3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?

  • n3gr05cur0
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    Besides the game ambience, sounds, visuals... are a delight, the most tasks to upgrade reputation in companies feels a bit repetitive and boring.

    Where charm lies is in tall quests but at the same time are unafordable in terms of time, each one of those could easily take around 3 hours maybe more but solving them with LOT of help of an online walkthrough or guide since ingame clues are hard to solve some of the riddles with decypher locations where to dig or find an island and things like that.
    So spending 3-4 hours of gameplay is almost impossible for a person who has anything to do but playing... indeed i had to leave halfway tall quests several times because of that and it is frustrating. But what is even more frustrating is having a tall quest totally ruined because i lost and object because i was sink . QUEST OBJECTS should be in the menu like the spyglass or the compass in some of the quest, in such way they are not lost and tall quest progress is not lost if a "kind" player come to you and sink your ship.
    Indeed probably having solo experience without any kind of interaction with the rest of the players in server in order to easy accomplish a tall quest should be much better. I do not want to deal with "stupid" players who will ruin my quest.

    After 2 tries on a tall quest i am sorry but I gave up with this. I have better things to do but spend endless nights for nothing.

    Recently I was playing shores of gold 9th tall quest (final) and it took me almos an hour to reach outpost where to start (please let me pick outpost where to start playing) it and then reach the island where to solve riddles, and after 30minutes in the island the server will be closed in 15 minutes.... WHAT THE HELL, RARE I am playing for 90minutes trying to solve a tall quest and you make me start it back from the very beggining? COME ON! thats really dissapointing, I am really upset, I am investing my free time no to waste it! LET ME KNOW IF YOU PLAN TO CLOSE THE SERVER BEFORE I START PLAYING OR CLOSE SERVER TO NEW PLAYERS AND WAIT EVERYONE IN IT TO END PLAYING BEFORE CLOSING THE SERVER.

    I also want to let you know that have 10minutes of inactivity will remove you from the server, so if I have to spend 3-4 hours in complete a tall quest... come on! i have to eat, i have to go to the toilet, I have to keep doing things, so you have to provide a way to let me continue and end tall quests. Give more time to a tall quest player to avoid being kicked out or give me a "save progress" option toend tall quest later, current situation in this regard is UNACCEPTABLE.

    I do not want to miss comment that content is REALLY expensive in terms of in game money... 70.000doublons for a single thing to make up my ship? wow man... indeed other thing imply different money which is much harder to obtain, indeed i saw you can pay to obtain such kind of special money for instance to get a pet. I think prices should low or money got from things you sell in the game should raise, but above this i think no content should be "restricted" in such a hard way to do in game buys and allow players to earn that different money by playing to allow accessing every game content free of charge.

    So in conclusion 35€ for a game which is going to feel frustrating and absolutely insane in terms of time investing... do not buy the game is my conclusion. That would change if tall quest players are more protected and if more content is added and content is easily reached.

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  • FaceYourDemon
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    @negroscuro1594 Many games like Warframe dont shower you with information you learn it and tall tales and riddles are easy so im not sure what you're on about.
    And its a pirate game "Sea of Thieves" if the name didnt gave it up its a game about pirates and your ship dont have a sign "tall tale" he will attack and see what you have and why do you play solo?
    There are so many ways to play with others especially when you are new at the game and solo is not always easy.
    And nothing is "restricted" its purely cosmetics and you can find ancient skeletons in the game that drops ancient coins so you dont even have to spend money and the game is awesome!
    Fun lore beautiful graphics and great gameplay with monthly updates that gives us always things to do, you are simply just a salty player and the game is not for you but your shallow ReViEw is laughable because you lost your precious castaway chest so you decide to ignore everything and be negative.

    By the way as much as its super annoying when games crashes but it happens, not the end of the world and even today they are releasing an update devoted to bug fixes.

    And they did warned everyone days before and there is a message on the screen when you play that tells how much time you have and in case of a game crash in most cases you can rejoin back to your ship.
    Getting kicked for being afk is a good thing to prevent leeches from just getting treasure from others while they go to bed or something.

  • Monkey D Raf
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    Buy this game!

  • Schwammlgott
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    @negroscuro1594 The Tall Tales doesn't take that long, when you know the world better, I recommend you to do the Tall Tales a bit later, so you know the islands better...most of them are done in 1 hour or less with enough knowledge of the world

    If you like it and can deal with losing loot sometimes, or get attacked you should buy it

  • Stundorn
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    @negroscuro1594 sagte in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    Besides the game ambience, sounds, visuals... are a delight, the most tasks to upgrade reputation in companies feels a bit repetitive and boring.

    then dont do them and have a pirate adventure instead. Nothing force you to do so or to stress it, horizonal progression about cosmetics. You can play the game and refuse the whole progression system and you will only miss a shiny hat or so!

    Where charm lies is in tall quests but at the same time are unafordable in terms of time, each one of those could easily take around 3 hours maybe more but solving them with LOT of help of an online walkthrough or guide since ingame clues are hard to solve some of the riddles with decypher locations where to dig or find an island and things like that.

    i did them all without any spoiler, just to say!

    So spending 3-4 hours of gameplay is almost impossible for a person who has anything to do but playing...

    hm, i'm singleparent man, fulltime job, also have a dog and i can organize to play 2-5 hours the one or the other day, especially on weekends - no problem.

    indeed i had to leave halfway tall quests several times because of that and it is frustrating. But what is even more frustrating is having a tall quest totally ruined because i lost and object because i was sink . QUEST OBJECTS should be in the menu like the spyglass or the compass in some of the quest, in such way they are not lost and tall quest progress is not lost if a "kind" player come to you and sink your ship.

    imho , the stealble TT items need to have some worth so you can sell them or shouldnt be stealable at all. Rare has never done anything about that, although it was mentioned in the insider before Anniversary update and many times after that.

    Indeed probably having solo experience without any kind of interaction with the rest of the players in server in order to easy accomplish a tall quest should be much better. I do not want to deal with "stupid" players who will ruin my quest.

    wrong game then. 1st of all its a MP game, crew up, there need no and mustnt be any incentive to solo.
    2nd shared world, the whole game is about a "social eperience" and the uncertainty about other players, so you have to deal with other players as this is one of the core elements of the game!

    After 2 tries on a tall quest i am sorry but I gave up with this. I have better things to do but spend endless nights for nothing.

    so it be then, btw playing games is senseless at best and "for nothing".

    Recently I was playing shores of gold 9th tall quest (final) and it took me almos an hour to reach outpost where to start (please let me pick outpost where to start playing)

    no because of the lore and the story in general!
    It makes zero sense to start Shores of Gold somewhere else.

    it and then reach the island where to solve riddles, and after 30minutes in the island the server will be closed in 15 minutes.... WHAT THE HELL, RARE I am playing for 90minutes trying to solve a tall quest and you make me start it back from the very beggining? COME ON! thats really dissapointing, I am really upset, I am investing my free time no to waste it! LET ME KNOW IF YOU PLAN TO CLOSE THE SERVER BEFORE I START PLAYING OR CLOSE SERVER TO NEW PLAYERS AND WAIT EVERYONE IN IT TO END PLAYING BEFORE CLOSING THE SERVER.

    salty much?
    Server cloesed or merged? Its rarely the servers close without further notification, but it can happen, unlucky i say.
    Server merge should not affect your voyage or tale.

    I also want to let you know that have 10minutes of inactivity will remove you from the server, so if I have to spend 3-4 hours in complete a tall quest... come on! i have to eat, i have to go to the toilet, I have to keep doing things, so you have to provide a way to let me continue and end tall quests. Give more time to a tall quest player to avoid being kicked out or give me a "save progress" option toend tall quest later, current situation in this regard is UNACCEPTABLE.

    You should be able to rejoin your session within 10 minutes if you were kicked after 10 min afk.

    I do not want to miss comment that content is REALLY expensive in terms of in game money... 70.000doublons for a single thing to make up my ship?

    gold i guess not dubloons, or?
    When you play a litle more you can take a bath in gold and you end up not knowing what to do with all the gold.
    In 2018 it was hard to get your first ship livery. Today its a joke in comparison.
    BTW the Athena Ship set cost 500.000 per piece, so 6 Million in total plus the Flag 65.000 gold :)
    I still sit on 6 Million and buyed it already and not only that :)

    wow man... indeed other thing imply different money which is much harder to obtain, indeed i saw you can pay to obtain such kind of special money for instance to get a pet. I think prices should low or money got from things you sell in the game should raise, but above this i think no content should be "restricted" in such a hard way to do in game buys and allow players to earn that different money by playing to allow accessing every game content free of charge.

    Emprioum was introduced after 2 years of constant updates for free to maintain the game financially.
    I agree that ship liverys are expensive, but a pet for 5 bucks is fine if you want one.
    I have already earned around 1000 AC ingame just beeing lucky.

    So in conclusion 35€ for a game which is going to feel frustrating and absolutely insane in terms of time investing... do not buy the game is my conclusion. That would change if tall quest players are more protected and if more content is added and content is easily reached.

    dont buy! too much salt and the game wont please you !

  • Ghostfire1981
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    Besides the game ambience, sounds, visuals... are a delight, the most tasks to upgrade reputation in companies feels a bit repetitive and boring.

    Well it can get a bit repetitive, but should not really think about leveling up. The leveling up in the different companies comes naturally as you roam the seas. Before you know you are suddenly level 30 in everything.

    Indeed probably having solo experience without any kind of interaction with the rest of the players in server in order to easy accomplish a tall quest should be much better. I do not want to deal with "stupid" players who will ruin my quest.

    Well, its an open world PvPvE game (and is marketed as such). Its not really as bad as a very small minority think is is. Some days you see no other players on the seas, other days they are more active. Trust me, the loot you get feels so much more valuable if you are afraid of loosing it. Half of the value from all loot comes from the fear of loosing it before you cash it it.

    I do not want to miss comment that content is REALLY expensive in terms of in game money... 70.000doublons for a single thing to make up my ship? wow man... indeed other thing imply different money which is much harder to obtain, indeed i saw you can pay to obtain such kind of special money for instance to get a pet. I think prices should low or money got from things you sell in the game should raise, but above this i think no content should be "restricted" in such a hard way to do in game buys and allow players to earn that different money by playing to allow accessing every game content free of charge.

    Most of the stuff you can buy seems expensive in the beginning when your voyages yield less gold, but as you progress you will soon have a lot of gold, and nothing to spend it on. The legendary ghost (ship) cometics, cost 500.000 a piece, and at that point in your game, that feels like the 50-70.000 when you started playing. So the prizes level up with you, but so does the income.
    As an example we did a reaper emissary voyage last night, took a little under 2 hours to complete (get to level 5), and we made about 110.000 gold, and we sunk just one ship, the rest came from a fort and some skeleton ships. (So money is really easy to make... especially using the emissary system and gold hoarders missions.)

    So in conclusion 35€ for a game which is going to feel frustrating and absolutely insane in terms of time investing... do not buy the game is my conclusion. That would change if tall quest players are more protected and if more content is added and content is easily reached.

    Well, i bought the game as a preorder, and spent, was is 65€ on it, and though we have had some slower times, the game has slowly evolved and grown. So considering the prize of the game "divided" by the hours i have had fun with it, the cost is pretty low in the long run.

    But the game is not for everyone, but if you give it a chance for what is it, and can become, i do believe you will fall in love with it. Remember it is a fairly new franchise, and the developers (and the community) is still expanding on the game lore and world. As you seem to be interested in the tall tales, this might also be something to consider.
    I hope you will stay and enjoy the (sometimes salty) seas with us all.

    Just my couple of gold coins on the matter,
    Ghostfire

  • promotordj
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    The charm of this game lies with the multiplayer experience. It doesn’t matter what your crew is doing (e.g. trading company missions, forts, fleets, Meg Hunting, Tall Tales, Emissaries, Athena’s, Arena, time-limited mercenary missions, or just reaping the Seas), this game is truly at its best when you are playing with others. My advice is play with people you really enjoy spending time with, try all the game has to offer with those people, and make the decision. Many of us on the forums have been playing 1-2+ years, some even longer, and we’ll all tell you it’s been worth every penny we’ve spent on the game.

  • Schwammlgott
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    @bugaboo-bill as far as I know, the reconnect feature doesn't work when lazy- or sleepybearded

  • Stundorn
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    @schwammlgott sagte in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @bugaboo-bill as far as I know, the reconnect feature doesn't work when lazy- or sleepybearded

    ok didnt know, thanks for clarificaion

  • n3gr05cur0
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    Servers still down from this morning before opening this thread, that is 6 hours...

    I have completed 8 tall tales and pendragon quest and none of those took less than almost 3 hours and most took some more than 3 hours. 3 weeks playing 5 hours a day, I think i know basics for wander the ocean.
    I play solo? yes i do. Why? because is not easy to fin people who like to invest 3hours in tall quest and were interested in an specific one you are about to do. Indeed I found people runing my quests just for fun (insulting included), a great experience which I strongly recommend...

    It is a PVP game, sure, then why tall tales exist? isnt a way to provide different game experience? PVP ruins that in some way, it would be easier to let quest items be on your menu instead to have to carry them in yout hands to avoid time waste because of being sink, since objects also disappear if you left them and leave the island whatever the reason is.
    Besides tall tales objects does not worth any doubloon for sell, it is jus a matter of being sink and loss the item to have to restart the whole quest, I am not sayin other players steal my TT objetcts but they sink me, if i am in the water with one or more object to carry in my hands in the middle of the ocen without ship, quest is over. Spend 30minutes on sensless sailing again and again just to start a quest... well... it tires.

    I am not complainning about losing loot.

    I am really happy to hear some people can have 5 hours in a row for gaming, but not all people can do so, just understand that.

    I think this is already being discussed but i want to get the chance to say i agree that is easier to get loot from others than try to find it yourself. You can spend some time and effort in fort raiding but it takes only minutes and nothing to lose if you go and steal those who are raiding it.
    Conclusion, not to seek for treasures in the world (which gives a lot of adventure feeling and some players enjoy a lot) but go and steal others, much more rewarding. Piracy is not only attack others, adventure, dig for treasures and solve riddles is also a significant part of what piracy means. So this kind of things are discouraging... I think arena is for PVP fighting, but adventure mode should be something else than that and in practice everything point to play adventure as a steal-others mode.

  • D3ADST1CK
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    @negroscuro1594 said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    I have completed 8 tall tales and pendragon quest and none of those took less than almost 3 hours and most took some more than 3 hours. 3 weeks playing 5 hours a day, I think i know basics for wander the ocean.

    I've soloed all 9 tall tales and the seabound soul. The only one that regularly exceeds an hour in length is The Shores of Gold.

  • n3gr05cur0
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    Do you mean I am lying? I say I needed 2-3 hours minimum to figure out where to go, finde where the hell to put a totem, etc... visit 5 islands (going where to start it, going to 1st riddle, then visitin 2 other islands, then back to final island and then deliver final piece where you started) that means to sail a lot and do not have any kind of issue with other players, skeleton ships or kraken... well, that takes time, only sailing takes a lot of time. Just traveling could easily be around 30-45 minutes.

  • Snipper60
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    @negroscuro1594 Do you mean that it takes 30-45 to sail in between each island, or all together?

  • n3gr05cur0
    Master
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    @supersnipper60 obviously all displacement within a same tall tale quest. Thats a total time saiiling around.

  • Snipper60
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    @negroscuro1594 If it takes you 2-3 hours to complete a tall tale, then something is wrong. At max, it should be around 1-1 1/2 hours.

  • LowKeyMojo
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    Pvp is a cornerstone of the game, you have to be comfortable defending yourself, building your skill set, and losing. Eventually you’ll “get gud” just like any other game. This game is an even playing ground and you’re only as good as you allow yourself to be

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @ghostfire1981 sagte in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    Besides the game ambience, sounds, visuals... are a delight, the most tasks to upgrade reputation in companies feels a bit repetitive and boring.

    Well it can get a bit repetitive, but should not really think about leveling up. The leveling up in the different companies comes naturally as you roam the seas. Before you know you are suddenly level 30 in everything.

    Indeed probably having solo experience without any kind of interaction with the rest of the players in server in order to easy accomplish a tall quest should be much better. I do not want to deal with "stupid" players who will ruin my quest.

    Well, its an open world PvPvE game (and is marketed as such). Its not really as bad as a very small minority think is is. Some days you see no other players on the seas, other days they are more active. Trust me, the loot you get feels so much more valuable if you are afraid of loosing it. Half of the value from all loot comes from the fear of loosing it before you cash it it.

    I do not want to miss comment that content is REALLY expensive in terms of in game money... 70.000doublons for a single thing to make up my ship? wow man... indeed other thing imply different money which is much harder to obtain, indeed i saw you can pay to obtain such kind of special money for instance to get a pet. I think prices should low or money got from things you sell in the game should raise, but above this i think no content should be "restricted" in such a hard way to do in game buys and allow players to earn that different money by playing to allow accessing every game content free of charge.

    Most of the stuff you can buy seems expensive in the beginning when your voyages yield less gold, but as you progress you will soon have a lot of gold, and nothing to spend it on. The legendary ghost (ship) cometics, cost 500.000 a piece, and at that point in your game, that feels like the 50-70.000 when you started playing. So the prizes level up with you, but so does the income.
    As an example we did a reaper emissary voyage last night, took a little under 2 hours to complete (get to level 5), and we made about 110.000 gold, and we sunk just one ship, the rest came from a fort and some skeleton ships. (So money is really easy to make... especially using the emissary system and gold hoarders missions.)

    So in conclusion 35€ for a game which is going to feel frustrating and absolutely insane in terms of time investing... do not buy the game is my conclusion. That would change if tall quest players are more protected and if more content is added and content is easily reached.

    Well, i bought the game as a preorder, and spent, was is 65€ on it, and though we have had some slower times, the game has slowly evolved and grown. So considering the prize of the game "divided" by the hours i have had fun with it, the cost is pretty low in the long run.

    But the game is not for everyone, but if you give it a chance for what is it, and can become, i do believe you will fall in love with it. Remember it is a fairly new franchise, and the developers (and the community) is still expanding on the game lore and world. As you seem to be interested in the tall tales, this might also be something to consider.
    I hope you will stay and enjoy the (sometimes salty) seas with us all.

    Just my couple of gold coins on the matter,
    Ghostfire

    You did a REAPER EMISSARY VOYAGE? Well, that doesn't exist...

  • Ghostfire1981
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    Sorry, meant leveling to reaper level 5, and then sell everything at the bonus rate. My crew call that a voyage... so it came out wrong. Thanx for the correction. :)

    Yeah i could have been more specific... reaper level 5 bonus is to see all emissary players on the map, not a voyage.

  • COMBATxKITTY
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    @supersnipper60 said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @negroscuro1594 If it takes you 2-3 hours to complete a tall tale, then something is wrong. At max, it should be around 1-1 1/2 hours.

    It took me three hours once but then again I am the worlds worst obstacle of death course goer througher.

  • COMBATxKITTY
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    @negroscuro1594 since you do not want to deal with "stupid players" who will ruin your quest and already seem annoyed about being sunk then yeah I would say do not buy the game. I think that is a much smarter way to go about it unlike some who buy the game then come and complain that they got sunk in a game where one of the top activities is sinking ships.

  • Snipper60
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    @combatxkitty said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @supersnipper60 said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @negroscuro1594 If it takes you 2-3 hours to complete a tall tale, then something is wrong. At max, it should be around 1-1 1/2 hours.

    It took me three hours once but then again I am the worlds worst obstacle of death course goer througher.

    Good point. Obstacles aren't a nice thing. Rocks are the worst.

  • Iceman D18
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    @supersnipper60 said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @combatxkitty said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @supersnipper60 said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @negroscuro1594 If it takes you 2-3 hours to complete a tall tale, then something is wrong. At max, it should be around 1-1 1/2 hours.

    It took me three hours once but then again I am the worlds worst obstacle of death course goer througher.

    Good point. Obstacles aren't a nice thing. Rocks are the worst.

    They always jump out of nowhere!!! Pesky rocks haha!

  • COMBATxKITTY
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    @supersnipper60 said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @combatxkitty said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @supersnipper60 said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @negroscuro1594 If it takes you 2-3 hours to complete a tall tale, then something is wrong. At max, it should be around 1-1 1/2 hours.

    It took me three hours once but then again I am the worlds worst obstacle of death course goer througher.

    Good point. Obstacles aren't a nice thing. Rocks are the worst.

    You do not want to know how long it took me to hop those rocks over the lava in the Tale where the guy is crying about his arm in the DR.

  • n3gr05cur0
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    After update, happy to se new tall tale checkpoints...

    Checkpoints are not workin...
    I had the text on screen of a poem when servet resets, and my golden coin for final shroudbreaker mission (shores of gold) dissapeared from floor on the no head statue entrance. I went back were the coin was taken and is closed, but of course 4 medallions are set in the wall so no way to open again to take it.

    I went back to my ship to propose an adventure as I read about checkpoint should be used... and I proposed a quest, 2 options there, regular or tall tale which appears but with a crossed chain.

    I checked on TAB menu my tall tale is active and looks "correct" but I can only discard it from this menu.

    Finally I managed to cancel tall tale first, and then propose a new one by using the checkpoint. Ufff....

  • Snipper60
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    @combatxkitty said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @supersnipper60 said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @combatxkitty said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @supersnipper60 said in 3 Weeks testing in xbox game pass, purchase the game or not?:

    @negroscuro1594 If it takes you 2-3 hours to complete a tall tale, then something is wrong. At max, it should be around 1-1 1/2 hours.

    It took me three hours once but then again I am the worlds worst obstacle of death course goer througher.

    Good point. Obstacles aren't a nice thing. Rocks are the worst.

    You do not want to know how long it took me to hop those rocks over the lava in the Tale where the guy is crying about his arm in the DR.

    Just think of it as 3d Super Mario Bros.

  • COMBATxKITTY
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    @supersnipper60 I grew up on Mario but I do not have my child like reflexes anymore lol.

  • Snipper60
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    @combatxkitty And the controllers are somewhat different.

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