Cryptic bullshit in vidya

The clue was, and I quote, "palm trees… and 8." I'm not sure how anyone ever managed to figure out that meant 'walk in the shape of an 8 around these two random palm trees.' I assumed it meant find an area with 8 palm trees. "Cave of Oasis" means nothing since there's three areas that could easily be considered an oasis.

Didn't that bomb thing worked if you killed nine enemies and then killed the tenth one with a bomb without getting hit?
How was anyone supposed to figure this shit out in the 80s?

How is anyone supposed to figure out a lot of this shit? Just look at fucking Eltonbrand in Morrowind. It's there as a joke from the devs.

Buy a Nintendo Power subscription or call their paid hint hotline. :^)

You are right actually, without Nintendo Power people would have never figured out how to get the white sword behind the waterfall or the magic sword in the graveyard. It makes you think why people believe so strongly that the original zelda is a masterpiece

I vaguely remember working that out when I was a kid. I don't think it's that vague. I could probably work it out now.

Look, just come out and post the video you just watched. You know you want to.

Ok, just because you asked kindly

Are you being sarcastic?

I somehow managed to miss that entire area for a whole hour. By the time I found it, I was so set on finding 8 palm trees that I just walked out the way I came, not even passing by those two. I guess I'm just retarded.

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It's a meme to say that the puzzles are deliberately obtuse and cryptic but there aren't any of them that don't provide enough information or can't be figured out from the given information

This entire fucking dungeon. I just got past it last night without this map. Now that I have looked at the map, I have to wonder just what the hell they were smoking

PS2 is full of bullshit dungeons and too much grinding. I dunno why it's one of the more popular games in the series.

Good thing that doing the Mario pipe warp in Gate of Illusion isn't a puzzle, since it doesn't have a tablet!

Pic related had probably the most cryptic thing i've ever seen in vidya.

More like years back, if it was the old GT vid about it. The original Japanese stuff I read from Legends of Localization.

Back in the old days localisation was an even bigger mess in vidya full of cryptic bullshit due to poor translations. At least we got a few good memes out of them, right CATS?

You are like childs. Observe.

Has not been solved to this day

It was thousands of times better than the super serious shit writing we get today. I wish the stuff we got today went through a filter of bad localization, it would make the writing more bearable. Since developers don't know how to program anything intriguing or interesting into games anymore, it would leave something to be discovered.

Wait a minute that card…

But it does. Even the best localizers like XSEED aren't great by any measure.

HEH HEH HEH

Wait a minute that card

Is Legacy of the Wizard for the NES as bad as anons say for cryptic need a pen and paper for the map?

why

And it's used nowhere else in the game, except for an equally bullshit warp in the Mausoleum to flood the tower.

Yeah why don't I just press up to fly up to a platform I can't reach, too?

wat

Is it confirmed you beat the game 8 times?
Each world has 4 levels to it, and there's 8 worlds. That's 32 maps. 8x32 = 256; it could be a simple matter of completing 256 maps to roll over into the new worlds

Not sure if it works like that. You get a star on the title screen every time you beat the game, and when there's 8 stars, then you can go to the secret worlds.

Except
The arrow pointing down wasn't a strong enough indication? I guess you need the advantage of having played the original first to know you need to do something in those two places but it's not like it's some inscrutable moon logic, maybe the game just isn't for you

How do you think the ladders work exactly?

Oh, and you have to hold A at the title screen to get to them, it doesn't automatically put you into the them when you try to start a new game, so it doesn't seem like a rollover.

You don't have to beat the game 8 times in a row. The disk saves each completion for up to 24 stars. The cryptic part is that you need to hold a button when hitting start to even access it.

user, trust me here.
The arrows on the background in the Mausoleum are pretty much blended right into the background. You wouldn't know to look for them unless you knew to look for them. It's circular logic.

I will concede that the particular pipe is noteworthy because it has a giant fucking statue pointing at it but you can't even warp until you activate the flooding puzzle, so when you come back there hours later, you still won't realize what the trigger is/was or how to solve it, and you'd pretty much have to rely on dumb luck.

Also, teleporting =/= climbing an obvious ladder.

Welp, that is pretty cryptic. Time to visit the musician guy?

What was it?

(Hail Satan)

(double checked)
I figured that shit out when I was six without any help from magazines or the internet. All you've got to do is read the manual and read what the people tell you in game. Spending money on the fortune tellers helped too. I used to save scum those bitches though.
I mean, when you're six and you've got no responsibilities and some old fuck tells you
VISIT THE OLD MAN AT THE GRAVE
then yeah, I'm gonna dick around in the graveyard and see if I can find any secret doors. Granted I bombed all the walls first instead of trying to push the graves, but I still figured it out.

user, I don't care what achievements you have, it's not like it makes your argument better. That arrow is way more distinct than any of the other details in the background, you just need to be paying attention.

Well you could just use the clues, since there are a few text clues for that one. Since that was the complaint for the Gate of Illusion and all of its many illusions

I don't see it.

An NPC literally tells you how to solve it you ridiculous fucking double potato.

It's right there

That's a chipped stone. They are all over the place.

Perfectly shaped like an equilateral triangle and beveled on the sides?

Nigga, just look at the map you posted. Every room has one of those.

Hope you thought to try that, otherwise enjoy wandering around for ages because there's not enough keys to complete the next dungeon

There's a similar looking crack in one of the pillar textures in another room, but it's not the same size or shape. I guess if you squint they look the same

Nigger, the people in town tell you to find the secret at the end of town. If you can't put two and two together you wouldn't have gotten that far in the game in the first place.

Here's a pillar from the ghost room. It's exactly the same, aside from some slight jpg compression artifacting.

I'm squinting and I don't see how they look any different

Did the La Mulana remake help with puzzle/ difficulty at all? I beat the original, including Hell, but needed a guide for much of it and never want to do it again.

I did say to

Some puzzles have extra steps to make sure you don't solve them by accident. They're talking about the one where you have to break the pot to reveal the seal for the tower, you have to do two extra things to flood the tower now

Figure out what? Why you're not riding the chocobo? Hasn't been solved to this day.

so, it's more complex now? fuck that

Most people say they found it easier

This is why I like Zelda 2 more, the towns and the NPCs in them actually help you out instead of "grumble grumble"

Well; speaking of cript bullshit I saw a thread on something I don't think I will ever understand in my whole fucking life, it's also pretty creepy Idk I find living talking shapes to be even worse than lovecraften horrors least I know what am getting into with the dark gods. these fucking things just push me to far corner of the room and just nope.

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what is this?

I feel the remake is much easier.

Why someone makes videos like those? Aren't guides like those are illegal?

Checking these quads for the fuck of it

8ch.net/v/res/12231938.html

Heres the thread, have fun getting lost.

How boring.

:^)

Seriously, if you thought this was hard you're fucking retarded.

I got stuck on them. I'm retarded, but being tricked by those is understandable. It's a weird mechanic, the initial movement from landing on them tricks you into thinking that you could get there by jumping at the right rhythm, and the fact that you don't get an instant response that's noticeable at all when you quickly press up and down.
The game gives you all the right "you have to jump on it with a proper rhythm", and no real cues to think that up and down would work. If jumping on them didn't make them bob up and down, nobody would have had problems.

Maybe this isn't all that cryptic, but I was playing Ocarina of Time for the first time recently, and I had no clue how to get into the dungeon at the bottom of the well. I was stuck on that shit for days until I swallowed my pride and looked it up to realize the wall was fake. Am I a moron for not guessing that immediately, or should it have been obvious?

Isn't there something that tells you to go to where the statue is pointing?

I played OoT before I could read, yes, you are a moron.
Better late then never I suppose but I always feel bad for people who never got to experience these games in their prime. Especially games which arguably hasn't aged terribly well like OoT

I think the exact wording is "Look at the place where Migela points". It's honestly a better puzzle in the original version but I don't totally understand why so many people are taking umbrage with the new step

It is a children's game

Wouldn't know, I had the strategy guide as a kid and I've long since memorized all of that shit for all subsequent playthroughs.

Games don't age.

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It IS possible to do it with timing jumps. Just very very hard.

Its a childrens game in the same sense Don Bluth movies are childrens movies.

Not to underage cancer who can't learn to appreciate the games for what they are instead of nitpicking on its graphics and shit

I must just fucking suck, because I ran out the goddamn clock trying my first time.

You get clues for that one. The only cryptic bullshit in Zelda II that stumped me was the fucking mirror. She says she lost her mirror, so what do you have to do to find it? Duck and stab all the fucking tables I guess. Worse than *grumble grumble* in the first one. I ended up wandering caves for hours trying to figure out where the game stashed it, because I just couldn't deduce that I'd get it by stabbing the fucking background.

I only ever did it once. Not some crazy fever dream "that kid" bullshit, but it is possible.

I remember very clearly because when I was a kid I would also get stuck at that thing for 10 minutes until you time out. But when I finally managed to do it with the jumping I almost shat myself, I could finally progress onto the rest of the game.

Then a friend came over a few days later and showed me how stupid I was.

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Something tells me you've never been far

What the shit are you talking about? I made that game my bitch, along with master quest as a kid without any sort of walkthrough or guide. I was 8 or 9 at the time.

Getting maruera leaves was bullshit, too. A mountain island where you teleport in the caves, and the entire island is filled with trees that all look exactly the same, but a single one is the right one. I have no idea how I had the patience to beat that gametwice.

Did anyone ever solve this with out looking in the book?

Nigger take your ARG bullshit back to whatever shithole you crawled from.

Very informative. Thanks.

LOL at the newfag.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

but that's not english haha what are you even saying :)

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WAIT A MINUTE THAT MEME

What the fuck are you talking about? If anything games are the best example of media becoming dated and losing its potency with time.

That's the original formatting, retard.

i'm doing this

out of spite

FYI

You must be just parroting the trend of January or you must be a nigger

this is how I space shit on reddit okay, I think I know what reddit spacing is ;)

reported my 'friend' …

you sir have earned an upvote.

Time to bring up serious fuckin' bullshit

good job you sheep faggot

bioshock was pretty cool and fun

Bioshock was pretty neat but Infinite was hot garbage dude

At least the porn was great

No it wasn't.

That's some really shit taste, user.

It was miles ahead of 2 at least.

For fuck's sake, did any of you even play this game? This wasn't a puzzle, it was a tutorial on how to interact with the environment.

The game was bad enough, no reason to lie about it.

Just use pen and paper and you wont get lost.

Who the fuck is you???

How in the world was I supposed to know that it was for the dimensional corridor's hidden boss? Considering that the dance of life that you have to do earlier in the game ALSO consists of swinging your weapon left and swinging your weapon right, that was what I thought the tablet was supposed to be referring to. Should I have just ruled that out when there was another tablet that explicitly told you the dance of life and that the first one wouldn't have been redundant for no reason?

One of the most infuriating puzzles in the game for me, hands-down.

how is it that people consider 2 the worst?

the game even hitches a bit when you walk around the palm trees. of course I figured it out on my own.

But why is the vast majority of it her getting fucked by dogs.

Why not?

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XSEED is bad, but there's a difference between doing a shitty job and the cryptic mysterious otherworldly shit from old games.

Holy shit dude, you are full of stupid. I am honestly embarrassed to share a board with idiots like you. Drink a glass of nails.

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Did someone say Cryptic Bullshit?

>making obscure puzzles more obscure not even counting how the PAL version is broken and dead

>you're supposed to take a digimon that can't handle the cold, let it get sick, stay in the cold and don't heal the digimon until it passes out, THEN the hidden digimon comes out of hiding to help you. Then you need to come back with a digimon that isn't weak to cold and he'll join you

I also realize something.

>they are in Paris France where all the royal families got the chopping block

>turns out Giro was not incorrect and girogiro = sharp eyed in japanese, but the above situation is too perverse to overlook