HipMaestro wrote...
ShaDoOoW wrote...
Or ýou just asked friends who played it too if they solved it and how. There are definitely situations where a little spoiler or cheat is needed in order to finish game, though it may decrease gaming experiences its better than replay or stop playing cos the riddle is too tough etc.
Fer sure.
I dislike games with oppressive pixel searches. They are neither interesting nor challenging beyond the patience it takes to watch the pointless hours flying by with nothing to show for it. If an interesting, immersive adventure story accompanies the relentless hovering and clicking on map areas, I will always opt for any way to circumvent the tedium and cut to the chase. In situations like that, I would change the term "Cheat codes" to "Divine Grace codes". Somebody up there must have seen the premature aging that was occurring to at least one player and cast a well-appreciated blessing.
Puzzles are another matter. There is usually some innate satisfaction in solving someone else's contrivance and worth the persistence. Let's just hope the painstaking effort was due to intricacy rather than a bugged puzzle that really can't be solved with what was provided.
This! Well said!
It is about play here. Not work.
If I am having to work, then it is not play.
These days I find that I simply do not have the
TIME to invest in games as I did as a kid. Also, games back then were not so intense and big as they tend to be now, and certainly not as time intensive! Let me see, how long have I been playing NWN now? 7 years? More?
Can't say I can recall a video game from yore that captured my interest for that long. Nope.
Also, I was a pretty active kid, so I pretty much split my video playing with outdoor activites. The golden boxes were nice, but nothing beats fishing! Or catching that winning football! Hitting that one ball that wins the game. The crack of a baseball against a bat. The feel and the sound, nothing like it.
I did, however, put lots of quarters into Vid games like Donkey Kong! Still love that game.
