Comeing back in 2019 to watch this series for the 3rd time. This is a great relaxing series that i come back to when my anxiety gets really bad. I cannot count how many times i have put this on ehile laying in bed and falling asleep to it. I doubt anyone will see this but i just wanted to tell you about how exellent this series is as a comfort blanket and how it much it relaxes me Thank you!
@@Some.username.idk.0 not as far as I can remember, he gets stuck a few times and tries to take on puzzles before he knows the rules, but he's pretty consistent. And if he's stuck for a long time he'll edit it out.
I watched this series several years ago, and am coming back to watch it again for the 2nd time. I hope I get as much enjoyment from the 2nd time as I did from the 1st (maybe more?)
Once again coming back in 2024, very streful few days from having new job and just the wider world. I know I'll have a hard time sleeping tonight and I remembered this series. Hopeing it will do its magic. Thank you again kieth!
It's really refreshing to see someone playing The Witness who is intelligent enough to not run around aimlessly while also not understanding any rule that the game is desperately trying to teach.
Anyone with half a brain and double digit IQ could get through this game with ease. It's not rocket science and "smarts" aren't required. It's brain-dead easy!
As someone who has experienced the mind alteration this game causes, it's wild to see someone yet unafflicted look out at what they see as beautiful scenery and realize that all I can focus on are the three hidden environmental puzzles.
This was the Let’s Play that introduced me to you and still sits at the top as the greatest LP on TH-cam, in my opinion. To celebrate you reaching 100k subscribers I’m going to rewatch it again. If you are new here and haven’t seen The Witness before, you’re in for an experience that still has not been matched. I don’t know if it ever will be.
Never come across your content before, but instantly I like you. You seem really chill and down to Earth, but you've still got your humor. Definitely a sub and an adblocker whitelist from me.
tip: don't talk about adblockers at all when talking to people who makes videos, you are saying that you choose not to ''steal'' from him but that you do it to other people on the platform who are trying to make money.
I usually get very frustrated watching Let's Plays because oftentimes the player doesn't read any tutorials and then gets stuck. In this case though, with the lack of tutorials, it was fascinating to watch you figure out the rules and attempt to solve the puzzles.
- "I misinterpreted this as being that I was trying to SEPARATE the black and white squares from each other" - "What's actually going on here is I'm supposed to cut off all the white squares from the black with a line. I'm SEPARATING them." ...profound.
I had to come back to the beginning thanks to your awesome randomizer series. It's so surreal watching you solve the very first puzzles after all the hours you've spent solving them!
You are very good at this. Best first episode LP of the game I've seen so far and my personal favourite. Please upload more. I really enjoyed watching you solve these so beautifully!
Finished watching this playthrough and came back to the beginning to say that I'm definitely gonna be a new subscriber and bell activated! Excellent playthrough!!!!
Glad to see someone really *get* it! It looks like you're done, and I'm nearly done, so I'm really interested in watching you explore this! Great stuff.
You misunderstood the white/black squares the same way I did. But I did not figure it out FOREVER. I was literally like, you have to put a line between all black and white squares that are next to each other but blank ones count as the opposite color. Glad to see I was not totally insane on that puzzle.
@@CorbinWilliamsFruity i played Talos. Its a really fun puzzle game but i still like the witness even more. The Witness is probably the best puzzle game ive ever played
I'm just now finishing up The Witness. I knew I'd want to watch a playthrough of it (nobody I knows plays it and it's such a wonderful game that I want to see other people experience and know what they think) and I feared there might only be walkthroughs on a long-haul game like this. I feel lucky to have found this series. Nonintrustive, chill, just someone experiencing the game as it was intended.
It’s not his first play through, anyone can see that. Watch the Celeste play through, there are ‘puzzles’ in that, the way you move through the level. He’s not so hot on that.
I (think I) 100% this game, so now I'm going to watch a LP'er play it! I'm surprised you got that room in the first 30min. When I first saw that puzzle, I skipped it for later. BTW, new subscriber. I like your thought process and will MOST DEFINITELY enjoy your content.
Knowing every secret about this game is more of a curse, once you know what's going on there's no way to forget it. Watching someone that knows nothing about the game is the closest you can get to experiencing that again.
Last year, I wanted to watch a playthrough of my favourite puzzle game, Baba is You. None of my go-to channels had finished the game however, and so I found your series. I really enjoyed you and your playthrough of Baba :) Now here I was today, wanting to watch a playthrough of my second favourite puzzle game, The Witness. I didn't know who I would watch though, but I searched it up, and look who showed up at the top. Glad to be back here, I'm sure this one will be just as fun to watch :)
I've never found you before, but already love your content. I'll probably end up subbing if I enjoy the next couple of videos. Also, this looks like a great game for the Vive or other inferior VRs (with a button for movement like Windlands)
Great Video Man subscribed for sure telling all my friends of you great commentary too keep up the great work had a bad day at work today but watching this made me feel better YOUR ROCK
At 14:00, you started believing that it's about circling the white squares without realizing that you went in between the white and black on every move :p You're aloud to go around the edges, you only have to pass through white and black when you go into the middle of the puzzle.. I've never played this but it seems interesting
You analyzed this game so well and understood how the concepts were introduced perfectly. This game is really genius i can tell this is going to be a good series. Lets see what you do! I'm stuck, i dont understand the blocks rule.
You should have way more subs!!! You're one of the best TH-camrs I've seen and I'm enjoying your content way more than almost everyone in currently subbed to. Hope you get enough money from TH-cam to get an Oculus or PSVR. This game is ament to be amazing in VR if your interested in that? Also you could email Oculus marketing to see if they could donate one? It's in their interest to have as many TH-camrs using their VR as possible!
+Alexander “Xan” Kashev I could have swore I read that they plan to do it later post launch. I know they aren't doing it for PSVR. Blow was adamant that to have PSVR a thing that the game would need to be designed for that platform and that he wasn't going to limit the game that way.
I came here after just finishing the game, I really wanted to see if someone actually got through this game 100% legit, because I sure didn’t, a long journey awaits
I really can't believe how I messed up my understanding of the black and white squares XD I completed the black and white section but totally misunderstood the rules. My understanding were similar to your first understanding but with more complications like you can't go through between 2 black or you can't go pass 2 blacks consecutively LOL I'm pretty sure it also didn't make sense to me at that time but since I was just starting the game, I might have said to myself "yeah whatever!" XD I didn't realize I was wrong until I finished the castle location and/or went to the colored squares location near the water. I loved this game because it's like a hardcore Outer Wilds where the game won't tell you what to do. It's up to you to explore, experiment and observe :D
+Kiefer I You're making a joke, of course, but Myst actually got five sequels, and most of them are good, if you haven't tried. Riven is one of my favorite games.
18:20 this is infuriating, he was literally done with the puzzle all he needed to do was click ahhh. Tip all you need to do is cut between the white and black dots.
The MCPE Master Definitely, one of the best games of this year in my opinion. Avoid spoilers at all costs though, there are some truly awesome moments in the game that leave you speechless :)
So that's how to solve that last puzzle. I never progressed past the initial stages of learning. XD Unfortunatly the game crashes constantly for me so I had to refund it. :(
I thought you were supposed to go between them for so long until I saw someone call it a segregation puzzle. I mean it means almost the same thing so it mostly worked, but was still confusing
How did he not get that you have to separate the white ones from the black ones? I figured it out as soon as he started that part. EDIT: When he did the part with the dark gray hexagons and the separating of the black and white squares, why did he think he had to surround the white ones, AS WELL as separating them from the black ones? I'm just getting more and more pissed lol EDIT 2: 18:24 WHY DIDN'T YOU CLICK???? EDIT 3: Okay I think I get you, but you COULD have clicked on the end part there just to see.
Comeing back in 2019 to watch this series for the 3rd time. This is a great relaxing series that i come back to when my anxiety gets really bad. I cannot count how many times i have put this on ehile laying in bed and falling asleep to it. I doubt anyone will see this but i just wanted to tell you about how exellent this series is as a comfort blanket and how it much it relaxes me
Thank you!
Is there never moments when he gets stuck on something obvious?
@@Some.username.idk.0 not as far as I can remember, he gets stuck a few times and tries to take on puzzles before he knows the rules, but he's pretty consistent. And if he's stuck for a long time he'll edit it out.
@@Thedegu nice
I watched this series several years ago, and am coming back to watch it again for the 2nd time. I hope I get as much enjoyment from the 2nd time as I did from the 1st (maybe more?)
Once again coming back in 2024, very streful few days from having new job and just the wider world. I know I'll have a hard time sleeping tonight and I remembered this series. Hopeing it will do its magic. Thank you again kieth!
It's really refreshing to see someone playing The Witness who is intelligent enough to not run around aimlessly while also not understanding any rule that the game is desperately trying to teach.
Anyone with half a brain and double digit IQ could get through this game with ease. It's not rocket science and "smarts" aren't required. It's brain-dead easy!
@@haileymatthews1777 No it isn’t easy, it’s not meant to be. Who are you trying to fool.
@@haileymatthews1777 Yeah, it's pretty easy. But you overestimate general players
just let him play the game how he wants
Welcome to the best 100%, blind playthrough of The Witness on TH-cam, enjoy your stay!
111112oo thankyou
Truth.
Indeed. The one from Ingeniousclown Gaming is very good as well.
I will :D
I shall :)
Wow, you know what? Maybe a chill youtuber is just what I needed.
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As someone who has experienced the mind alteration this game causes, it's wild to see someone yet unafflicted look out at what they see as beautiful scenery and realize that all I can focus on are the three hidden environmental puzzles.
This was the Let’s Play that introduced me to you and still sits at the top as the greatest LP on TH-cam, in my opinion. To celebrate you reaching 100k subscribers I’m going to rewatch it again.
If you are new here and haven’t seen The Witness before, you’re in for an experience that still has not been matched. I don’t know if it ever will be.
Never come across your content before, but instantly I like you. You seem really chill and down to Earth, but you've still got your humor. Definitely a sub and an adblocker whitelist from me.
Same here. Perfect man for the "job". Thanks for the videos Keith Ballard
tip: don't talk about adblockers at all when talking to people who makes videos, you are saying that you choose not to ''steal'' from him but that you do it to other people on the platform who are trying to make money.
I usually get very frustrated watching Let's Plays because oftentimes the player doesn't read any tutorials and then gets stuck. In this case though, with the lack of tutorials, it was fascinating to watch you figure out the rules and attempt to solve the puzzles.
Absolutely nobody:
Keith: Oh hello
Obi-Keith Kanobi: “Oh hello there”
This still is one of the best Let's Plays ever made!
Much love ❤
- "I misinterpreted this as being that I was trying to SEPARATE the black and white squares from each other"
- "What's actually going on here is I'm supposed to cut off all the white squares from the black with a line. I'm SEPARATING them."
...profound.
i swear to god , once i figured it out i also screamed "its segregation!"
I had to come back to the beginning thanks to your awesome randomizer series. It's so surreal watching you solve the very first puzzles after all the hours you've spent solving them!
You get it! It's a delight to see you engaging so thoroughly with this game.
God I cannot love this game enough
"one giant open world puzzle island" when you said that it made me think of Myst.
Except if Myst was entirely made of line puzzles...
Except Myst is just a gigantic "escape-the-room" game. The Witness' puzzles require some serious grey-matter
It was inspired by Myst.
theres even a reference to myst in an easter egg
@@daveroll6463 I remember finding that once, was really cool.
1:26 “Chill series”
Uncontrollable Laughter
You are very good at this. Best first episode LP of the game I've seen so far and my personal favourite. Please upload more. I really enjoyed watching you solve these so beautifully!
I’m back Keith! Time to rewatch The Witness!! 💙💙
06:17 _Mansneda tree_
Found it. It's _Manzanita,_ in case anyone else wants to look it up.
Watching your whole playthrough for a fourth time! Love this game, and I still enjoy watching you play it.
Wooow, this is a better let's play than the ones I've seen so far. Thank you for taking an observant approach.
This is the only series I come back to when I am working since I know you 100% the game.
Finished watching this playthrough and came back to the beginning to say that I'm definitely gonna be a new subscriber and bell activated! Excellent playthrough!!!!
Coming back to the first playthrough I ever watched from you makes me feel so happy
Glad to see someone really *get* it! It looks like you're done, and I'm nearly done, so I'm really interested in watching you explore this! Great stuff.
You misunderstood the white/black squares the same way I did. But I did not figure it out FOREVER. I was literally like, you have to put a line between all black and white squares that are next to each other but blank ones count as the opposite color.
Glad to see I was not totally insane on that puzzle.
This is a really trippy playthrough to watch a second time through.
I'm always wary of new let's players, so when I heard you say "Let me write this down" near the end, I immediately liked and subscribed.
This instantly reminds me of the talos principle for some reason. :D
The Happy Cats Tail hell yes. that's my favorite game of all time
@@CorbinWilliamsFruity i played Talos. Its a really fun puzzle game but i still like the witness even more. The Witness is probably the best puzzle game ive ever played
It's the puzzles and the way they teach you how to solve them♥️
I'm just now finishing up The Witness. I knew I'd want to watch a playthrough of it (nobody I knows plays it and it's such a wonderful game that I want to see other people experience and know what they think) and I feared there might only be walkthroughs on a long-haul game like this. I feel lucky to have found this series. Nonintrustive, chill, just someone experiencing the game as it was intended.
7:05 Holy shit, I would’ve never picked up on that on my first playthrough. Maybe I do need to play through this game again
It’s not his first play through, anyone can see that.
Watch the Celeste play through, there are ‘puzzles’ in that, the way you move through the level. He’s not so hot on that.
@@mrmagoo-i2l bruh what is this some kinda conspiracy? lmao
@@mrmagoo-i2l What makes you think this isn't his first playthrough?
I (think I) 100% this game, so now I'm going to watch a LP'er play it! I'm surprised you got that room in the first 30min. When I first saw that puzzle, I skipped it for later.
BTW, new subscriber. I like your thought process and will MOST DEFINITELY enjoy your content.
Knowing every secret about this game is more of a curse, once you know what's going on there's no way to forget it. Watching someone that knows nothing about the game is the closest you can get to experiencing that again.
Last year, I wanted to watch a playthrough of my favourite puzzle game, Baba is You. None of my go-to channels had finished the game however, and so I found your series. I really enjoyed you and your playthrough of Baba :)
Now here I was today, wanting to watch a playthrough of my second favourite puzzle game, The Witness. I didn't know who I would watch though, but I searched it up, and look who showed up at the top. Glad to be back here, I'm sure this one will be just as fun to watch :)
Just realised I did the entire thing without sprinting...
LMAO how long did it take you
I'mpressed on the manzenita trees call. I sell those at work.
+Michael Donaldson Grew up with this (only applicable photo I could find online) ucanr.edu/blogs/USS/blogfiles/14861.jpg
Coming back here after beating the game myself and then watching his videos he says "a super linear starting area" lol
I still come back to this series, something about it is just so serene to me
Back again!
@@chaoticgoodra coming back again as-well! I used to watch so many more play throughs of this game and this series is by far the best
I've never found you before, but already love your content. I'll probably end up subbing if I enjoy the next couple of videos.
Also, this looks like a great game for the Vive or other inferior VRs (with a button for movement like Windlands)
THE HOLY DUO
the witness and the
Talos principle
so i just found out one of my favorite youtubers has an ancient lets play of the witness. this is gonna be interesting
Great Video Man subscribed for sure telling all my friends of you great commentary too keep up the great work had a bad day at work today but watching this made me feel better YOUR ROCK
At 14:00, you started believing that it's about circling the white squares without realizing that you went in between the white and black on every move :p You're aloud to go around the edges, you only have to pass through white and black when you go into the middle of the puzzle.. I've never played this but it seems interesting
You analyzed this game so well and understood how the concepts were introduced perfectly. This game is really genius i can tell this is going to be a good series. Lets see what you do! I'm stuck, i dont understand the blocks rule.
You should have way more subs!!! You're one of the best TH-camrs I've seen and I'm enjoying your content way more than almost everyone in currently subbed to.
Hope you get enough money from TH-cam to get an Oculus or PSVR. This game is ament to be amazing in VR if your interested in that?
Also you could email Oculus marketing to see if they could donate one? It's in their interest to have as many TH-camrs using their VR as possible!
+Alexander “Xan” Kashev I could have swore I read that they plan to do it later post launch. I know they aren't doing it for PSVR.
Blow was adamant that to have PSVR a thing that the game would need to be designed for that platform and that he wasn't going to limit the game that way.
The blue panel puzzles is an exercise in gerrymandering, lol
You've got quite the brain in you, say hello to a new subscriber :D
out of the corner of my eye read The Segregation Vault as 'the segmentation fault'
You are brilliant at this game.
I'm going to watch the whole series again.
which series you'd seen before?
2:10 its pretty good strategy i use it a lot with mazes
Having seen and very much enjoyed your whole playthrough of The Witness, I would like to ask: How does the game rank for you?
you play a big selection of games Keith , I admire you for that , and the fact that your generally better than me in rpg's XD
Came for the puzzles, stayed for the funny.
I came here after just finishing the game, I really wanted to see if someone actually got through this game 100% legit, because I sure didn’t, a long journey awaits
You don't swear and your content is 😎 cool free sub
Oh no he swears but still free sub 😎 he doesn't swear often ye
It's like a 3D open world point-and-click adventure.
This is like a video game directed by Christopher Nolan.
You are better than all the rest at this game.
(Oh, and your profile picture looks like Steven King.)
;)
once you know about *_the thing_* it's hard to unsee it
Rewatching this for the third time now, this along with Talos Principle are your best let's plays imo!
I really can't believe how I messed up my understanding of the black and white squares XD
I completed the black and white section but totally misunderstood the rules.
My understanding were similar to your first understanding but with more complications like you can't go through between 2 black or you can't go pass 2 blacks consecutively LOL
I'm pretty sure it also didn't make sense to me at that time but since I was just starting the game, I might have said to myself "yeah whatever!" XD
I didn't realize I was wrong until I finished the castle location and/or went to the colored squares location near the water.
I loved this game because it's like a hardcore Outer Wilds where the game won't tell you what to do. It's up to you to explore, experiment and observe :D
Echoing a comment beneath me, defs feels like Talos Principle. Shame the gameplay falls a bit short here :/
I'm stuck on the 7:00 one
Such nice content
lots of Hello's! Haha
when you struggle so bad you need a tutorial: 🙆✨💀🙏 my prayers have been awnserd
you gotta separate the black and white squares
Don’t you have to name the song at the end for copyright reasons? I didn’t see it in the description. I know it’s one of the Undertale themes
When did Myst get it's dozenth sequel?
+Kiefer I You're making a joke, of course, but Myst actually got five sequels, and most of them are good, if you haven't tried. Riven is one of my favorite games.
This part would've driven me insane! 👍🏻🤣🤪🤔🤪 18:45
i got stuck at 8:30.. gonna leave too
You’re not separating them you’re segregating them
12:40 made me snicker
18:20 this is infuriating, he was literally done with the puzzle all he needed to do was click ahhh. Tip all you need to do is cut between the white and black dots.
Uh, no, he was right in not confirming his path. That was incorerct.
I want to play this game but i don't want to realize i'm too stupid to play this game
Me screaming at the screen “JUST SEPARATE THE BLACK AND WHITE” realizing i sound super racist to my parents in the next room
If you're already screaming during the first minutes of someone playing a game the issues may be with you.
Keith Ballard i was joking lol
I liked watching you dont get me wrong
Would you recommend this game?
The MCPE Master Definitely, one of the best games of this year in my opinion. Avoid spoilers at all costs though, there are some truly awesome moments in the game that leave you speechless :)
@@quacking.duck.3243 *overly loud* MAN, HOW BOUT THOSE PUZZLES? WERENT THEY COOL
So that's how to solve that last puzzle. I never progressed past the initial stages of learning. XD Unfortunatly the game crashes constantly for me so I had to refund it. :(
14:12 the moment you realize you gotta segregate the black ones lol
oh hello! :3
Woooooooooooooooooooooooo I play it to
man how many times can you say "hello".. ugh love everything else about it... I'll just try to ignore it but my brain losses cells evertime it's said
"Hello."
Hello.
Hello
HEWOO!
This needs to be in Oculus Quest
I thought you were supposed to go between them for so long until I saw someone call it a segregation puzzle. I mean it means almost the same thing so it mostly worked, but was still confusing
watch this and believe it's a good game
The lite hurt me
Here because of Zion Mainframe Gaming.
WELL HELLO
This is so satisfying aaagh
Boi dat undertale music at the end
Hey Keith if you want to change the FOV (and some other things), look here www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1175793
Dis game be RAYCISS! Hehehe.
Clever girl.
the gate?
th-cam.com/video/kk_Kd1yJPx4/w-d-xo.htmlm17s
10:36 to simplify... Just separate the white from the blacks👍
H&G HQ He already beat this game years ago, you’re late....
are you american?
+shakaama Yes.
toxic how did you get triggered by my question? it's a simple question. I care if he's from america because i want to support americans.
Shakaama What the actual hell? Why?
Shakaama wat
The later games puzzles make no sense
Draw a line from the sun
20 minutes per session is too short
the series is over lol you can literally see all of it
the goal is to seperate the two colours
How did he not get that you have to separate the white ones from the black ones? I figured it out as soon as he started that part.
EDIT: When he did the part with the dark gray hexagons and the separating of the black and white squares, why did he think he had to surround the white ones, AS WELL as separating them from the black ones? I'm just getting more and more pissed lol
EDIT 2: 18:24 WHY DIDN'T YOU CLICK????
EDIT 3: Okay I think I get you, but you COULD have clicked on the end part there just to see.
This comment is so weird since you’re commenting after he finished.