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I recently was trying to solve the easter egg in Black Ops 2 Zombies, which made me want to play adventure games again. So I decided to play Lurking Horror and really try to finish it this time. I had previously made some aborted attempts at it. So at first I was just breezing through the game, drawing maps and discovering secrets. I got much farther than before. I got to 45 (out of 100) points fairly easily in a couple of days. Then next day I got 10 more points. Next day I got 5 more points. Now I’m stuck at 60 points. I’m not looking for any help though. I want to solve it 100% by myself. Previously the only infocom adventure game that I solved without any help was Planetfall. I’ve been playing games like Halo and Call of Duty for several years. I miss the old adventure games and especially solving puzzles. I wish they would make great new adventure games with great puzzles in them. The easter eggs in the call of duty zombie games give you a taste of what it would be like with up-to-date graphics. Games nowadays are all about bang-bang-bang, mindlessly killing everything as fast as possible. A large part of the gaming community is little boys and teens who couldn’t care less about using their brains to solve puzzles and just want nonstop mindless action.

While The Lurking Horror was never among my absolute favorite Infocom games (don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it but there were others that I enjoyed even more), it did have one puzzle towards the end involving a brick wall that I found immensely satisfying to solve. It just made me feel so clever when I figured it out.

Grue - 27 November 2012 08:14 PM

Previously the only infocom adventure game that I solved without any help was Planetfall.

Nice one! I never got very far on that one. Even though the difficulty was listed as “standard” I found it fairly tough.

The difficulty ratings never really made sense to me. A Mind Forever Voyaging was easy to me and yet it is ranked “advanced”, the same as Bureaucracy - a game which is almost suicidal! Trinity was another “standard” one, yet I found that hard as well.

Zifnab - 28 November 2012 12:25 PM

A Mind Forever Voyaging was easy to me and yet it is ranked “advanced”, the same as Bureaucracy - a game which is almost suicidal! Trinity was another “standard” one, yet I found that hard as well.

I’d second that. AMFV was one of the few Infocom games (together with Wishbringer and Trinity) I’ve played that I found to be within my puzzle-solving abilities at the time. I didn’t really make progress on any of the others… On the plus side though, AMFV remains one of my most favorite games ever.

This thread makes me want to play some IF…