>Game has a puzzle that is physically impossible to solve

i just guessed this shit

>>715303272
>t. 99.999% of players

>>715302946 (OP)
Check the claw and move it backwards. You will find the sequence you have to insert here.

>>715302946 (OP)
Still haven’t been able to solve this stupid fucking thing. The one before it had the little pillars on top which showed you the code, but this one doesn’t. Am I supposed to look at the walls?
Todd Howard is a fucking hack.

>>715302946 (OP)
It was a year before I realized that you could turn the claw around in the item viewer and get the correct door symbols.

I always thought the murals on the walls held the answers.

>>715304632
Same bro. When I've asked how you were meant to know you could inspect item models, these idiots on /v/ said it was obvious because it was in the E3 preview.

i have the answer memorized in my giant brain

>>715304632
It literally took me a couple years before I figured out how to unlock shouts with dragon souls.

It was NOT obvious in any manner whatsoever.

>>715304632
i wonder why even have the "puzzle" at all. there should have been like 3 uniquely shaped dragon claws in the whole game and each one unlocks the door in several different tombs

>>715304942
it was in every single prerelease bit of footage. every gaming channel or personality had a "hands on with skyrim" video where they did the bleak barrows fall quest and checked the claw. if you were online in summer of 2011 you could n't avoid seeing it.

that's why seeing zoomers say "how were you supposed to know?" can be so grating. for some of us it was "how were any of us supposed to NOT know?"

>>715302946 (OP)
I actually **didn't realize you could rotate the items so I literally brute-forced every single one of these doors trying every possible combination until it opened**.

>>715305468
I'm 34, I never bothered or was all that interested in Elder Scrolls prior to Skyrim. I don't even remember watching anything about it until after it released and everyone was freaking out about it.

>>715302946 (OP)
>filtered by skyrim puzzles

>>715305848
You were born after, or were still in diapers, in 2011.

>>715303272
Yeah you can brute force this shit very easily.

>>715305795
>i only started caring when it took the world by storm
yeah that level of sentience is how you manage to be online all the time without seeing what everyone else is

>>715304632
>I always thought the murals on the walls held the answers
That was my first inkling that the walls held some sort of riddle or something, but no, Bethesda of Skyrim would never actually give the player an actual riddle.
Well there is that one vampire ruin but that can easily be done with basic trial and error.

>>715305929
I wish.

>>715305947
it's literally 27 total combinations. calling it 'brute forcing' is a little generous

>>715305953
I don't use YouTube videos to play through video games, zoom nigger. I try to figure them out on my own.

>>715305468
Nigger I never gave a shit about skyrim and only played it because I got it as a birthday gift from a friend, "but it was on E3" "but this shilltuber 1hour essay analizing pixels of the trailer guessed it" are bullshit arguments

>>715306217
lmao there's that sentience level rearing it's head again

>>715304632
>>715304942
Being confused on how to rotate models is understandable, but the answer being on the claw itself is told to you, almost verbatim, on the thief's journal.

>>715306565
that's right, one E3 presentation and a couple youtubers. very small marketing campaign for a subtle AA release, right? it's astounding the level of revionism you'll stoop to in order to assert yourself as some kind of elder scrolls hipster. i bet you had NO idea anakin skywalker was darth vader until you watched phantom menace all the way through, too.

>>715307040
>He reads in-game books in their entirety
Nigga, please.. I ain't got time for that shit. I just open each one and drop them just in case they MIGHT increase one of my skills.

>>715302946 (OP)
it doesn't take that long to brute force it.

>>715307045
What brand of nigger dick are you even smoking you retard, why the fuck do you need to shove onions wars in this and why in the name of satan would I be looking for promo material for a game I already got instead of just fucking playing the game
Are you brain damaged or snorting sawdust, or are all todd shills like this

>>715302946 (OP)
They knew this puzzle was so bad that they had to spoil the solution in the trailer for the game itself. Which is fascinating to me, because I can't think of any other examples of this happening.

>>715302946 (OP)
There's no fucken point to it anyway. You have the key, and the key has the code on it. If you don't have the key the code does you no good, and if you have the key you also have the code. This lock is specifically designed to keep out the people in this thread.

This might be the most reddit thread of all time

>>715307695
Wtf is that real

>>715307538
the irony of this whole post is literally unbearable

>>715308573
Yes. I took the picture. It happened when I went out fishing with my dad and he jokingly told me to stop hogging all the fish.

>>715307695
uh, read the thread. nobody watches trailers after playing the game. don't be a drug addled moron.

>>715307040
>reading anything but stats in an elder scrolls game

>>715302946 (OP)
It might be because this was my first Elder Scrolls game and had no idea what to expect, but I found this to be pretty easy. Some note says something like "the key is in your hand", and then you naturally check out the hand in your inventory. And it says how to rotate items in the corner of your screen.

>>715302946 (OP)
I'm genuinely baffled that people didn't figure out the claw puzzles. Am I just being memed? Surely the average gamer isn't this retarded.

>>715309210
Your reading comprehension is so bad I can't even tell what you think I said

>>715302946 (OP)
I would guess these puzzles, takes you 2 minutes at most

>>715302946 (OP)
kek I remember I got it right because I looked at the claw to see if it was from another cave or something. I didn't even notice when I put it in my inventory.

>>715310110
it's a very easy concept, the only problem is that there's no indication anywhere that you can clickdrag items in the inventory to spin them around, thus letting you know what your early onset alzheimer's elderly mother feels when she can't use her shittily programmed government android healthcare app, because she's expected to guess that long tapping a button has different functionality than tapping it

>>715310126
you said the trailer spoiled the puzzle but other anons in this thread have asserted that they would never watch a trailer after buying the game or having it bought for them

(i was using you as a footstool to take the piss out of people like >>715307538)

>>715311669
Wow dude, if you want to use me as a footstool you need to take me out for dinner first, at the very least

>>715302946 (OP)
>people were filtered by this
How?

>>715311758
s-sorry
my desire to be a sassy cunt to people who are likely not in the thread anymore got the better of me

>>715308472
You would know. You need to go back

>blocks your progress, your fun, and your ability to call RE4 a 10/10 and not be wrong

>>715302946 (OP)
this is a VERY good puzzle.
for a ttrpg with a DM that can guide the player towards to puzzle by mentioning early on, like when they GET the claw that theres some patterns on its palm.
but in a game where this is the ONLY time you need to inspect an item, its a bad choice.

>>715305585
>discord formatting
fuck off back to your goonserver retard.

>>715302946 (OP)
>>715312887
you guys aren't actually this fucking stupid, right?

>>715302946 (OP)
Well duh, you have to solve it virtually

>>715303272
non-White mindset.

>>715302946 (OP)
I had to get a mod to auto solve these for me. I also got one that auto completes combat as well. Video games need to be more accessible to women of color such as myself.

>>715305468
The most well aged sovlful filter of all time
Bravo Todd

>>715305848
I love her so much bros

>so many anons here can't figure out basic shit that my retarded child self did just by messing around on the menus
If they're not trolling then this is grim

>>715314245
Not video games

>>715314245
she's a hag now

>>715314804
At no point does the game imply the item view in the inventory is important or has information to be gained from it.
At no point does the game teach you that spinning models around in the inventory screen is even possible, and there is no reason to attempt it before this moment. In fact, bethesda being lazy cunts, most people would not expect them to have put in the effort to make it possible and might assume they're seeing a static PNG of an item.
At no point after this puzzle is the mechanic utilized again with a different item. Only the claws.

This is objectively bad game design.

>>715302946 (OP)
Honestly it was pretty clever, too bad they reuse it like 10 times

>>715315127
>he needs clues to figure out the item rotation mechanic

>>715302946 (OP)
>impossible to solve
You should post Owlcat games

>>715304359
I just checked because I thought you were bullshitting. While this is true for bleakfalls barrow, all of the other dungeons have different solutions so this doesn't actually work.

>>715314245
Sucks that females wall at 24 on average.

>>715316017
What the fuck are you on about, retard? Every claw model in the game has door sequences on it.

>>715312887
>blocks your progress
Only if your brain's still loading texture files. The claw puzzle was baby’s first filter, designed to weed out the tourists and GameFAQs addicts. RE4 gets to be a 10/10 because it's tight, knows exactly what it is, and doesn’t need to hide solutions in a 360° inventory model. Skyrim just did it once and called it "emergent gameplay".

>>715302946 (OP)
3^3 many combinations and i always just cycled through them all because they wall paintings not always showed the real answer.

This is the real problem with brainless retards. If the game isn't explicitly holding your hand every second and telling you what to do step by step you feel confused and irritated. Holy fucking shit.

>>715321001
I just didn't know I could rotate the item. I knew the claw was involved by the shape and I thought it was a key only

>>715312887
I've developed a good rhythm to solve this pretty quick.

>>715307040
>reading in elder scrolls
the writing isn't worth reading

>>715312332
>no u
Compelling

>>715323162
>Took him THIS long to respond and with THAT
Not a good look sis.

>>715302946 (OP)
>didn't know you could rotate items in inventory to look at them
>knew the claw had the solution because of the thief
>literally threw it out of my inventory and stood over it with a torch to see
>do this for every claw puzzle onward for years
>still do it even now because I've gotten used to it and it feels weird to just check it in inventory

>>715302946 (OP)
Why? The puzzle didn't have physics enabled?

>>715315010
I love her and videogames so much bros

>>715302946 (OP)
>/v/edditors actually got stuck on this
lmao

>>715323754
>>literally threw it out of my inventory and stood over it with a torch to see
You can't drop quest items

>>715302946 (OP)
>>715304632
>Average /v/ermin poster gets filtered by skyrim "puzzles"

>>715330372
i swear have a childhood memory of dropping the claw and waving it around as well. what if they patched that later on

>>715302946 (OP)
>>715303272
>>715304192
>>715304359
I actually bruteforced it because it was way faster than checking the inventory and rotating the thing

>>715302946 (OP)
>>715303272
There are only 9 possible combinations to opening this door without actually inspecting the dragon claw. And statistically you're more than likely to get it right before going through all the combinations

>>715331358
>There are only 9 possible combinations to opening this door without actually inspecting the dragon claw.
Pretty sure there are only 6
1 2 3
1 3 2
2 1 3
2 3 1
3 1 2
3 2 1

3! = 3x2 = 6

>>715302946 (OP)
>stood there for 2 hours
>re-cleared the dungeon 3 times
>googled the answer and still didn't understand because the mechanic of rotating items in inventory is never used
Yep, bullshit.

>game never tells you you can rotate the item models in inventory
>feature is never useful in any other cases
Have bethesda devs actually ever played a game

>>715331498
honestly wait you're right. but whats stopping some fucking idiot from putting in the same symbol twice or 3 t imes?

>>715302946 (OP)
>~
>tcl
Get fucked todd.

>>715331628
>>game never tells you you can rotate the item models in inventory
literally tells you in the journal you pick up
/v/edditors making shit up because they are too dumb for skyrim will never not be funny
and when TES6 gets even more dumbed down they'll seethe about normalfags while still getting filtered by something dumb in that game

>>715302946 (OP)
Isn't the solution in the same room? I remember that being super easy.

>>715331750
The journal tells you the answer in on tje claw
The game doesn't tell you there is a game mechanic way of looking at an item close and in all angles retard

>>715332018
>The game doesn't tell you there is a game mechanic way of looking at an item close and in all angles retard
It doesn't tell you how to breathe either

>puzzle solution (le turn the item in the inventory!) was only ever shown in some pre-release press conference showcase
>never hinted or mentioned anywhere else or used again in the game at any point

>>715332315
>>never hinted or mentioned anywhere else or used again in the game at any point
Except for all the claws in the game

>>715331680
That's a thing? Then it's 3^3 = 27

>"heh this claw key shit is so dumb, how does it keep anyone out"
>ends up filtering retards out for a decade and a half online

>oh so this was just to show you how to inspect items, i bet that will be a big part of the game
>never used again