Logic in Gaming

[crimsondynamics]

You totally just reminded me of a dream I had last night. It was weird. In my dream, I was in court and had to get the judge to take this case to appeal or something, but he wouldn't do it just be talking to him. So I thought 'ah! And used law book with stand', and then, in my dream, watched Guybrush reading the law to the Judge. wtf? Then I woke up in my dream (I was still dreaming, dreamt I woke up) and I was at my grandparent's house, and I'd been shaving in my sleep, but only got half of it, and there was shaving cream everywhere. And ultimately I decided that it was not worth saving the extra time shaving asleep to get shaving foam all over your bed and walls. So there we go. Find some logic in that. I hope I haven't just laid some murderous psyche out for all to see.

Used law book with stand? *snort*

Guybrush? *chuckle*

Yeah, SCUMM games will do that to you.

It's not you who is psychotic, it's those guys from LucasArts who came up with those fiendishly devious puzzles. After all these years I still can't "Escape" from Monkey Island, yet I refuse to resort to an FAQ.

 

[Danny Ocean]

My gamer sense is tingling.

 

[fedpayne]

What I said

Used law book with stand? *snort*

Guybrush? *chuckle*

Yeah, SCUMM games will do that to you.

It's not you who is psychotic, it's those guys from LucasArts who came up with those fiendishly devious puzzles. After all these years I still can't "Escape" from Monkey Island, yet I refuse to resort to an FAQ.

Didn't love 'Escape'. Curse is my personal favourite, I was gobsmacked when I heard Guybrush speak. It was so right, and it's the best looking of the series. And I think the funniest.

"Five of a kind! Even you can't beat that!"
"Well done, Mr. Threepwood. But the question remains, can you beat a pair. A pair of murderous smugglers!"
"Well done Mr. Threepwood. But the question remains

 

[qbert4ever]

So, wait. You mean to tell me that I can do better at games by not being a dumbass?

I must test this theory at once and will report back with my findings.

 

[qbert4ever]

So, wait. You mean to tell me that I can do better at games by not being a dumbass?

I must test this theory at once and will report back with my findings.

Colossal amounts of sarcasm detected Captain Picard! What is your course of action?

Captains log. Stardate *cough*2342orwhatever*cough*. After using long-range sensors, transporter beams, and a quick call to a Klingon that owes me a favor, I have found that most games require you to use your brain-functions in order to pass each level. However, it should be noted that this strategy flies out the veiwport as soon as you enter into the unknown space that is the home of what I have dubbed the "FPS". It seems that in this strange area, the less brain power you use, the better you do. It may explain why most occupants of this space are under the age of twelve, with all others either in a sort of "mute" state, or in small groups that keep to themselves.

It seems to me that in order to do well in these games, one should try to keep their I.Q. Level over that of a spoon, lest you be caught in some sort of time-warp that turns you in to one of those screaming fools. Best to avoid most of them, and harass your friends and crew members if they show signs of turning into one of the idiots. Remember, no insult is too much if it keeps them from that fate, and they will thank you later.

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[Maddenfreak]

I wish you wern't such a hardass, putting people down just because they may know less than you, in real life you must be more of a prick than PS3fanboy

 

[Maddenfreak]

do you even have a freind? or do you just get your kicks by insulting people all day?

 

[SteveDave]

I like games that make logic necessary.

 

[GenHellspawn]

So, wait. You mean to tell me that I can do better at games by not being a dumbass?

I must test this theory at once and will report back with my findings.

Colossal amounts of sarcasm detected Captain Picard! What is your course of action?

It must be tiring, lugging around that giant brain of yours.

 

[Shellsh0cker]

do you even have a freind? or do you just get your kicks by insulting people all day?

First of all: please don't double-post. If you've got something else to say, use the "edit" button next to the "quote" and "reply" buttons in your previous post.

Second: No need to take stuff personally, and even if you do, a personal attack is no way to respond. The anonymity afforded by the Internet makes all of us a bit bolder at times, and the ability to laugh at yourself helps things run more smoothly.

When I played Portal for the first time, I seldom got stumped. I would consider it a pretty easy game, with a few challenges thrown in. I made my brother, and my brother-in-law play it, more or less the first time they play a game since the Amiga 500 stopped being the greatest thing, and their first FPS/wasd+mouse game, and they went past important stuff (buttons, companion cube etc.) despite being told visually and by sound that these are important, while using much time on the nondescript electrical boxes hanging on walls in all FPS. This is not due to them being stupid, they are both highly educated, they are just not "trained" to catch those clues.

A surgeon will probably easier detect and recognise an inner bleeding than a lawyer, not because he is smarter, or more prone to logical thinking, but because that is what he does.

Quoted for truth. I swore to myself that I wouldn't give my brother any advice as I watched him play Portal, and it was a daunting task as he passed obvious clues, and especially as he somehow attempted to do the right thing in completely the wrong way. He's a smart kid, too; I honestly didn't expect it to take him as long as it did.

 

[vede]

Maddenfreak, please stop insulting people. If you don't have anything relevant to the topic, don't post. If you do have something relevant to the topic, make posts that don't involve insults to other people.

Instead of:

I wish you wern't such a hardass, putting people down just because they may know less than you, in real life you must be more of a prick than PS3fanboy

try for "I think the general gaming community needs to put aside their differences in intelligence and try to play games that involve a good middle ground of brain-power, or try to play games in groups of players with the same average intelligence level as each other, to avoid people seeming like dicks to those with a lower intelligence level, and people seeming like vegetables to those above their intelligence level."

Never go for attacks on an individual.

Asshole.

(That was a sarcastic joke, don't get all worked up.)

 

[Aardvark Soup]

What I said

Used law book with stand? *snort*

Guybrush? *chuckle*

Yeah, SCUMM games will do that to you.

It's not you who is psychotic, it's those guys from LucasArts who came up with those fiendishly devious puzzles. After all these years I still can't "Escape" from Monkey Island, yet I refuse to resort to an FAQ.

Didn't love 'Escape'. Curse is my personal favourite, I was gobsmacked when I heard Guybrush speak. It was so right, and it's the best looking of the series. And I think the funniest.

"Five of a kind! Even you can't beat that!"
"Well done, Mr. Threepwood. But the question remains, can you beat a pair. A pair of murderous smugglers!"
"Well done Mr. Threepwood. But the question remains

I'm currently playing through all the Monkey Island games (I'm now at the beginning of Escape, although I still have to beat Curse on Hard mode) and I really have to consult GameFAQs a lot of times, usually for very stupid things: how could I know that I could pick up the dog,that I had to set two steps to the right to make the gull go away (I really got stuck there for a long while), that the green drink would make me spit further, that I must give the handkerchief to LeChuck (okay, there was still some logic behind that), that I could saw off a pirate's wooden leg, that there where still nails in my coffin etc.

Grim Fandango and the Maniac Mansion games where pretty bad at this too. The games are still awesome though and at least a tiny mistake doesn't render the game unbeatable (like in Sierra adventures).