles. This is 2D though so maybe it will be better.

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