Lonely Games

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Originally Posted by bVork

I'm inclined to defent Myst and especially Riven on a gameplay level. Sure, the games may mostly be sterile static images, but the puzzles themselves are excellent and always consistent both with the settings and with logic in general. That's something that few adventure games can claim. Solving puzzles in either game requires you to thoroughly understand how the underlying mechanisms work. (As 95% of the puzzles involve machines of some kind)

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Riven was way too obtuse. The puzzles were spread out over the whole world and depended on constantly re-exploring and sharp observation. I really found it quite frustrating.

I think Riven makes a lot of sense, but only after a very significant ah-ha moment about halfway through the game. Namely, discovering that they use base-5 notation.

Also, Riven was unplayable until the DVD version came out. Fucking disc swapping.

This is true.

Alot of 8 bit games felt like this to me, Guardian Legend and Monsterworld 2 for instance. Shadow of the Beast comes to mind too.

The Alien vs. Predator PC series is a good one.

Just you and a bunch of bloodthirsty buggers crawling around in the dark with the *beep* *beep* of the motion sensor as your only company.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Also, Riven was unplayable until the DVD version came out. Fucking disc swapping.

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I was finally going to get around to playing IV and V, but never Finished Riven, so I started playing it two weeks ago. Your right, the disc swapping is terrible.

The new racing game FUEL is pretty damn lonely. In fact, a lot of racing games with time trial racing and overcast/rainy settings feel eerily lonely. Bioshock