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How long till you skip it?

Let's say you see a chest somewhere. But you don't know how to get it. How long will you bang your head against this wall before you just say fuck it and move on with your life?
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Depends on the kind of puzzle.

Some sort of environmental thing in the level, I will try for a very long time. A sliding tile puzzle? I already am fed up with its bullshit 5 seconds before I even started.
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5 or 10 minutes. Then I'll look it up online. Often, when I can't figure it out on my own, it's because I'm missing an item I'll get later during normal gameplay.
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stone posted...

5 or 10 minutes. Then I'll look it up online. Often, when I can't figure it out on my own, it's because I'm missing an item I'll get later during normal gameplay.

Looking up optional things online? :O

I'll look up a mandatory thing if it's gonna cause me to have to quit playing, but I won't look up an optional thing.
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A long time.
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Steve Nick posted...

stone posted...

5 or 10 minutes. Then I'll look it up online. Often, when I can't figure it out on my own, it's because I'm missing an item I'll get later during normal gameplay.

Looking up optional things online? :O

I'll look up a mandatory thing if it's gonna cause me to have to quit playing, but I won't look up an optional thing.

Why not? For completionism sake.
Depends on the game too, I guess.
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I look up optional stuff too because I like exploring thoroughly, and leaving something unresolved grates loudly in my mind and will distract me for awhile after the fact.
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I'm a lot more willing to look stuff up when exploration and puzzle-solving isn't the primary reason I'm playing the game.

If it's Dark Souls or something, I'm a lot more willing to just look it up, since the main reason you're playing Dark Souls is for the combat gameplay. So looking up some stuff about weapons or skills isn't 'ruining' the game for me.
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20 years ago? An entire day.

But now? Now I use a guide to play most rpgs and basically cheat :( .

I just realized how little patience I have compared to being a kid with no internet and near endless free time.

I remember playing portal 2 and telling myself I was NOT going to look up any solution online no matter how frustrating, even if it meant just blindly shooting portals at every inch of a giant room (portal 2 WAS kinda bullshit though in its puzzles basically devolving into "find the tiniest bit of a far-off wall in the distance that is portal gun accessible" half the time) and I almost did it up until the last area when I caved.

Amenadeel posted...

20 years ago? An entire day.

But now? Now I use a guide to play most rpgs and basically cheat :( .

I just realized how little patience I have compared to being a kid with no internet and near endless free time.

I remember playing portal 2 and telling myself I was NOT going to look up any solution online no matter how frustrating, even if it meant just blindly shooting portals at every inch of a giant room (portal 2 WAS kinda bullshit though in its puzzles basically devolving into "find the tiniest bit of a far-off wall in the distance that is portal gun accessible" half the time) and I almost did it up until the last area when I caved.

I had the same complaint for Portal 2.

The best puzzles are where everything is right infront of your face and you can't figure it out.
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Yup. And then you get that moment a day later after you've slept on it where suddenly it clicks. Love that feeling.