Greetings, Sarcastic Gamer Community.
God of War I & II. The Zelda series. Braid. Half-Life 1 & 2. The Sam & Max series. All of them great, highly enjoyable games. But I have a major problem when I play them: I REALLY SUCK at solving their puzzles (especially the bigger and more abstract ones in the sense that they don't have a staightforward logic to them). With some practice, I can gradually get past the boss, platforming, mini-game, and combat sections and all the other gameplay segments these games have, but for some reason, I lack the intuition and skill to correlate information and things on a more in-depth level than we normally do during our everyday lives (most notably if we're not very interested in what we're doing, like for example a mind-numbingly tedious school assignment, though we still have to do it anyways).
As all of you can tell, I would gladly welcome with open arms some advice to help me strengthen my cognitive and concentrational muscles for whenever I engage in these games. So please, could anybody out there offer tips so I can get better at solving these brain teasers? I'll appreciate it and send my thanks to whoever posted those tips as soon as I see them in the comments section below this post. OK? Thank you for reading this, and have a nice day.

How the hell can you type up a wall of text with such words as abstract correlate cognitive concentrational (i dont think the last one is a word though) but cant figure out a few puzzles? Nah im just kidding every now and again i get stuck on a puzzle and i think everyone does but eventually you get it done and that makes the pay off even better. I've been replaying God of War 1 and damn there has been a few puzzle that take some time in that game.

play more simple puzzle games, then work your way up. Or try your hand at sudoku and games alike... it could be tiresome and boring, but the only way your gonna improve your skills.

If you're not good at puzzles you certainly shouldn't be playing Braid. There isn't anything else to that game. In most games where puzzles are just one of many aspects of the game they make them pretty simple. Whatever you need to solve the puzzle will usually stand out from everything else, you just have to think like a developer. Except for Fallout 3, nuts to their hacking scheme, I've locked out so many terminals it makes me want to cry. Why can't they be more like Bioshock and let you keep failing until you die, at which point they respawn you so you can fail some more?

Except for Fallout 3, nuts to their hacking scheme, I've locked out so many terminals it makes me want to cry. Why can't they be more like Bioshock and let you keep failing until you die, at which point they respawn you so you can fail some more?

There is one little trick to that, its been a while but you get 3 chances right, so if you get the first 2 wrong just back out of the terminal and then your chances start over.

To answer the main question just keep practicing, its not everyone's strong point to solve puzzles, so you are not the only one in that boat. Like RAGNAROCK said playing Sudoku and other games like that will greatly help, or maybe pay a little more attention to you school work:lipssealed:

I'm doing a SuDoKu now :)

And yeah, Minesweeper helped me get the mindset. Just try simpler puzzles, gaming or not, and then make your way up. And try different types, so you aren't just familiar with one type of puzzle

There is one little trick to that, its been a while but you get 3 chances right, so if you get the first 2 wrong just back out of the terminal and then your chances start over.

To answer the main question just keep practicing, its not everyone's strong point to solve puzzles, so you are not the only one in that boat. Like RAGNAROCK said playing Sudoku and other games like that will greatly help, or maybe pay a little more attention to you school work:lipssealed:

Sorry, not trying to hijack the thread. I only lock a bunch of them out because I am so confident that I know what the right password is.

Puzzle games? Bejeweled is easy, the goal is to lose so you can stop playing.

I forgot one of the best games ever for spacial and cognitive thought TETRIS! :thumbsup: