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Mike the Wino - 29 January 2016 02:54 PM

I may have missed something earlier in this thread, but will this not run correctly (or at all) on Vista (Home Premium 64 bit)? I see the minimum requirements are Windows 7, and I’m not real interested in “upgrading” to another OS just to play this game….

I dont see why not assuming you comfortably meet the other requirements. I suspect people have forgotten about vista is all. Id buy it and worst case scenerio you refund it on steam.

Witness had second best rating on metacritic as late as yesterday, best selling game on steam. So we don’t have to worry about sinking it. I can understand the praise, so far six hour into the game.

TimovieMan - 29 January 2016 03:12 PM

What the hell, Kuru? That was totally uncalled for!
Agustín is just defending the game, telling people to give it a proper chance. Why the outburst?

Whatever you say.

At this point, I think people talking about the Witness annoy even more than the game itself—and that’s saying something. I’ll stay out of this thread.

I really want to play this game, as it looks like exactly my cup of tea, but I can’t recall the last time I spent $40 on a PC game. But I thought I heard they were not going to discount it anytime remotely soon, so it will be a test of my resolve to see if I can wait for a discount…

hmmmm yeah some of the puzzles are killing it for me. Particularly the invisible dual lines. I got through that area full of them fine enough and never wanted to see another one… now im encountering more and its piling on all the other mechanics with the invisible lines, and im getting a distinct urge to play something else. I just dont like them.

Just to provide another point of view, Agustin’s post has got me intrigued and more eager to play the game. This will no doubt sound pretentious but I think it’s a shame the game industry has got us thinking in terms of ‘mechanics’ and such instead of the game as a whole. We’ve been dulled into thinking that because a game’s first hour plays a certain way, the whole game will be the same experience. And I don’t blame us for thinking that, when games have been doing that forever with few genuine surprises. Berating someone for judging movies and books before finishing them is usually justified, but games can invariably be judged fairly after a few hours. If something can come along and challenge that, I’m all for it.

I haven’t bought it yet (no time to play it anyway) but Augustin’s criticism is more or less what I’d expect from the game, having played Braid.

The last puzzle game I thought was overpriced at $40 was The Talos Principle. It was totally worth it.

Agustín Cordes - 29 January 2016 01:47 PM

What I can tell you after 20+ hours of introspective gameplay without previous knowledge or any sort of hints, is that The Witness is categorically a stroke of genius. If you quit this game and dismiss it as a simple puzzler, you have no idea what you’re missing. If I had to describe this game in one word, I would say it’s a conversation. You need to hear what it’s telling you. It might well be the most rewarding game ever — and I’m still halfway through it.

Those of you wondering if things do change: there’s at least one revelation that will completely change the way you think about The Witness. I really hope it gets better reviewed when players invest more time into it.

Thank you—this is actually exactly the glowing review I was hoping for to summon the motivation to keep going. I concur with diego on the point that it is hard to do so just by playing the game for a couple of hours, but it’s good to hear that The Witness has more to offer beyond “solve another puzzle to unlock another pretty thing to look at”.

Lucien21 - 30 January 2016 07:45 AM

kuze - 30 January 2016 06:12 AM

it’s good to hear that The Witness has more to offer beyond “solve another puzzle to unlock another pretty thing to look at”.

The definition of most Myst clones and adventures in general.

Just from recent memory, I absolutely adored Tales from Borderlands, The Walking Dead, and especially Life is Strange—all adventures, and it was neither the puzzles nor the pretty things that kept me going.