Puzzles and puzzle games! do you like them?

[DazZ.]

I adore puzzles, and often buy games that are just puzzles like Spacechem or Briad. Limbo to an extent.

Then all the Professor Layton games were damn fun then Puzzle Agent where it was just puzzles in a point and click.

I hate puzzles that are bad because the game mechanics make it difficult, which is often the case in games that have puzzles thrown in to break up the gameplay a bit. However a game is made much better in my eyes when you can have a puzzle within the games environment and it completely feels natural.

 

[Hazy992]

Most of them no, I just get bored most of the time or pissed off if I can't work it out.

I like Portal though

 

[jebara]

I used to ignore them but after Portal, Cathrine and Ghost Trick... I might say its becoming one of my favorite genres.

 

[Dragonpit]

Yeah, I love puzzles. It's always so satisfying when I manage to figure something out for myself. That said, if the puzzles themselves aren't done right, it can be frustrating. Putting in a very sophisticated puzzle into an action game, for example, as opposed to a simpler one.

 

[teqrevisited]

I like them but some of them confuse the hell out of me.

SpaceChem, for example. I love the soundtrack and the idea behind it but the puzzles make my ears emit smoke accompanied by the toxic aroma of burning plastic.

I do ok with most of them though.

 

[OpticalJunction]

yes I like them particularly the creative ones like portal and spacechem.I played an old game called entombed back in the day and it was fantastic, the atmosphere was very good and the puzzles relatively challenging. grim fandango is an excellent puzzler too.

 

[zumbledum]

I think activision should add some puzzles in the next CoD to troll people , imagine the rage .

oh come now they already have to get the disk the right way up and pick up the controller!

but joking aside i can sometimes enjoy 30 mins of tetris/bejeweled style puzzlers. but what i loathe is games like early Resident evil and devil may cry , your having fun killing stuff then theres some obscure pointless puzzle that has you running around around tugging on candlesticks interfering with paintings.

 

[krazykidd]

I think activision should add some puzzles in the next CoD to troll people , imagine the rage .

oh come now they already have to get the disk the right way up and pick up the controller!

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That made me laugh way more that it should have . I got the image of a guy playing CoD while holding his controller backwards and raging at the screen he'a dying all the time .

 

[Total LOLige]

I'm not going to lie I love puzzles, my favourite thing about the Uncharted games is the puzzles. There were times while playing where I thought to myself I've been shooting bad guys in the face for ages, where are my fucking puzzles. My favourite thing about Tomb Raider are the puzzles, dual wielding pistols and shooting giant squid in the face. I think the Portal games are class, Portal 2 is now one of my favourite games(acquired through Steam sale). I'm not really a fan of point and click puzzle games though. I like them but I don't have alot of them, looking into Quantum Conundrum but I'm waiting for the price to drop. I'm not great at them but I enjoy them 4 hours for Portal and 9 hours for Portal 2.

 

[Skylare]

I didn't mind the temple puzzles in ffx, but i don't go out of my way to find puzzle games.

 

[Syndarr]

I love puzzle games! I'm playing Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors right now and enjoying it immensely. :3 Part of why I love them is that I like the feeling of flexing my brainmuscles, but I also have fond memories of playing adventure games with my family back when I was a kid and solving puzzles with them. A little while ago, I was playing Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis for the first time, and I was stumped on a puzzle in it, so I poked a friend of mine who happened to be online at the time and asked for his help, and we figured the puzzle out together. That made me really happy, because it reminded me of the quality time I'd spent solving puzzles with my family.

That said, I don't love ALL puzzles. The Professor Layton games are awesome, but I hate the moving block puzzles that they are so fond of. And I still haven't beaten Braid because it confuses the crap out of me. ;_;

 

[AndrewF022]

If the game is built around the puzzles then definitely, a couple of good modern mainstream examples would be Portal 2 and Catherine. I loved both of these games to death.

Not a fan of when games shove a handful of puzzles into them though, such as Half Life or Uncharted, they tend to be overly simplistic and really only serve as a means of pacing the game to avoid 'combat fatigue'. Don't get me wrong, I love Half Life 2, one of my favorite games of all time, but doing the same simplistic physics puzzles over and over, urgh.. no clip time..

 

[lunavixen]

I love puzzles and puzzle based games, though, in games it has to be properly integrated or central to the game, games that have improperly integrated puzzles irks me to no end

Captcha: nitty gritty

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure is a great game that successfully merges both the platformer and puzzle genre.

You have your standard platformer going on on the top of the DS screen (you can attack with a sword, fire your ranged weapon, wall climb, etc.) and on the bottom touch screen, you solve puzzles similar to those found in Puzzle Fighter or Pokemon Puzzle League. By clearing more rows on the bottom screen, you get bonuses, power-ups, ammo for you ranged weapon, and you can temporarily transform into and invincible mecha that has more devastating firepower.

This game mechanic is utilized throughout the game and is even present in boss fights. It's a great game for anyone who wants to see two seemingly different genres work together harmoniously.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Puzzle games, yes. Tetris Attack is one of my all-time favourites along with its ancestor.

There are very few non-puzzle games that have successfully integrated puzzles into their gameplay however, mainly RPGs. The only ones other than Zelda (where pretty much everything is a puzzle including the bosses) I can think of off the top of my head which had really interesting and logical puzzles were Lufia 2 and Wild Arms 3, both of whom made sure you would never have to solve a puzzle while dealing with random battles, which is something that really turned me off Star Ocean.

 

[Wayneguard]

Not when they're explicitly puzzle games. If the puzzles are part of something more (Shadow of the Colossus, Resident Evil, etc) then they can be very enjoyable.