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The Witness - Release Date Trailer, coming 26th January 2016
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SmiteOfHand
Member
$40, not bad. Works for me.
YianGaruga
Banned
As expected. Can't wait to see what the game is all about
Ryo Hazuki
Member
OT's go up the day before.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
I know right.
I can't wait to corridor set-piece shoot the fuck out of stuff.
Don't worry guys, I have people on my PS4 friends list playing it. They have been since 3 days ago. I can post proof if you like.
My point is, review copies are out and it will release on time.
SmiteOfHand
Member
I'm about to bunny-hop and rocket-jump all over this motherfucker.
OrbitalBeard
Member
$40 sounds good to me. Gonna' pick up a $50 PSN card tonight. One week left!
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
Hopefully I don't fall into my old camping wall-hack habits.
YianGaruga
Banned
One thing that bugs me
I wish games at that price provided a retail copy option from the start. I'd even pay more for it.
40 for a digital game is still a tough pill to swallow for me. But I understand that doing it this way is much easier and less risky
I wish games at that price provided a retail copy option from the start. I'd even pay more for it.
40 for a digital game is still a tough pill to swallow for me. But I understand that doing it this way is much easier and less risky
I was ready to buy at $60, so I'm more than happy to pay $40. Instapurchase.
This was the rule for a long time, but it's currently same day of release.
This was the rule for a long time, but it's currently same day of release.
YianGaruga
Banned
1 hour. why?
Same, I'd pay full price, especially given the amount of content being offered and the fact that Jonathan's team have spent years working on this wonderful looking game.
I don't see what the problem is for some people...
Ryo Hazuki
Member
Ah sorry, my bad.
And yeah, as for the price I'd have happily paid a $60 price tag but I think this is a good price for anyone who wasn't completely sold. Really looking forward to this.
That's when preorders go live.
Remembrance
Member
I think this will be my first non-incentive preorder.
SmiteOfHand
Member
Price thread + price reaction, bleh.
I think I'll hang out here with you fine folks and discuss my 360 no-scope strat plans leading up to release.
I think I'll hang out here with you fine folks and discuss my 360 no-scope strat plans leading up to release.
Ryo Hazuki
Member
It's completely crazy to me how people are 1. shocked it's $40 and 2. think it isn't justified. Excited as hell to get this next week.
I presume pre-orders via the site will use Humble's store widget, in which case a Steam key will be mentioned if it's included.
TheExhaustedWalrus
Member
I'm more than willing to pay $40, the game is going to be massive. I've been sold since 2011.
Remembrance
Member
The icon for the game on my wishlist keeps changing. Now it's showing a single barren tree on a hill.
Speculation: ...
Speculation: ...
There must be some significance as to why this is the only barren tree on the entire island.
TheCarrotKiller
Banned
I can't believe this is happening, one of my most long awaited games is just a few weeks away. And the price is even lower than the 40 I had imagined. So excited!
More_Badass
Member
And pre-ordered, can't wait
cpp_is_king
Member
I would have paid $80 for this game. Bring it!
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
44 dollars Canadian on Steam. Quite a generous exchange rate Valve is offering.
More_Badass
Member
Well that thread is fun. I guess it's expected any time an indie game is in the $25+ range. You see the same comments regarding No Man's Sky being $60
Wok
Member
I was confused for a moment because No Man's Sky was already priced. It is Amazon, so it is not the final price. I expect No Man's Sky to be released in 2017, even maybe in 2018. The release date for mid 2016 is compeltely unrealistic.
Hearing from some peeps with early access that the game is 40-50 hours to beat, and that's completing 300-400 of the game's 700+ puzzles. There are some objects in the game world (being intentionally vague here) that one person I know didn't even know what to do with/what their purpose was until 20+ hours in.
It's happening, people.
It's happening, people.
More_Badass
Member
700+?
So the game grew even bigger than 677 puzzles?
Hmm, I'm not entirely sure I want to be solving puzzles for 50+ hours, that seems like an awfully long time. (I get angsty about spending too much time on one game). I guess I'll just wait and see what the reviews say. I'm keen to know how the game can possibly last that long, there must be a lot of hidden surprises on the island gameplay wise.
I was hoping to that I'd get this finished before Firewatch and Unravel came out. It's pretty obvious now that will just be an impossibility at that kind of reported length.
I was hoping to that I'd get this finished before Firewatch and Unravel came out. It's pretty obvious now that will just be an impossibility at that kind of reported length.
Orakio Rob
Member
Honest question here, I swear I'm not trolling or anything: why exactly are you guys excited about this game?
I think Braid is a great game, so i'm obviously interested in anything Blow ends up creating. However, when The Witness was announced, I was a bit disappointed. It looked beautiful, but... I don't know, it looks a bit boring and repetitive to me. Like, "Myst with the same puzzle repeated over and over again" (I love Myst, by the way). So, I'm really surprised that so many people are interested in it. What am I missing here?
I think Braid is a great game, so i'm obviously interested in anything Blow ends up creating. However, when The Witness was announced, I was a bit disappointed. It looked beautiful, but... I don't know, it looks a bit boring and repetitive to me. Like, "Myst with the same puzzle repeated over and over again" (I love Myst, by the way). So, I'm really surprised that so many people are interested in it. What am I missing here?
YianGaruga
Banned
I think people are curious about the mystery. Not knowing what exactly the game is is part of the appeal.
Also Blow is pretty much an auteur. He makes his games very deliberately and there's little chance that the game will just suck. braid for example had layers upon layers of story and messages if you were interested in looking for them. I have no doubt the Witness offers the same depth.
That's most likely not enough for everyone, but for others it's exactly what they want. And as others said, the maze puzzles are apparently only input devices to solve puzzles, not necessarily the puzzles themselves. I doubt he worked 7 years on a game to make the equivalent of 700 sudoku boards.
Wok
Member
Experience of past ambitious projects. No Man's Sky looks way too ambitious to be delivered on time.
For me, it seems to hit on many of the things that my favorite games have had:
- a hand-crafted world to explore, where everything is there for a reason
- content that inspires (or even requires) intellectual thought
- secrets, some hidden extremely deeply
I'm more excited for this game than I am for Dark Souls 3, and I really like Dark Souls.
LegendofLex
Member
I'll echo what YianGaruga said above, and add that the allure of Myst had almost nothing to do with its puzzles, but with its atmosphere/environment/underlying world-building - I expect the same kind of dynamic in this game, where players are rewarded for unraveling the mysteries of the world with puzzle solutions that lead to more threads to unravel.
Wok
Member
Remembrance
Member
It feels like the first game since the 90s that could genuinely surprise me.
Most games nowadays want to set your expectations very early on so you know exactly what you will see and what you will do in the game. While that's fine most of the time, here for once I don't know what to expect, at all.
Anything could be waiting at the center of that island once it's unlocked.