Pixel hunting and mazes

Jeysie · November 14, 2003, 06:00:04 PM

* Jeysie offers a sacrifice to the Adventure Gods for no pixel hunting in KQ9.

Inventory-based puzzles don't bother me so much, although I admit I'm more fond of plot and dialogue puzzles.

Oh, and no mazes or twisty little beanstalk/mountain/etc. paths, either.

Peace & Luv, Liz

mfortunato · November 14, 2003, 10:00:42 PM

I hate pixel hunting as well. And all of us on the team hate that.

Will there be a maze puzzle in the game? Only Cesar can tell! Since I haven't read much of the script

Cez · November 15, 2003, 01:13:16 AM

There is one maze puzzle, but it's a puzzle in itself, not a map

Jeysie · November 15, 2003, 09:32:26 AM

Hmm. I did play one game with a maze that was actually quite interesting. The maze was all more or less one big mostly-visible "screen"... there wasn't much of a question on which way to go, the puzzle aspect of it was that each path had some obstacle you had to get around by figuring out the right way to manipulate the enviroment. Worked pretty well.

Anything that requires mapping gives me hives, though, which is one of the reasons why I never got very far in text adventures.

(At least in graphic adventures the graphics usually offer good enough orientation to figure out how in the heck each room connects to the others.)

Peace & Luv, Liz

Oldbushie · November 16, 2003, 06:21:26 PM

I think mapping's pretty fun as long as it's logical. One online text adventure I tried had some places that were a bit illogical in the way the rooms connected. Sometimes going northwest from one room was the same as going west, west, north instead of west, north for instance.

Jeysie · November 16, 2003, 07:05:11 PM

Well, I admit with me it's the fact that my spacial sense is horrible... even straightforward room connections tend to leave me with problems.

So far I've played one text adventure and two graphic adventures that I've been willing to map, and it was a pain in each instance.

Peace & Luv, Liz

Drunken Chinchilla · November 17, 2003, 12:54:25 PM

I've got loads and loads of maps ranging from the numerous zork games to the first 4 KQ games with their danger screens.

QuoteAHG! ITS THE WIZARD!!! WTF I WENT NORTH!!! DAMN YOU MAP!!!

copycat · November 21, 2003, 04:40:33 PM

I've mapped in KQ5, 7th Guest and GK2. That's the only ones I remember, I might have mapped more, but those are the ones I still remember.

Storm · November 21, 2003, 06:12:49 PM

* Storm open up her secret notebook

I've got KQ5, HQ, KQ4, KQ2, KQ1 SCI, KQ1, KQ6 catacombs, Back to Zork forests, Hugo 2, Kyrandia1 caves and KQ2+

Didn't T7G and the GK2 endgame have a in-game map? I just have the map of the maze riddle from T7G.

Jeysie · November 21, 2003, 06:42:04 PM

T7G and GK2 did have maps. In GK2 I found advantageous to recreate the endgame map on paper so I could plot the correct order of travel and door closing, though.

Peace & Luv, Liz

copycat · November 26, 2003, 02:54:34 PM

Quote from: Storm on November 21, 2003, 06:12:49 PMDidn't T7G and the GK2 endgame have a in-game map? I just have the map of the maze riddle from T7G.

I didn't mean a map to navigate. I meant the map to solve that maze-riddle.

Quote from: Jeysie on November 21, 2003, 06:42:04 PMIn GK2 I found advantageous to recreate the endgame map on paper so I could plot the correct order of travel and door closing, though?

That endgame took me so long trying to figure it out I ended up posting a question on the GK2-forum over at Vivendi's forums. However, during the following 24 hours (before I checked back to see if someone had answered my question) it suddenly dawned upon me. Aha! And behold, when I tried it, it worked!

Ofcourse, in the meantime someone had replied to my question with that exact same answer, so I thanked that person for the reply, but I was proud I figured it out all by myself.

Storm · November 26, 2003, 04:41:24 PM

I didn't have internet when I solved GK2... but I didn't need it anyway. It took me a couple of tries, but I solved the final maze just by looking at the map on-screen and calculating which doors to close

Sorry... this is the ONLY place where I can show off stuff like that

Jeysie · November 26, 2003, 06:03:34 PM

It puzzles me the amount of complaints I've seen about the endgame "maze" of GK2. Personally, I would like to have more of that same creativeness of puzzle... it's nice to get a break from button-twiddling, object-using, and conversation-reponse-guessing.

Of course, I also liked stuff like the hated "logic puzzle" datacorder puzzle in SQ6, so maybe I'm just nuts.

Peace & Luv, Liz

copycat · November 28, 2003, 04:55:40 PM

Quote from: Jeysie on November 26, 2003, 06:03:34 PMIt puzzles me the amount of complaints I've seen about the endgame "maze" of GK2.

If I should complain about anything, it should be the fact I didn't see it sooner!

And like I said, in the end I didn't need the internet for that maze either, since I figured it out on my own without looking at the reply to my question-post.

GunHoMac · January 29, 2004, 12:28:46 PM

I've played virtually every game I could get my hands on, especially adventure, but never have I indulged in the awe and mystery of GK...instead I grabbed T7G and 11th Hour and slapped them silly with my puzzle madness skills...I'm always down for a mind-spanking puzzle, the likes of which make you wanna scream out the window and shoot the next-door neighbor's hedgehog that won't stop staring at you when you take a shower with the window open and...oh nevermind...time to download GK

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