Dumb Sphinx Riddles that shouldn't be in the game

[louis.john.is.not]

The Sphinx asking you to find your first seeker's token is as masochistic as they come, and the Sphinx asking players to find a pawn named SphinxParent, practically turned all pawns to be names that, because now everyone is naming their pawn SphinxParent, or SphinxMother or whatever... It killed the immersion.

[The Ultimate Might]

Originally posted by louis.john.is.not:

The Sphinx asking you to find your first seeker's token is as masochistic as they come, and the Sphinx asking players to find a pawn named SphinxParent, practically turned all pawns to be names that, because now everyone is naming their pawn SphinxParent, or SphinxMother or whatever... It killed the immersion.

Sphinx, Dragonsplague, f-u-c-k.

[Lucas_ES]

The seeker's token is really a bother, though I have to say that due to this riddle I ended up finding a LOT of seeker's tokens that I had missed, can't complain.
The SphinxParent one is simple too, just pay attention to who made that pawn, the only valid ones are the CAPCOM ones, pretty simple.

The one riddle that got me stuck though is the one about carrying the jar to the desert city. I completely gave up on the sphinx questline due to this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ jar.

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Lucas_ES:

The seeker's token is really a bother, though I have to say that due to this riddle I ended up finding a LOT of seeker's tokens that I had missed, can't complain.
The SphinxParent one is simple too, just pay attention to who made that pawn, the only valid ones are the CAPCOM ones, pretty simple.

The one riddle that got me stuck though is the one about carrying the jar to the desert city. I completely gave up on the sphinx questline due to this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ jar.

You can actually cheat this riddle by doing the opposite.

Bring the guy to the jar.

[D. Flame]

The director thought he was being clever.

Spoiler alert: He wasn't.

Literally, only the first riddle was semi-clever.

[Archon]

get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ good they were ez skill issue 100%

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by Archon:

get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ good they were ez skill issue 100%

Being easy isn't really the point. Cleverness is the point of riddles, and all but one of them lack that aspect.

[Arkady]

Resume of today gamers: "I don't like X, devs should remove it"

[justfaded]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

The director thought he was being clever.

Spoiler alert: He wasn't.

Literally, only the first riddle was semi-clever.

Wow your hate boner is super stiff today. Take a cold shower or something.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by justfaded:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

The director thought he was being clever.

Spoiler alert: He wasn't.

Literally, only the first riddle was semi-clever.

Wow your hate boner is super stiff today. Take a cold shower or something.

At least I am talking about the game. You are obsessing about me, personally. Says more about you than me.

[The 5th Seraph]

They could have tried harder, but I don't really take issue with most of them. I don't think classic style riddles would have worked well with the set-up, since you can only give multiple-choice answers to questions, and if you actually read the answer to most riddles on the screen, it would be obvious that it was the answer... y'know?

First riddle is a good starter.

The Finder's Token one is a bit too hardcore if you don't have a mod that sticks a quest marker on it. At the very least there should be some hint regarding where to find it.

The one for bringing your beloved should NOT have counted Pawns as a valid answer unless their affection is over the love threshold already. It should have required bringing an NPC...... or a mirror. A mirror should have been a valid answer.

The one for giving over your most valuable item loses all of its oomph if you know you're just going to get two of it. It would have been far cooler if the Sphinx had asked you to hand over your weapons, then gave you a unique version of that weapon in return (and you'd have to NG+ to collect all the unique Sphinx weapons).

The SphinxParent one is far too much set-up for what amounts to word trickery. It probably should have been its own quest to find the remains of a dead sphinx and retrieve something from it.

The riddle for finding the Sphinx a second time is definitely the stupidest, especially if you're like me and just rode from the first temple to the second clutching onto her chest.
The riddle for counting how many riddles you've answered is also utterly silly...
I feel like either of those could have been substituted for something better... like asking you to present something commonplace for you but which another Arisen might never find in their world (i.e. their unique berry).

The jar one I'm okay with.
The Dante / Virgil one I'm okay with.
And the one for killing a fighter while doing only chip damage is fine... I guess. I mean it could be worse.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by louis.john.is.not:

It killed the immersion.

Excellent!

(I don't suffer from this 'immersion' thing, so it's never 'killed'. Thank god - I actually get to enjoy games, unlike you poor immersionists.)

[Xhazahh]

google the answers, jeebz

[马文蕾不再爱我]

Originally posted by louis.john.is.not:

The Sphinx asking you to find your first seeker's token is as masochistic as they come, and the Sphinx asking players to find a pawn named SphinxParent, practically turned all pawns to be names that, because now everyone is naming their pawn SphinxParent, or SphinxMother or whatever... It killed the immersion.

Dumb or dumber isnt here the point.
The point is, that the whole Game was designed based on the Rule Number 1 :

"How to make all players spend as much Gold as possible into the Game, and so how to make them all desire to buy anything for real money out of our (theyr) in Game Shop".

Just hold in mind, how many wakestones you need only for to travel back and forwards to the Sphinx ? Each wokestone costs 10k Gold. ?

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Ночь не была любовью:

Just hold in mind, how many wakestones you need only for to travel back and forwards to the Sphinx ? Each wokestone costs 10k Gold. ?

How exactly do you travel using wakestones? /eyeroll

"How to make all players spend as much Gold as possible into the Game, and so how to make them all desire to buy anything for real money out of our (their) in Game Shop".

There are also no ferrystones, nor gold, in the "Game Shop".

[AvG]

Just as a tip I found out this cool feature. The finders token is treated as a rarity in game, yet makes perfect copies from forgery. This means you can make a forgery and then gift it to someone. When this happens and you rest one day the Scrap shop generates the forgery token again in the lost items shop for 2k gold. After giving out 4 or 5 forgeries I have 5 finders tokens in the forgery store for sale.
Then when I leave for new game+ I can just buy these out and never need to worry about finding the token ever again.