How the fuck was I supposed to figure this out
How the fuck was I supposed to figure this out
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do ever combination until you get it
>pick up the claw
>drop it until it lands in a way you can have a good look at it
>crouch
even if you dont know the rotate on inventory trick, there were alternatives.
>rotate on inventory trick
Is that really a trick?
Yeah I guess that's more of a tip and what I'm saying is a trick (for retards)
Wait a second...
If the game didn't have this card you retards would get stuck, get angry, and then leave a negative review about the game being too hard for your pee-sized brain.
holy mother of projection
why even bother making it a puzzle, at that point just make it a cutscene. what nugget of priceless interactivity is in being presented with a lock, the character going "MMM suHispanicious" and pulling out a card with the combination?
It's not a puzzle you retard. How are you this stupid?
the point is that it's presented in the most fucking retarded way possible
No it isn't, it's just a code to get into Columbus, how else would you present it?
either make it a cutscene or have the paper be a cipher to understand clues in the lighthouse
>have the paper be a cipher to understand clues in the lighthouse
He was hired to go to Columbia, why the fuck would the employer make him do some retarded puzzle? That's like making the delivery man do some retarded riddle to open the building door so he can deliver your package
It's a fucking password that he was given, how is this so hard to understand?
you're the dense one who doesn't understand that the problem is the execution and how it treats the player like a retard. if you have to wrestle control away from the player to show them the password so they can input it then why bother putting a password in the first place?
make the lutece give him a key to open the lift at that point
not that anon
>shows the card before as if its something to remember
>30 seconds later takes control away from the player, WAIT A MINUTE and instantly takes it out
Feels like it assumes you're either a retard who didn't pay attention, or a retard who couldnt remember 1-2-2
MAYBE if it waited 10 seconds, or there was an inventory system so the player could take out the card themselves it could work
>why even bother making it a puzzle
why even bother playing a game if you do not like them? Retard
i thought this puzzle was fun
buy one of these and go to town
feels good to be the target audience of game devs
Devs not respecting the players intelligence, this is the result.
Are they wrong not to?
it's a self fulfilling prophecy. groom kids to become retards and they become retards
I cant believe this video is already 9 years old
I just nopclipped through
The first claw you get is preceded by a journal entry (also on the body you retrieve the claw from) that tells you how to do it. It literally couldn't have been more clear. You were just too lazy to read and explore the game.
This is Skyrim we're talking about. At no other point are you ever required to stop and read something. If it's important the quest journal will read it for you and give you the arrow.
>At no other point are you ever required to stop and read something
It's likely the literal first quest anybody does in the entire game so that doesn't matter anyways.
The problem was that the mechanic of observing the items was pretty much hidden. IIRC there was even no button there to tell "press this button to look at the item", or any other way of hinting the player such a mechanic even exists.
brute force
I walked all the way back to town thinking i missed a piece of dialogue; no you've just got to rotate that shit in the menu which never comes up again. Absolutely retarded
Wrong, it comes up with almost every dragon claw
kid me just did every combination I could think of until it opened. took fucking forever.
then the enemy inside knocked me through an invisible wall and i was stuck there. i quit after that and never played again.
I dont get this maymay. Is this refering to journos, to people who actually got confused by it or just to how lame puzzles are in Skyrim?
Last two
People were confused by how lame the puzzles were
The guy you have to loot to get the key also has a book telling you where to look. Literally all the people who didnt get it are dumb ADHD zoomers playing this game at 9 years old that didnt want to read and probably opened the book and instantly closed it when it didnt automatically place a quest marker with the solution
>Literally all the people who didnt get it are dumb ADHD zoomers playing this game at 9 years old that didnt want to read and probably opened the book and instantly closed it when it didnt automatically place a quest marker with the solution
So... the Skyrim target audience?
Bait
wow there are still people out there that haven't played skyrim yet.
I work with a few people that talked about being confused by the door. I thought this was just a meme but its not. Pretty baffling that people can't connect the dots
Unironically dropped the game because of this
You were supposed to have a functioning brain, I'm sorry it didn't work out that way anon.
I got spoilered by the e3 trailer
I will never know if I had figured it out on my own
damn, i remember now how i searched for this shit, thanks OP.
It's just three symbols. You are supposed to bruteforce it at the start.
anon, its one of 3(?) gates.
i simply alt tabbed and googled the result
if you put enigmas in your game, i wont care
its annoying how they dont let you zoom in the menu enough. even when you zoom you can still barely see it. it annoys me every time i enter a draugr ruin
I do seem to recall 2 of the symbols being a bit similar yeah
Sorry but password on the key is fucking retarded.
I honestly googled for the answer after searching around for half an hour.
"Hmm, I have a door that requires key and code, I have the key... I know! The code is definitely written on the key!" said no one ever. It just doesn't make sense.
Keeps barely intelligent creatures out of the ancient tombs so you can assume whoever in there isn't going to destroy the place
>tried to decipher the hieroglyphs and drawings on the sides of the wall as maybe they tell a story that correlates to the door's symbols
>cant find any correlation
>tried to arrange the symbols in order of predation
>didnt work
>tell friend about it
>he tells me the answer is on the claw/key and I just need to rotate it
I felt so cheated. Why even add a fucking "puzzle" if you're going to cop out like this?
all me
i tought it was a cycle of seasons, with winter included in it 100%
so i tought ok this animal represents winter, this one autumn etc
turns out it was just written on the key
I did that too. Looked it up and felt disappointed.
Same, I looked at the wall for a good 5+ minutes trying to decipher it but then I got angry and felt stupid because I didn't get it so I watched a Youtube video for the answer which made me severely disappointed.
>MFW too smart to solve the puzzle
>didn’t try every combination
You didn’t want to get in that bad
You were supposed to watch the Quakecon demo so you knew what to do.
Non meme answer.
People don't reads. I also think that they got confused because the answer of the first puzzle is written on the walls.
And keep in mind, op still haven't replied any of you
Wait a minute that card
The funny thing is these doors aren't even supposed to be hard to open, even in the lore. The doors are made to keep the dead inside, not to keep people out. If you can't manage to figure these doors out you are unironically dumber than a literal corpse.
idk
dragon priests are pretty smart anon
>The doors are made to keep the dead inside
Why are the crypt entrances wide open then
Also back exits behind these doors only require a lever pull
Nah it goes through peoples heads even in game. There is no place where they have people at the start of the dungeon or whatever and are also on the other end of these doors. All the bandits can’t figure it out. I think also the guy you guve the golden claw to doesnt know it functions as a key at first either. You and the guy trapped in the web are the only ones who know
Absolute fucking retards, the thread.
>use it by accident
>the claw is used (unless you don't have it)
>do anything and everything you can think of with the claw
Todd tells you in the E3 reveal.
People always dunk on this puzzle but am I the only one that wished they used the "solution is on the item model viewer" thing more? It seemed like such a homerun thing that they never did more than literally once.
if it amounted to anything you could excuse the stupid claw thing as a tutorial to teach you about the concept
Same
Maybe there should have been a tutorial for it where you look at the back of a bit of paper too for those who didn't realize it was an option.
There's a grand total of 27 combinations.
Fuck nords were dumb.
And not only that, the deterrent to bruteforcing it was poison darts shooting from the door
From the top of he door frame and straight downwards, if you're not kissing the fucking door you dont even get hit
>never saw trailers or early gameplay videos so i didn't know you could rotate objects in inventory
>get to the door
>know it has something to do with the claw
>can't figure out how to look at the palm
>had to google it and it made me feel retarded
i feel like i remember being able to rotate it side to side but not up and down
You watched the gameplay reveal thing where they did this quest
I studied the carvings in the hall thinking the solution was there before I looked at the claw in my inventory.
If only you had Mimir to give you small hints on how to proceed
You can tell whose a secondary if they got stumped by this. Every other TES fan knew what to do since Todd demonstrated it at E3
>information you need is in a demo at E3 rather than in the game
>this is fine
If you're too retarded to figure this out its probably a blessing in disguise, playing skyrim without having to deal with fucking dragons would probably be a godsend for someone so retarded
I always thought people were joking about this being cryptic. It's baby's first Resident Evil puzzle, you absolute fucking retards.
>Skyrim could've been Dune with snow whales
>Only 1 marriageable argonian in base game
Never forget what they've taken from you
I dunno this is where I got filtered.
For me, it's Ingjard
Skyrim 6 is not coming out any time soon, is it? Last I heard Todd said they wouldn't start working on it until after Starfield releases.
Personally, I saw a prerelease gameplay of that first claw dungeon where they show both the solution and how to examine items, so I always knew.
literally impossible
get in the tard box
>thought the owl was a cacoon
>my stupid kid brain thought it was somehow a logical progression from a butterfly to a bear
>it worked
>im so hoping this is a joke
>im so hoping this is a joke
>this... this isn't a joke... is it?
>this isn't a joke.
>this isn't a joke
>holy fuck, they practically hand you the solution and he can't figure it out
>he can't figure out a solution that they practically walk you through, step-by-step
>maybe he's on drugs; that's it. he's on drugs.
>he is, after all, on Ganker. lots of people on Ganker do drugs and he just accidentally started playing skyrim while he was on drugs.
>now it makes sense. it makes total sense now why he couldn't figure out a puzzle
THAT BETHESDA GOADS YOU INTO SOLVING BY PRACTICALLY SOLVING IT FOR YOU!!!
>zoomers ruin everything...
Mods that replaces these "puzzles" with actual puzzles?
A reminder that when Hogwarts Legacy came out, people unironically couldn't figure out the math puzzle doors and the eyeball chests.
>and the eyeball chests.
I was waiting to unlock the "open eyeball chest" Spell dude
> I couldn't get past this part because I was trying to roll my finger over the d-pad for the inputs like I would for Street Fighter rather than doing each as a clear individual button press
I brute forced every door on my first play through its not that big of a deal
I used to be like you. Wanting devs to make hard puzzles to challenge me. Then I played an mmo and realized most gamers are sub 75 iq mouth breathers.
We get what we deserve.
The average IQ is 100, which means that half of all people are below this number.
Ill be honest I didnt know you could move items in inventory I had to look it up and then I felt cheated because game didnt tell me
this unironically filtered me
It was a combination of not knowing you could rotate items in the inventory, and literally never reading books so I missed the hint in the journal.