Ironically, same here; but I'm not the one saying that the game was wrong just because I couldn't figure out a simple puzzle.
You're blaming the game because you couldn't figure out a simple puzzle. If you weren't trying to shove any and all blame onto the game, rather than just admit you got stumped and it was your fault. There are some completely unintuitive puzzles in some games, you have to talk to this NPC/book/drawer to get what you need without any idea that you're supposed to. The Zelda puzzle where you get the basket away from the monkey(it's a monkey, not a goblin) is not one of those puzzles. You had everything you needed to solve the puzzle; your unwillingness to change the camera angle or explore 20 feet from where you find the first hawk grass is not a flaw in the game, but in yourself.
The puzzle in itself is not complex. The only game period that actually challenges me in terms of intellectually is Go!Sudoku which I downloaded off the PSN.
Games try to throw in puzzles to mix up the repetitive nature of their gameplay.(Zelda) Sometimes it's implemented well, like for example the old Lufia games. It's implemented well because it's short, to the point and on the screen they'll show you everything you need to figure it out.
Other games throw out puzzles that require simple stubbornness to complete the puzzle so you can move on to the next area. These for all I know they put in there to help sell strategy guides.
Some puzzles are there to try and make you think fast, for example the bomb defusing tasks in the Spiderman 3 game. Trying to complete a circuit is a lot harder when you have 12 seconds to do it and a very narrow time range to move each switch. These can add difficulty by merely making you do a simple thing very quickly.
The kind of puzzle that requires finding a specific spot, such as whatever it is that's required to launch a bird, with no hint that there was more than one spot given and a pointless island seemingly hinting a method to jump on the ledge directly to the money(, or whatever the fuck it is, who really cares), is going to fall under to "be stubborn and get it done" category. There is no satisfaction gained from completion except the joy of not having to be doing the stupid puzzle anymore.
Blaming everyone but yourself for your mistakes is not the sign of the genius you claim to be; it's the sign of an immature kid. You got stumped, it happens to everyone; get over it and take some responsibility.
Intelligence and maturity are not the same thing, though I contend the puzzle itself was flawed.
DVD players aren't the only source of high definition content, despite what you seem to think. I rarely watch my DVD's, even though I have a few hundred, so spending $500 on a blu-ray player that I would rarely use is a huge waste of money. I'd get far more use out of an HD cable box or a PS3/360 than I would through any DVD player.
If you barely watch DVDs maybe you shouldn't have invested in several hundred. I'll spend up to $25 bucks on blu-rays(if I see what I want in a store, normally I'll order them online for cheaper) but I'll actually watch them a few times.
As far as your preferences tilt, that you have so little interest in watching movies that you consider a HDTV a good investment without a media player for it, I'd say it's merely proof this is a rather pointless argument. Like most people with HDTVs, I like watching movies in HD. It's about as dumb as me and you talking about the value of Wii with myself indifferent to the concept of motion sensor controls. Nintendo wants my respect? Make games that everyone wouldn't agree suck ass if they were played on a wavebird controller.
And yet it's not outright beating HD-DVD, with everything blu-ray has going for it, it should have crushed HD-DVD by now. It's failing, just failing less than HD-DVD. HDtv's make up a small portion of the market, and therefore so will blu-ray players; that's what you never seem to understand. In a few years, as more people buy HDtv's, then the new format
Pay attention more. It's destroying HD DVD and the margin grows every month. The PS3 userbase is growing slow compared to the the Wii but it's completely eclipsing HD DVD players. This fall what's coming here in North America? Heavenly Sword, Lair, Ratchet and Clank, Folksoul, Haze, Uncharted, and there are rumors Killzone and MGS4. No doubt GTA will sell more on 360 but it'll also move some PS3s. The difference here is that 360 sales aren't HD DVD sales, every PS3 is a new blu-ray player. So even if PS3 doesn't leave 2007 with 9 or 10 million units sold, even with a disappointing Christmas HD DVD is still dead meat.
To top it all off, who is going to buy a HD DVD player now? The only sales are movies not hardware from the early adopters. If some overly cautious people are afraid of blu-ray success, people are fucking terrified to buy HD DVD. The only people getting it are people who aren't even aware there's a format war going on.
So you can wait to spend your money wisely, but when I say I want to do the exact same thing, that makes me stupid? Hello double standards.
Listen up Marilyn vos Savant, my point is that the point of being early adopter is that you're willing to pay more money to get it immediately. Furthermore, if people didn't buy systems until the prices lowered... well, there'd be much slower actual technological advancement of any mass produced products.
This is just stupid. 5 years is obviously an estimation, although it's a lot closer than sony thinking they'll overtake DVD in 3 years. When blu-ray players get to be a comparable price to upscaling DVD players, I'll buy one. That's not going to happen for a few years though. Expecting me to promise that I'm not going to buy something for X amount of time is retarded.
Blu-ray is actually expanding faster than DVD did. Of course blu-ray offers a jump in higher resolution so people with high definition TVs are going to be inclined to see more value out of the purchase. DVD had to compete with VHS. DVD and Blu-ray aren't competiting in the same sense. There is obvious visual and audio superiority in one format than the other, and the Blu-ray owner owns a DVD player already and can play DVDs on his Blu-ray player.
On the other hand, Blu-ray has an actual competitor, HD DVD, whose nearing demise should ramp up its growth, and in circular motion, ramp up sales of PS3.
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