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The Witness: Jonathan Blow on his PS4 Open-World Puzzle Game - Adam Sessler Interview
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Fried Food
Banned
I could liten toJon Blow orDvidCage talk som yang allday.
CBOAT?
brickwalker0
Member
Or a shitty keyboard.
SwiftDeath
Member
Worst cboat-leak ever
720p.
My first thought.
I feel the same way. That's why I'm so interested in playing it.
Buttonbasher
Member
Yeah. It was just being shown at the PS4 media day.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Looks great but I hope its more than just a Myst style puzzler. Gotta be some kind of pretentious story behind the game right?
Looks great but I hope its more than just a Myst style puzzler. Gotta be some kind of pretentious story behind the game right?
I bet the protagonist is a witness to something
The original ending to The Prisoner was going to be that he, himself, was the person responsible for running the town, and got himself caught to test it himself.
That's how The Witness ends.
user8503492
Banned
Listening to G. Bomb right now, Brad played it and is discussing it. Sounds pretty good.
Looks great but I hope its more than just a Myst style puzzler. Gotta be some kind of pretentious story behind the game right?
I hope so. Gonna need an awesome narrative to push me through 20 hours of puzzles.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Good interview even if not revealing much more.
Was this posted?
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/y1bd70/the-witness-preview
Did he just say it has 600 puzzles?!! :O Can someone confirm that I heard that right?
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/y1bd70/the-witness-preview
Did he just say it has 600 puzzles?!! :O Can someone confirm that I heard that right?
Broken link!
But man! There are so many screens on that website that I haven't seen before! Leaving them here for those who may have missed it
EteRnal PAL
Member
I could listen to Blow talk all day. The Witness is one of my most anticipated games. It's looking better and better every time I see it. Take your time Jonathan!
TyphoonStruggle
Member
Adam Sessler... I wish he investigated Blow's answers a bit more, rather than jarringly steering the conversation other directions. But I trust Blow's vision.
My guess on the puzzles.
My guess on the puzzles.
Looking at the puzzles, I'm guessing that you start at X and want to get to Y. Along the way there's black nodes and white nodes. As you traverse between two nodes, you increment your black point or white points; at the end you want to hit a sweet spot number of points of each.
Castef
Banned
Funny note.
Titanfall is coming out for Xbox One and PC. People get in queues in order to be able to say "I'll play it on PC!"
The Witness is coming out for PS4 and PC. It magically becomes "a PS4 puzzle game".
NeoGaf...
Yup. Went to the site for the first time today and couldn't believe how many new screenies were there. Lots of interesting posts detailing the development of the game too.
bigboss370
Member
this game will be mine, looks so amazing. but its 2014
What's in there? I must know...Broken link!
More importantly, if that's the PS4 build, 60fps? Sexy times.
Haha! I really hope that's the PS4 build.
tensuke
Member
What shit did he get for that?
Game looks incredible to me, I love puzzles and this sort of intuitive free-roam schtick sounds like it'll be a great experience. 600 puzzles too?!? :O
Messofanego
Banned
Are there any other as outspoken game programmers like Blow and Carmack? I love hearing these dudes talk.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
God this is such a sexy game. And Blow is such a confident speaker about his passions for this product (and not in that hokey Randy Pitchford style, either), I think we're really going to be in for something when this finally hits.
Treechopper
Member
All those screens and all these puzzles mean jack squat to me. I've never been bombarded with so much information about a game and had no idea what any of it means.
This is gonna be awesome!
This is gonna be awesome!
It's not so much the puzzle itself, I think everyone agrees it was pretty genius, but he got a ton of criticism because the game presents puzzles in a linear way, but that specific puzzle can't be solved until you've got more of the pieces in that first world.
Louis Cyphre
Banned
I'm getting the feeling of Portal, which I love. Visually Braid had a decent art style but The Witness looks absolutely beautiful.
TyphoonStruggle
Member
Well... from what I remember, he was anti-targeting specific people. He said that these game "reviewers" and the like, who do this for a living and are paid to do it, didn't GET the game like others who get less coverage and do this for the love of it (I imagine these are people on message boards just as this one).
Funny note.
Titanfall is coming out for Xbox One and PC. People get in queues in order to be able to say "I'll play it on PC!"
The Witness is coming out for PS4 and PC. It magically becomes "a PS4 puzzle game".
NeoGaf...
Makes sense to me. Mouse+KB controls are better than analog sticks for FPS. Besides, Microsoft's garnered a lot of ill-will and people will look elsewhere in that case.
Messofanego
Banned
I think he was more annoyed that reviews just took Braid on its superficial level of pretty graphics, cool mechanics, but not focusing as much on the storytelling. That's just a guess, I never checked those reviews so could have been something more fundamental.
He was disappointed his intent wasn't communicated, what's wrong with that? Art debate aside, you spend years of your life, and all of your savings, lovingly crafting this thing, and people love it, but not at all for what you believe makes it special. Seems like a totally fair thing to be disheartened by.
Someone needs to put Blow on this poster.
I cannot wait for this game. It's going to be completely immersive. I love the idea of exploring and solving puzzles at your leisure and desired pace. Stuck? Take a break, wander, find something else. I really hope this game accomplishes what it sets out to do.
I cannot wait for this game. It's going to be completely immersive. I love the idea of exploring and solving puzzles at your leisure and desired pace. Stuck? Take a break, wander, find something else. I really hope this game accomplishes what it sets out to do.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
It definitely looked 60FPS when he was demoing it some days ago on that Sony presentation where they were showing a few other games too. He was demoing it with DS4, so I'm guessing/hoping it was PS4 build.
Excellent, I was hoping it would be, it's kind of silly, but when line drawing is such a focus, I want an immensely satisfying interaction with it, even if it means the pretty world has to take a heavy hit in IQ.