In an hour or two! I will zoom through it using hints so that I can find out the secret, and easily avoid all spoilers.
In a day or two! I’ll hunker down and binge the game, playing it in long stretches.
In a week! I won’t knock myself out, but I’ll be eager to play it each day.
In two weeks! I’ll play it pretty casually.
In a month! I’ll make it last.
In two months or more! I’m going to savour every second of the game and try to make the experience last as long as possible. And I’ll probably see spoilers, but that’s fine.
I voted “a week”, but I actually don’t know. Not knowing how long the (full version of the) game will be, I can’t actually make any educated prediction.
I would like to slowly sip it as a cup of good tea, without rushing it too much, but locking myself down for too many days would also not be feasible for me.
So I hope to enjoy it for a few days before I re-enter the public spoiler universe and, as I did with Thimbleweed Park, replay it later to find out all the things I missed on the first run.
I voted two weeks, but I feel like I’m in “probably going to see spoilers” territory there. I feel like on the day of release some news site will post what the secret is in a headline, so it’s how long I can avoid the internet completely while I’m playing.
I hope that’s what they’ll do, but I’ve seen people be spoilered by news sites over TV show finales several times before (I’ve usually managed to avoid those by just not going on the internet until I’ve seen the finale).
I don’t know what sites gain by putting actual spoilers in headlines, but it seems to happen pretty often.
I voted “two months or more”, because I’ll be playing it alongside my 11- and 8-year-old children. They’re in school now, so our play sessions will probably be Saturday mornings, but not ALL Saturday mornings.
EDIT: Sam and Max is a series I play alone. Right now I’m on Season 2, Episode 4. Yes I know the Season 3 spoiler, or the gist of it.
Pretty difficult to judge, as one or two “hard” puzzles could greatly increase the time required, unless they are so hard I give up and look up the solution.
I went with a week, as a P&C adventure targeted at a wider audience is possibly more casual, but I hope it’ll last longer.
I want to try and solve the game without an external guide, because I’ve never solved an MI game without one. But I will use the in-game hint systems if I’m stumped. So I guess I wouldn’t be solving it on my own after all.
I voted a month as I hope the game will be long enough to last that long. I guess it will come in parts like the others did, so I know I can pace myself to finishing only one part per week. Or less.
I think I spent about three weeks to finish TWP, but I have less time these days, so… perhaps I will need to stretch it to 2 months.
I voted for two month or more. Similar to @Sushi I hope that the game will be long epic. Beside that, I can’t play during my vacations (two weeks! ). And my work and my family only permit about an hour of play each day.
(Maybe I have to add a vacation of four weeks on a lonely island with my computer. )
To those who voted “two months or more”: how will you manage your Internet navigation to avoid spoilers for such a long time? Or is it OK for you to read spoilers?
Nice, that’ll be good for your digestive system.
I will not go on Twitter, not on YouTube, not visit here and only read national news until I finished it. Easy!
I have been training by not reading any of the posts here that dissect the trailers/screenshots that have been released, which I barely looked at. I have watched the trailer once and found it too spoilery.
To me: Unfortunately yes. My time to play the game will be limited anyway. And if I have to decide to meet a great community here or to be in internet quarantine during six month, I will accept the spoilers.
I’ve tried that too, but not with a huge success. Here and there I read some of the discussions incidentally.
Oh, wow. I can understand staying away from game-specific forums like this one, but for me not visiting YouTube for months would be really impossible. The same goes for news aggregators that personalize my news. Kudos to you for managing!
I really don’t expect this game taking months to be solved, though, not even if you can dedicate to it just a few hours/week.
Well, I want to ENJOY the game, that means reading everything, trying even the useless things.
The most difficult part will be avoid the spoilers, posts, walkthroughs, videos that will appear online everywhere.
But I can do it.
). And my work and my family only permit about an hour of play each day.
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