I just pushed a key out of a locked door and caught it on a sheet...

ManicMatt · Mon 13/11/2006 20:05:16

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I was playing an adventure game, when I found myself locked in a cell. I found a sharp pointy object, and a sheet of carboard. I noticed the lock had a key sticking in it from the other side.

I killed myself.

Well no I easily solved the puzzle and groaned a lot.

The offending game was "Da Vinci Code". Don't look at me like that, my mate bought it and I borrowed it off him as he wasn't going to miss it!

So, you got a list of games that innovate here on AGS, but I want to name and shame the games that have had this most cliched of all of cliche puzzles! (Which game ORIGINALLY came up with that anyway?)

Eggie · Mon 13/11/2006 20:31:31

Zork and Simon the Sorcerer 1 both have it.

But I think the Zork people might have been the first to put it in game form.

AGA · Mon 13/11/2006 21:03:24

Hugo's House of Horrors 2: Hugo's Mystery Adventure

Ghormak · Mon 13/11/2006 21:28:14

I played the demo of Post Mortem. It had one puzzle.

Yeah.

DeviantGent · Mon 13/11/2006 22:30:58

Zork: Grand Inquisitor, the last in the series, used it. But I think it was more of a homage than anything else, as Eggie implied.

GarageGothic · Mon 13/11/2006 22:35:46

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon had it as an (alternate?) solution to getting back into the hacker's apartment. Not sure how you'd do it if you forgot to pick up the pencil in the beginning.

Layabout · Tue 14/11/2006 01:37:12

I've actually done that puzzle in real life...

However, I will not elaborate...

sergiocornaga · Tue 14/11/2006 05:20:25

When I saw this thread I thought you were talking about real life. Well, bah.

Nine Toes · Tue 14/11/2006 08:06:15

*Mr. Hyde feels really, REALLY stupid because he never would have thought of using this method to get himself out of a locked cell.

Ali · Tue 14/11/2006 18:30:33

The worst example is Post Mortem, where you have the key hole & the newspaper but you can only pick up a pencil IF YOU'RE PRETENDING TO BE A JOURNALIST!

If, like me, you pretended to be a policemen, you have to use a different method. I was still able to put the newspaper under the door, but unable to pick up any of the games multiple pencils.

Enraging.

EagerMind · Tue 14/11/2006 19:27:21

Quote from: Ali on Tue 14/11/2006 18:30:33If, like me, you pretended to be a policemen, you have to use a different method.

"Door, meet hand-cannon." *Boom! Boom! Boom!* Problem solved!

I once shoved the end of a scissors into the keyhole and twisted the whole locking mechanism until the lock disengaged. My parents weren't too happy with how the door ended up (I was pretty young at the time), but it got me in. Does that count?

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Tue 14/11/2006 22:03:10

Yeah, I always preferred "use plastic card to unlock door".

That one has actually helped me in real life.

Three times. Twice on the same door, and once on a different door.

Redwall · Wed 15/11/2006 00:26:46

Quote"Door, meet hand-cannon." *Boom! Boom! Boom!* Problem solved!

Doesn't work, as per Mythbusters. (Rifles will, but pistols won't.)

QuoteYeah, I always preferred "use plastic card to unlock door".

That one has actually helped me in real life.

We used to that almost every day at school. The teachers were late getting back to class after lunch, so we let ourselves in.

Radiant · Wed 15/11/2006 08:42:24

How about the clothes hanger through the mailbox?

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Wed 15/11/2006 11:22:37

Hmm? Never saw that one. How does it go?

Nikolas · Wed 15/11/2006 11:39:04

Why not just break the damn door? It's game after all, and 70% of the doors can break easily enough. Maybe have concequences later in the game (like have something stolen...) but never the less, I had to break my door, and then fixed it (small breaking, not something big... really just a whole...) Isn't that realistc?

But indeed Radiant? Hanger? How? (I do have an idea but...)

Spoiler

If the mailbox is ON the door, then you could shape the hanger in such fashion that you could insert it and grab the handle on the inside, right?

[close]

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Wed 15/11/2006 11:48:22

Oh, right. Mailbox always reminds me of the Zork-style mailbox. The one outside the white house. Enter command.

ManicMatt · Wed 15/11/2006 13:30:43

Most amusing!

I think an AGS game has done the door-key poking puzzle as well. Can't remember exactly though.

In the end, I ejected the game from my PS2 before finishing it and banished it from entering my disc drive ever again. (Da Vinci Code)

During a CRITICAL scene where I had to run or die, my character decided to not move anywhere off the spot he was on, despite my frantic movement input. (It's not like I was caught on anything, the game put me in a corridor after a cutscene, where I couldn't move, see.)

Oh, and then the game put me waaaaaaaaaaaay back, so I couldn't be doing with it again, and there's no assurance it won't just kill me again. Grr.

I give the game: 42%

voh · Wed 15/11/2006 16:16:30

Phantasmagoria had that puzzle. Though I'm not sure that game needs any more shame

ManicMatt · Wed 15/11/2006 17:43:54

Phantasmagoria was going to come out on the Amiga. If it's bad, then I'd like to think the port-over chaps decided it wasn't worth porting a crummy game over to a dying market. (This was around 1999)