Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 3

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Same thing really, mostly because I find it very hard to believe you can still be thinking about what you're doing in the game immersevely anymore when you're staring at a web browser which is completely not part of the game.

I don't think so. Because only when I have to use the web browser, I know it's a good game with challenging puzzle stuff. We also need to know what is too hard and what is too easy.

Yust picking up a key and use it on the door, is too easy.
Picking up a cogwheel and place it onto a fitted spoke is too easy.

While most of puzzles in Silent Hill where you have to be a hyper-brain is too hard. But I always enjoyed that. Rather I think the puzzles in Penumbra are perfectly balanced. Hard enough to let you stuck for a while, but not too hard like in Silent Hill and not too easy like in Amnesia.

Amnesia has only a few good puzzles and that is in the control room, where you don't know what to do when playing blind.

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What I am saying is: SH (especially 2 and 3) could allow itself to have sometimes difficult and obscure puzzles because within the context of the story and setting, they made sense (to some extend... nothing is perfect and in the end it is also personal preferences that matter).

Well, but Amnesia has the steampunk setting with old industrial machines. What could be a better setting to implement puzzles? Physics, mechanics and logical thinking should be implemented in such a game.
And the name "Frictional Games" means that the player focus on solving physics based puzzles by interacting directly into the game world.