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most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113417
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<img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" /> I just have to yell out my frustration at the diabolical railroad bridge puzzles in Schizm I mad And how pleased with myself to have solved it the first time-and then to find you have to solve it a 2nd time!AAARGH :(To beat it 2 times in a row is almost impossible and it makes you forget about the fantastic scenery in the game.

Is there any game that has harder puzzles than this?

Do you ever give up on a game because of an impossible puzzle?


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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113418
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A few really nasty ones I can recall are the microscope puzzle in the 7th guest. This is so ridiculously hard, but at least they have auto-solve feature. The mandala puzzle in Beyond Time was so frustrating because there were numerous solutions, but it was so poorly programmed that it would only recognize one specific solution as the right one. The Chinese Checkers puzzle in Shivers also gives me fits. mad


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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113419
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Bigmamma, that's the puzzle that caused me to give up on Schizm. I get nightmares when I think of that game. I know many here solved it, but many of us didn't.

That's the only game I've ever given up on because of a puzzle. mad

Good luck!

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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113420
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The Wave puzzle in Obsidian - I almost put my fist through the monitor before I got it right.


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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113421
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I almost put my fist through the monitor...
That's where I stopped in Obsidian. I meeded my monitor more than I needed that puzzle.

The bridge two part puzzle in BS3 made me insane. I was reduced to pleading and yelling at a game figure "@#$% "Just run to the side ARGH No not straight - pounding hands on key board"

ok "re-try #35" Run run you idiot TO THE SIDE! ARRRR ....Not that way - What is wrong with you!! ARRRRRGGGHHH

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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113422
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Add me to the wave puzzle in Obsidian, also! I don't know how many days I spent on that one puzzle. mad
I think I'm less patient these days; when I get stuck I go install another game and put the game aside, sometimes not to come back to it. I'm still trying to decide if I want to spend any more time trying to get passed the altar, bible, back-and-forth puzzle in BS3. I just don't know if it's worth my time and sanity. frown


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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113423
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Can recall at least two in the original Shivers that drove me nuts. Specifically the Hi-Q puzzle that I never mastered as a kid, and the tube puzzle. I spent days on that thing.

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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113424
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Speaking about Obsidian.... the Lightning-Tree! Arrrghhhh.... 2hours i spent synchronising.

Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113425
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I also got stuck on the wave puzzle. I got what looked like perfect synchrony with the nine blocks, but when I saw what the solution was, I realized that I had 3 waves, when you were supposed to only have two, to make them smooth. Once you realized what it was supposed to look like, it wasn't hard to get it.

This is my problem with most of the difficult puzzles - I'm not sure just what the goal is before I start it, so it is hard to acheive that. I need the look of it when completed to be able to get there, or at least to understand what the rules of the puzzle are. Some puzzles aren't clear that you are playing against AI, and that the results are going to vary each time you play it. I'm not very good at figuring that part out.

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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113426
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Bigmamma1, I"m there with ya! I quit Schizm 1 over that stupid puzzle too! I rarely give up on a game unless it's toooooo full of toooo hard puzzles, but that was a real stinkaroo!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" />

Here's to better games! smile


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bravo I must tell you all-I finally beat the rail bridge puzzle today-a rainy afternoon and nothing to do but this darn puzzle.
Havn't got Obsidian-thanks for the warning BTW. I won't go BAAGing it for lots of $ only to encounter another extreme frustration again wink
Maelstrom-I remember that mandala puzzle in Beyond Time-spent lots of time trying to figure it out, finally went to the WT' only to find out there were other solutions but they dont work <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" />


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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113428
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Oh Geez!! Remember when we had a question on what type of puzzles were really hard in games?? I kept thinking of that "Wave" puzzle..couldn't remember which game it was from, so I didn't mention it! I should have known it came from Obsidian...[did not enjoy that game at all]
Tim, the "Tube Puzzle" in Shivers..is that the one where you connect the drain pipe thingys so the marble will roll down to the bottom??? That was fun!! smile Glynn

Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113429
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Quote:
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The Wave puzzle in Obsidian - I almost put my fist through the monitor before I got it right.
Actually I didn't have much problem with that one. Maybe I was lucky or something. But that memory puzzle near the end almost made me quit.

I also had a problem with the lightning tree - until I realized I was making it much more difficult than it had to be. I thought I had to synchronize them all in one turn - 5 fast and accurate clicks.

Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113430
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My husband very much enjoyed the bridge challenge in Schizm. This was very good news because I was going to need a wig soon between that temple/priest challenge and the 2nd coordinate thing and... lol

Despite these moments, I really liked Schizm

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Quote:
Originally posted by bigmamma1:

Havn't got Obsidian-thanks for the warning BTW. I won't go BAAGing it for lots of $ only to encounter another extreme frustration again wink
bigmamma1: But Obsidian is really a great game despite the 2 puzzles! It's one of the best puzzle games around too.... plus the sly humor is subtle. i recommend getting the incredible strategy guide to have a good idea what the developers were trying to achieve with the game. wink

Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113432
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I agree! Obsidian is one of my top 3 games! And the wave puzzle isn't hard if you remember to make only two waves, not three. The end puzzle is hard, but doable. Many have suggested that it is easier to do if you have two people watching it at the same time, to keep track of the moving lights, but I was able to do it by myself. It is well worth the effort to play this unique game.

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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113433
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the one which drove me nuts was the jewel in Black Dahlia....

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Re: most hair-pulling puzzle you ever encountered? #113434
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My nemesis was the orientation puzzle in REAH, where it was nigh on impossible to see the marker that solved it for you, run a close second by the prayer wheels in Schizm because of the sound problem.

Dave

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There must be something wrong with me, I enjoyed the wave puzzle, tree puzzle in Obsidian and the bow and arrow puzzle in Timelapse. laugh

My nemesis is anything timed. I panic! Like the bucket puzzle in Teledahn in Uru and the gong puzzle in Reah. rolleyes

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Haha... I enjoyed the last memory puzzle in Obsidian. laugh

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I would say the cat puzzle in GK3, and the marble puzzle in Riven.

But what is more frustrating is when the interface is too clumsy to allow you to do what you know you need to do. Case in point, the part in GK3 where you needed to create a circle between three or four locations in SIDNEY. I had the circle over all the locations (close enough) and still it wouldn't acknowledge it. I pushed and pulled and resized that circle for a long time before I finally got it on the right spot.


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I got through that bridge puzzle in Schizm and I love that game. It wasn't a puzzle that made me want to tear out my hair, it was that *gulp* game in Nancy Drew The Haunted Carousel. I won't even mention it's name, I'll have nightmares tonight! devil Bounce, doink! Bounce, doink! Try AGAIN! MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!! <img border="0" alt="pacify" title="" src="graemlins/pacify.gif" /> frown

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There were many puzzles in the 7th Guest and 11th Hour that had me stumped, but the most frustrating was the last one in the 11th Hour (where you tried to get 5 markers in a row). There was no way to get around playing this one, and I really wanted to see the end game video. I finally won after 2 days.

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I've never quit a game because of a puzzle, and in Schizm it wasn't that one that I hated the most; it was the priest/temple/prayer-wheel thingie sound puzzle. But I think that entire game was the most hair-pulling one for me.

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I think Obsidian is an excellent game and worth every hair-pulling minute. Both the wave and burning tree puzzles were challenging, but I spent most of my time on them trying to figure out the pattern logic. I made some assumptions at first that I had to unmake to succeed. The most difficult one for me in that game was the endgame puzzle with the moving buttons.

Oh, and I found the microscope puzzle in The 7th Guest easy to beat once I figured out the pattern. However, I needed hints to solve the knights puzzle.

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