Games that exhaust you mentally

[Chary]

Banjo Kazooie. I don't know why I can't handle it, but that game breaks my brain. Nothing ever seems quite how I expect, whether it's where hidden places are, or how to solve the puzzles. And don't even get me started on the levels. I know they have good design, but my brain doesn't. I get lost just going in a straight line.

 

[godreborn]

Banjo Kazooie. I don't know why I can't handle it, but that game breaks my brain. Nothing ever seems quite how I expect, whether it's where hidden places are, or how to solve the puzzles. And don't even get me started on the levels. I know they have good design, but my brain doesn't. I get lost just going in a straight line.

there's a puzzle room in the beach world where I think you're supposed to spell out banjo kazooie based on the wall, and there are these tiles on the floor. I can't switch any of them on, so I just left. I was playing the retro replay version on the series x, and it looks damn good.

 

[Chary]

there's a puzzle room in the beach world where I think you're supposed to spell out banjo kazooie based on the wall, and there are these tiles on the floor. I can't switch any of them on, so I just left. I was playing the retro replay version on the series x, and it looks damn good.

I think you have to unlock the little cheat books hidden around the world to use them? At least after you get the puzzle piece the first time. Not sure.

Playing on Series S really makes me realize how nice higher res backwards compatability is!

 

[godreborn]

I think you have to unlock the little cheat books hidden around the world to use them? At least after you get the puzzle piece the first time. Not sure.

Playing on Series S really makes me realize how nice higher res backwards compatability is!

well, I think I missed that. I've gotten all I could find in world 2, the beach world, so I think I'm ready for world 3, wherever that is.

 

[godreborn]

Nah mate it will be your terrible gaming skills at fault if ya can't beat a simple boss

I didn't realize it, but I just got to the boss door of oot. I'm saved outside with full health. I might try tomorrow morning.

 

[Kwyjor]

I think I did take a quick peek at how to finish the very end of OoT during my first playthrough – mostly because there's a whole lot of unskippable stuff along the way and I really didn't want to have to go through it all over again. But I probably shouldn't have worried.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

Hexen, Doom, pretty much anything in that genre. Even playing in GZDoom I can only do an hour or so before my brain feels like a burned pile of junk mail.

 

[City]

Main Pokémon games. As soon as the tutorial starts, I roll my eyes and have to surgically put them back where they were. The doctor said I should stop.

 

[Caleck]

Yeah, the beginnings of Pokemon games are always pretty dreadful to play. It usually picks up at around the 2nd gym, but I often find myself without enough motivation to keep playing by then.