Re: There is usually something to make me quit playing a game after a while

Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 19:29 this Thursday (GMT):

Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:

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On 24/06/2025 17:18, PW wrote:

Oh - any stupid and hard puzzles in a game which forces me to
constantly look up cheats on the internet will make me stop playing a
game real quick now at my age!

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That's high on my list. It's fine if you do it occasionally but not so
much when you think am I actually playing the game or am I just
repeating what I saw in a YT video.

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Do games generally have stupid hard puzzles these days? I've been
playing the 1997 Outlaws game and just puked through this whole puzzle
*level*. Water canals, swimming, diving, choking, fiddling with gates to
direct the water flow, loads of fun NOT. So I just followed a
walkthrough. Good thing is, as it's an old game the level is still
reasonably small.

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Ugh. It reminded me of Dark Forces' safe puzzle. Annoying!

At least it wasn't an unsafe puzzle :D

Another puzzle that gave me trouble was the chess puzzle in the System
Shock Remake, mostly because I suck at chess. The other puzzles in there
were pretty easy although one time the lightning made it near impossible
to see the gauge you were supposed to set to some value.

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Ugh, I don't know chess either.

I know chess in the most technical sense (I know the rules, and how
pieces move), but I suck at actually playing it.
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