Wouldn't it be cool to have to solve puzzles in some quests? It would make them more fun and challenging than just the "go there get that" type of quests. Just an idea, I know Oblivion had some, but I really like to solve puzzles and riddles.

Dungeon puzzles are fun sometimes, but I would really like to have one huge mystery that can be solved if you're clever enough. Solving it could take the PC all over the land, looking for clues and making sense of riddles. The reward could be some lost artifact that all characters could use, like Hermaeus Mora's reward in Oblivion.

I would love more puzzles

In Tribunal it took me about 10 to 15 minutes the figure out how to get past that machine that made the fabricants in the clockwork city, then by pure luck It opened as I had it on the right setting.

Not sure if that constitutes as a puzzle although it did puzzle me

Yes I always wanted more puzzles and riddles in TES.
Anyone can go to the quest marker and kill some stuff, puzzles were something different and required you to think.
:)

Only if the puzzles are well done.

Well designed ones, but also easy enough to be considered solvable for a single guy. If internet is used as a resource to solve the puzzle, maybe it should be made so that only the mechanics of the puzzle can be explained. Maybe make it random enough so that posting the solution is impossible. At the same time, I don't want to find myself solving sudoku to open a door. In dice based games, there tend to be several brains solving the puzzle, and solutions come more easily than when doing it solo. Hints found for puzzles, should be stored in the journal, clearly identified to the puzzle in question, for the quest involved. Lore knowledge might make them slightly easier, but lacking the knowledge should not make it impossible, making it possible also for new and casual gamers.

I like puzzles and all (especially Layton games) but those types of challenges don't work well with replayability. Once you already solved the riddle on your first play though, it becomes busywork on your second.

Ya those are very fun. When they are off journal quests also. Or myth/legend quests...i really enjoy them when some are false, it gives me a big feeling of a treasure hunter.

Well if you like puzzles, do you mean like what they did in Arena? It's ok once in a
while but for every main quest segment got a bit tiring.

So do you mean something like this?

"What is neither flesh or bone and has fingers
and thumbs all of it's own?"

Something like this was done in Arean. If not, what do you mean like puzzles?
I would like to see them once in a while like when questing to get an Artifact and
just as you are about to get it, you need to answer a question, something like
what happened to Gandalf trying to get into the Mines of Moria.

I'm not sure what you consider puzzles, but I'd definitely like more thinking. There were a couple erm, lever puzzles in OB, but really nothing to major. Breaking codes, setting up murders on our own, acutally solving the Dark Brotherhood quest on our own, etc.

HA Good fun!

I hope there aren't puzzles in skyrim. I don't play games because I want a puzzle, just get a puzzle book or something. If they do include them I hope they're not any more complex than say, the ayleid one in the mages guild questline

Puzzles and riddles, with clues and hints to help you solve them, yes.

Random lever crankings until you get the right combination to open the door, no.

Mehh... depends. Ive played enough puzzle games... Zelda... Banjo Kazooie. Dont necessarily need it in TES if you ask me

A glove?

But yes, I would like some more mysteries to solve that relied more on your intellect than your ability to see the things they want you to in that one in Oblivion.

If puzzles aren't in the original SKYRIM game, they can be modded in.

Dragon Age Origins Sacred Ash style puzzle? I'm all for it.

No thanks. I'm terrible to that kind of things. Seriously, if it weren't from Youtube, i would never have completed Twilight Princess. I even got stuck more than one time in both Uncharted games. So i had to consult Youtube... AGAIN, only to find out that i had already figured out the puzzle but overlooked some minor details. :facepalm:

It could also be puzzles that doesn't immediately reveal what was supposed to be the correct answer. All answers may be legal, but a month down the line, you are revealed if your answer provided a good or a bad outcome. Nothing too serious of a negative outcome, maybe some lowered stats or something. For such riddles, it's important that you can only search the internet for it's mechanic, not the actual answer.

Yes, I would love to see more puzzles and riddles in Elder Scrolls. Especially more riddles. They are a bit of a past time of mine :biggrin:

Yes, glove or gauntlet.

Another thing, is, I don't want a puzzel where I have to be physically be able to do it. No button smashing or anything like that.
One reason why I don't play RTS games, I don't have the quick dexterity to do it. I would hate failing just because I can't do it,
where my character should be able to do it.

I want more roll playing , less puzzle tought. Isn't Tomb Raider about puzzels? I can't remember that. So no, I do not want that
stuff in Skyrim.

No... no it wouldn't I don't like puzzles, it is a lot of time I could be spending beatin' on things.

One or two would be nice.

I love puzzles and riddles.

I think they are a great way of hiding treasures or giving a storyline to a dungeons (search inside the dungeon to find clues on how to solve the puzzles, etc).

I agree. I would love to see some Zelda type puzzles in dungeons and caves in Skyrim. It just makes each dungeon much more interesting.