Sphinx Riddles are tedious and annoying AF

[JERRY]

"What time did you take a dump two weeks ago?" how the fk am I supposed to know? I cannot even google this sh!t!

[VDRSK]

Honestly I quite like that they did that, It's something only you know, although if you are a 100% er and try to explore everything it's very likely it's one of 2 places that a close to each other right at the start.

[Noble Ten]

So where did you ? Did you cover it with leaves ?

[FauxFurry]

It is like the memory portion of an IQ test. Perhaps the Sphinx is testing to see if one is an Arisen true rather than another Pawn?

[I'm cucked]

I finished the first half of the Sphinx riddles in and hour and a half. Dunno what to tell you boss.

[Mazurka]

Errands of the Sphinx. i bing'd (lol) the rewards just to see if it was worth the effort. i may do two of them - the one i chose and the one that seems worth it

[Forblaze]

Yeah, they're pretty bad.

[sTpunk]

I mean they're really not that bad in my experience, I finished all except madness in about an hour tops.

[Stübi Senpai]

My beef is actually that the majority of them are not even "Riddles" as such. 2 are basically "answer whatever you want", 1 is just memorisation / tedium for checking back on seeker tokens, 1 is obnoxious if you're not willing to look up the answer (Especially since Capcom tries to troll you with having multiple pawns be SphinxSomethings).

Only 2 I would count as actual Riddles, namely Eyes and whatever the Amphora one is called. I know it may sound stupid, but I would've genuinely preffered if she hit you with a couple Trivia questions about the world or whatever instead of the whole gimmick thing.

[GetUrAssToMars]

Oh man I thought it was pretty fun segway to the usual business. Gave me Fable/Black and White Lion Head studio vibes with the creativity in the solutions.

And the look she gives you after you answer... Gives me goosebumps

[D. Flame]

Anyone bragging about doing them in an hour is either lying or using a guide. No way in hell, people just happened to find the correct NPCs or convoluted answers in under an hour while playing blind.

The first riddle was clever. It is designed to trick you in the same way as a proper riddle. The second one, was kind of obvious, not really a riddle at all. Everything after than is just lame gamification crap.

"Go find this random NPC in the world." Like how is that a riddle? LAME.

[I'm cucked]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Anyone bragging about doing them in an hour is either lying or using a guide. No way in hell, people just happened to find the correct NPCs or convoluted answers in under an hour while playing blind.

The first riddle was clever. It is designed to trick you in the same way as a proper riddle. The second one, was kind of obvious, not really a riddle at all. Everything after than is just lame gamification crap.

"Go find this random NPC in the world." Like how is that a riddle? LAME.

Convoluted answers? None of them are convoluted, they're all pretty simple, other than the one to with Monikers, but I figured that out because I had spent 2 hours in character creation. All I did was hire an official pawn, happened to be the first one. Not lying at all. Did it. Wasn't hard for me, but I can see it being hard for others I guess.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by PizzaPizzaNiceToMeetcha:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Anyone bragging about doing them in an hour is either lying or using a guide. No way in hell, people just happened to find the correct NPCs or convoluted answers in under an hour while playing blind.

The first riddle was clever. It is designed to trick you in the same way as a proper riddle. The second one, was kind of obvious, not really a riddle at all. Everything after than is just lame gamification crap.

"Go find this random NPC in the world." Like how is that a riddle? LAME.

Convoluted answers? None of them are convoluted, they're all pretty simple, other than the one to with Monikers, but I figured that out because I had spent 2 hours in character creation. All I did was hire an official pawn, happened to be the first one. Not lying at all. Did it. Wasn't hard for me, but I can see it being hard for others I guess.

Yes, convoluted, there is almost zero reason to assume that you can find pawns with certain names in the rift or that they would be the answer to a sphinx telling you to bring it its parent.

The finders token is not even remotely debatable.

And the second set of "riddles" are even worse.

[I'm cucked]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by PizzaPizzaNiceToMeetcha:

Convoluted answers? None of them are convoluted, they're all pretty simple, other than the one to with Monikers, but I figured that out because I had spent 2 hours in character creation. All I did was hire an official pawn, happened to be the first one. Not lying at all. Did it. Wasn't hard for me, but I can see it being hard for others I guess.

Yes, convoluted, there is almost zero reason to assume that you can find pawns with certain names in the rift or that they would be the answer to a sphinx telling you to bring it its parent.

The finders token is not even remotely debatable.

And the second set of "riddles" are even worse.

I mean if you found your first seeker's token in the first hour of gameplay, it's only gonna be in a handful of spots. Finding it should be no harder than finding it the first time was. And for the other one, Convoluted isn't the right word, but yeah if you didn't notice the monikers while making characters, then that'd be pretty hard to figure out. The rest of the the first set were dead simple.