Well, it definitively helps solving all of the riddles if you're an experienced adventurte games player - andnot only an (action-) RPG player.
Although ... Once, a decade or even more ago, riddles were THE point on role-playing games !
That changed massively through Blizzard et. al. , though ... To the worse.
No-one does riddles anymore. You do find riddles only in adventure games nowadays.
Even the LucasArts shooter called "Dark Forces" had a few quite good riddles in it !
The (heavy) influence of the Action-RPG genre is - sadly - that PGs turn more and more into combat-only ... The peak is currently being reached with Mass Effect 3, which will most likely be nothing but a shooter with RPG elements in it ... From what I read ...
I call this the "shooterisation of the RPG genre". Everything transforms more and more into ashooters - because shooters sell just best - leaving the shooter genre as the mot prominent game genre on the PC platform ... And the PC as a gaming platform being more and more devoid of other genres, of fresh ideas, of creativity - and, most importantly : Of Diversity !
"PC gaming isd dead" means to me nothing but : Vast domination of a few genres, masses of sequels (and/or prequels), lack of diversity, lack of creativity ...
So, the bottom line is - that I applad to Larian Studios to still maintain a quite high level of creativity.
Which for example shows in the fact that they put riddles into their action-based RPGs .
