Should I buy this game? Or maybe The Witness instead? I want a fun puzzle game, please steer me in the right direction

Should I buy this game? Or maybe The Witness instead? I want a fun puzzle game, please steer me in the right direction.

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Talos Principle is better than The Witness, and the DLC for it is also quite good if you want more.

Talos is better, and WAY way cheaper, goes down to 5$ during sales, plus has DLC.

If it's still $10 in the humble store, yeah.

>fun puzzle game

look no further my good man.

I've always wanted to ask, what does Sup Forums think about this game?

Yeah, consider Layton.
Talos Principal only has 3 different puzzles.

Don't bother with the prequels.

Decent and Charming/10
Although I feel the same ways about Talos Principle

Fun puzzle game? Then buy Myst or Riven or Obduction. Talos is better than Witness if you want to choose just between those two.

go talos principle. actual puzzling there.

the witness was more like a maths textbook the way the puzzles were set up. they would introduce a 'rule' then you'd just do 'questions' that got incrementally harder. also it runs like ass whereas talos looks great and runs fine

Talos is incredibly overrated by V
The gameplay gets very very stale after the first world as it is always the same and not enough to keep me interested in the slapped on lore.
I rate it: pirate it

OP, This completely. I guarantee you this game wil surprise you. Not gonna spoil it, but I highly recommend everything about it. Perfect armchair game.

>all these Talosfags
It's like you guys like fun or something.

>The Witness
>fun
You don't get it, the game was made only to show how deeply Blow's head is buried in his ass

Infinifactory.

This user is baiting a bit, but there's truth in what he says. It's not that the levels are the 'same' so much as they don't really open up on letting you think about the puzzles until the very last part. Up until that point, they basically still "show" you the solution. It's why the DLC is pretty much a must have - Gehenna is what the last half of the game should have been, folding in a bunch of different concepts and letting you explore the puzzles instead of telegraphing to you what the solution is.

the witness was gorgeous, some really clever environmental design there. but the audio logs were a bit too esoteric. there was no unifying factor, whereas talos principle had that unifying factor

get TTP instead, if you're going to choose one or the other.

>V
What did he mean by this?

>tfw had to google to 'clock' puzzle to get the star in the first world

How was I supposed to know I had to scan an ACTUAL QR CODE to get the star and decipher a code.

>tfw I didn't know what the fuck the quotes meant because I'm not American

I literally googled the message in the QR code and ended up on a wikipedia page that had the answer.

Pirate both of them because The Witness is really hard to explain and a lot of the descriptions you'll see will be from people who either didn't play it or didn't get far enough into the game to see what it was really about.

Talos is WAY BETTER

Dat OST doe

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I feel like a bit of a dick for revealing admin's fuckeries, but everyone deserves to know the truth.

I've only played Curious Village, but it was a nice puzzle game. Characters add to the enjoyment.

ikr, it was one of those games that i bought because it was advertised as some brain training rip off.animation, story and music blew me away, became my favourite story francise of all time.

You should DEFINITELY play the next two.The 3rd is easily one of my most favourite games of all time. Fucking amazed me.

Everyone likes it. I think it's brilliant, I've never seen anyone say it wasn't at least enjoyable.

Talos Principle is one of my favourite games.
It's amazing and I'm glad it's getting a sequel.

Curious Village is the best one by leagues, but they're all great.

I want to try Myst, but there's quite a few versions. What do I get?

>what did croteam mean by this

Buy Talos and pirate Witness from gog.

Who thought the composer of Serious Sam could make such comfy and sometimes emotional music.
Running around in these locations while the hot summer sun is bearing down on you is just relaxing all by itself, even without the relaxed puzzle solving.

you can almost hear the AAAAAA just beyond the horizon

Reminder Talos Principle has a turbo key in its key binding options that is typically unbound.

Actual puzzles in The Witness are not very video gamey - they're mostly something that could be done on a piece of paper. There were some sections where puzzles combined with the environment and they were brilliant, but too few.

RealMyst Masterpiece Edition is the newest one

My GOTY 2014.

If you like puzzles, ambientation, music, solipsism and androids, please, play it.

The puzzles are pretty boring desu

Is Talos better than Portal?

>didn't know about turbo key
>always waited like a minute in those replay puzzles

I thought both are great. That said, I have 2 hours clocked in Portal, while Talos with DLC took me 22.

how about Portal 2?

Still very solid puzzle as far as puzzles go, but went a bit too far with the banter, it felt like it tried hard to set another "cake is a lie" trend. Content-wise it's about twice as long as first Portal and has some neat co-op extras.

u should buy both if u like puzzle games. they are both amazing in their own ways.

I never checked until like the second to last of those in Fall of Gehenna that was especially egregious. Boy, did I feel dumb. I must've lost an hour of my life waiting for my future self to be the slowest dumbass possible to complete the puzzle.

OP here, you guys sold me on TTP. I hope I like it since it's so expensive. Thanks for all the response.

Yes.

It goes 75% off like 20 times a year.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that I love this game to bits.

First of all, I'm no "puzzler fan" of any sort. Yeah, I enjoyed Portal, but don't really have much drive to look forward to more games like it. That was the main reason why I actually ignored Talos for so long, and only late last year decided to give it a shot when I got it for dirt cheap.

Dunno why I doubted Croteam, one of the few remaining studios I have high respects for, but jesus fuck this game was GOOD. It' pretty as a button, very well optimized, the options menu makes even most fanatic mustard gamers cum buckets, and the gameplay & story are actually very frigging great. The DLC was more of the same, but cranked up to 11; meaning fucking great. Me and my buds kept discussing about the themes and puzzles of Talos for weeks during and after our playthroughs!

I know it will not fit into some people's heads, but I got 90 hours clocked to this game by now. I still occasionally launch it to just chill and awe the landscapes, or to test various hardware configurations and setting combos.

tl;dr: Get it.

Talos is just so much longer and pushes its few mechanics a lot further.
Especially if you want to get all the bonus stars and secrets. It legitimately rewards and expects you to breach things out of some puzzles to get these.
Vanilla portal 2 is nowhere near as challenging as later Talos Principle.

As far as story goes, they're not very different. Portal mostly tries to humour you, while Talos is trying to keep you around with decently presented philosophy debates and an intriguing mystery.

I personally would say so.

However, it will boil down to what you prefer: kinda simplistic puzzles with humorous characters in a linearly progressing game, or more serious tone with minor humor bits under the surface - in a nonlinear game.

I'd say Talos is like a mix of Portal and Myst.

>Yfw it has never EVER been $5 yet

what is this creepy reddit copypasta.
Stop it please it's disgusting

1) Fuck off.
2) I wrote it myself.
3) Again, fuck off.

>the options menu makes even most fanatic mustard gamers cum buckets
I don't know anyone who can rival Croteam in this regard. Their game engine is just so intricately crafted.

I've been playing Steven's Sausage Roll after someone in a similar thread to this one mentioned it. It's a'ight.

>I want a fun puzzle game, please steer me in the right direction.
Everybody stand aside

The Witness was easily one of my favorite games last year and I only played Talos for a few hours. I didn't dislike it I just kinda got distracted with something else and never went back. I was finding it a bit bland tho.

Just play it in chunks.
Do a few puzzles and come back the next day. You shouldn't try to rush through the game as quickly as possible, if you feel like it's wearing on you.

>tfw none of my friends want to play it even though they played The Witness

I don't get it, they even bought it. One of them said it was too easy when he didn't even unlock the connectors.

You should get both, The Witness is more like minimalistic experience, meanwhile TTP does have great story alongside great gameplay.

Not gonna spoil anything specific, but for the latter you also have to prepare for feels.

both are good
play both

The Witness has better puzzles but barely any story

TTP has a story and still good puzzles but easy in comparison

I could never finish sound puzzles in the witness.