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Worst Puzzle in a game! *Warning could contain spoilers, which would ruin your life*
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Mike Works
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Does the Water Temple count?
that water temple is really hard IMO. I hated it, and I still hate it. I think the tricky part is that it both is quite a hard puzzle, plust it is in three dimensions. E.g. you manipulate the world and access different parts of the puzzle in three dimensions. Makes it really hard to keep track of everything.
Red Dolphin
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*insert random Resident Evil puzzle here*
N Coward Parody
Member
FFX's lamelegged orb-ridden excuse for "puzzles." Blech.
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Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I think noone has business posting in this thread if he/she hasn't played Silent Hill 3 on Hard riddle mode. In my many years of playing adventure games (and by that, I mean actual adventure games, like those made by LucasArts, etc) I have never encountered anything even remotely as ridiculous and impossibly, illogically stupid, and difficult as puzzles in SH3/Hard. The kind of puzzles, I'd imagine, you would get if you give an extremly stupid person a tome of Encyclopedia, and ask him to come up with some clever puzzles.
I remember older games having some brutal puzzles, if only because they gave you no hints or clues at all as to what you're supposed to do.
In Castlevania II, there was a point where you have to cross some water, in order to get across you're supposed to equip a certain item and kneel at the edge. How the hell am I supposed to know to do that? I only figured it out by accident. Shit like that really annoys me.
In Castlevania II, there was a point where you have to cross some water, in order to get across you're supposed to equip a certain item and kneel at the edge. How the hell am I supposed to know to do that? I only figured it out by accident. Shit like that really annoys me.
JasoNsider
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Honey on the ground in King's Quest 5. That was absolutely sick.
JasoNsider
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While we're at it, I would like to nominate two puzzles from Prince of Persia:
-The room with the beams jutting out into the walls and you had to turn them using the center platform.
-Room where the girl runs away and you have to go through the veils to find her. I didn't have the sound up very loud, thus I couldn't solve it.
What the hell was he/she thinking when making these puzzles?
-The room with the beams jutting out into the walls and you had to turn them using the center platform.
-Room where the girl runs away and you have to go through the veils to find her. I didn't have the sound up very loud, thus I couldn't solve it.
What the hell was he/she thinking when making these puzzles?
Worst 3-D puzzle award goes to the Water Temple. I got OOT before i had a computer and internet and i didnt have money for a guide. I felt stupid after finding out taht i replayed the game 5 times all cause i missed something very early on in the temple. Its a great lvl now that look back at it. But very coveluted and just really freaking hard too.
But none the less it didnt get in the way of me having fun with OOT and in fact its my favorite game to date. One awsome game.
But none the less it didnt get in the way of me having fun with OOT and in fact its my favorite game to date. One awsome game.
Mister Zimbu
Member
The Bishops in 7th Guest.
Not an original puzzle, but still took me forever to do as a kid.
I recreated it in OpenGL for my graphics class though, so now I'm really really good at it
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Not an original puzzle, but still took me forever to do as a kid.
I recreated it in OpenGL for my graphics class though, so now I'm really really good at it
.SolidSnakex
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Surprised no ones mentioned the piano puzzle in Silent Hill yet. I remember tons of people getting pissed at that game because of it.
buck naked
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Another one for MGS on the GBC:
There were these four doors and four buttons to manipulate them. There was some bizarre logic going into the way they worked. Spent so long trying to figure out the pattern I can't remember if I made it through them or not.
There were these four doors and four buttons to manipulate them. There was some bizarre logic going into the way they worked. Spent so long trying to figure out the pattern I can't remember if I made it through them or not.
JasoNsider
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SolidSnakex said:
Nice one. Though I think lots of people are confusing bad puzzles with hard puzzles. I think we're just trying to find puzzles that are just badly designed. The piano puzzle, and I would argue the water temple as well, are well designed but just hard to figure out.
Things like the gear room in Prince of Persia was badly designed, not necessarily hard.
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N Coward Parody said:
Ugh, those are so lame.
Kimarhi's weapon sucked...never did get that...and never got Wakka's either though I got Lulu's on the first try during all 3 of my runs through the game
none of those are puzzles, though
my vote:
Escape from monkey Island
Raft + Clock + Purfume = WTF? didn't even make sense using silly logic
none of those are puzzles, though
my vote:
Escape from monkey Island
Raft + Clock + Purfume = WTF? didn't even make sense using silly logic
JasoNsider said:
Yeah--truly bad puzzles have traits like unwinnable states, or a huge trial-and-error element. Critical camera flaws can do in a puzzle in a 3D adventure, but I don't remember having that particular problem with the Water Temple.
On the whole, puzzle design has improved vastly since the late '80s. I remember when Lucasarts' Secret of Monkey Island came out, and the major selling point in the advertising and hype for the game was that its puzzles didn't have unwinnable states. Back then that kind of care in game design was revolutionary--now we take it for granted.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Huh? What was wrong with those puzzles? Those were neat. The sound puzzle could actually have been solved in two different ways (both involving sound, but one requiring surround sound equipment
)That's by no means a poorly designed puzzle, or all that difficult one, actually.
I guess some of you guys really haven't come across some of the nasty stuff gaming puzzle world has to offer if you think the stuff above is bad. As I've said - just go play SH3 on hard riddle difficulty. Then come here and talk...
That puzzle, from what I can remember, was more trick than anything. I don't remember 100%, but I think the solution was something laughably simple, although it was impossible if you tried to solve it the way it seemed you are supposed to solve it. I think the solution was just to walk straight through all those doors, and they would open in front of you, or something to that effect.
Every gameplay catch is a puzzle here as i see...
Just wanted to comment on the Water Temple of OOT; it's one of the most intelligent designed dungeon ever!!! i don't remember any real puzzles in there. I don't want to insult you but you must be in the "stupid/suck" categorie like you suggested
Anyhow, this post gave me the taste to play through OOT again! tks.
Just wanted to comment on the Water Temple of OOT; it's one of the most intelligent designed dungeon ever!!! i don't remember any real puzzles in there. I don't want to insult you but you must be in the "stupid/suck" categorie like you suggested
Anyhow, this post gave me the taste to play through OOT again! tks.
Father_Brain
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The forklift puzzle in Year 2 of Grim Fandango. What were the designers thinking?
LittleTokyo
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Silent Hill 3's first puzzle in the bookstore. Only on the hard puzzle mode though.
My God... it made no sense whatsoever.
I finally got a FAQ and did the puzzle. But instead of having the "OOOOOOOOOHHhhhh... now I get it!" reaction, I had the "WTF?!?! That didn't make any fucking sense, those dirty mother fuckers!!!" reaction.
My God... it made no sense whatsoever.
I finally got a FAQ and did the puzzle. But instead of having the "OOOOOOOOOHHhhhh... now I get it!" reaction, I had the "WTF?!?! That didn't make any fucking sense, those dirty mother fuckers!!!" reaction.
SolidSnakex said:
The piano puzzle stumped me. I had to look for the solution in a faq. I don't think I even understand the solution, but that was years ago. It'd probably make sense now if I replayed it
Now that I think about it, Silent Hill had a bunch of puzzles that just didn't make sense to me. Compared to the other SH's, SH1 seemed like the hardest in the puzzle department
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
No mention of Onimusha? The water puzzle where what's her face drowns if you don't do it in like 60 seconds...Good God I hated that fucking shit. Worst puzzle ever. It made the Water Temple seem like cake. I never had that much trouble with a puzzle.
Late Stage Marxist
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WinnarMike Works said:
LittleTokyo said:
Yeah I have to agree here, I figured out the rest of the puzzles myself, but this was just stupid.
I found the water temple very enjoyable, never saw it as a puzzle actually. Also the puzzles in Lufia 2 and Alundra can be pretty hard, especially the ice pillar shoving in alundra. I really felt good when I solved them though, those were very well constructed puzzles.