What was the hardest puzzle in a game that you had to solve?

[Anonymous No.6669623]

[Anonymous No.6669625]

>>6669623
why you keep trying to hide the thread you posted this in:
>>6669442

[Anonymous No.6669842]

>>6669623
Quite many of them in the original 1992 Alone in the Dark:

-I had no idea how to defeat the library ghost
-I had no idea how to kill Pregzt
-I had no idea how to kill/get past the Chthonian in the underground maze
-For a long time I didn't know that you can tame the dining room zombies by serving them the pot of human flesh
-For a long time I didn't know how to neutralize the indian paintings

And so on, and so forth. I haven't encountered such challenging puzzles since Forbidden Siren, and shamefully, I must admit to using walktroughs for both.

[Anonymous No.6670154]

>>6669842
>-For a long time I didn't know that you can tame the dining room zombies by serving them the pot of human flesh
So you're actually saying this is a puzzle that bamboozled you
>find a big pot of human flesh in the kitchen
>zombies sitting around a dining table in the adjacent dining room
Fucking hell

[Anonymous No.6670161]

In Day of the Tentacle, you make a thunderstorm happen by washing a car. That's bullshit.

[Anonymous No.6670165]

>>6669623
That one indeed gave me a lot of trouble back in the day.

[Anonymous No.6670216]

There's a section of Space Quest 6 where you need to rearrange the chips in a datacorder to turn it into a homing beacon. Originally, there was supposed to be another item in the game that gives you a hint on how to solve it, but it never made it into the final game. Sierra's solution was to put the hint in the game's manual. I can't remember exactly what the hint was, but it was cryptic as hell. Later compilation packs or digital releases didn't have the manual either, making an already obtuse and frustrating puzzle nigh impossible without a faq.

[Anonymous No.6670276]

>>6670216
Another hard puzzle that comes to mind is also from the Space Quest series. Only this puzzle's difficulty has to do one part Sierra's instant death bullshit, and one part outdated tech.

There's a section in Space Quest 4 where you need to escape from a futuristic mall before you get vaporized by Time Cops. In the center of this mall is a zero gravity skating rink, and to survive, you have to float from one end to the other. To do this, you have to float to a very specific area of the screen as the Cops appear, and continue to click your movement from place to place to avoid the shots. This must be precise, you can't just click where the shots aren't, you have to float in a set pattern with exact timing. Any deviation from this means that you will die. If you can't see why this isn't aggravating enough, to complete this sequence you have to go through 3 or 4 screen transitions, each with their own patterns.

Well at least you can save scum it, right? Lol, no. Maybe if you are playing the original version on a PC from 1991. You see, the shots the cops fire, and the movements you must make were coded to the CD-ROM cycle speed for that version of the game. This caused your movement icon to turn into a 'wait' sign as your character completes the action given. As a result, playing it on modern system causes the shots to fire faster than they normally would. It turns and already blood-vessel popping 'puzzle' into an exercise in masochism.

In every one of those threads that's posted where OP asks "want to replay game, remember that part," the image of this damn mall always comes back. It is the thattest of that parts.

[Anonymous No.6670291]

>>6669623
Half the puzzles in the original Discworld game.
>need to get a moustache as part of becoming a hero?
>first you need to clean the license plate on a cart at a stable, which requires collecting a pot of soapy water and a brush. When it's clean you read it
>then you go to some rooftops over an alley where the assassin's guild are training their apprentices, and use a knife to cut down a ladder they're using as a bridge
>when an assassin jumps to where the ladder was and falls to the ground, you go down and talk to him
>after he groggily tells you one of the game's running jokes "Did you get the number of that donkey cart?" you tell him the number on the license plate
>this leads to the donkey from the stable being arrested and locked up at the town square in some stocks, and you can use scissors to cut off his tail to use as a moustache

[Anonymous No.6670293]

>>6670291
The octopus custard thing tho

[Anonymous No.6670325]

>>6670291
This and Gabriel Knight, man. What is it with complex moustache puzzles in adventure games?

[Anonymous No.6670656]

>>6669623
I remember the water sample puzzle in RE3 being a really pain

[Anonymous No.6670667]

The fucking Crests puzzle from Policenauts.

[Anonymous No.6670676]

>>6669623
>knowledge is treasure
When this game was new, if you didn’t own a strategy guide, you probably never played past this point.

[Anonymous No.6670712]

>>6669623
Literally no one solved this by themselves.

The puzzle might be slightly less obscure in Japanese. I looked up the Japanese solution, but without being fluent and trying to solve it myself, it’s difficult for me to say how much of this shit was a game design problem and how much was a translation problem.

[Anonymous No.6670715]

>>6669623
Literally no one solved this by themselves.

The puzzle might be slightly less obscure in Japanese. I looked up the Japanese solution, but without being fluent and trying to solve it myself, it’s difficult for me to say how much of this shit was a game design problem and how much was a translation problem.

[Anonymous No.6670742]

>>6670656
congrats, you have a low IQ.

[Anonymous No.6670996]

>>6670676
this
filtered me hard

[Anonymous No.6671002]

>>6670656
>align the bars so that the sum of the three lines matches the sample
how the fuck was that hard nigger?

[Anonymous No.6671045]

>>6669623
Dunno by hardest by it took me a while to get the family portraits puzzle in Resident Evil Code Veronica solved in my first run.

[Anonymous No.6671046]

>>6671002
Dunno maybe I was too lazy at the time to try the different combinations, maybe its not that hard as I remembered

[Anonymous No.6671095]

>>6669623
Some illogical, bullshit puzzles in Deja Vu and Shadowgate.

[Anonymous No.6671101]

>>6669623
>piano puzzle
Easy peasy. The hard one was the zodiac sign puzzle.

[Anonymous No.6671171]

>>6671101
The one involving the number of limbs? It took me a while to figure it out.

[Anonymous No.6671220]

>>6671046
it is hard, they are just being retards

[Anonymous No.6671224]

This fucker.

[Anonymous No.6671225]

>>6670715
How is this hard, the rooms leading up to this area gave you the answers??

[Anonymous No.6671242]

how to love

[Anonymous No.6671335]

[Anonymous No.6671391]

>>6669623
This puzzle was simple but the SH1 puzzle where you have to count limbs I had to look up
It's probably not infamous because it's so late in game

[Anonymous No.6671795]

You know it's true.

[Anonymous No.6672536]

All the fucking code puzzles in Might&Magic 1-5

Seriously, John Van Canagheim can go suck off all the crossword puzzle creators and choke.

Yeah I'm still mad and not even embarrassed about it.

[Anonymous No.6672598]

The one where you FINALLY realize after scouring the area for hours and trying fucking absolutely everything that your game glitched where something didn't trigger when it was supposed to let you move on, and then the game saved to permanently ruin your file.

[Anonymous No.6672610]

The one where you FINALLY realize after scouring the area for hours and trying fucking absolutely everything that your game glitched where something didn't trigger when it was supposed to let you move on, and then the game saved to permanently ruin your file.

[Anonymous No.6672937]

Goat puzzle.

[Anonymous No.6672952]

>>6669623
You just posted it. I had to look that up on the internet and solve it.

[Anonymous No.6673386]

>>6670154
In my defense, I was 12 at the time. Not too well versed in my Romeroesque zombie lore.

[Anonymous No.6673439]

How tha fuck do you complete this minigame in T2 for C64?

[Anonymous No.6675676]

>>6670676
I made it by that one. Got stuck in some stupid cave for a year though where you had to freeze a platform and walk across it or something though. I kept trying to jump. It was like that damn TMNT sewer all over again. Finally a friend grabbed the controller out of my hand and just did it for me.

[Anonymous No.6675695]

>>6672937
Holy shit I still have nightmares of that

[Anonymous No.6677191]

>>6671225
Then you’re forgetting how this segment plays out. The hints don’t turn this into a straight logic puzzle. You really do need to guess the word.

[Anonymous No.6677209]

>>6671095
Deja Vu was bullshit. Fuck that game.

[Anonymous No.6678664]

That crystal switch puzzle in the Ice Dungeon in LTTP. I only ever did it properly once, the other times I just went to Misery Mire and got the block-making cane prematurely.

When I played 4 Swords I was mentally preparing myself to do it properly, only to find that they'd removed the puzzle altogether.

[Anonymous No.6678870]

>>6670656
RE3 had shitty puzzles

[Anonymous No.6678887]

>>6670656
This is a legendary bad puzzle.