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I so desperately want to like adventure games. I love the visual styles, I love the storytelling opportunities, but the idea of being defeated by an opaque puzz

I so desperately want to like adventure games. I love the visual styles, I love the storytelling opportunities, but the idea of being defeated by an opaque puzzle infuriates me.

jordanpg 7y ago
Indeed, this is the only genre of video game I really care for. And yet even as I keep buying and playing the games, I am always disappointed. I don't know what the future of adventure games looks like, but it definitely does not involve inane inventory "puzzles."
_ZeD_ 7y ago
try monkey island. they may be complex puzzles (and at least in the monkeywrench puzzle even opaque for me as an italian kid with no idea of the word "monkeywrench") but at least they are funny :D
baud147258 7y ago
Well, you can still settle for reading/watching Let's Play of them.
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dfxm12 7y ago
Check out Kentucky Route Zero. It has all the visual styling and storytelling of an adventure game, but no way to be defeated by opaque puzzles.
netjiro 7y ago
Try the walking games, like Firewatch, Gone Home, Ethan Carter, Edith Finch, Dear Esther? Dour though. Revolution (Broken Sword, etc) tend to have fewer puzzles outside the context of the story than Lucas Arts (Monkey Island, etc). Some of the modern groups have built some really good stuff. Try Resonance for a great brain fry, or Technobabylon, Gemini Rue, Shardlight, Cathy Rain for lighter noggin usage. IIRC telltales Sam and Max had fun story and humour while light on puzzles. adventuregamers.com has a large library of reviews with a general scoring and som "good" and "bad" points. I've found their taste to be relevant enough to look at, while figuring out which good/bad to look for or avoid respectively.
gentleman11 7y ago
The Walking Dead telltale games are worth checking out. Almost all narrative
- kyuudou 7y ago
  I played the first one and legit cried at the end it was so intense. Been meaning to play the rest of them.

I so desperately want to like adventure games. I love the visual styles, I love the storytelling opportunities, but the idea of being defeated by an opaque puzzle infuriates me.

jordanpg 7y ago

Indeed, this is the only genre of video game I really care for. And yet even as I keep buying and playing the games, I am always disappointed. I don't know what the future of adventure games looks like, but it definitely does not involve inane inventory "puzzles."

_ZeD_ 7y ago

try monkey island. they may be complex puzzles (and at least in the monkeywrench puzzle even opaque for me as an italian kid with no idea of the word "monkeywrench") but at least they are funny :D

baud147258 7y ago

Well, you can still settle for reading/watching Let's Play of them.

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dfxm12 7y ago

Check out Kentucky Route Zero. It has all the visual styling and storytelling of an adventure game, but no way to be defeated by opaque puzzles.

netjiro 7y ago

Try the walking games, like Firewatch, Gone Home, Ethan Carter, Edith Finch, Dear Esther? Dour though. Revolution (Broken Sword, etc) tend to have fewer puzzles outside the context of the story than Lucas Arts (Monkey Island, etc). Some of the modern groups have built some really good stuff. Try Resonance for a great brain fry, or Technobabylon, Gemini Rue, Shardlight, Cathy Rain for lighter noggin usage. IIRC telltales Sam and Max had fun story and humour while light on puzzles. adventuregamers.com has a large library of reviews with a general scoring and som "good" and "bad" points. I've found their taste to be relevant enough to look at, while figuring out which good/bad to look for or avoid respectively.

gentleman11 7y ago

The Walking Dead telltale games are worth checking out. Almost all narrative

kyuudou 7y ago
I played the first one and legit cried at the end it was so intense. Been meaning to play the rest of them.