Has a video game ever made you feel stupid?
Every single multiplayer game, when I suffer a stupid death
>>343817565
Wait a minute..that claw
>>343816597
i dont get this. someone explain
>>343818034
DSP played black mesa source.
In this section, you have to crouch jump to jump up on these pipes, normal jumping doesn't work. DSP didn't know this, and previoualy ignored the crouchjump tutorial. After like an hour of stacking props, he found out about crouch jumping.
>>343818315
God how will he survive strafe jumping and bhops.
This game made me feel like a retard in a lot of ways.
>>343818315
>DSP
>ignored the crouchjump tutorial
When will he learn not to do that? People like him are the reason there are tutorials you can't skip.
I can't into chords.
>>343818712
To be fair, crouchjumping is fairly archaic now, and i think the area that triggers the crouchjump prompt doesn't actually need a crouchjump to complete. And the prompt is a small box that shows up on the far left.
I spent hours looking for a CD case in game. I thought I missed an item somewhere.
>>343817565
this puzzle fucked me up
seriously, why the fuck is the combination on the claw? it makes no sense, it's like having a key+combination safe and writing the combination on the key.
>>343819645
IIRC you have a CD case in your inventory at that part, which is what I checked
What in the goddamned fuck
i just had this weirdest fucking moment of déja vu
I feel like I've seen this exact fucking thread before, does anyone feel the same way?
The same replies, the same images used what the fuck
>>343817565
i remember reading the quest and trying to figure out where what the combination was until I just bruteforced it. Felt like a retard when later in game at another similar gate and looked at the claw.
>>343818315
Bugged
Jumping
Mechanic
>>343820058
We are amidst strange beings in a strange land. The flow of time itself is convoluted; with centuries old posts phasing in and out.
Can anybody top mine? Ran around the map for like 15 minutes, trying to read an e-mail, looking at a crumpled piece of paper or listening to any audio logs thinking it might contain the code for this keypad.
>>343819951
It's an MO (magneto-optical) disk.
They look like a giant floppy disk with a double sided CD-RW inside. I coped a shitload of games onto a stack of them a long time ago.
>>343818720
Really makes you think...
>>343817565
>tfw went thru half of the dungeons and shit without realizing the answer is on the back of the claw
God I never thought once they would do that
Monkey Island 2's "monkey wrench" puzzle.
To be fair, I was seven and didn't know what a monkey wrench was
>>343820448
Yea i did the same shit anon. Literally checked every square inch of the level 4 times then slapped myself on the forehead and laughed when i found it
>>343817565
>tfw knew about the combination beforehand because they showed the mission as a demo before Skyrim came out
I honestly don't know whether or not I would've had trouble with it.
>>343818720
really a smart game for smart gamers
Deadly P's chess puzzle
It's clearly one of those things written for Japanese people who don't know what the pieces are named. The solution is literally written out for you and it's so fuckin obvious that it didn't even register as a puzzle to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQD9PuggxaQ
>>343817565
>mfw I actually figured out it was so easy
I laughed at myself for overthinking it so much.
>encounter puzzle room
>take my time, survey the area, try to imagine what does what
>after taking it all in, start experimenting with objects to see what happens
>puzzle just solves itself after interacting with the first object
>zelda OoT
>was young and didnt understand the point of the compass telling you where chests were.
>shadow temple
>couldn't find chest under the rubble that you had to blow up with a bomb. Gave up and just said fuck all to beating the game.
>finally came back after 6 years and found the key by mistake.spent the years playing off and on pretending to be Malons bf and helping around the ranch
I don't know why I struggled so hard on this one
>>343816597
what game is this?
>>343821646
no op but its black mesa a fanmade remake of half life 1
I'm not the only one, right?
>>343816597
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIY5ya3wYDk
>play left 4 dead
>go to the sewer
>can't find the exit
>run all over the place
>realize the exit is a ladder
Every fucking time too.
dammit
>>343821353
>game just ushers you forward past the puzzle if you take too long without even asking if you want to skip it
>>343819645
I played Twin Snakes. All they said was "package". Obviously, I eventually resorted to a walkthrough.
Sliding block puzzles in 2 were fine but this one fucked me up.
>>343817565
This shit was retarded, I spent like 20 minutes looking at the carvings on the walls that were vaguely related to the puzzle inputs and then gave up and looked up a guide and felt like a dumbass
>>343821847
platforming in fps was a mistake
unless it's mirror's edge.
>>343820448
same happened to me but I already played the original, the code was back then in voice mail/text mail, thought the demo was bugged because I couldn't read it
>>343817941
Kek
>>343816597
For some reason, the Raedric fight in Pillars of Eternity made me feel stupid. I don't know why I felt stupid in particular, but I definitely felt that way specifically.
Pillars of Eternity has a bad habit of making bosses require completely different strategies than the other 99% of fights in the game.
>>343816597
Holy crap, this was my introduction to dsp. He seems so more unenjoyable now.
I couldn't figure out how to get the key from the mouse in the tutorial dungeon of Phantom Hourglass.
I eventually grabbed a pot from a few rooms earlier and threw it at the mouse and moved on never figuring it out.
>>343820058
Thread theme:
https://youtu.be/OIjPwzL_5Yk
>>343818703
came here to post this.
>>343817565
>heh we sure got you good
>expecting us to use a feature we'll never touch again just for this one type of puzzle door even though it makes absolutely no fucking sense from the gameworld's perspective
Professor Layton.
Fuck that cunt and his riddles.
>>343820058
>catched
Riddler Trophies
BoFIII, when you had to find Honey in Castle Wyndia. I had to look up a guide and it wasn't until that point that I learned you could rotate the camera.
In my defense, the guy I borrowed it from didn't have the manual.
>>343819835
the puzzles doors were meant to be opened only by thinking creatures so as to keep draugr in and trap womb raiders at the same time
>>343820983
That doesn't even make sense. Why would a knight taking a pawn tot he queen create checkmate?
Reminds me of an old Knight Rider clip where, for no real reason, Hasslehoff just says "and as they say in chess, checkmate" when he catches the bad guy at the end.
>>343822880
At one point in phantom hourglass it asks you shout into the mic in order to get an item. I did that, and then the guy was like "Did you really shout? You could have snapped your fingers or something".
>>343817941
underrated
>>343820559
>>343820947
>>343818720
You didn't understand that you were the 122nd booker?
playing any videogame in english when it's not you mother language and internet wasn't as accessible as today made you feel like a retard
I barely knew english and I played okami
imagine how much did it take me to get what a headbutt is when my dictionary didn't have that word
more than necessary, I can guarantee you
For the longest time I honestly did not know how ironsights worked. Did you line up the top edge/tip with the target? Or just barely cover the target with it?
Always made me feel retarded
>>343816597
Silent Hill 3, first locked door puzzle, on hard. Literally impossible
Never got it until the trial.
>>343817565
>Writing the PIN on my debit card
>>343823370
Japan doesn't know how chess works
The puzzle is looking at the posters around the room and learning the name of each piece and entering them in the order they're said
I'm currently feeling like a retard in HL2.
Replaying after years and years. Just went through a room with a bunch of the whirly-blade guys, to a big tube shaped room. Turned a lever to raise water level. Don't know what to do now.
>>343817565
this fucked me up
i thought the combination was around the previous rooms
but nope its on the stupid fucking claw, AND THATS THE ONLY FUCKIN TIME LOOKIN AT ITEMS WORKS FOR THAT ONE STUPID PUZZLE
>>343823738
this is another example of "japan only" puzzle
>>343822880
Also, I played Pokemon Blue when it first came out and was stuck in my house for a few days because I thought the exit mat was a dresser and couldn't find the door.
>>343820448
what game is this?
>>343816597
I can't remember a time when I had trouble solving a puzzle. I suck at math and shit like that but I'm pretty smart and good at solving puzzles and... stuff...
>>343823893
Its just the guys name upside down, right? How is that a japan only puzzle?
>>343824020
system shock kikestarter money laundering scam edition featuring backer OC characters
>>343823996
You didn't even bother walking to it to see what would happen?
Fuck man I wasyounger than most of /v/ would likeand I never had any problem knowing it was the exit.
>>343824124
japanese people can't see when they're upside down
>>343820448
Explain
>>343820448
this is terrible design and needs to stop in games.
on repeat playthroughs if you already know the code it just breaks the game.
>>343824124
because anyone who reads english natively should be able to instantly recognize it
>>343824165
Holy shit the new System Shock looks dope in that screen
>>343823202
>You should be able to solve this
>>343824352
And looks like shit in every other.
>>343824370
The worst thing about this is that it says gadget-loving instead of computer-loving.
>>343824165
died fucking 3-4 times because I thought there was a fucking invisible wall around those platforms.
>>343824370ur a faget
>>343818315
to be fair crouch jumping is a retarded and archaic mechanic
>>343824370
I have never understood the joke on this one.
>>343824370
>It's chads.
>>343824563
crouch jumping is amazing, shut your faggot mouth
>>343824173
Well I did eventually just start walking into everything and figured it out yes, I also wasn't playing it for hours each day, I'd just walk around a bit, talk to mom and then switch to Metroid II.
>>343824370
>if jennifer had 3 apples and gave 5 apples to david but david was shorter than christopher who was the fastest child
>no, because ice cream has no bones
>>343819232
>>343824563
>tfw i still instinctively crouch jump in Overwatch
>>343823809
If it's the part I think it is then take a dive. There should be some boxes and wood shit stuck at the bottom by some wood planks. Just break the planks.
>Me Testing The Physics in Source.
>>343824165
at least I didn't get my hopes up
>Silent Hill games on the difficulty that made some puzzles where you had to know fucking Da Vinci codes and shit
Latest game would be.. Uh. Iunno. Not many games are challenging, or make you look up strats.
>>343825289
MEDABOTS
>>343823273
Yeah, he said that the last time too
>>343825846
NEW MEDABOTS GAME WHEN
I never learned the bomb roll mechanic earlier because it's possible to get through the tutorial by just throwing the bombs. I was honestly stumped at this section of the game. No idea how to progress.
A lot of parts in the game made me feel like that even though you get handheld throughout the game. I felt you don't get told anything relevant and anything that is relevant is skipped past because you think it's just more fluff.
>>343820983
HOLY SHIT I spilled my drink, that sound at 0.22
The sax sounds so badly out of tune. More like a fart than a note.
>>343824493GECY NW
>>343818720
>played ocarnia of time and majoras mask, got the puzzles almost immediately when i was younger
>this actually took me a minute to figure out and im still embaressed to this day
I've been playing Link to the Past lately and am seriously embarassed about having to look up a walkthrough a couple of times.
Theres some serious bullshit though. All kinds of pots in keys and pushable blocks with no kind of cue.
>>343824370
text me ;)
>>343825142
Yeah I booted up soon as I posted this and figured it out. Didn't realize the ladder in the previous room went below the grate, and then there was a tunnel to the room you were talking about. Thanks though.
>>343816597
Every single GSG.
Pic related is me playing Civ.
>>343823509
I went through something like that.
When i was younger, i got a copy of Soul Reaver 2 on PC in english. I liked the movement, the fighting and all (Barely made it just mashing buttons until i could find what worked). I stood 20 minutes in front of the fence in the Sarafan stronghold until i just kept Foward pushed on the Spectral Realm and passed through. I gave up on the swamp because i didn't know you could climb up certain walls.
Around ten years later i picked it back up and then i could truly appreciate the dialogues, the mechanics and all. I left it on hold after getting the Light Reaver and emulated the first SR game, making it ten times better once i knew where all the abilities and references came from.
Defiance seemed weird with the changes. Haven't been able to play Blood Omen on a current machine. I'm glad i had to wait to fully enjoy the games, though.
>>343819645
To be honest, this isn't even that big of a deal.
It's 140.15. I remember it since all I did was try every number from 140.00, and got it on my 15th try.
most strategy games in general
>>343827980
Did you just call Civ grand strategy? 4X is pretty much the easiest subgenre of Strategy in general.
>>343829712
As I said, I'm bad.
Playing Golden Sun TLA as a kid, the entire thing. I got stuck for six months at the puzzle inside the statue at Gabomba village (an utterly uncomplicated guide-the-water-to-the-right-pipe puzzle). I got stuck for nearly a year in the Jupiter Lighthouse before I figured out I had to visit give the SHAMAN ROD to the leader of the SHAMAN VILLAGE.
Replaying the games years later just made me cringe at my ten year old self.
>>343824165
Fuck me, I died like 12 times and reloaded the area for that puzzle
>>343818720
In BS:I defense, it played a role in the story. There was 121 Bookers before you who have failed to rescue Liz. Doing this puzzle was just to indicate you that you're the 122 to ring the bell.
>>343824563
it's actually extremely logical and used in real life too
using it in a game without climbing mechanics is a excellent solution
>>343817565
Went to one of the other dungeons before going to this one.
One of the dungeons that had a pillar puzzle with the indicators on the ceiling.
I looked around for ten minutes before brute forcing it. What shitty design.
Every fucking level after 3.
>>343833015
fucking this
why is it so hard
>>343820983
>That unskilled sax player
>>343816597
>Black Mesa
Don't get me started on the remastered version of Lambda Core.
>>343817565
I'm glad I will never feel dumb there. The claw was interesting, so of course I turned it all around in the inventory.
Playing Pokemon Red in Japanese
>>343817565
>See this puzzle in a dev video that showcases the ability to inspect items from every angle
>Ability is only needed for two or three doors in the enitre game
Any game that has this type of puzzle in it. I just fucking suck at it. After it's starts to look like i am doing it one piece ends up on the other side where it should be.
That's when i go nuts and start swapping them around randomly like a retarded caveman.
>>343820058
I BREAK THE RULE OF TIME1!
Quake 1 where you can activate button by shooting them from afar
