Thread: Environmental puzzles for 2.0?

My favorite aspect of MMO games is exploration! I absolutely love running through the world and seeing what it has to offer. However, I dislike exploring worlds that don't offer anything for explorers besides more quests and mobs to fight.

One thing I would love to see in 2.0 or post 2.0 would be environmental puzzles. I've played a several other MMO games that have small and large puzzles scattered through the world and add a depth to exploration. Since jumping won't effect combat in 2.0, perhaps jumping can be used for these puzzles so that the feature doesn't completely go to waste. An example I suppose would be a small mountain (8 stories tall?) that you can scale by running, jumping, taking small leaps of faith, etc. Once you reach the top, there could be a treasure chest waiting for you or perhaps some sort of special NM or something.

Other examples can be lava pits with a path of small rocks that lead to a chest, a long hallway with traps sprouting from the ground that can be avoided by jumping, a series of trees that can be scaled to reach the top of a giant tree...you get the idea.

Disregard this thread of puzzles of this sort were already confirmed to be included in 2.0

Hmm, jumping puzzles with treasure chests at the end... seems familiar...

*goes back to leveling Necromancer*

And FYI, I am addicted to jumping puzzles.

one casual roleplaying game is enough. leave the jumping levels for crash bandicoot.
meep* jumping puzzles are "fun" maybe when you do it for your first time.

Originally Posted by Tonkra

one casual roleplaying game is enough. leave the jumping levels for crash bandicoot.
meep* jumping puzzles are "fun" maybe when you do it for your first time.

You have way too much hatred for anything that isn't XIV. Jumping puzzles are well loved by the hardcore (speed running) and casual gamers alike.

If the devs kept your mindset on what a rigid roleplaying game should be, we wouldn't even be getting 2.0

So yeah, I think jumping puzzles would be cool, they work in GW2.

And just keep in mind that they don't have to be anything overly complicated. They can consist of small jumping segments in dungeons to avoid traps that inflict minor or heavy damage and/or status effect(s). Aside from jumping puzzles, we can also get simpler puzzles like having to push a statue onto a loose tile to reveal a hidden passage, hitting a switch to avoid poison mist, pushing a large rock with a party member (because the rock is too heavy) to a lower level to avoid the spawning of a group of enemies since you've blocked their path.

Any kind of environmental interaction would be great. This way, environments can feel like they have life to them and don't feel like they're just there for show.

Myst like puzzles would be kinda cool. Like the ones in Riven. loved that game. <3

Originally Posted by Tonkra

one casual roleplaying game is enough. leave the jumping levels for crash bandicoot.
meep* jumping puzzles are "fun" maybe when you do it for your first time.

I've done a bunch and still enjoy them