The 5 Hardest Puzzles In Gaming - The Gist

I'm so old, I actually played all of those games at the time (except Still Life). That anyone managed to complete King's Quest is incredible to me (I well recall rage quitting that monstrosity of a game because you could actually insta-die too). Remember there were no internet forums/guides back then to help you out! Gamers sure have it easy these days, that's for sure.

Great episode, Silent Hill definitely deserved to be there IMO,

Was expecting a nod to 7th Guest here; that was a fun stream! :)

Most Ponit&clicks are hard. I can rarely manage them without checking the walkthrough. Though I stop playing if I do check the walkthrough way too often because it doesn't make sense anymore.

@Johny_47 I am a big fan of Freedom Fighter. Real super game.

How about entire Section Z (edit: the NES version) :p

I got stuck on FEZ a few times for those things that it took the entire community to figure out.

Some honorable mentions goes to: LoLo games, solomons key and zeldas screen scrollers (until you find those wise men how would you know it is five times up :*? )

she is either SO high or just appears super slow when talking on cam xD no offense

lol, I remember typing nikstlitslepmur over 100 times back in the 80's. Don't know if I was thinking if I just kept entering it the game would finally accept it lol.

I remember Catherine had some seriously difficult puzzles in it, but at least they were fair.

Wasn't the code on the back of the books if you put them in the right order? SH3 was a long time ago, i don't quite remember. Also awesome titel song!

The piano in Silent Hill was a hard one. It seems that I need to play Silent Hill 3 ant try the Shakespeare puzzle.

Anyone who made it through Riven without looking up hints is one brilliant and patient mofo.

That first one's wicked, '- One cup of love, - 1/2 cup of generosity... in a bowl, cream together generosity, sweetness and love to give your man a sweetheart' hahaa very cool =P

Oh yeah, seriously, playing a text based game... it's the 21st century... blinkin' heck, the first one with the recipe was the only interesting one.

This video could have been titled, "Why GameDelay doesn't play puzzle games. Or games with puzzles. Or games that look favorably on puzzles. (Except for Portal, that was worth it.)"

Wow, had a bit of deja vu there. Cracked had an article very identical to this,

The 6 Most Absurdly Difficult Video Game Puzzles

list... http://www.cracked.com/article_19974_the-6-most-absurdly-difficult-video-game-puzzles_p2.html

I remember Liesure Suit Larry games and Space Quest games as having some ridiculous ones where it wasn't so much a puzzle as it was something you had to randomly guess or never get right. Sometimes game developers seem to miss the difference between a puzzle forcing you to reason something out and a "puzzle" that's just "enjoy dumb luck or fail." Anyhoo, I remember something with a tornado being stupid in Castlevania II and the code in Space Quest IV being impossible because it was randomly generated every single time. Also, not really a puzzle but Water Temple in Ocarina of Time...yeah, time to pull your hair out.

Yeah, there's a fine line between a hard and a stupid puzzle.

One that I remember fondly is from Riven - the one in the big golden dome, which powers up the small teleportation domes. It was logical, and tied the whole game world together.

If you're after some tricky puzzles in a modern game you should take a look at The Secret World. Their Investigation quests routinely require real-world research (to the point where they embedded a browser in the game for just this purpose). Also, everyone knows how to recognize and translate Morse Code in real time, right?

Safecracker is one of the hardest puzzle games

u need to play monkey Island or day of the tentacle ...

Water Temple. **** that place.

Police Quest 3's pentagram puzzle was the worst puzzle ever.

I sort of wish I could go back to the first time I played The Longest Journey. Except that I got distracted by a crab person and almost set fire to my kitchen with a flaming pierogi.

When I solved Silent Hill's piano puzzle, I felt smarter than Einstein. Then the Shakespeare one came along and I felt like a noob.

Puzzles in RE games aren't that hard. Man, the puzzles in Silent Hill games are really crazy.

Before I watch this

Re3 Water treatment plant puzzle better be on here

O.D.T (Or Die Trying) was a Playstation 1 game way back when. It is fun if you like getting frustrated and being tense indefinitely. And solving puzzles :-)

Oh I solved the rubber duckie puzzle on my own but I'm still stuck with the gay policeman, IMO one of the hardest puzzles due to its obscurity was the signpost in Grim Fandango.

Hearing those descriptions make my brain hurt. It really is hard to come up with a god puzzle that is also intuitive and logical.

RE3 water treatment puzzle was a pain in the ass for me.

That would be getting the second ending for Year Walk.

That Shakespeare Puzzle seems very interesting.