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Ikaruga is easily the hardest shooter ever.
Unless you count the ones that just throw a million random bullets at you.
Unless you count the ones that just throw a million random bullets at you.
The most satisfyingly difficult game you've ever played?
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Cadaver - Amiga.
Still waiting for a sequel to that game.
http://www.gods-country.de/tcr/content_cadaver.php
Aaah, the memories..
Still waiting for a sequel to that game.
http://www.gods-country.de/tcr/content_cadaver.php
Aaah, the memories..
Zork is a resume-worthy accreditation in problem solving and resourcefulness. It had me controlling sluice gates, avoiding rusty old knives in mazes, and clinging to the last shreds of grue-repellent light from a dying lamp for years. Although left with elaborate maps and plans of action, I've never cracked Zork II and III far enough.
Infocom had me hooked to my Commodore 64, though: HitchHiker's Guide, the detective drama Deadline, the desert adventure Infidel, and later Beyond Zork.
Infocom had me hooked to my Commodore 64, though: HitchHiker's Guide, the detective drama Deadline, the desert adventure Infidel, and later Beyond Zork.
I got through all 3 Zorks, "Enchanter", "HHGTG", "Bureaucracy" (another Douglas Adams classic) and "Leather Goddess of Phobos" just to name a few.Lazy8s said:
The sad thing is I went back to play Zork1 again and got stuck
Guess the brain is decaying with age!Offhand, I think Bureaucracy was harder than HHGttG, because I could get into the flow of HHG and loved the environment, while Bureaucracy's whole purpose was to confound me and drive me nuts. Never did finish that game... <sigh>
Never did finish that game... <sigh>
I'll give a a very rough summary of the ending then...cthellis42 said:Offhand, I think Bureaucracy was harder than HHGttG, because I could get into the flow of HHG and loved the environment, while Bureaucracy's whole purpose was to confound me and drive me nuts.
Simon F said:I'll give a a very rough summary of the ending then...cthellis42 said:Offhand, I think Bureaucracy was harder than HHGttG, because I could get into the flow of HHG and loved the environment, while Bureaucracy's whole purpose was to confound me and drive me nuts.
Leather Goddess of Phobos? Reading that reminded me of the sense of naughtiness playing that game gave me in my preteen years... wow. Thanks!
Infocom games should be required reading/playing for anyone interested in game development... its easy to catpture someones eyes but much more difficult to capture someones imagination...
Since it looks like the threads turned into a Zork fan convention.
Here's a few links, that you may find interesting:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/zork1.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/zork2.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/zork3.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/ztuu.html
http://www.infocom-if.org/index2.html
Here's a few links, that you may find interesting:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/zork1.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/zork2.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/zork3.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/ztuu.html
http://www.infocom-if.org/index2.html
Screw all yer "fancy graphics" and yer "8-bit sound," ya durn long-haired hippies! Why, back in my day, ye got ASCII and you liked it!Vysez said:
Neuromancer, an old graphic adventure game based on William Gibson's book, had puzzle solving that took more ingenuity and set-up than many find-the-key direct challenges of today. In the game, the player controlled a character whose environment was, like most games, the physical world/city around him, but it also gave the player two other environments with which to interact, an internet for browsing (which portrayed the modern world wide web with incredible resemblance even though the game came out around 1988) and a virtual reality for exploring in cyberspace.
Many of the puzzles provided well-earned satisfaction to the player by having them achieve results in the game's physical world only through elaborate manipulation of the other two environments. Money could be made in a process that involved hacking a company's network in cyberspace for passwords, accessing their payroll from secure levels of their website on the internet, substituting your name for one of their employees, and finally walking to the company's headquarters in the physical world to pick up that employee's paycheck for yourself.
Many of the puzzles provided well-earned satisfaction to the player by having them achieve results in the game's physical world only through elaborate manipulation of the other two environments. Money could be made in a process that involved hacking a company's network in cyberspace for passwords, accessing their payroll from secure levels of their website on the internet, substituting your name for one of their employees, and finally walking to the company's headquarters in the physical world to pick up that employee's paycheck for yourself.