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alr1ght · Feb 8, 2015

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YianGaruga said:
Here's some quality journalism from Polygon
Yesterday Blow tweeted this RE: The Witness

A speedrun. By the developer of the game. That time doesn't mean a lot for a new player.

But to Polygon it means this

wow

Since deleted, replaced with

nary a mention of the previous claim.

Jonathan Blow, the creator of the highly anticipated puzzle game The Witness, tweeted last night that he did a speed run through his game and figures it will be 10 times larger than his last work, Braid.

The Witness is not complete, Blow reminded, and still has no specific release date. Still, his remarks gathered plenty of attention because it points to a game that is close to being finished.

Gamespot too™

Baschta said:
Well, GameSpot also wrote an article saying The Witness is 6 hours long

Crossing Eden · Feb 8, 2015

Wow, that is ridiculous.

UnluckyKate · Feb 8, 2015

are people this retarded ? Begging for clicks ? Can't read properly ?

LiamR · Feb 8, 2015

I wish I could say that I expected more from Polygon.. but...

Terbinator · Feb 8, 2015

6/10 from Polygon?

Wario64 · Feb 8, 2015

Miles Quaritch · Feb 8, 2015

Wait, Witness has an end? I thought it was just a chilled game set on a pretty huge island with literally hundreds of puzzles to solve?

plasmawave · Feb 8, 2015

Illiterates are working at Polygon.

x-Lundz-x · Feb 8, 2015

Can this site be banned from GAF please?

JMDSO · Feb 8, 2015

Needs more charts and graphs for me to understand.

John Kowalski · Feb 8, 2015

they're right

pokemon is a 50 minute game too

and oot lasts like fifteen minutes!

samn · Feb 8, 2015

They made a dumb mistake, then fixed it. Who cares.

Winterfang · Feb 8, 2015

The developer should had chose his words more carefully, that's how the media works. Rookie mistake.

IdreamofHIME · Feb 8, 2015

I dont understand, can they make me a pie chart?

NinjamicWZ · Feb 8, 2015

Sabotage sells.

RickGhastly · Feb 8, 2015

It's ok. It was a provisional tweet.

HORRORSHØW · Feb 8, 2015

are they dumb?

SteveTR · Feb 8, 2015

Either these people don't know what "speedrun" means, or they think Blow is an idiot. You know, "How could a speedrun possibly take 6 hours?! Blow doesn't know what he's saying!"

Soulflarz · Feb 8, 2015

I was going to make a witness joke, only to find that was the threads topic ;_;

Kathian · Feb 8, 2015

Utter idiocy. Also shows how much games media just regurgitates the same mess of information; game length being the biggest.

SolidSnakex · Feb 8, 2015

IdreamofHIME said:
I dont understand, can they make me a pie chart?

They'll just delete it.

plasmawave · Feb 8, 2015

Winterfang said:
The developer should had chose his words more carefully, that's how the media works. Rookie mistake.

It clearly says it's a speed run time. I'm not sure how much clearer he could have been.

Sendou · Feb 8, 2015

Seriously what a tragic joke Polygon proves out to be time and time again.

Nethaniah · Feb 8, 2015

+1 for banning polygon.

Captain Tuttle · Feb 8, 2015

yeah that's embarrassing

Crossing Eden · Feb 8, 2015

Winterfang said:
The developer should had chose his words more carefully, that's how the media works. Rookie mistake.

"Is my speedrun time" is pretty specific.

maquiladora · Feb 8, 2015

Winterfang said:
The developer should had chose his words more carefully, that's how the media works. Rookie mistake.

"is my speed run"

.....

"offers 6 hours of gameplay"

~Kinggi~ · Feb 8, 2015

Yeah i dont visit polygon anymore.

giant_frying_pan · Feb 8, 2015

Terbinator said:
6/10 from Polygon?

Provisionally.

Valtýr · Feb 8, 2015

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to offer 18 minutes of gameplay.

Drencrom · Feb 8, 2015

It's like they're intentionally sabotaging and twisting things just to get hits!

checkeredknight · Feb 8, 2015

And that's why I don't read Polygon. Or GameSpot. Or any of them.

Nanashrew · Feb 8, 2015

There's too much fascination with game length. Also really dumb of Polygon and Gamespot.

skynidas · Feb 8, 2015

Miles Quaritch said:
Wait, Witness has an end? I thought it was just a chilled game set on a pretty huge island with literally hundreds of puzzles to solve?

well, if you solve all the puzzles the game ends right?

TomShoe · Feb 8, 2015

RickGhastly said:
It's ok. It was a provisional tweet.

Well done.

bobawesome · Feb 8, 2015

x-Lundz-x said:
Can this site be banned from GAF please?

I'm honestly surprised it still isn't.

RickGhastly said:
It's ok. It was a provisional tweet.

shrekt

Emarv · Feb 8, 2015

Modern internet journalism.

CambriaRising · Feb 8, 2015

What a garbage site.

SerTapTap · Feb 8, 2015

The real question is this sheer ignorance or glib malice? Hard to say IMO. Hopefully it's just idiocy.

Hyun Sai · Feb 8, 2015

Crossing Eden said:
"Is my speedrun time" is pretty specific.

He forgot the caps I guess. Not everyone got 10/10 vision.

giant_frying_pan · Feb 8, 2015

Nanashrew said:
There's too much fascination with game length. Also really dumb of Polygon and Gamespot.

Agreed. I'm much more interested in girth.

Stereogatari · Feb 8, 2015

The end of The Besties podcast signalled the end of the one thing they had going for them.

Acquiescence · Feb 8, 2015

Even if it was six hours from a standard playthrough, that's still perfectly acceptable. The game isn't going to cost $60 .

NinjamicWZ · Feb 8, 2015

samn said:
They made a dumb mistake, then fixed it. Who cares.

People will be correcting this misinformation on GAF and in comment sections all the way up to release, and probably after.

Future Witness OT, somewhere in the first page:

"Still don't see why I should spend $30 on a 6 hour game. This should be free for PS+."

ShockingAlberto · Feb 8, 2015

You'd think an editor would have looked over that.

Can't imagine how they let that through.

ghibli99 · Feb 8, 2015

LOL Wow. That aside, I'm curious about this one. Never really got that into Braid.

SuperSonic1305 · Feb 8, 2015

1970 Chevelle SS · Feb 8, 2015

Thank God I have never given polygon any clicks.

Servbot24 · Feb 8, 2015

I am so amped for The Witness. Braid was fantastic, can't wait for more puzzles <3

Oh yeah and boo Polygon or whatever

CambriaRising · Feb 8, 2015

ShockingAlberto said:
You'd think an editor would have looked over that.

Can't imagine how they let that through.

When the people in charge include Gies and Grant, you can't expect better.

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