Man-is-Obsolete
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You move around the island freely with sticks, Blow even admitted to spending an absurd time on many different footstep sounds depending on the surface you are stepping on.
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New screenshots of The Witness [PS4]
- Thread starter shinobi602
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Rogue_Ledr
Banned
When is this releasing? I thought this was supposed to be launch?
No idea where that comes from. Will ignore it for now unless someone can post a quote or link.
This I remember hearing.
Early 2014. Not launch.
I really like the aesthetic as is.
simplythebest
Banned
Ain't she a beaut? Reminds me so much of Myst by the looks of it and there ain't nothing wrong with that. Cant' wait to jump into this in 2014. 
TheVampire
Banned
Will there be demos of this game and others?
Nothing confirmed. May be through Gaikai. I would like to see that happen.
TetraGenesis
Member
Hahaha, you should tweet that at Jonathan Blow.
LOL. I'm curious to see how he'll respond. Never been able to put my finger on the guy!
eddfromtheriver
Banned
That's how i feel as well...
TheUnsunghero26
Member
xenogenesis
Member
I'm really liking the art style, looks fantastic.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I'm gonna go ahead and offer my hipster opinion here: I like the puzzles and concept, dislike the art style.
The use of color is fantastic (based Fall color palette) but the game just looks like a weird cell shaded semi-realistic Minecraft. Barren...blocky...awkward. The trees and clouds are badass though, they look painted.
The use of color is fantastic (based Fall color palette) but the game just looks like a weird cell shaded semi-realistic Minecraft. Barren...blocky...awkward. The trees and clouds are badass though, they look painted.
googleplex
Member
I would love to play this in VR. Come on Sony....Show your VR head set already!
Triggerhappytel
Member
This is achingly beautiful, love the art style so much. I wonder how big the development team is (Number None, isn't it?).
Environments are amazing. Indoors pics are super meh, but that was to be expected given the artstyle.
Badum-tish
Badum-tish
Appollowexx
Member
Wow this is 25+ hours long!
The artstyle is gorgeous and it's nice to see a change from all the shooters and action games.
Fingers crossed for a retail boxed version day 1.
The artstyle is gorgeous and it's nice to see a change from all the shooters and action games.
Fingers crossed for a retail boxed version day 1.
uuaschbaer
Banned
Only game I'd really like for the PS4 now. Annoying that it isn't distributed by disc, it looks like a big enough game for that to me.
Well discs are about the price more than anything. Even thought it's twenty something hours, I doubt it'll be $40.
Acquiescence
Member
Nice catch.
HueyFreeman
Banned
So question: do the environments in this serve as nothing more than conduits to these panel puzzles? Still looks great, will just be a bit disappointed if all this gorgeous art and geometry is non interactive.
No, they inform the puzzle solutions, they also house audiologs.
As in, you have to actively look for them, or they're "in your face"?
As in the logic of the puzzles is not contained wholly within the puzzle screens.
I'll spoiler tag an example.
There's a puzzle that looks like tree branches, there's no way to solve it by just looking at it (although you could by just brute force no doubt), the solution is actually to look at the trees around you, find the corresponding tree, which has an apple hanging from one branch, that is the branch which you draw on the puzzle panel
So very Myst-like then. Neat.
maquiladora
Member
Heh.
Amentallica
Unconfirmed Member
Reminds me of Phantom Hourglass, only no one is on the island.