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The Witness is the next free title in the Epic Store (Apr. 4th)
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Very nice. My epic library is almost as large as my uplay and origin ones. Keep on feeding me free games.
Huh, that's one of those games I'd always planned to buy once I'd finished whatever game it was I was currently playing. Never got around to it, so this is nice.
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I did grab this on PS+ but this looks like the type of game that would control better with keyboard and mouse than a controller. Is this the case? If so I'll get it in Epic games as well and play it there instead.
I have beaten thimble weed park Edith Finch and axiom Verge. This will be my next play through.
All have been quality games I've been so close to buying but just never pulled the trigger.
All have been quality games I've been so close to buying but just never pulled the trigger.
IMO, it plays fine with a controller. The puzzle inputs don't really require precise cursor movement, as they're all grid-based.
Anyway, played through a chunk of it last year on Origin Access. Really relaxing and fun for the first few hours, but I hit a wall pretty quickly after that. I'm sure others will enjoy it more, though, and it's definitely at least worth trying if you're at all a fan of this genre.
Even if we whittle it down to only first person puzzlers, The Talos Principle beats it hands down.
It's a good game though.
I bought it at release and I don't feel that way at all. It was a sublime experience and I'll happily support developers of games I appreciate so they can continue making games.
I've seen a lot of mentions of this game in the Baba Is You thread, so I'm gonna have to check this out. My brain is never going to catch a break from all these puzzle games.
Holy shit, yes. Possibly the best puzzle game of all-time. Play this.
Yeah, sucks that I bought this game at launch when I could have just waited 3 years to play it for free.
I like the Witness a lot but I do think it's a little over rated. Hard to really get into without spoiling it but it just doesn't really scratch the same itch most puzzle games do. It's satisfying in its own way.
I think I have it four times now. Bought it on Steam at launch, got it free from PS+, XBL GWG and now EGS.
It's an amazing game obviously. I've just never wanted to play it more than once.
It has never being a $60 game. $40 (€37) at launch which was totally worth it.
I just tried it for a bit, and I suck at this, was not having fun at all.
The world is so big, everything is hidden and your movement is so slow. I want to do some puzzles but I just can't find any. The start is easy enough, where you can follow some cables to get to some trivial puzzles. Then quite soon you'll get to a puzzle that you can't solve because you don't know what is expected of you, and you learn that if you look around you'll find smaller puzzles explaining the intention of the bigger puzzles. But then the world just opens up and you're just slowly walking through this totally uninteresting world trying to find some gameplay.
And then the controls. It's 'press shift' to walk slowly, 'don't press shift' to walk even slower, 'press any other button' to come to a complete stop and freeze until you rightclick. Doubling the movement speed and giving me a jump button would already make this a lot more bearable.
The world is so big, everything is hidden and your movement is so slow. I want to do some puzzles but I just can't find any. The start is easy enough, where you can follow some cables to get to some trivial puzzles. Then quite soon you'll get to a puzzle that you can't solve because you don't know what is expected of you, and you learn that if you look around you'll find smaller puzzles explaining the intention of the bigger puzzles. But then the world just opens up and you're just slowly walking through this totally uninteresting world trying to find some gameplay.
And then the controls. It's 'press shift' to walk slowly, 'don't press shift' to walk even slower, 'press any other button' to come to a complete stop and freeze until you rightclick. Doubling the movement speed and giving me a jump button would already make this a lot more bearable.
