What are some sections in games you honestly had to look up how to beat?
Pretty much the entirety of Scratches. Some of the pixl hunt combination items were just fo fucking stupid
>Need oil for lantern
>Alright, oil can right here
>Why the fuck wont it let me take it
>Holy shit its RIGHT HERE
>Turns out you have to rip a page out of a book, wipe the can to see the lable, and then find a nail to make a hole so the oil pours easier.
That was just the beginning.
>>333747727
The final puzzle room in VLR
Fuck darts, fuck hexagons
I'm a huge idiot I know
>>333747727
I didn't look this up. I had no internet connection back then.
>>333748792
WAIT A MINUTE
>>333747727
seriously nigga
it took me about 10 minutes to beat as a kid, and its not like im a genius or something, im only about average
>>333747727
>needing to look anything up in post-ALttP Zelda games
CD case in MGS. Worst puzzle I've ever encountered. I really hated it. A game should be confined within itself.
>>333749074
>needing to look anything up in pre link awakening zelda games
>>333747727
>Digimon Cyber Sleuth
I keep finding myself looking up quest giver locations. Why do I have to search a city just for someone whom wants my help?
This one Braid puzzle near the end of the game that was the only one in the entire thing that required you to use momentum to beat or something like that.
Description is faulty, but it's been way too long and I can only vaguely remember it. But I distinctively remember it being a puzzle that made use of a quirk in the mechanics that was explained nowhere and used nowhere else.
>>333749203
The Colonel literally tells you to look on the back of the case though,
>>333747727
Alundra
Pretty much all of the later puzzles
If you couldn't beat that part using your intellect only you are a huge retard OP-
>>333748792
Why does this always get posted? Is it a joke or was there a bug in the first release that messed it up?
>read the hint
>"use the noises from another level to determine direction"
>I never used noises to solve the puzzle they refer to
>have no way to determine which direction to turn
Suck a dick Myst. This puzzle is bullshit and you know it.
>>333749373
>that retarded sages puzzle
what a load of garbage
>>333747727
I had my mom buy a walkthrough way back when for Superstar Saga. I don't remember the exact room, but that dungeon with the enemies that changed color and you had to match them to destroy them, I got stuck for a week. I was literally just missing a spot to make Mario mini and go into a whole. Couldn't put the walkthrough down after that.
>>333749568
Old joke.
Just the first one. Then it was a matter of remembering which stupid claw I got in that particular identical cave.
>>333749568
The joke is dipshit developers make "puzzles" that a braindead fucking chimp could solve, or even a black man.
>>333749568It's a joke about how fucking easy the puzzle is, yet how 'modern gamers' need the help.
Pic related, finding all the little bastards.
>hello
>>333747727
Fuck!
>>333749324
fuck games tha tdo that. T.A.L.O.S. Principle had a number of these, including stacking two boxes to grab third box of a jammed bomb.
shit was retardedDon't get me started on those pillars
>playing Alone in the Dark: Inferno
>It's shit
>get to a part where you're in a tiny office
>there's nothing to do
>turn off game
>come back later
>spend 15 more minutes walking around the office looking at shit
>turn the game off again and go look up a walkthrough
>you're supposed to close your eyes
even the guides made zero fucking sense
A lot of FF VII's puzzles were trial and error based so I just looked them up in advance instead of guessing 10 times in a row.
That safe puzzle in the mansion was the worst.
>>333749969
I'll never get why people had so much trouble with this.
If you stopped to read the journal that you get off the guy with the claw, (I can't remember if it's a mandatory quest item or not) it literally has a sentence in there that says "they say when you have the Golden Claw, the answer is in the palm of your hand." or something of that nature. It wasn't hard to figure out, even then you've only got 27 possible combinations for each door so you could just as easily brute-force it if you couldn't figure out the combination, especially since there's no punishment for getting a wrong guess.
>>333750262
Hello.
>That game with some mechanics
>That one puzzle where some forgotten mechanic is used, once, and never again
Name that game /v/
literally everything in dragon quest
i hate cryptic games
>>333748776
Same here. Did everything by myself in hard mode, both passwords every time... until this one. Just let this be over and fuck my face with your endgame twists, please.
Most of the Tower of Druaga game (really).
>>333749203
If you call the Colonel a lot of times, he'll tell you the number. Same thing with the Psycho Mantis battle: call him a lot and he'll tell you to switch controller ports. If you can him even more, he'll say you can also shoot the stone busts around the place.
I'm fairly sure I got stuck in Star Ocean on SNES and just gave up and deleted the game out of frustration. I had went and looked up a guide beforehand and still couldn't figure it out, and this was before youtube was out so it wasn't like I could look up a video walkthrough
>>333750470
I literally went through 99% of Megaman X7 without knowing I could rotate the camera, because you don't really need to do it. Except in the fight against Red, where you have to dodge all manner of stuff while jumping on top of some tiny platforms. The camera doesn't fix itself around in this single battle, so you'll probably end up in a situation where you can't see the enemy. I actually managed to beat it without rotating the camera, and only realized it when I replayed the game.
>>333748792
I was stuck on that puzzle for days. Why didn't the game give me more hints.
>>333749329
Oh. I killed him.
>>333750712
>he'll say you can also shoot the stone busts around the place.
What the fuck, I never knew that. Does that prevent PM from throwing them around? That'd be useful.
>>333748792
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_u18_BKczg
>>333747727
dude. this puzzle is challenging. seriously. but you can beat it.
do you always give up that easily?
i mean, i admit that it is hard, but how long did you actually try?
>>333750997
There's a tiny hint if you press TRIANGLE during the battle - you'll see Snake through someone else's eyes. At first you assume it's Mantis, but it's the busts.
>>333749074
The only thing I've had to look up was that "press the seal to the map" thing in Phantom Hourglass.
I couldn't understand what they meant, because there was a huge disconnect in using the top screen in relation to the bottom screen.
>>333747727
It wasn't that hard at all.
>>333751063
what the hell is that game
why is the HUD a complete copy of wow
>>333747727
Never got the stone discs in fate of atlantis, ended up bruteforcing them every time. Tfw this was before the internets.
>>333751129
Fucking neat. Still learning cools things almost 20 years later.
>>333749074
Maybe it's just because I remember it as a kid, but isn't the only thing you need that isn't in a dungeon the Ice Rod?
maybe the Big Bomb wasn't explained but I know I wanted to see who took my house in the Dark World. He won't be selling it yet but I don't know, there's a point where you just remember too much of a game to give it a fair look in how things aren't explained, you just know.
>>333751125
This.
It's the type of puzzle where you're guaranteed to solve it as long as you keep trying different approaches.
>>333751290
It was in the journal if you read it
I bruteforced it as a kid too but I replayed it a couple years ago on scumm and finally realized how to do it
The final boss of KH2.
there was this one QTE where you had to spam Triangle !!!!!AAAAAND!!!!!!!!!!! X in order to beat it.
the thing it, for the whole game, except this very situation here, you had to only press Triangle in EVERY. SINGLE. QTE. SO. FAR.
and the fucking game didn't even tell you that you had to press Triangle AND X this time in order to win. fucking artificial difficulty.
And the shittiest part of this:
it was actually a bar that you would fill each time you press a button, wether you press Triangle or X. but since i thought you would only need to press Triangle, and since i didn't managed to fill the bar by that, i thought that i was just not pressing fast enough. WHAT THE FLYING FUCK!
and guess what? If you didn't manage to get it through, you die. Restart the fucking battle.
Holy shit, what a pain in the ass. I had to look up that i need to spam X as well. As if i were a fucking psych or something. how the fuck were i'm supposed to know that?!
>>333750470
Closing the DS in Phantom Hourglass
Mytha, the baneful queen. I always walked past the windmill and saw a bunch of messages next to it.
>>333751279
Rift
best WoW clone there ever was, it's a dead F2P/P2W fuckfest now
>>333747727
>shooting down the painting in ganon's castle
How was I supposed to know I could even interact with that?
>>333747727
I was never able to solve a single point&click adventure game on my own.
>>333751850
learn to read, triangle and X both change to the command you need to press during that part
>>333752198
Those are the most complicated fucking games
>>333747727
I've played it 4 times and every time I just fucked around for a few minutes until I got it right. I refuse to believe anyone can be so incompetent that they couldn't get it right after a while.
That one chest in Hallow Bastion in KH1 that you could only get to if you froze the bubbles and jumped on the ice platform. No where does it say you can do this. You didn't do it before and you don't do it again the rest of the game.
>>333752424
thing is, nobody wants to try. this puzzle is the very proof that gamers have gotten spoiled over the years.
>>333751886
Why would you even remind me of this.
Whats wrong with you?
>>333752198
>Some of the insane pixels hunts in Beneath a Steel Sky
>>333749625
Fuck that puzzle man
The rest was ok
