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

On 26/06/2025 13:26, Anssi Saari wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:
 

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.

 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.
 

Sorry, I should have made my comment clearer. I was talking in the context of actual puzzle games and not games with puzzles in them. One I did stop playing for this reason was The Witness. It started off well we you navigating around mazes on 'boards' but then you started getting ones that relied more on memory and not reasoning. That I found pushed me into the frustration area. I could kinda see that they were trying to 'mix it up' but it just wasn't for me and after I realise how much I was relying on YT I decided to stop playing.
Puzzles in games now, I tend to agree that they've gone out of fashion now (CRPG's is one I remember were they seemed almost mandatory which I presume is because of their heritage from D&D). It's not that I don't like them as such but more I don't think they add anything in particular.

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.