Thread 718232305

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING BROS

>>718232305 (OP)
>still stuck there
FML

>>718232305 (OP)
>WHAT ARE WE DRINKING BROS
Coffee. How are you liking Riven, and Boiler Island?

>>718232757
I really wanted to like Riven but the game is just impossible

>>718234845
I tried Myst multiple times over the years and got filtered by the obscurity of the marker switches. I played the 3D version for a while until it finally clicked that the tower in the library had hints for the puzzle the beam was pointed at, and blew through it.
I'm stuck at that spot in Riven, and I know it's the big hurdle, because I can't find anything else I can work with until I complete that.

>>718234845
>>718234997
look behind doors you just opened/passed through
classic trick and they'll use it like a dozen times

>>718232305 (OP)
I AM GOING TO KILL MYSELF

Vodka. Already. It's not even noon.

drinking lots of water, i am quite thirsty. was up drinking til about 2 am. ordering shitty chinese take out soon

>>718234845
>>718234997
These games (especially Riven) are full of shit moon logic, you're not dumb. I'm very good at puzzles, I'm even autistic enough to think the hard puzzles in The Witness are actually pretty easy (minus the boat, that was bullshit). But like, Myst is borderline random in terms of what does what and how that's conveyed. Every single time I've looked up a solution, it was always "how the fuck was I supposed to know that? Where was the indication that would happen?" And the answer is "there literally isn't one" more often than not.

>>718232305 (OP)
Will have sparkling water and coffee. Was up till 6am neck deep in VRChat bollocks.
Then more booze.

Drinking powdered Kratom chased with tap water

>>718235892
I beat Myst without a guide. You're just not noticing things.

Pool water*
(Not actually water)

>>718236945
looks jelly

>>718234845
I finished Myst without any guide in 9.5 hours.
Riven is the real beast.

>>718234845
Just use a guide to unblock yourself when you get stuck, but otherwise play the game without one. That way the game stays fun in the face of some of the most absurd problems. There's still challenge in stuff like learning the number system.

Nothing wrong with a little pool water (and some chromatic aberration).

>>718238319
these pool backrooms things would drive you fucking crazy just from the smell of chlorine

>>718239126
Yeah, I hate indoor pools with a passion.

>>718237436
Weird lighting due to subdivision on mesh+Hammer's screenshot thingy breaks alphatest transparency for some reason
Looks fine ingame
HL Alyx has no working water shader and doesn't even have the ability to compile a material as water so you have to fake it

>>718232757
Use the boiler. It's power.
>>718234845
It's not. It might be the most logical point and click out there. If you can't solve it you are stupid.

hangover water, playing hentai games, feeling sleepy due to sleeping drunk

>>718239126
I dunno, I love the smell of a clean pool honestly

>>718235498
I only remember this once, in Exile.
I got stuck in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis due to that trick tho.

>>718236945
I hate the "backrooms" SCP knockoff zoomshit, but I love the pool rooms. Very cozy and foreboding at the same time. Super "atmospheric."

>>718238319
>>718239126
>>718239178
The "pool smell" isn't really chlorine, it's mostly the chemical reaction of chlorine with sweat and piss. A backrooms pool with no people (maybe a monster) would probably not smell like much at all.

>>718241074
Same
There is no need for 'levels' and 'entities' and all the other bullshit Reddit excreted on top of the original idea
All you need is randomly generated liminal spaces, the uncertainty of there being an exit at all, and just the suggestion that the labyrinth must have a minotaur in it.

>>718232305 (OP)
Semen

>>718232305 (OP)
hangovers are for pussies