EDIT: I'm wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.
ACTUAL TIME: 3pm GMT / 10am EST / 7am PST.
I'm sure I'd seen a UK site say it was 6pm.
The Witness - Release Date Trailer, coming 26th January 2016
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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EDIT: I'm wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.
ACTUAL TIME: 3pm GMT / 10am EST / 7am PST.
I'm sure I'd seen a UK site say it was 6pm.
Kenzodielocke
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Yeah, opencritic seems to be right, as the Giant Bomb QL goes online at 10am EST too.
One hour from now to be exact. (according to opencritic.com)
More_Badass
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On Twitter, Metacritic says 7am Pacific for Witness reviews
awesomegamername
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PC or PS4?
I would like to have another game to play on my PS4, it hasn't had much love lately, but the other day I realized something. When it comes to digital purchases, it seems like it's a safer bet to just buy them on PC. I will always have a PC (unless zombie outbreak) with me but I might not always have a PS4 hooked up to my TV. Other than trophies, is there anything that sets the PS4 version apart from the PC version?
Thoughts?
I would like to have another game to play on my PS4, it hasn't had much love lately, but the other day I realized something. When it comes to digital purchases, it seems like it's a safer bet to just buy them on PC. I will always have a PC (unless zombie outbreak) with me but I might not always have a PS4 hooked up to my TV. Other than trophies, is there anything that sets the PS4 version apart from the PC version?
Thoughts?
Hoho for breakfast
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Good that's the same as 10 AM EST which opencritic shows. Hopefully it's right because I have to go to bed.
as someone getting it for PS4, i think PC is the way to go for the eventual VR support
slavesnyder
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I can imagine the puzzle-stuff works better with a mouse. So PC.
If you have a huge TV and PC not hooked to it - PS4.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Blow's design philospohy is strongly anti-redundancy. You're right that it will be to hard for some people. I think expecting a 90+ MC for a game like this is overly optimistic. I think the scores will have a wide range. Wide in the 7-10 sense, anyway.
slavesnyder
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Reviewers will not admit that the puzzles are too hard to not appear dumb.
Everyone will praise it.
Nah, if the game is too hard for them, they'll just find other vague complaints and issues with it.
I'm sure they will because outside of the puzzles and visuals, it's an empty game. There's no other gameplay elements other than interacting with panels.
RoadHazard
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Oh, you've played it? And even if it's true that the only interaction is with the panels, that's not all there is to it. The puzzles are often in the environment, and you just use the panels to input the solution. That's not an "empty game".
More_Badass
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Did reviewers say the same about Myst or Riven? This game operates on the same principles. And again, we already have preliminary impressions from two major sites and both love the game.
Couldn't this argument be applied to other games though? I mean sometimes the core element/mechanic of a game (for example, a shooter) is what makes it. There's nothing inherently wrong with what The Witness is doing unless all puzzles are the same thing. (I've only just started following the game after friends started talking about it, I have no idea how it will turn out, so maybe I'm wrong.)
Link?
OnionPowder
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You can its just that blow needed to give 3 months hwads up
I'm saying if a reviewer doesn't like the puzzles for whatever reason then there's nothing else in there, so it'll result in a less than perfect score. I'm all for this type of game.
There is an ARG going on with several Steam games. Could this be related to The Witness?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/42ge32/possible_arg_discovered_involving_multiple_steam/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comm...g_discovered_involving_multiple_steam/cza3rj1
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/42ge32/possible_arg_discovered_involving_multiple_steam/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comm...g_discovered_involving_multiple_steam/cza3rj1
TheExhaustedWalrus
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This is not true.
Can you interact with objects other than panels?
More_Badass
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On the recent IGN and Eurogamer podcasts, people who couldnt discuss specifics because they were under embargo shared some thoughts on the game
Podcast Beyond Episode 427
Eurogamer Podcast #1
Remembrance
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The panels let you control other objects.
Like, there's a boat you control with a panel. We saw it in the trailer.
shira
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Unfamiliar with this, how to listen/watch?
Thanks for that, much appreciated.
TheExhaustedWalrus
Member
The panels eventually stop being the input for the puzzles, but the output for how you interact with the environment/find things in the environment. You will have to look to subtle clues in the environment to solve the puzzles.
slavesnyder
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TheExhaustedWalrus
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EnlightenedMint
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piccio_ssl
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95 - the new Undertale.
Captain_Wreckus
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80
78 (due to some sites not getting it and giving low 60 scores)
This isn't a sports or racing game, so they can't whine about it being "sportsball" while writing about bugs that are actually features, or actual rules of the game, or even better why Football Manager can't compete with FIFA or PES, since you can't actually play the actual game.
A puzzle game that tries to be smart, most reviewers are afraid of being perceived as the dumbass that can't tie his shoes without some wrestler teaching him during a tutorial video.
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You do that indirectly yes, it still counts as 1 gameplay element. Even if there's a ton of variety, they're most likely all tied to puzzle solving. It's not like you'll use the boat for a racing minigame or anything like that. It has a specific purpose.
There's nothing to collect in the overworld, no creatures to hunt down, no inventory management, no stats to upgrade; it's just you, the beautiful island and a bunch of panels. If you don't like the core of the game there's nothing else to experience, and that would result in marking the game down.