Game:

The Talos Principle (2014)

Duration: 10:39:00

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The Talos Principle is a 3D puzzle game, which also happens to explore the topic of artificial humanity. It was developed in Serious Engine by Croteam. It is famed for its extremely beautiful graphics and good story writing. It draws inspiration from the Portal series.

The game is rife with references to different religions from the history of humanity. Most prominently, the narrator character calls themselves Elohim, the Hebrew title for the God of Bible who created the world and sustains it. This may feel annoying at first, but given the story of the game, it all makes sense.

Part 1: http://youtu.be/gG6vHClsdAw
Part 2: http://youtu.be/lyOm553O7rQ
Part 3: http://youtu.be/8BG9rTToh0Q
Part 4: http://youtu.be/un8dW-iX8k4

PLOT

The story of the game is that humanity has contracted an unstoppable lethal virus. Realizing their inevitable extinction, all of humanity comes together in a last-ditch effort to assemble a computer data bank of the collective knowledge of all humanity. They also develop a simulated world with access to those databanks. The goal of the data bank is to provide a record of humanity for whichever aliens might visit Earth in the future. The goal of the simulation is to evolve an AI that would eventually pass as a worthy artificial inheritor of the human race, so that the essence of human race might live on, despite real humans being biologically extinct.
Unfortunately there was not enough time to develop and test the project fully before humanity expired. When the events of this game transpire, uncounted years have passed, and the database has been deteriorating, and most of the data has been lost and whatever little remains is hardly coherent. In addition, there is a bug in the AI, which sometimes pulls data from wrong databases. As a consequence, religions and reality get mixed up, and the AI instances, which somehow interact despite being separated by time and generations, have hard time understanding why they exist in the first place. Despite these difficulties, they seem to be achieving positive progress on evolving human characteristics. The player character is the latest of these instances. Could they prove the project has reached its goal?

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I played through this game in Q1 2016 in the passage of two weeks, and streamed most of it on Twitch.

Buy The Talos Principle at: http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/

VIDEO MAP:

Note: Sorry about A/V desync in parts of the video, and lack of video at 1:20:14—2:51:56.

03:06 Game start
12:28 A1 P
18:40 A1 OtToU
22:54 A1 ASOfR
24:44 A1 O
26:51 A1 StBP
35:58 A1 doot
45:27 A1 TB
47:51 A1 PaSL
50:15 A Hall
52:58 A5 doot
1:01:08 A2 doot
1:06:14 A2 doot2
1:09:46 A2 HoW
1:12:48 A2 TGMBC
1:17:10 A2 SM
1:19:17 (game crash)
1:20:14 (back, but ‹‹NO VIDEO››)
   2:51:04 (finally someone informs me that video is off)
2:51:56 (‹‹VIDEO IS BACK››)
2:52:56 A4 BiO
3:18:59 A5 doot
3:19:45 Unlock: decahedron
3:21:54 A5 TtDWTB
3:25:20 found Warp's stamp
3:28:57 A5 FC
3:31:30 A5 FC star
3:33:12 A5 GOtF
3:34:39 A5 YKYMCtS
3:36:02 A5 OLB
3:49:41 Unlock: A
3:51:51 A doot
3:54:53 A6 doot
3:56:33 A6 MM
4:04:28 A6 D
4:31:19 A6 doot2
4:32:24 A6 star
4:34:41 A6 ADTF
5:00:01 A6 BE
5:09:52 A6 doot
5:13:51 A7 doot
5:15:05 A7 WiaL
5:26:07 A7 TPLB
5:33:23 A7 PW (unsuccesful)
5:34:00 end of day 1
5:39:07 begin day 2
6:07:13 C doot
6:10:48 B doot
6:14:11 Unlock: B
6:18:55 B1 doot
6:22:00 found Deign's stamp
6:22:50 B1 WtaD
6:28:46 B1 TW (unsuccessful)
6:39:43 B1 RoD
6:47:28 ghost
6:48:48 B1 doot2
6:51:25 B1 SaaS
6:54:26 B1 doot
7:01:00 Unlock: fan
7:03:13 B7 BSbS
7:09:13 B7 doot
7:11:23 B7 doot2
7:19:40 B2 M
7:22:40 B2 TT
7:29:45 end of day 2
7:29:55 begin day 3
7:32:41 B2 doot
7:34:22 B2 HG (unsuccessful)
7:40:41 found DeathWish808's stamp
7:41:10 B2 HG
7:53:33 B2 MoTM
7:56:28 B3 doot
7:58:11 B3 EN
8:12:25 B3 BA
8:15:37 B3 W (unintended solution)
8:34:43 B3 S
8:36:46 B3 doot
8:42:14 Unlock: recorder
8:43:51 B4 doot
8:45:11 B4 SHT
8:47:21 B4 DP
8:52:40 B4 TRA
8:57:04 B4 ABUH
9:02:50 B4 RPS
9:10:29 B4 WAtC
9:11:53 B4 doot
9:16:19 B5 doot
9:20:55 B5 doot2
9:23:42 B5 SES
9:39:20 B5 MMaOTJ (unsuccessful)
9:45:59 Nexus 1
9:52:58 Unlock: Nexus 2
10:03:51 A7 PW
10:06:43 A7 TI (unsuccessful)
10:07:45 Nexus doot
10:09:00 Nexus 2
10:26:49 Unlock: Nexus 3
10:29:41 end of day 3
   (between here, hours of progress were made off-screen)
10:29:47 begin day 4, on Linux

Played on a computer with the following specs:
MB: Gigabyte Z97P-D3
PSU: Corsair CX600W V2
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3 @ 3.70GHz
RAM: 2 × Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G for a total of 16 GB @ 1600 MHz
HDD: 128 GB of Kingston SVP200S
GFX: GeForce GTX 560/PCIe
OS: Windows 10, Linux Debian jessie+backports
Streaming: OBS
Any other hardware not mentioned is random no-name stuff.

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