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| 20 OCT 2002 at 12:05pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | a couple of times yes... i don't remember examples but it's mostly when i haven't got an item or enter a room that was actually very obvious
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 12:17pm |
NellieSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 359
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | When I played the first two Monkey Island games for the first time, I had a friend at school who knew all the puzzles and would give me the solution whenever I got stuck. I didn't think I was doing any harm at the time, but now that I love adventure games so much I wish I had some way to know if I could have done it on my own.
And I had to look up a walkthrough for Sam & Max because I didn't see a doorway in one location. The door was about two inches high and one across - I must have been blind! This didn't spoil the game at all, but seeing the solutions to other puzzles while I was looking for the correct spot in the walkthrough did. Blargh!
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 6:10pm |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
Posts : 2391
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I had to use a walkthrough for the telephone poles thingy. And the key in the subway. I've also used them for any puzzle in a game that just doesn't really make logical sense, including the audio tape in GK2. I mean, if you've ever tried splicing a tape? Doesn't come off as quite so believable..
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 7:49pm |
bistroSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 240
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Hey...if you're stuck, you're stuck. I'll work on a puzzle for a while, but when it gets to the point where I feel like tossing the CDs in the dumpster...in other words, I am no longer enjoying the game for that one puzzle....then by all means I check out a walkthrough, get through the sticky part, and move on. I'd say about 90 percent of the puzzles that forced me to a walkthrough were ones that I would have NEVER figured out (most weren't logical...."Use a magical tree root to engage the gears while sticking your right index finger in your left ear"...you know the type). The other 10 percent are the head-bangers---"OH! Why didn't I remember THAT? Of course!! Everyone knows you need a gnome's wart to finish off an Invisibilty potion!".
Just starting TLJ (yes, I know....but better late than never). No walkthrough needed yet. Uh...will I need any gnome's warts perchance? ???
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 8:01pm |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
Posts : 2099
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I say to myself, "I will kick your freakin', muscularly-tite arse if you look up a walkthrough." But usually that just scares me and I stop playing the game for a while.
I really, really try my hardest to not use hints. It really bugs me when I can't solve a puzzle. Most of the time when I can't solve a puzzle is because the puzzle does not fall into my logical mindset. And since I'm really cool and smart, I always think logically and smartly. So that if the puzzle is not based on pure logic I cannot reference it within my mutually exclusive domain of the logically adaptive puzzle-base. Now what the question really is is what am I going to eat for dinner?
Actually I have to study...
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 8:13pm |
FlameBoyIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 48
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I'm at Chapter 7 of TLJ and have used hints once...the machine in Chapter One/Two. I can't stand that type of puzzle, most of the time you are given no clue as to what you're meant to do with the machine or how to do it. I'd never have worked it out, unless I spent a very long time with trial and error...
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 9:34pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 280
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Walkthroughs are evil, which is why I barely ever use them.
Still, sometimes they can be useful . Especially in boring games, or when you're starting to think that there must be a bug.
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 10:53pm |
MissBSchattenjger
Posts : 2217
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I really like the Universal Hint System...that way, you can get as little or much info as you need and don't feel so much like a cheater. Anyone else out there ever tried it???
My name is Bethany and I'm the daughter of Gamergal/Michelle.
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 12:39am |
d0kiIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 13
Joined: 18 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Greetings,
Universal Hint System? What's that? ???
*wonders*
Farewell.
Most people don't sleep well next to a hungry tiger. - Hobbes&&&&The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, p214-2&& &&
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 2:30am |
collectimaniacIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 12
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Ah yes, the great UHS! I love that sight but am glad i didn't knonw about it when i played Myst. My girlfriends and I did it all by ourselves. We were stuck for a long time in the age until we said 'OK what would we do if we were actualy there in that room . . . and then we had a brainstorm to look up. DUH.
I think UHS is great and don't mind using cheats, especially if game is rather boring and I'm just trying to get to the end. Same said girlfriends and I also played Schizm DVD earlier this year and did have to use the cheats for some of the math problems - but even then we could see that we already had the correct idea. We felt so proud of ourselves when we didn't stoop to cheating with the prayer grinders.
I don't ever feel bad about cheating if I'm pretty sure I'm doing the correct thing and just want to check to make sure I am doing the right thing . . . usually the hint is something like 'put the cursor EXACTLY over the thingy' where I was not as precise in my cursoring.
Anyway, are there any other good hint sights that are like UHS ?
Kimmie
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