01-16-2012, 01:15 AM | #1 |
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Your biggest "aha"-moment?
Have you ever had one of those great "aha"-moments in an adventure-game where all the sudden in a flash everything falls together in your head and all the sudden you understand something?
If so I would love to hear about that experience. Mine was in Blackwell 3/Convergence: Spoiler: I just thought those 5 seconds of eurika-joy was so awesome, it's a shame however that so few other games has that, and I wouldn't count a cutscene-twist as a "aha"-moment, for it to be powerful it has to be like a connection snap that happens in your brain, not something that happens on-screen IMO. In other words something which you just want to stand up and point to the screen and say "AHA!". Last edited by Mad Manny; 01-16-2012 at 10:59 AM. |
01-16-2012, 01:47 AM | #2 |
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You'll have a lot of those moments in Phoenix Wright.
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01-16-2012, 05:19 PM | #3 |
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There were a few, but the one that comes to mind right now is, in Leisure Suit Larry 7:
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01-16-2012, 05:36 PM | #4 |
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Mine was in Trace Memory (Another Code) for the DS.
Spoiler: I couldn't believe it when it worked. The fact that they had made such clever use of the DS was so fantastic at the time. Spoiler: Good times. |
01-17-2012, 12:02 AM | #5 |
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@ Interplay: Hotel Dusk and Last Window use those same techniques. Brilliant way to make you think outside of the box, imo.
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01-17-2012, 05:09 AM | #6 |
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01-17-2012, 05:55 AM | #7 |
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In RHEM 4 I was stuck at the place where you had to put in the block configuration on the "LT" panel. I was wandering around for hours looking for a clue, anything, then just as I was about to give up I went over to
Spoiler: It was a definite "aha" moment because I had already used them for another clue and didn't expect there would be anything else there to find. I felt stupid for not noticing it earlier. |
01-17-2012, 02:40 PM | #8 |
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I think the one that stands out most clearly in my mind is the brick wall in The Lurking Horror, one of Infocom's old text adventures.
Spoiler: It just struck me as such a wonderful example of a lateral thinking puzzle in that it was easy once you figured out what the puzzle actually was. |
01-19-2012, 11:50 AM | #9 |
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Monkey Island 2. For some reason I couldn't find a monocle for Wally for about half a year (at that time a could afford it). I missed a hint, and was cruising the islands. I think I read all the books in the library when this "aha" came all over me. I was proud that it wasn't a result of trying everything on everyting. I replayed the game later and saw an obvious hint. But still...
Also the famous stardate puzzle in The Feeble Files. Still don't know how I figured it out, but it was a really big AHA.
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01-19-2012, 12:53 PM | #10 |
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You solved the stardate puzzle all by yourself?? Wow, you have my complete admiration. I soon realized I'd reached my limits. Had to lie down with a splitting headache after reading the explanation in a WT.
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01-19-2012, 01:21 PM | #11 |
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Couldn't believe it myself I also spent a lot of time on this game, like, two months, taking breaks to rest and think it over. But, again, it was long time ago. Today I'd probably just use a walkthrough...
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01-19-2012, 05:49 PM | #12 |
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My favorite rush-of-brains-to-the-head came in Alida. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what to do with button panel near the water house. I knew it was somehow related to symbols I found elsewhere, but I just didn't know how to decode it. After going back to it numerous times, I finally emailed Cos Russo for a tiny nudge, and he told me not to stare at the panel when it beeped. So I
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