Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: BubbaJake]
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02/12/08 04:38 PM
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I won't discuss Abnathus, or whatever/whenever his name was. Abnaxus. That guy could talk the hind legs off a donkey.
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Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: SuMac]
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02/13/08 05:34 AM
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Two games that I really liked but got so frustrated with that I didn't finish them...
Atlantis Evolution - trying to escape from the Guardians in the forest had me tearing my hair out and hearing "Halt Deviant!" in my dreams! I just couldn't master that one even with a walkthrough.
Mysterious Journer 2 - the fog maze puzzle, could never get the hang of that one either.
"It's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts." I'm not getting old....just 'Marvelously Mature'!
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Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: MsMercury]
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02/14/08 09:07 AM
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I had so much FUN (said sarcastically) with that fog puzzle, I just wanted to disappear. THEN I got to that bridge puzzle. I'm beginning to think they (the lovely people who brought us Schizm and MJ2) don't feel a game is done until they have at least 2 baffling and agonizing puzzle. And I can hear them say, "but they're not sliders or mazes."
I agree, Becky. I liked the water\windy head puzzle a lot. I also love sliders.
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Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: Becky]
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02/14/08 10:31 AM
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I need to come clean ... I cheated .. yes I did ;-) Had no choice but to look up the solution for Life and Betrayal (Judas' Malediction). I ran around for hours trying to find the answer to this puzzle ... only to find out that the game had a little note book on the side (which I was aware of), but i never saw the arrow on the book to turn the page and see the other clues (which btw are needed to use with some objects).
After I saw this, the rest of the game was solved in 1 hour, but I felt very stupid for not noticing this before. All my ideas to solve were right, execpt for this [blip] little turn the page arrow.
I hate looking at walkthroughs, I always end up feeling guilty or stupid for not noticing such simple clues ... I miss the days of before the Internet. Back then, I had no choice but spend months trying to find the clues. Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis and First NMonkey Island come to mind ... spent over a year on it.
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Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: Belgar]
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02/14/08 11:00 AM
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Back in the day, before the internet, would you be stuck for months, not having noticed the arrow, though? I miss arrows that way all the time. Especially if they are beautifully designed arrows that look decorative instead of functional. Give me an ugly, obvious arrow any day.
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Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: Becky]
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02/14/08 11:41 AM
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Belgar
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ahah well maybe, I would still miss the obvious! If you get the game Belief and Betrayal, you will thank me for noticing the arrow. You would think that I would be smarter after years of playing these games? They still manage to have me scratch my head. I am now playing Reprobates, so far so good ... until the next arrow!
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Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: BubbaJake]
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02/14/08 11:44 AM
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Belgar
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Belgar, I don't HAVE months to spend on one puzzle in a game. I loved Mysterious Journey 1 and 2, but the 2 sided bridge puzzle in 1 was kinda hard, but more fun than the one in MJ2. At first the fog puzzle was so confusing that I nearly gave up. Yes, but in the old days (early 90's)... you had no choice w/o Internet. The only choice was to know someone who had the game, or stumble upon a magazine that had the walkthru.
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Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: Belgar]
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02/14/08 12:20 PM
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In the old days if you had a modem you could get CompuServe and there was a Gamers Forum there that helped with the early, early games from the 1980s, like King's Quest for one. Of course, we also shared hints with friends. It was always fun when I was the first one in the group who found out what to do next when we were all stuck and so could help the others, what a high!
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Re: Good games that infuriate you!
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02/14/08 04:25 PM
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I recall playing monkey island no walk through and I got so stuck and I d go bed thinking about this puzzal and in the middle of the night get an idea and start playing again .Then I found just adventure and some times you would wait days befor you got a reply .I mean there may have been walk throughs but I did nt know so when I first found that hints site .I thought it was so good and like when we were doing the demo Experiment 112 .How people get togeather and help each other .Some how I think we got our moneys worth so much more than we do today
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Re: Good games that infuriate you!
[Re: BubbaJake]
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03/11/08 08:58 PM
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Hi all, new to this board so I hope you don't mind me resurrecting an older thread There are some games that I literally wanted to smash against the wall because they infuriated me so much. Some of them were good and I finished them eventually; some weren't worth the effort, and others were good but I never managed to finish them because of annoying features. Here goes: - Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers. Loved that game until I reached the underground African temple and had to deal with the mummies. No matter how often and how hard I tried, I never managed to get past the [blip] things. Needless to say, I've never completed this game which is a real shame because I love the GK series. It's just that I do poorly at timed/action/stealth sequences; needless to say, the final sequence in GK 3 - Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned gave me a hard time too but nothing like those mummies... - GK - The Beast Within. The final "maze" in the cellar was awful. Took me a while but finally, I managed to pass through it. Then I had a hard time finishing off the wolf but I did it. Great game. Have to replay it sometime - Loch Ness. Overall, I didn't like the game much; in fact, I thought it was pretty boring and I couldn't care less for the main character. The underwater maze was a nice idea but I had to try several times before I beat it. I hate mazes... - Broken Sword - The Sleeping Dragon. I'm a huge fan of the series; Broken Sword - Circle of Blood was the very first adventure I ever played and I'm still in love with that game. Still, the third installment of the series was a disappointment - not a major disappointment because it did have a good story, good dialogues, and George and Nico were still cool characters I cared about. But the controls were awful, especially during the action sequences because the camera angle would just change and all of a sudden, you're not running away from the killer but towards her. What a brilliant idea... And the stealth sequences simply drove me mad - especially the one beneath Montfaucon. I don't know how many times I've tried and how often I almost reached the other side just to be shot again. I tried and tried and tried... searched for a walkthrough on the web and, to my dismay, had to find out that I'd have to complete that sequence yet two more times. That absolutely did it for me. I finished the game by loading a savegame I had downloaded from the web because I just didn't feel like trying hundreds of times in order to complete that stupid sequence. It really spoiled the fun for me. Up to that sequence, I thought the game was ok; not great, but ok. Because of that part (and the crates) I cannot help but think of it as the weakest game in the series even though it does have its great moments. Oh, and another moment in the game that nearly made me toss it against the wall: the final fight *argh* This game could have been so much better...
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