ITT: Puzzles you had to look up guides for

The clock puzzles in FF XIIV-2

>>382257850
The final switch puzzle in graces f in the optional area.

>>382257850
You're joking but people actually had trouble with that

>>382257978
wait

>>382257978
to this day i haven't finished infinite because i couldn't get past this part

None obviously because I am the smartest human being on the planet. Praise me, you lowly /v/irgins!

Half the puzzles in Silent Hill 3 on hard difficulty

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>>382258042
How could people even have trouble with that though? There are 27 possible combinations and no consequences. It doesn't take any time at all just to brute force it.

>>382258063
Isn't there a poem or prayer in the dungeon telling you what to do? I mean come on

>>382257850
only 100 hours in I finally looked at the dragon's palm

>>382258526
The solution was right on the dragon claw itself to boot.

>>382257850
I unironically had to do this. You never had to use the inspect function before or after this part, so why the fuck would I have thought of that?

>>382258163
>buying Andromeda
you're the retard ITT

>>382257850
wait a minute that claw...

>>382258163
it's easy when you replace the glyphs with numbers like seppuku

>>382257978
You guys do realize this wasn't meant to be a puzzle, right? They just wanted you to interact with the door.

>>382258380
I only have 140 IQ would I be able to finish this game? What game is this?

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>>382257850
I played Skyrim for the first time on a terrible laptop. The claw was a blurry mess and I had to look it up i swear

>>382259010
wew is that in one of trainwiz's mods

>>382259070
Vanilla skyrim, dragonborn dlc.

>>382259010
Is this a mod? I don't remember this.

>>382258663
How am I suppose to know that?

>>382258902
Why couldn't they just have the door open when you press E then

Silent Hills ones, i tried a few times but always ended up looking for the solution

>>382258526
i actually did this on the first two. then i looked at the claw on accident before the next one. who the fuck inspects items

>>382259010
there's a journal on the table that literally explains how to solve it (and gives the values of some of the switches), all you have to do is experiment a bit to determine the values of the other switches so that you can add up to 20 perfectly

>>382259303
Rotate the claw with the item view key/button in the misc. inventory category.

>>382259289
Dragonborn dlc, Fahlbtharz dwemer ruin in Solstheim.

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YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME

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>>382258526
It's literally just click all three rings two times each. WHAT A TOUGH PUZZLE

>>382258063

I just fooled around and it worked eventually.
My fault though, I was rushing and already annoyed and bored shitless of the game and just wanted to advance and see if it gets better. Didn't tho.

>>382257978
WAIT

>>382259575
Runner up is how you get the monkey

>>382258063
Wait a minute

>>382258556
yea and it is not explicit at all. I finished PoE and that was by far the hardest puzzle i've encountered

>>382257978
TWO AIR VENTS ON THE ROOF THAT'S WHAT THE GUY WAS TALKIN A- SHIT!

>>382257850
I brtueforced those. Soon after a friend show me how to unlock them without bruteforcing.

Because of the shitty menus and controls, bruteforcing is faster. I also bruteforce safe in Thief4.

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>>382259836
forgot pic

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When I was younger I had the hardest time trying to beat Blast Pit in Half-Life. The one where you have to turn on the fuel and power to destroy that tentacle thing. I don't know why I had such trouble with it, I just recently played it and it's not that hard. The part I got stuck on the most was after you actually fry the fucker and jump down in the pit, I got stuck down there because I couldn't find where to go next. You had to go into the water and swim down and then up and over. I feel retarded, but it was almost two decades ago.

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>>382258063
I literally just clicked like a madman for about a minute and it worked

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Seriously, fuck this puzzle for real though.

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the first security room defense in Nova Prospekt in HL2. I finished the battle, but Alyx wouldn't appear. nothing would happen

turns out it was because I was a cheating little faggot and had notarget turned on. Alyx wouldn't hop down from the ceiling vent after the fight unless notarget was off

>>382259575
the worst thing about this is that "monkey wrench" isn't even used in all English-speaking countries

>>382259836
>playing skyrim without UI mods

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Lufia games were full of shit I had to look up.

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>be 12 years old
>English as a second language
>this fucking puzzle

>>382259575
Monkey Island 2 had some of the most difficult, frustrating puzzles.

>>382260564
oh and
>it's 1994 and google does not exist

>>382259575
This one really pissed me off.

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>solution to a puzzle is found many rooms before said puzzle comes up

The Knight room in Resident Evil 1 remake.

I know you were supposed to push the statues back in a particular order but I couldn't tell what it was. The picture clue didn't help because two of the knights didn't even look different to me.

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This stumped 6 year old me.

>>382259575
had to use a guide from the first two games the whole way through lol

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speaking of english as second languages

>beyond good and evil
>need "juice" to power up some shit
>look forsome orange juice or something for fucking hours

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I love The Dig but fuck this puzzle to death

>>382260791
Holy shit I completely forgot about this game. Can't even remember what the point of this game was other than that sphinx face being familiar.

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actually I needed a guide for the entire game

>>382261340
>Be Hispanic
>Pick up Morrowind on release
>NPCs are practicing fighting in the court yard
>Talk to them, they keep bringing up locomotives
>Kept wondering why trains exists when you can fast travel

Had to wait 10 years to figure out that it was a translation error on "trains" and training.

>>382262019
What is it (pic) ? A sudoku like?

>>382261823
The goal was to assemble a weapon called "The Staff of Ages" and use it to stop an evil warlock from summoning an ancient evil into the world. Probably one of my favorite point n' clicks.

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I was 16 in 1999, and way too lazy to try to solve this shit... also my english was pretty bad at the time

>>382258380
You can blame play tester for this kind of shit
Probably went thought like 4 cycles before we got to this

>>382259454
How am I supposed to know that?

>>382259575
yeah some puzzles were insane...

>>382262109
It's been years since I played the game. I just remember needing to place the marbles on the grid depending on some domes or some shit.

It was literally fucking impossible to solve when I was 10.

>>382262338
Call up Bethesda and ask to speak to Todd Howard.

>>382259695
Such horseshit puzzles. Some only give vague hints. I even had a notepad to figure out some of them and even then I had to resort to guessing.

>>382259303
It says it in the journal

>>382262109
It's a grid that corresponds to the islands of Riven. You have to put the dots on the spots where there is a certain building, and the color of the dot has to correspond with the island that each building is on.

The solution is spread across two separate islands, each a long, long distance from the puzzle itself. So you have to go to one place to find out what color represents what island, and another giant map to see where you have to put them.

>>382262639
>Riven
Myst 2?

>>382257978
Are you guys that fucking retarded???

Goddamn I passed this just fine because all I did was just hit the bells and the bells that had the symbol that is shown on the paper and hit the bells according to the amount that is shown based on the paper.

Wow holy shit I just figured out a 6 year old puzzle wow!!!

>>382262713
Yeah

>>382262742
I only play Myst with my father and brother, we finish the game and never want to play the second.

Dude, they literally spoiled that puzzle in one of the first gameplay videos. Annoying too because that turned out not to be "an example of the sort of puzzles you might encounter" but a blatant misrepresentation of the game because there are NEVER any puzzles as, or more "clever" than this one. Like it was cool, but THIS being the epitome of puzzles in an RPG is laughable.

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>>382257850
>skyrims puzzles
Wish they actually made a fucking effort with their game

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literally I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E without a guide.

>>382262741
Bait

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>>382257978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_u18_BKczg

>>382261090
Lol yeah man

>>382262741
I know it's bait, but the game is only 4 years old. People need to know that someone is lying on the internet

>>382257978
tru

this game overestimates my intelligence

>>382262969
This one stumped me because I overthought it and thought there must be some other clues.

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>>382263406
forgot pic

>>382262741
>being so pathetic you have to lie on the internet

Develop some self knowledge friendo, this projecting isn't healthy.

>>382259368
You are the person to blame for all this.

>>382263506
FUCK YOU

>>382263506
Bringing back some bad memories there. I think the reward was actually a really good magatama so skipping it was not really a good option.

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love the story and atmosphere of the series, but most of the puzzles can go to hell.

>>382259695
This one was pretty easy... The only shitty puzzles in the game were the sound ones, especially the one on the ship.

>>382264328
I don't get it.

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Didnt really read a guide(didnt had internet anyway), but drew it on paper and solved it there, I couldnt handle the time limit, so never really made much progress each try.

>>382258663
When I first played I had no idea you could rotate the objects in your inventory to look at it. How the fuck are you supposed to just know that?

>>382259768
Yeah I guess reading is pretty hard

>>382259575
yup, this got me
This and that FUCKING FINGER NUMBERS GAME
THE SOLUTION IS SO STUPIDLY SIMPLE TOO, FUCK

10/10 game though, and generally the best puzzles in the series

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>>382259575
That's fucking nothing.

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>>382257850
The entirety of Recreation in SYSTEM SHOCK 2

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>>382257850
>tfw I had to use guides for some of the puzzles in Legend of Grimrock 2

I am not worthy.

La-Mulana. Not going left or right but being a wise man means scanning a fucking background lamp? Sure okay, that got me. Just like the fucking skeleton that was actually a pedestal later in that level.

Funny how those got me but I solved all the puzzles that are considered the hard ones by myself.

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>>382257850

I was such a dumbass little kid. I think I was in elementary school but this game was a total loss for me.

not really a puzzle but the Zodiac Spear in ff12

>>382264328
>>382264453
If I remember correctly, you had to sail a certain way because if you went the wrong way, you had to restart from the beginning. Literally, every legend of zelda game has that aspect.

>>382258380
This this real? Like, what the fuck am I watching? Are people this retarded?

>>382264453
You had to close the lid of the DS to "print" the seal onto the lower screen's map. I don't know why so many people struggled with this one, you just had to think outside the box.

>>382265702
Proof Jagex has zero QA.

>>382266180
You answered your own question. Have you not been playing more recent games more often? Everything is fucking handed to everyone on a silver platter. There is no challenge anymore.

>>382257850
>developers make one puzzle for entire game
>show solution for it as part of game play teaser

>>382257850
WAIT A MINUTE THAT CLAW

>>382257978
Why would they put the hardest puzzle right at the beginning of the game

>>382266497
True enough. I try to avoid modern games because I mostly play games for the puzzles and most modern puzzles are too simple. But then, a lot of older adventure games had complete BULLSHIT puzzles, so no one wins I guess.

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>>382263506
Beating this without a guide was a bigger accomplishment than beating the actual game.

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>>382264787
>King's Quest I: Quest For The Crown contained one optional puzzle where the player had three attempts to guess a Rumplestiltskin character's name, with the sole hint in the game being a letter saying "sometimes it pays to think backwards". In the original edition, this implied spelling "Rumplestiltskin" using an alphabetic cipher where Z=A, Y=B, and so on (the answer was thus "Ifnkovhgroghprm")
good thing it's optional

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What about runegame puzzles?

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fuck this kid

>>382257850
>pirated that shit
>remember from some trailer/demo video I saw that you could inspect items
>didn't work in pirated version
>spent over an hour looking for clues thinking they removed the inspect feature

>>382257850
You are the reason TES has gotten dumber. Thanks, I guess.

>>382257978
QFT

That stupid puzzle in Twilight Princess with the jumping statues that open up the Temple of Time.

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Fuck this puzzle.

>>382262209
came here to post this
wasn't until I had access to a computer four years later i cheated on gamefags for the answer

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>>382268745
Holy fuck, that one was brutal. VLR's puzzles were ridiculous compared to 999

>>382259334
Because then anybody could get into Columbia.

>>382268297
>call OP a retard
>fail to see he's making a joke
Well who's the retard now?

>>382257978

WHAT COULD IT MEAN?

>>382258663
>The solution was right on the dragon claw itself to boot.

The problem is that there is no reason to ever look at any object in the menu ever. I didn't even know it was possible. It's never introduced as a mechanic, and even if it was, it's only used for one kind of puzzle that appears maybe six times in a huge game.

>>382268979
>H-He was only pretending!!
Sure, buddy. Too many people have professed in too many threads that they either got stuck or brute forced dragon door puzzles in threads just like this one. Paintlickers are real, and the industry wants their money.

>>382260318
>>playing skyrim without UI mods

The vanilla UI is minimalist. SkyUI just adds more clutter.

>>382257850
Took me half-way along the game to discover the combination is printed on the key.

>>382258063

>tfw I actually read the note and thought "Orgot" was a name instead of being 'forgot' missing the f and spent ten minutes brute forcing with the largest bell being rung first until my retarded brain realized my mistake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejKHokAF7QY

>>382264328
Just close your ds ya dingus

>>382257850
That's a good one, OP.

>>382262604
>It says it in the journal

Why would I read the journal? When does it ever tell me anything that I don't already know?

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Okay, what about puzzles that you didn't need to look up a guide for but you just eventually bruteforced while having no idea what the FUCK you were supposed to be doing

>>382268540
Of course a tripfag is a brainlet.

>>382270134
That's not on fire.

>>382269187
Who needs this much handholding?

>>382269879
do you need a quest marker on your puzzles too?

>>382259220
Game?

Shit on CoD Zombies all you want

But that game mode has tons of great puzzles I bet 95% of the gamebase looks up

>>382269203
It's fucking bad design. I don't even know that you can inspect shit in that game.

>>382257850
Literally all of them. I'm basically retarded in every way but the official medical files, in fact, I think the doctor won't acknowledge it just to fuck with me and my parents. Once I move out, I'm gonna die within a week.

>>382264517
>How the fuck are you supposed to just know that?
because they assumed that people would think their art is so high quality that they'd want to inspect every little thing in their inventory every time they picked something up

>>382269728
i used to try every combination possible because i never figured it out

>>382262949
>puzzles

>>382257850
I spent some minutes figuring this out, i though the golden claw was inside the puzzle and the dude from the spider web became one of the draugr you kill.

>>382270853
>Who needs this much handholding?
>>382270881
>do you need a quest marker on your puzzles too?

No. There is just no indication that you can even look at objects and aside from a handful of claw doors, there is absolutely no reason to use it.

The journal is useless. It only very rarely gives you any information that you don't already know. Having to reference something that is almost always useless is not intuitive or rational. It's not the basis for a logical puzzle. That the solution to the puzzle is the one exception to the rule that the journal tells you nothing new is not a logical puzzle.

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This one

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Fuck this guy

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I had a lot of difficulties with this puzzle.

>>382271382
it literally tells you in the journal that you there are markings on it

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Didn't speak English back then so it was horribly annoying

>>382259303
>>382264517
>>382269187
>>382262338
>he didn't remember the pre-release discussion where they mentioned you can rotate objects in the inventory, with the claw being the example

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>>382269203

>>382271562
>it literally tells you in the journal that you there are markings on it

It's irrational to read the journal. You should quickly realize before you even get to Bleak Falls Barrow that it tells you nothing you don't already know. The only time it is ever useful is the claw thing. That is not a logical puzzle, because the solution is the one exception to the qualities of the journal.

>>382271573
Same here, literally imposible without a guide

>>382261583
Runescape, right? I'd bet my life on it. A friend of mine back in school, about 15 years ago, would invite me over, ask me to solve these for him and try to coax me into making an account.

Never did, felt like I missed out on something great though.

>>382257978
I heard this is actually a secret test devised by the elite society of intellectuals that run the world and if you manage to succeed you become initiated

>>382271656
>>he didn't remember the pre-release discussion where they mentioned you can rotate objects in the inventory, with the claw being the example

I don't follow pre-release stuff. And anyway, I bought the game over a year after it was released.

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>>382258029
aaaaAAAA FUCK THIS.

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>>382271754
>It's irrational to read the journal.
times have changed

>>382271451
>Pop in Firered
>Get the water without thinking about it
>Guy still won't let me past
>Eventually look it up, they changed it and you have to get some tea from a woman in a nearby building
The game probably told me to do that at some point but if it did I missed it

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>challenging puzzle appears
>start scratching your chin

>>382257978
Its a password not a puzzle

>>382257850
i tried every combination and wrote the ones i'd tried on paper

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Silent Hill 3, Hard Puzzle difficulty, hospital door code.I felt cheated when I read the answer, the first clue was purposefully misleading.

>>382271354
what the.... how old are you ?

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>>382271936
>tfw I just cross my arms when I need to rev up the brain cells

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>>382257850

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>>382265702
I fukken loved this quest series, but somehow I couldn't get past this part even with a guide.

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>>382260245
>be a cheating little faggot
>Dessan rapes me nonstop becasue it only stops if i die

I was legit stumped for a week

After that the pain train continued:
>didnt know you can disable that sterilization thing in the mines so i just tanked it drinking kolto surviving with <20hp
>immidietly after that you must traverse the kryponite mine labirynt where those fast little chomping fuckers, that you can barely even shoot 1-2 shot me

Holly fuck i still get PTSD in that part

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>>382271928
>>It's irrational to read the journal.
>times have changed

The journal tells you nothing 99% of the time.

Haven't played Symphonia in years but I remember towards the end there was this hard ass puzzle I just had to get help on

>>382264328

I remember resetting the game because I thought it might have bugged out or something, got back to the map again and got stuck again, thought about it some more, and then I tried closing the DS lid just to see if that was the solution and I was blown away when it was.

>>382262741
Woah woah slow down egghead.

>>382262858
The second is much better than the first, I highly recommend giving it a shot.

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if I may stretch the definition of "puzzle" a bit

>>382262209
>unironically being this old

Wew.!

>>382272395
In RPG's, you read journals 100% of the time. This is RPG 101. You have no excuse.

>>382257850
The book in REMake. Had no idea I was supposed to turn it around and examine it or that examining items while looking at different parts would give different descriptions.

>>382272395
i meant the fucking journal book
i thought that was obvious

>>382262741
uh in english professor?

>>382271936
>lean back and pet the cat in your lap
>start discussing ideas with her as she sleeps and ignores you
>get upset with her when your idea doesn't work

>>382272760
Is that the one where you had to close to DS to get the maps to touch so it would copy over? I remember getting so upset with that puzzle while I was laying in bed that I just shut my DS off and went to bed. When I woke up the next day I was so confused as to how I did it.

>>382268745
>3 fucking dice puzzles
I got the first one and said fuck it to the final two. Looking back on it, I wish ZTD's puzzles had been a 10th as hard as this.
>>382268904
>that phi and sigma intimacy
Fuck ZTD

>>382258998
Wind Waker

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>>382272395

>>382272760
I think all of /v/ will agree that they never figured this out without looking it up or it being on accident

>>382257850
pretty much all of them
I love resident evil, but fuck.

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>>382273017
Yes.
That's how I slowed it too, I layed it off and went to google a solution.

>>382272669
>>382272669
>In RPG's, you read journals 100% of the time. This is RPG 101. You have no excuse.

I don't care about your table-top glory days. As video game technology gets better, more and more of the old table-top features that were in older video games become archaic and vestigial. When you have voice acting that tells you literally everything you need to know 99% of the time, there is absolutely no reason to read the journal. The journal in Skyrim is completely useless unless you just skip all dialogue and read the journal instead to know what is happening, which would be dumb.

The journal, which is a relic that only existed due to technical limitations, serves only one real purpose now. To remind you of story details after you haven't played the game in months and have forgotten what is going on. Otherwise it is vestigial, only there because of tradition or because some people mistakenly believe that it is still relevant.

>>382273216
it literally tells you to join the maps together

>>382257978
I find it funny that /v/ thinks this is supposed to be a puzzle. This board is so unbelievably retarded.

>>382257978
GUYSSS!!!!

HUGEE

IF YOU MISS FIVE TIME THE PUZZLE YOU UNLOCK THE REAL GAME!!! THAT ONE WE SAW IN THOSE FIRST TRAILERS.

>>382273256
FfffUCKING FUCK FUCK THIS SHRINE

I can't tell if it's like that dumb fucking pachinko shrine that has you roll at random spots until it sticks or if I need to use the cryo power.

>>382272395
absolutely moronic

>>382273336
Yes but how were you supposed to know to shut the screen when you only used it for one thing, and thst was to put it on sleep mode

>>382273204

Oh, well there still isn't any reason for the player to think about rotating the object in the menu. It's practically a hidden feature.

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fuck this thing

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It wasn't complete bullshit I guess, but I still had to look up how to get past this shit and was somewhat annoyed that the solution was some shitty, obscure armor I had found hours beforehand.

>>382273454
Well how else are you going to do it?

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>>382273278
Okay, that was nice, you got me mad there for a second.

>>382272753
>i meant the fucking journal book
>i thought that was obvious

Arval's Journal? The quest log is called the journal. The default key is even J, for journal.

>>382260115
Fuck that whole game. None of it made any sense.

>>382261025
I played Myst when I was 8, at this part I didn't even figure out the tones
I literally made a map of the entire labyrinth to get out

>>382273541
By trying everything else

Point is you'd never think that closing the screen solves it, because its never used to do something in a game except that game

>>382259220
You just had to listen what this one guy said about the story of Jarkh.
Something like there was a big flood from the storms, then it calmed and people arrived or something.
>>382270885
Gothic 2 (addon).
>>382262969
This one was indeed retarded.

>>382273558
>Okay, that was nice, you got me mad there for a second.

I'm not trolling. Reading the books in games is good, but quest log information is dumb and vestigial. It's all about presentation of information and how you do it.

If the book has a riddle clue that is referencing a game mechanic that I have no reason to believe exists it's an illogical clue.

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The only bad puzzle in the whole game.

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LITERALLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT A GUIDE

ANSWER: SHY GYPSY SLYLY SPRYLY TRYST BY MY CRYPT

>>382273256
I had to look up a guide for that one, I was throwing it at the shrine like an idiot.

>>382257850
>the_entirety_of_Myst.jpg

>>382273778
What, you can't solve a sudoku?

>>382273804
>complaining about sliding puzzles
>the year of our lord and savior MMXVII

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>End-game noob filter
What a great game

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This entire game
Except replace guide with asking my dad for help because I was 9 and we had dialup

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>>382257951
>XIIV-2

230 replies and no one called you a faggot?

>>382266180

>>382260642
I never even made it out of town in the beginning on Mega Monkey.

Couldn't figure out how to catch the rat.

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>>382273758
If you genuinely believe that a quest marker on top of someone's head is better than a journal entry full intricate details on how to find the person, you should drink a vial of poison.

>>382266180
I immediately knew the answer to this because Another Code had the exact puzzle 2 years earlier.

>>382274309
i don't mind them as long as i can have them disabled in the options

>>382272669
This is Skyrim faggot, not Morrowind
If you look at the journal the first few times and see absolutely nothing of value, why the fuck are you ever going to look again?

>>382274269
What fucking number is that supposed to be?

>>382272619
What game? Breath of Fire IV?

>>382273278
Whatever bro, I'm not the retard who got stuck on the first dungeon puzzle.

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>>382257850
I looked a guide only to see the poem entirely while thinking. It got me some time though.

>>382274392
I feel bad for the kids trying to play that game on a 2DS.

>>382274269
>>382274461
>He hasn't played FF Twifteen 2
Holy fuck, you guys are missing out.

>>382274461

take a wild guess...

>>382274309
>little cuck thinks a wall of text telling you exact route is any different from a ui marker
>little autistic cuck cant listen to dialog where they tell the player where it is
>little cuck goes on 4chan to cry about it

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>>382257850
I couldn't figure out how to sneak into here so I had to buy a shitty bradygames guide.

>>382262969
srs?
I thought this puzzle was weaksauce.
Road to freedom. Road ~= trail.
'Trail' has 'Rail' right in it.

>>382274485
Close, BoFIII

>>382274575
You mean that puzzle where you had to partially close the DS so the top screen reflected onto the bottom screen to get a clue to solve a puzzle?
Yeah, good luck with that on a 2DS...

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This puzzle fuck me up hard when I was a kid, also the sega saturn was a poor choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LnpjgCXW6U

>>382274759
Toggling sleep mode does the same thinf
But misses the point of the puzzle

>>382273256
You can just cryonis some ice block in the pond nearby.

>>382257850
WHY CAN'T cRPGs HAVE PUZZLES ANYMORE?
That's one of the best things in RPGs. I liked those maps in Skyrim with hidden chests, but that's all. You will never use graph paper again.

>>382274942
Thats takes more positioning work

>>382259986
>I couldn't find where to go next. You had to go into the water and swim down and then up and over.

Let me tell you how I got stuck on the Water Temple for 10 years.

That one part in phantom hourglass where you have to draw a Triforce in the most retarded way I've ever seen and you're supposed to know what order to draw the lines because of a picture in the background of someone's house that has faint arrows drawn into it

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>>382274665
>saying cuck this much
>being this G A Y

>>382273345
I find it funny how effective that is to draw out newfags like you

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anitchamber made me overthink too much

I was 8 yo

>>382273256
yeah this one got me too, I think the worst part about it was that the time of day where it would work isn't one you can camp till. Camp till noon. literally fuck around and lose your snowballs via stupidity until the game advances to 4/5 pm. Didn't even know cryonsis would do either, lol

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>>382275487
Forget the image

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>>382263506
imagine if they put a boss after the final puzzle

>>382262969
This is literally the moment when I deinstalled the game.

>>382264328
Was looking for this
>>382272479
>I remember resetting the game because I thought it might have bugged out or something, got back to the map again and got stuck again

Same here. But after that I decided to look it up. I literally never closed it the whole time.

>>382274759
who even plays on 2ds? i thought it was made for autism kids?

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>timed slider puzzle
No thanks.

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>>382257850
could do this shit on windows 3.1
couldn't do it in Lufia 2
can't do it today mostly because I don't know where to find a recent version of klotski

>>382275371

I was actually just about to post this exact puzzle.

To be fair it was fucking stupid and involved a lot of tedious counting to figure it out properly, and of course it's the puzzle that leads to a super important gun upgrade.

I don't think I had to look up anything else.

>>382268289
>didn't work in pirated version
Bullshit, I got the generic scene release and nothing was wrong/missing.

>>382275624
why is there a skin mod of everything in san andreas?

>>382275159
god did i fucking hate that game

>>382275371
I loved antichamber, the puzzles were tough, but the level design was such that you could just go try a different one instead of beating your head against the wall, often by the time you finished different ones your subconscious would have enough chewing time to cook up some more possible solutions

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>>382257850
I am ashamed, and I think I should kill myself.

>>382276262
i cannot math.
at all.
i'm fine in other subjects, but i simply cannot math.
i have considered suicide.

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Nothing to see here

>>382276262
Is it 116033?

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>>382276398
Yeah, I'm trying to solve them through programming, but for some reason I couldn't figure out that I should have just set "sum = sum + i." I feel incredibly dumb.

>>382277012
Your autism is showing

>>382261090
those type of puzzles were the only ones in the game, dungeons were just enemy rushes.

>>382277012
No, it should be 233168

>>382276262
233168

>>382271853
I didn't follow pre-release shit and I still figured it out easily. You're just a retard.

I mean fuck it literally says it's in the palm the first claw puzzle. HMM I WONDER IF THE ANSWER IS ON THE PALM OF THE CLAW, OH LOOK IT ROTATES THERE'S THE ANSWER. Dumbass.

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>>382277390
Yeah, I feel stupid. This was solved by over half a million people who tried.

>>382271382
I did not realize you could rotate an object in your inventory so I would drop them and try to make our the symbols by having my character crouching over the claws.

>>382259986
Welp, time to replay HL

>>382258063
there is a piece of paper you can pick up that reveals the trick.

>>382257850
Fuck this shit man. I was so convinced you were supposed to look at the wall etchings for the answer (because the hallway is divided into 3 sections) and spent forever scanning the glyphics looking for a bird, snake or dragon. What a shit

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>Lost Library of Alexandria

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A couple puzzles in this game. It is great, but it can get really exhausting (the game could do with at least 200 puzzles less) and some puzzles are plain bullshit.

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>had to get mom to help me with the block puzzles in star ocean 3

23 is #1
XD

>>382281656
That one was a bitch. Did it myself on the HD remake a few weeks ago and that last one took me a couple hours to get the treasure because I accidentally went the path to the end first.

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>>382259825
Underrated

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>12 years old
>manage to figure out elevator and how to turn on generators
>no idea what to do next
I hate how these games make me feel stupid. I must have poor reasoning skills.

>>382265702
WAIT A MINUTE THAT WALKTHROUGH

>>382259010
I'm pretty sure I just kept shooting arrows at it randomly until it worked.

>>382275830
>World's Most Difficult Trick
Literally spent three hours on it before I gave up. I'll get it one day.

>>382258380
This would be acceptable in an early game area but this is the final fucking dungeon.

>>382263506
they werent fucking around even in minigame

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>one of many birds
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU

I searched the fucking world for goddamn ages, why do I need to bring a physical fucking object into the goddamn internet? Also at my age I didn't know what the fuck a crane was.

How do you design a good puzzle?

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English Country Tune was cool and all, but that part where you have to design the puzzles yourself and then solve them was too masochistic for me.

>>382285730
My problem was finding an iceball m.
It's from an enemy I never even saw before and needed to look it up because it was rare as fuck to even find the thing that drops iceball m's.

>>382286406
The game told you to use the Fish program and to check out Hades Isle though, yo.

>>382283639
You probably just had poor notetaking skills, like most kids. Too much like homework. Myst and Riven are really more of a test of your ability to organize your notes and make sense of patterns. People get frustrated because they think they should be able to just "figure them out" by wandering around and thinking about it.

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Never used a guide, but I did have to stop playing Mystic Quest at Falls Basin as a kid. Could not figure out how to use the ice blocks. I though I had to move them out of the way to clear a path. I didn't realize I could walk on top of them and make a bridge out of them as well.

I picked the game back up years later and loaded it up and immediately cleared the dungeon. Felt like an idiot.

Because of that area, I replayed the first part of the game up to that point like 20 times as a child.

>>382285953
Crafting a good puzzle is a lot like coming up with a good joke. You need a setup the player can easily follow along, but then a clever subversion of expectations at the end. "Oh, I didn't think it was going to go THAT way, but I can see now why it did."

A simpler rule of thumb is just to make sure the puzzles are integrated into the environment. A self-contained minigame with no connection to the world is a lame puzzle; the player should have to look around and learn something or use the environment somehow.

>>382262497
I have actually done this when Skyrim first came out, because I was so fucking mad at a game breaking bug.

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After the last switch there was a "play" command or something, I just kept pressing end assuming you had to have all 6 in the right position. Didn't see "play" and kept pressing "End" and couldn't figure out how to make it play all at once rather than in the segments.

I am a fucking idiot.

>>382264813
That was pretty easy if you kept in mind to interact with every artwork.

>>382258163
>Tried the alien sudoku the first couple of time.
>Got sick of it and started to buy decryption keys whenever I got the chance.

Fuck those puzzles.

>>382274284
DELETE THIS

>>382257850
I had no idea you could rotate the dragon keys.

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Sanitarium, clonechildren song puzzle. It's not even that hard, i'm just borderline tone deaf.

>>382270686
It's Robert Frost

>>382262741
I just tried something like that and didn't work. Nice lying asshole, everyone knows that part is unbeatable

>>382257850
Anything in the Chamber of Birth and the Gate of Illusion in La Mulana.

Fuck that shit.

>>382273778
thats one of the easiest sudokus I've ever seen

>>382284337
text me

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>>382257850
guyysss, had to look it up, but it isnt working????
help??

my nintendopower isnt arriving for some reason and I relly want to play this game

>>382262969
dont you just have to follow some robot around a park and then lines connect the letters on the city streets? it was fucking trash, but not hard

>>382291570
I suck at sudoku and those 15-slide puzzle things.

Don't even get me started in Sphere Break. I Hate Sphere Break.

>>382264328
IS THIS THAT FUCKING ZELDA DS GAME THAT YOU HAD TO CLOSE THE LID FOR?
i remember my one friend almost crying in the back of my moms car cause he coulndt solve it, so i forcibly took the ds from him and closed it. he keep fighting me and i gave up and gave it back, and he said i solved the puzzle for him

>>382258663

I brute forced every single one of those doors, I knew there was something wrong with my method but I couldn't find the solution anywhere.

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>>382257850
This was before guides. Had to wait for a fucking magazine hint section. Good fucking GOD most obtuse puzzle of all time.

>>382275351
>Pretending to be retarded
>Other people join in
>Everyone is just retarded now

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>>382273530
me too my nig
>tfw going to Toys R Us to bum crib notes from the strategy guide

>>382260254
>"monkey wrench" isn't even used in all English-speaking countries
Da fuk?

>>382273216
I did it intentionally, but I had zero faith it would actually work. I've been stuck longer on other Zelda puzzles before.

>>382262949
Is that a human/ape hybrid?

>>382268210
Well I AM into shota...