What's the hardest puzzle you've ever encountered

>>383829663
You posted it.

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I had to use the console to get through the first time, how the fuck was I supposed to know you could read books to obtain clues?

>>383829772
Wait a minute...

>>383829820
This one actually pissed me off because I did have to check online to find the solution. I don't recall if it's spelled out and blatantly obvious in the book they gave you, or if I found one of these doors before actually doing the main quest, or what, but it's not very intuitive that the answer would be on the fucking key.

What's the point of the double lock, honestly? Why demand the player to both hold the key, and also read the pattern printed ON the key? If you have the key then you have the fucking key, and "solving" the puzzle is just dragging you down for time, as is the animation where you watch the door slowly rolling down.

>>383829956
Why would anyone make this a puzzle in a dungeon they wanted secured

>>383830278
this god damn pasta

>>383830316
One of the game books say it's actually supposed to keep the Draugr inside and not to keep intruders out

>>383829892
That card.

>>383829663
I never finished Infinite because I couldn't get past this part

>>383829663
What the fuck were they thinking putting that in the very beginning of the game? I very nearly returned my copy, because I didn't have access to the internet and couldn't figure out what the fuck the game wanted from me.

>>383829820
Nigga, its an easy game. Everything you ever need is casually given to you. If there's a door with a fancy key and a passcode, why the fuck wouldn't you look at the key? Was that even the first time you had to examine an item to figure something out about it in the game?

I don't remember, but that's because I thought about it for ten seconds and didn't immediately give up because the answer wasn't handed to me

>>383829663
WAIT A MINUTE

>>383829663
Life

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idk, pic related i guess? it didn't take much to solve but its mainly because im dumb at english
i don't play puzzle games

>>383829663
Wait, you can actually solve the puzzle?

>>383831180
You have to follow these steps:

1. Approach the bells
2. DeWitt will say something along the lines of "Wait a minute... that card"
3. We think that game developers put that in there as a reference to a card we receive at the beginning of the game.

I'm not sure what's the next but we know it has something to do with the symbols on the card

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>>383830978
Wait a minute... that card

>>383829820
>how the fuck was I supposed to know you could read books to obtain clues?
you weren't

there is no tutorial that explains that items can be looked at in more detail, there is no key legend on the item select screen that prompts you to look at items in more detail, and there is no other "puzzle" in the game that requires or even implies there is some kind of solution where if you look at the item you can figure out the solution
there aren't other keys with their failure conditions printed on them, there aren't other keys with failure conditions because that's stupid in the first place

it wasn't well thought out, it confused everyone that didn't watch the pre-release presentations where they demonstrated the ability to inspect items, and it's never been used for any other circumstance, before or after other claw "puzzles"


bethesda has dozens of logic failures in their game designing
this is just another one of them

>>383829663
Crematorium puzzle in SH 3 (hard) because it was fucking retarded

>>383830491
Makes a lot of sense actually

Metro: Last Light. Swamp Map. It took me literally hours to find that fucking plane and endlessly spawning shitheads wasted all my ammo and filters. Worst part of that shit game.

>>383829820
>>383830278
>>383831869
Are people really this stupid? It's 3 rings with 3 symbols each. Your first thought when seeing such a puzzle should be "I can bruteforce this in 30 seconds by trying all the combinations".

>>383832386
Why bother brute forcing this shit when it takes 5 seconds to type the no clip command

>>383830774
>Everything is casually given to you, so why wouldn't you be expecting a curve ball?
It's like when you're playing a puzzle game and part of the puzzle is on the ceiling, but that's the one and only time you ever need to look at the ceiling to progress. I remember getting stuck in Soul Reaver 2 until I found a guide on the internet telling me to look up in first person view and shoot a door with my Reaver projectile - which by the way, the game doesn't strictly inform you that you have.

I remember a friend telling me he was playing Wild Arms 4 and wasn't really enjoying it, but he was willing to go along with the game until a puzzle wasn't instantly obvious. Up to that point everything was dirt easy, and the first time he had to think he dropped it. Not because he didn't want to think, but because he didn't care and he couldn't be bothered to waste the time.

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>>383829663

Ugh I HATE math.

>>383829663
Can't believe they made me hit all the bells 122 times what the fuck were they thinking?

Those sliding ice pillar puzzles in Alundra always drove me up the fucking wall.

Also Fatal Frame 4 had this sliding block puzzle that was obnoxious. People complain about RE4's but this one was bigger.

Almost anything from Myst or Riven (Riven especially).

>>383829663
>had to refund game because of this
What the hell where the dev's thinking?

>>383829663
you posted it fag

>>383833201
honestly this

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>>383829663

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>>383829663
not me, but back in the day, my cousin drop the game because he can't solve this

Delete this fucking thread, jesus.

>>383832627
For serious nigga?

>>383831030
That one was pretty retarded though.

>>383834443
are they pica rats? or pi carats?

>>383831869
It wasn't a logic failure so much as part of an intentional ruse. They didn't design this stuff with the player's experience in mind, they designed the opening hours to be shown off in pre release videos to fool people into thinking the game would have more depth.

They open with a dragon going around wrecking shit, but then the rest of the dragons are just glorified cliffracers.
They show off a couple puzzles, but don't tell anyone those two puzzles are all they bothered to make.
They make a point of showing off the first quest NPC giving detailed directions because people complained about having to rely on the compass, but no one gives directions after that.
They make the first city the one they put some effort into, but then half the other cities are tiny collections of mudhuts.

>>383829663
Player Name: ?

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>>383831869
They added a tip afterwards in the loading screens about this issue.

The fucking fire marbles in Riven

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Ha ha get fucked tone deaf faggots

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>>383829663
>>383832627
>>383834772
NO
THIS
FUCKER

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>>383838570

Nah that's nothing.

>>383830529
Waaaaaait a minuuteeee...

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>>383829820
Wow, this is the millenial cucks who skip quests and lore and wonder why they cant do anything.
Thanks a lot faggot, Bethesda went and tailored Fallout 4 just for you.

>>383834443
is it he moon ?

>>383832502
this
console peasants btfo

>>383834443
That one took me forever.
I think I just hit every spot on the screen until I got it.
Took me even a couple minutes now, since it's been so long.

>>383833668
That's right, Jay!

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>it's a fucking math logic puzzle
i play video games to have fun not solve math problems

>>383839290
>le evil millenial
if you were born in the early 80s, you're still a millenial.

>>383833965
I remember having trouble with the zodiac sign puzzle, it never dawned on me that you had to count the fucking legs.

>>383832386
... Wait, now I never actually played it but it's just NINE fucking combinations?
What the hell did people moan about even if they missed the answer

>>383839290
>Game doesn't appeal well to anyone
>Falls off the radar almost instantly
>People still talking about the Bull and the Bear but nobody mentions Fallout 4
I think Bethesda got up its own ass with marketing. In the very first quest you get the new, badass power armor. The dog runs up to you within five minutes of leaving the vault. A lot of what they showcased was "stunning graphics" and the cinematic opener.

They wasted all their time on crap that would look good in trailers. Didn't do nearly enough to make the player care about any of it after they'd bought the game. I wish I could say people would learn from this, but look at Blizzard. Works peachy for them. I'd be surprised if Fallout 5 didn't fly off the shelves.

>>383838570
Is that Fear Effect? That game had really shitty puzzles, so did the sequel.

>>383839958
Yeah, it's also ironic that some shit for brains Gen Xer would have the gall to insult any other generation.

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>>383829663
wait a minute those numbers!

>>383840162
No, RE3

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This entire game. The puzzles weren't hard, just obnoxious to solve.

>>383839301
No, you have to look at the windows.

>>383840393
Holy shit I got it.
Fucking hell.

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This thing in Riven teaches you a number system which you later use to unlock a thing. The entire game was touch though.

>>383833147

Love Riven for nostalgia and aesthetics, still have all the disks for it.

Myst III is probably my favourite though, especially the final part. I remember the big marble rollercoaster puzzle best from that game.

Myst IV had some great ideas, I think the floating island with the green rocks (Spire?) was one of my favourites aesthetically. Unfortunately the game had several mechanical problems with the puzzles, where you worked out the solution but it wouldn't actually get it, like the musical puzzle on the jungle island or the elemental puzzles on Serenia(?) which got me stuck even explicitly looking at solutions and videos. Maybe my save had just fucked up, I don't know.

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>>383840752
This puzzle was pretty tricky, but felt so god damn good when I figured out what the missing one was. This game is filled with things that just connect together like one giant puzzle.

>>383834443
Is it the windows that can't open like that?

>>383841056
Its such a pain to get these games to work on a modern PC
is it worth it?

>>383841085
Yeah.

>>383840026
27

>>383841157
That's a really odd puzzle. It reminds me of those newspaper puzzles with that mouse detective.

>>383829663
>4 years later there are still people who actually believe this was intended as a puzzle rather than a way to introduce the scroll, key and sword symbols early while also informing the player that access to Columbia is restricted to those who are "in the know"

>>383841157
I have seen windows on a rail that are bendy and could totally go up that way.

>>383839952
>basic counting
holy fuck you're retarded if it caused you trouble

>>383834443

The dog saying goodbye in the window?

Just left of the guy's head?

>>383838570
RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>383838570
this was the hardest puzzle in the game, but not that hard

>pic related

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this fucking shit
took AGES to solve it
also
>>383841881
>>383836698
It took an immense amount of time.
the rest of the game was perfectly balanced tho.

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any of you nigger faggots manage to decode this lock without finding the answer

>>383838570
Holy fuck that triggered me.

Spent literally an hour on that before giving up and checking an online guide. What the actual fuck

>>383829663
The piano puzzle in Myst. I never could get past it and ended up just skipping ahead with the book to beat the game.

>>383842108
>checking an online guide
fucking scrub.
I did this shit on my own when I was 14

Does RE7 have puzzles like the classic RE games? if so are any of them hard?

>>383838570
>>383840162
Resident Evil 3. I never had a problem with this one but almost everyone I knew who played it did. I can't remember what it was, but I remember another puzzle in that game fucking with me EVERY TIME I played, and I played it like 8 times.

the puzzle on the monkey island quest in runescape

I always give up and pay the 200k instead

sucks being a brainlet

>>383841079
Yeah, the atmosphere was unparalleled at the time. Not too many games can compete even today.

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>>383829772
>>383830534
>>383830610
>>383831180
wow, are you guys fucking retarded???

The answer is on the card?

This is supposed to be a video game board????

Holy shit.

>>383841148

I would say probably not for Riven, it's better to try the newer ones that are still visually beautiful and clever with puzzles, whilst ironing out Riven's clunkiness. It's tempting to recommend Myst IV for clever features like giving the player a camera and feeling more like a modern game, but honestly I don't remember any game-breaking bugs with Myst III, and it's not like you wouldn't be taking notes anyway, or using screenshots if you can run it through Steam.

These games are pretty dedicated to challenging puzzles that give you a sense of achievement and reward, and I don't know if there's anything recent that's like them.

Myst I - there is a 'restored' version on Steam that modernises it, but might only be good for nostalgia.
Riven - love it, but no
Myst III - yes
Myst IV - yes but risking a broken save
Myst V - no idea, sorry.
Eru - FUCK NO.

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I otherwise was really enjoying this game but I cheated and looked this puzzle up. After I saw what was required to solve it I never played the game again.

>>383842553
Thanks man. These always looked interesting to me.

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>>383838776
>4 empty spaces
Nah, that's nothing

>>383838776
I threw up. Thanks for triggering me.
I play through the game every year, and for some goddamn reason I'm too retarded to memorize this one particular puzzle. Any other game I'm fine with, but not this one, so I have to preload the same guide I've been using for like 15 years or whatever from gamefaqs.
I usually do the playthrough in one sitting, doesn't take more then like an hour and a half or two.

>>383842658
Oh holy fuck I completely forgot about this shit.

>>383838776
the puzzle isn't that hard but it being a timed segment where you drown if the bar fills and the game otherwise having no puzzles that require any real thought makes it so fucking out of place

i love onimusha and probably beat it a dozen times, but i still dread the thought of dealing with this shit today

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>>383842552

>>383838570
Stopped me and my friends from beating it as kids

>>383832386
That's what I did. Didn't figure out how you were supposed to solve it until way later and didn't care.

Half of Zero Time Dilema was pretty hard for me. They went completely "lol here's some shitty puzzle" instead of following the style of the last 2 games

>>383829820
Some faggot spoiled this for me before the game was released, it was included in some video, I don't remember where. It did get me more excited for the game to come out, thinking the game might have more interesting puzzles, but nope, it's just the same brute-forcable one

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not that hard anymore, but as an 8 year old before the internet existed this was just fucking frustrating.

i also remember being thoroughly perplexed by a puzzle late in the first Dino Crisis

>>383840668
Oh shit I get it now too.

That's actually pretty clever.

>>383832267
based retard

>>383843235
The only room that gave me trouble was the shitty alien room.

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>>383829663
Haven't really encountered difficult puzzles in games.

>>383829663
In Wind Waker there's this room with some candles in it. You're later supposed to go to a completely different room and see some switches, and hit them in a specific order, but the game doesn't tell you what to do AT ALL.

It's the hardest puzzle in video games.

>people having trouble with Skyrim puzzles
LOL

go play some Silent Hill 3 with hardest difficulty and come again.

>>383829663
Probably one of the late game or optional Hell Temple puzzles in La-Mulana.
But I don't know because I just started looking up most of the answers a little after arriving in the Chamber of Birth/Bullshit.

>>383832386
are you stupid? took me about 10 seconds to look at the key without thinking

>>383829663
silent hill 3 bookshop on hard. fuck that shit

>>383844572
>have to recognize multiple Shakespeare stories
>then using the volume numbers have to perform some weird math
>that keypad thing where you have to think of the keypad as a face
I think I looked up a guide for almost every puzzle in hard mode. And the normal difficulty seemed so easy.

>>383844572
>LOL

Back to Gaia you go.

Also, fuck music puzzles.

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>>383829663
Ok so in Broken Sword 5 there is this part where your in paris and you go to a street vendor in a mall. You can tell hes arabic. Long story short you need to rearrange some letters into a word to help his shop. The letters are pic related. Thats it, thats all the help you get. Your left not knowing if you have to rearrange a french word or possibly even an arabic word.

The answer? You can look it up in the walkthrough if you get stuck.

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>>383829772
>>383830534
>>383830610
>>383831180

Aww, poor wee creatures cant into puzzles.

You can do it if you try.

>>383845638
I actually hadn't heard of the band Ratt before this

>>383842081
Yesss. Took me about an hour, and I even had to get a pencil and paper. I thought there probably was an easier solution but I went ahead with the puzzle before exploring the rest of the area. The trophy popping up confirmed my theory, but I was still satisfied

>>383841428
Absolutely based. All the puzzles from the series were good desu

Probably some shit from those puzzle games like 7th guest that were all the rage back in the 90s. Some of them were pretty tough.

>>383841284
But the ceiling is too low for the window to open that way

>>383829820
If anyone actually got stuck on this "puzzle", they're the reason Fallout 4 is so casual.

Any ice sliding puzzle. I am positively ashamed at how long they take me.

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>>383841881
SH1 had some nice puzzles.
I got stuck on this one. I felt kinda stupid when I realized that the solution was about the number of limbs.
The piano puzzle made me overanalize the rest of the puzzles.

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It's not a single puzzle, but I'm choosing it anyway. I don't remember when it got to be too difficult for me.

>>383833965
Nigger I solved that at age 9 with limited understanding of the english language.

>>383846729
I tried, wrote all the answers down but there was too many variables so I just saved before the lock, got the answer and reloaded the save fro the trophy

Blood and steel is my last trophy for plat.
Will do it on my next dishonored run just before death of the outsider

>>383838570
DELETE THIS

>>383848870
Oh shit. I remember playing this part at the same time my internet was down so I couldn't look it up. Probably took me like two hours or something.

>>383829663
elemental workshop 3
fuck that shit

>>383848868
These are easy once you look up the method

>>383845585
*you're, *you're
You probably couldn't solve the puzzle because you lack all basic functioning.

>>383851108
>puzzle has two pieces that look almost the exact same
Even with the method, fuck.

>>383839952
but it would be thirty....