wow that's dirty lol game over i aint playing no more

[Omega-85]

game over from a f***ing puzzle lmao? are kidding?, no wonder i never played this crap back in the day well lets hope that reboot is good eh?

[Meow]

these games were made in the early 2000's Playstation 2 games Playstation 1 games N64 games SNES games werent that easy and didnt have that many auto save mechanics.

[Rinaldus]

Made back when games actually had stakes for failure. Though I wish you could skip the cutscene in the beginning of that sequence, lol

[Dreamless]

Yet you have a character your background from an old game series with puzzles that do the same ♥♥♥♥

[Peter - S2000Gan]

let me guess, the water room? yeah I hated that part when I was younger too. You get some nice new armor soon after though!

[Shin Omega]

Funny enough, I just did the water room puzzle last night. I failed it once and got the game over. I said "F this" and looked up a guide since I didn't want to go through the hassle of watching unskippable cutscenes + 2 other puzzles a third time if I failed it again. I actually did the puzzle as a kid though when I first played on PS2 and didn't have the help of the internet. I wonder how many times it took me. I'm usually good at sliding puzzles though.

[Jimmy Dee]

it's literally RE with Samurai. What did you expect?

it's unfortunate that some people will never experience the joy of figuring things out on their own and will be subjugated their entire lives.

[Shin Omega]

Originally posted by Jimmy Dee:

it's unfortunate that some people will never experience the joy of figuring things out on their own

This may come as a shock to you since you seem to have a small world view, but not everyone enjoys the same thing. Getting a gameover from a puzzle that is immediately after unskippable cutscene + more puzzles IS annoying for a lot of people. And in my case, I figured it out as a kid. So step down from your high horse.

[mccluckers]

Yeah if there is one thing about modern games I'm super glad about, its how devs have learned to respect your time.

At the very least, if you're going to put a game over after a cutscene, have the common sense (and decency) to let me skip it after the first time I've watched it. There is literally no reason to show the player the same cutscene and take up minutes of their time over and over, other than to serve as a punishment for failure.

I think there is something to be said about how the save system is part of what makes a survival horror game tense - making a mistake could cost you a lot of progress, and that makes the decisions you make more important, and it contributes to the rollercoaster of tension and relief that the game is supposed to elicit.

But when you do it in a puzzle it kind of just kills the momentum having to watch the cutscene and do the SAME THING over & over