[General Discussion] Games that make you feel retarded

Usually getting stuck in a game and then finding out the solution only makes me think "Well how the hell was I supposed to know that?!", so I can only really think of a few point & click adventure with slightly less illogical puzzles that have made me go "oh, duh", and from console games, Vagrant Story.

I got stuck in the Great Cathedral near the end for a good three or four hours, I think. I ran back and fourth between every single room, hallway and passageway I'd cleared and would soon clear, and it was made especially difficult because of the slightly maze like structure of the maps (to get to the other room in floor 2, you'd need to go up to floor 3, from there down to floor 1 and then through another room and finally up to floor 2, etc) because most of the cathedral was destroyed and crumbled from old age, till eventually I noticed a small (large by any standards, but small in the sense as hard to notice) lever by a locked door at the end of a large hall. The last time the game had had a lever was in the second room at the very start of the game. You pulled the lever and another door unlocks in another floor. Going there and continuing would eventually unlock the locked door next to the lever.

The lever was on top of a small platform of sorts, to the left of the locked door, in a corner, so you wouldn't immediately think to look (or jump over) there since most of the hallways in the game were largely abandoned save for a few chests. I didn't really feel silly I hadn't found the lever, but rather I felt silly I must have entered the hallway dozens of times from the door on the other side of this large gap in the middle of the room, seen the locked door at the other end and gone back thinking I'd only need to come back later.

What's even better is how two years later I replayed the game and got stuck AGAIN on the same lever for two hours or so. I had completely managed to forget about the damn thing and felt even sillier when I finally noticed it.

Still, wonderful game, wonderful, wonderful storyline regardless <3 ;_;

Jam it back in, in the dark.