Originally Posted by damiarch
Puzzles for amuzement purpose? fine and dandy.
Puzzle that stops forward progress and makes the player go look up a solution is bad.
(thinking of the bridge puzzle drom DAO,maker blessed I loathed that puzzle,and cursed the designer for it)

really?

All you had to do was find a correct patern which happened to be quite logical. If the puzzles in dragon age are considered unfair, it is no wonder that a puzzle is such a rarity in modern games.