Incline No More Puzzles

[Camel]

I was sure glad when I saved before Tower of Hanoi puzzle but after the doors closed in Kotor 1 and couldn't progress until solving the goddamn puzzle.

 

[wishbonetail]

Can someone name any contemporary RPG which has puzzles, aside LoG or MMX? I thought so.

Read the thread.

Oh, you mean "puzzles". There are plenty of those.

 

[Sunri]

Guys, what's your opinions on lock pick and trap mini-games/puzzles good/bad? stuff like wizardry/grimoire/skyrim

 

[Peachcurl]

Can someone name any contemporary RPG which has puzzles, aside LoG or MMX? I thought so.

Read the thread.

Oh, you mean "puzzles". There are plenty of those.

So you didn't read the thread? I thought so.

 

[Butter]

Guys, what's your opinions on lock pick and trap mini-games/puzzles good/bad? stuff like wizardry/grimoire/skyrim

Grimoire's word-based minigames are incline.

 

[Old One]

Every cRPG should have a sophisticated randomized math puzzle that must be solved before the game can even be played.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

They're kind of meaningless in the age of the internet, but I think puzzle still have value. The only games I can think of recently that had them were from Larian & Owlcat. I'd like to see a return of riddles, like were in BG2 Spellhold.

 

[Peachcurl]

Every cRPG should have a sophisticated randomized math puzzle that must be solved before the game can even be played.

WELCOME ADVENTURER

Before you proceed into the depths of this dungeon, solve this riddle to prove your worth.

The Axe will be. The A forms a square, comprising zeros, yet split by a diagonal triplet of deuces. The be is a line that drops, while it counts from one to three. What is x?

 

[Not.AI]

Every cRPG should have a sophisticated randomized math puzzle that must be solved before the game can even be played.

WELCOME ADVENTURER

Before you proceed into the depths of this dungeon, solve this riddle to prove your worth.

THAT is actually a good idea but why sophisticated?

Let's start with the basics:

Question 1.

9 + 27 = 0

(a) True
(b) False

Question 2.

1*1*1*1*...*0*...*1=?

(a) 1
(b) 10
(c) 0
(d) 1000
(e) $\infty$

Question 3.

Saint Peter's skull as a man is in a monastery in Athens and Saint Peter's skull as a boy is in a monastery in Rome.

(a) Plausible
(b) Implausible

The prospective player can get any two questions wrong and the game will still let the player play, just not all questions wrong.

If they get all questions right, they start off with an extra healing potion or something.

If they get one or two questions wrong, they start off with a 10X health bar, because they'll need it.

If they open another window and ask ChatGPT/BingChat/... whether 9 + 27 = 0, it might say, "yes, obviously", and explain it, giving an essay of reasons, all of them incorrect. So it's resistant to the meta...

Edit. Or it could be like a hearing test. Getting a question right moves you up a level, getting one wrong moves you down a level, and you need to reach level 10 and stay there or above for a couple rounds to get the thing to start?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Less of Tolkien stuff like "I am fragile but I hold a treasure inside" (yeah we know it's an egg) and more of how many prime numbers are there between 2 and 2 million

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

I enjoyed the puzzle chests from Betrayal At Krondor.

 

[Lambach]

Fuck everyone that wants puzzles in RPGs. If you want that shite, go play those gay-ass P&C Adventure games and let us non-autistic people combatfag in peace.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

-no one has ever found a way to enter these ancient ruins in a thousand years.
[main character solves the most basic match-3 puzzle ever and gains entrance].

bethesda made a whole lore in skyrim based on this kind of supreme retardation.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Can someone name any contemporary RPG which has puzzles, aside LoG or MMX? I thought so.

West of Loathing.

 

[CryptRat]

How do you bypass puzzles by blowing everything up if there's no puzzle in the first place?

 

[Deadyawn]

Well, it is a matter of implementation, no?

For example WotR had those tile puzzles which weren't that bad by themselves but the pieces had to be selected from your inventory screen, which made them cumbersome to identify and organize. So the puzzle as a whole sucked ass.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

The best puzzle game is in Ultima 7's inventory screen

 

[Not.AI]

-no one has ever found a way to enter these ancient ruins in a thousand years.
[main character solves the most basic match-3 puzzle ever and gains entrance].

This, basically.

100%

 

[Old One]

And if you give the wrong answer you exit back to the desktop and the game deletes itself so you have to re-install it if you want to try again.

 

[bandersnatch]

**STORYFAG WARNING**

I think the only thing worse than puzzles in RPGs were when devs tried to invent new languages and force players to memorize them just to read anything in the game. The ego on these devs thinking they are Tolkien or something.

I can't even remember where I left my phone down these days, let alone some troonsy language I need to memorize just to cast a spell.

 

[HoboForEternity]

I like dungeons full of traps and puzzles. Puzzles don't belong in every rpg but some benefit from them.

 

[Darkozric]

Codex needs a musical puzzle before letting you create an account. Then we'll have less retarded threads.

Or even better, imagine rusty and other butthurts trying to solve a randomized musical puzzle every time they're trying to log in. Perfection.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Codex needs a musical puzzle before letting you create an account. Then we'll have less retarded threads.

Or even better, imagine rusty and other butthurts trying to solve a randomized musical puzzle every time they're trying to log in. Perfection.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Every cRPG should have a sophisticated randomized math puzzle

Like in Underrail.

 

[Disciple]

Codex needs a musical puzzle before letting you create an account. Then we'll have less retarded threads.

Such a puzzle would be quite hard to implement. How about one of those fancy captchas instead?