Rubbinns wrote on Aug 15^th, 2015 at 4:44am:


I am both. I win DDO.

kum-gulp wrote on Aug 15^th, 2015 at 5:26am:


Sigh, remember the gold box games like Pools of Radiance.

5 Foot Step wrote on Aug 15^th, 2015 at 5:04am:

same. i enjoy most games. shooters, sports/racing, fighting games, rpg, and turn based strats are all my faves. i do hate puzzles and mario jumping traps. so much. fuk those games.

5 Foot Step wrote on Aug 15^th, 2015 at 6:58am:

i tried as a teen. but that was dull to me. we made our own version where we would do pvp battles with our characters. but that shit was unbalanced as all hell. casters>>everything.

Yeah I think we all understand that.

puzzles are quite problematic in games - either u have random ones, which usualy require some sort of skill or set one and those are ruined when solution is published.

and per random ones - u re dealing with players for which even lockania quest in market is hard (cause reading is hard yo) and mastermind in reavers is at same threshold of their mental capacity. Heh, I admit I hate puzzle in EtK, but mostly cause its nonuser friendly (its like dealing with rubic cube by one hand) - if I could solve it from top view it would be much better:)

and per unique ones - in gam ewhere people are lazy enough to make toon of their own and quite lot just depend on others build - u cant expect that puzzles like this would last long. people will just wait for solution and then run it by that. I ve seen it in other MMO - the secret world - there are pretty awesome investigation quests, where collected clues are driving u from location to location - and are usually just part of solution. u need to seek ton of other clues at internet - there are references like name of writer, book, monty python sketches, employee databases and such - actually solving such quest is great fun, despite the fact that while u re doing seach u usually see quite lot of links to full solutions from lot of game sites, cause people are just lazy. there was funny outcry, when one clue for particular inv. quest was in morse code - but not as .--./..-/.../.../-.-- , but real sound file, and people were unable to figure it out.

I don't think we can expect harder puzzles - in trial of fury we have the weakest shroud puzzles as test of mind (nonretardiness maybe) wo even timer or move count, and its quite hard for me to figure where else is some kind of puzzles, except for new quests with dumbproof red tiles and final solution in form of fucking small button.

Revaulting wrote on Aug 15^th, 2015 at 11:09am:

Agreed, especially about the Mario bullshit. If I want to play a Mario game, I'll fire up my console and play one. And I won't fail it because of lag, and it will be more interesting. Even the best game designers couldn't do it well under these conditions, and you're certainly not the best, so stop wasting my time doing it half-assed.