Starker on 15/2/2016 at 15:47
Okay, whoever this mountain king person was or why he felt the need to build a hall, I'm slowly starting to hate him. Oh, and I don't particularly care for Anitra's dance any more either, despite quite liking it in Quest for Glory 4. Thanks a bunch, Jon Blow.
Al_B on 16/2/2016 at 23:13
Not quite sure I understand the music link there but if you're referring to the mountain in general then I'm with you on that one. I don't think it's spoiling anything to say that I was pretty much cursing Jon Blow each time a new set of puzzles was presented towards the end. No idea how people who have visual impairments are expected to complete the game!
I've just managed to complete the game and I'm satisfied that apart from the hint above I didn't need to look up any solutions. There are still certain things (including those that Thor alluded to) that I haven't completed yet but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort - at least until I've have a break from the game for a bit :).
Gryzemuis on 17/2/2016 at 12:49
Quote Posted by Starker
Okay, whoever this XXXXX XXXX person was ...
FFS, Starker, learn to use the spoiler tags.
I read the first few words of your post, and immediately realized this might be a big spoiler.
Now I can't come back to this thread until I have finished the game.
Thanks .....
Starker on 17/2/2016 at 16:52
It's not a spoiler as such. There is no mountain king. I was hinting at a particular puzzle section in very vague terms to avoid spoiling it. If you have played it, you will recognise the references (and that only if you know the references themselves). If not, no harm done.
Gryzemuis on 17/2/2016 at 23:33
Jezus Christ. Jonathan Blow will make half a million gamers watch 15 minutes of Tarkovsky !
I have seen that movie probably 25 years ago. I saw Stalker even before that, when I was 19 years old. Stalker (and Eraserhead) made me look at movies in a whole different way. I realized that not all movies need to have guns, or be about love. I watched more movies of the same director. But Stalker remained my favorite. I saw Nostalghia a few years later. But I couldn't appreciate it at the time. I actually have it on my harddisk, so I can rewatch it whenever I feel like it. I didn't feel the urge to do that during the last 1-2 years. But now I am 100% sure I will watch it again this month. Those 15 minutes in game were pretty awesome.
Quite ballsy to develop a game. For gamers. Who probably like Transformers 7 more than any Lynch movie. And make those gamers look at a movie like that for 15 minutes. :)
Thirith on 18/2/2016 at 05:48
Quote Posted by Gryzemuis
Quite ballsy to develop a game. For gamers. Who probably like Transformers 7 more than any Lynch movie.
Because the
Transformers 7 crowd is likely to go out in droves and buy
The Witness.
zajazd on 18/2/2016 at 11:57
Quote Posted by Gryzemuis
Jezus Christ. Jonathan Blow will make half a million gamers watch 15 minutes of
Tarkovsky !
I have seen that movie probably 25 years ago. I saw
Stalker even before that, when I was 19 years old.
Stalker (and Eraserhead) made me look at movies in a whole different way.
You watch Stalker and don't fall asleep? Do you not at least get mad that the danger is never revealed at the end?
I read that some of Stalker crew died of radiation during of after making the movie, if that is true it's such a shame they died for nothing. But I have to admit that I have seen one even more boring movie - Rise of Valhalla or something - but at least that movie was eyecandy.
TannisRoot on 18/2/2016 at 16:08
Quote Posted by Starker
If I had the money to spare, I absolutely would buy the game. And anyone who likes well done puzzles set in a beautiful environment (and taking advantage of that environment in many many ways) should consider it. There's so much to discover and each discovery is unique in some way, whether it's a clever visual reference in the world or a new hidden place or a piece of knowledge that helps you further in the game or opens up a new way of looking at things. It's easy to look at it superficially and say that it's just line puzzles, but there's so much more going on in the game. I've never seen anything like it. Drawing lines is just the input method. The actual puzzles are so much more than that.
Inline Image:
http://i.imgur.com/8FBQJ.jpgThis game is a veritable "entry level corporate position" simulator. The kind of job where given no training you must deduce how to perform your rote, mundane duties from the scraps of shoddy output and detritus left in your predecessor's desk in tandem with barked negative feedback from your incompetant middle manager boss who only has half a clue what they hired you to do in the first place but secure in the knowledge that when the house of cards does finally tumble they can always sacrifice you - the new hire - just in time to keep their career rolling with another promotion and dump their clusterfuck of a department on an unwitting new victim to perpetuate the cycle all over again.
*Deep inhale*
For $0 you could teach yourself a programming language or a foreign language. More challenging - granted - but requires no less the same procedure. But dress it up in some "woo" with pretty graphics and a "mystery" and suddenly people are compelled to spend $40 and waste 15 hours on it. How soon can we get education software and textbooks with this sort of aesthetic?
Human nature is weird.
Sulphur on 18/2/2016 at 18:56
Quote Posted by TannisRoot
How soon can we get education software and textbooks with this sort of aesthetic?
Just as soon as you take the formal notion of 'education' out of it. Then we can have more things like (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology_of_Kyoto) this.
Starker on 18/2/2016 at 19:03
Quote Posted by TannisRoot
For $0 you could teach yourself a programming language or a foreign language. More challenging - granted - but requires no less the same procedure.
You should at least superficially familiarize yourself what's involved with learning a language or what the game is about before you attempt trolling. That was pretty pathetic even by zajazd standards.
