Hmm, most games that require "notes" has a built in note system.
But i have done calculations for manager games like Pro Cycling Manager, Football Manager and tycoon, build games, particular in minecraft for the more complex builds with redstone wiring and i always used to have a block and pencils/pens next to me on my desk just in case, now after i got a ipad i use that instead.
I've had some fond memories of having to bust out pen-and-paper to chart a puzzle. I recall a morph ball puzzle in Metroid Prime 2 where I did that. Awesome stuff.
I used to scribe down level progressions for NWN, to both come up with builds and to help me know which feats/attribute points to take when. RPG skill systems are just too simplistic anymore. Loved how different I could make my characters. Had ghostly rogues that were tough to hit and could disappear in plain sight or wisdom skewed barbarian-druids who spent most of their time fighting in dragon form. I miss that.
I've done it with some puzzles in games. Usually it's the ones where they give you little pieces of the puzzle all over the level or when they just dump a bunch of info on you at once. It tended to happen more in older games. A recent one would be Ni No Kuni. It had this made up alphabet with passages to translate and it was just easier to write stuff down as I went.
if some of you like journaling i suggest, bigwooly and his 2 journals on the skyrim forum. truly revolutionary if your interest is writing and journaling and such.
his writing helped my GAMEPLAY. that's how good it is. and, i am a hardcore guy, at heart.
@Lulu_Lulu: i know it seems like piling on, but, prince of persia "puzzles?" seriously? lol. one of the funnest games i've played is the forgotten sands game. ez and yet, sticks to its premise.
pop2:warrior within, btw, is a game for adults. criers need not apply.
Yes... Prince of Persia has puzzles, good puzzles too. And The Music in Warrior Within was absolutely dreadfull. Whos Idea was that. And what do you mean its a game for adults ? Granted its inappropriate for kids but it was hardly mature.
Not so much notes, but rather answers to puzzles or things you have to remember later in the game. Mainly for the Tales of games where you have to write down and remember people's orders for the cafe mini-game.
Fez required some note taking if you were to be all completionist about its puzzles/content. It had its own coding system that you had to piece together from the world. I took notes using my smartphone and the game even implemented the use of QR codes which was fitting and I loved Fez for that. It reminded me of a combination games i enjoyed from my childhood, with pixel aesthetics, Myst-like explorative gameplay and odd meta-game stuff.
Oh yeah I'll write notes for games I'm playing. My most recent one was writing down some things for Ni No Kuni. Aside from that it's been quite some time since I wrote notes on a game. Before I'd usually write down locations of items or secrets sometimes even drawing maps. These days the games usually do a good enough job of keeping track of everything so I don't have to take notes.
In certain adventure games where puzzles require notes in order to be easily solved. I particularly remember some tough ones in Sherlock Holmes(Awakening?) and some combos in Escape from Monkey Island 4.
I don't think I've done it for anything outside of a fighting game, just noting combo, routes, weird interactions, specifications for certain things against certain characters and/or certain timings or spacings.
I almost counted out frames for a FG in pre alpha, where things were GOING to change, drastically in a lot of situations.
Fantastic ! Now all we need is for them to go multiplatform.
Or you could just buy a DS. It's a great system.
Oh wait exclusives are evil, I forgot. Even though in this case both games really use the system features in a way that can't be replicated on other platforms.
@illmatic87: There was, but then Phil Phish got into a massive Twitter battle with a gaming personality and decided to stop making the game altogether after that fiasco.
Not so much now because most games you need to take notes on are PC puzzle games like Still Life which is an amazing game but the puzzles are super solid which require me to bring out my trusty pad and pen, but reality is, the more we keep going the more games are becoming alot more dumbed down to keep the ordinary gamers happy, plus most games which would require you to right things down, now already caculate what you need to know by the time you come to that section.
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