Anyone else suck at puzzle games?

[ThisAdamGuy]

I felt like playing a puzzle game today, so I decided to try out a funny looking title on PlayStation Plus called Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent. Half an hour later, I no longer felt like playing a puzzle game. I did feel like an idiot, though.

I'm good at some kinds of puzzles. I love logic puzzles, like "Name everybody in the lineup. Sally is standing next to Rick, but Rick isn't wearing a hat" etc. Crosswords are fun too. The puzzle that defeated me here gave me a square grid and told me to draw cages around the bugs on it according to specific rules. Each bug needs X amount of space, can't be grouped with another kind of bug, and the cage must have four sides. After failing that one a few times, I slunk away in shame back to the action games where low IQ thugs like me belong.

Anyone else suck at puzzle games? Are there some kinds of puzzles you're good at and some you aren't?

 

[Rezcore]

My life is a puzzle. I don't like puzzle games, can't relax playing them. That's why I love Paradox's war crime simulators

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I like puzzle games as long as there is no time limit. Timers stress me out.

 

[Nolff]

I felt like playing a puzzle game today, so I decided to try out a funny looking title on PlayStation Plus called Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent. Half an hour later, I no longer felt like playing a puzzle game. I did feel like an idiot, though.

I'm good at some kinds of puzzles. I love logic puzzles, like "Name everybody in the lineup. Sally is standing next to Rick, but Rick isn't wearing a hat" etc. Crosswords are fun too. The puzzle that defeated me here gave me a square grid and told me to draw cages around the bugs on it according to specific rules. Each bug needs X amount of space, can't be grouped with another kind of bug, and the cage must have four sides. After failing that one a few times, I slunk away in shame back to the action games where low IQ thugs like me belong.

Anyone else suck at puzzle games? Are there some kinds of puzzles you're good at and some you aren't?

I kinda like them, though sometimes I feel very stupid.

Portal's a great series for a puzzle game (and horror too).

 

[Empress_Omnii]

My suggestion for puzzle games is attempt to change your mindset? If you struggle to solve the puzzle via your regular intuition either figure out what the puzzle is trying to get you to do, or you can brute force logic the solution. (Or any number of other alternatives, depends on a lot of factors I suppose)

I don't have a clue if this is good advice due to not struggling with puzzles, but I think that should help with what I've seen people fail at.

My suggestion for puzzle games is attempt to change your mindset? If you struggle to solve the puzzle via your regular intuition either figure out what the puzzle is trying to get you to do, or you can brute force logic the solution. (Or any number of other alternatives, depends on a lot of factors I suppose)

I don't have a clue if this is good advice due to not struggling with puzzles, but I think that should help with what I've seen people fail at.

One other thing, if brute forcing a puzzle or stuck in a logic puzzle. Try writing it down, it should help, assuming you know what you're trying to do.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Puzzle games are fun. But damn do I suck at them...

 

[RepresentingDesire]

I find no fun in most puzzles.

 

[CheertheSecond]

I love puzzle games that makes my neighbour's life a living hell such as Neighbor from hell 1 and 2.

 

[LilRora]

This really depends on the puzzles. I hate puzzles with time limits especially, but also the kind that barely has tutorials and expects you notice some arbitrary and oddly specific solution.

A few other games I've played and seen though, like Opus Magnum or The Witness, are amazing to me. I guess it mostly depends on the execution; a cool concept can become annoying if done badly, and an ordinary puzzle can become really engaging if it's done well.