How long did chapter four take you?

edited November 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
Satisfy my curiosity, since it took me a full 8 hours.

Partially because of awe at how amazing the game was, mostly because I forget to think of obvious solutions.

Edit: Uhh, just to clarify, I meant 2-4 as in "A little less than four hours". Same with 4-6. Sorry.
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  • edited October 2009
    Just over six, took my time :)
  • edited October 2009
    Took me 5 minutes over 4 hours.

    Enjoyed going through the many conversation trees :P
  • edited October 2009
    As long as you don't include the few hours where I turned it off to do other things, I'm in the 4-6 hour range.

    Fantastic for an episodic game.
  • edited October 2009
    Took me 5 hours and 10 Minutes with a lot of hints for the feast part.
    There was some strange vocabulary and puzzle-ideas in it.

    Without any hints that could have been 7 hours...
  • edited October 2009
    About 5 hours... I woke up around 1 am and went to work about 6:30 am (finished the episode, took a quick shower, dressed up and runned for a bus).
    And first thing I'll do when I get home is replaying it : )
  • edited October 2009
    Around 5 hours, with a short break in the middle. No hints, got stuck a little in the feast part.
  • edited October 2009
    I played it for about 4-ish hours, maybe less, but I didn't rush or anything. I just didn't get stuck on any puzzles. Weird.
  • edited October 2009
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    Took me 5 hours and 10 Minutes with a lot of hints for the feast part.
    There was some strange vocabulary and puzzle-ideas in it.

    Without any hints that could have been 7 hours...

    Yeah, I needed the hints, especially for the recipe bit. Would have taken me much longer otherwise.
  • edited October 2009
    slightly above 6 hrs, not sober the first hour - no hints, always use hint frequency 0 when I solve the puzzles. Then when I do walk-throughs to find some nice dialogue I use to the max so I later can agree or disagree in thread suggesting it were bad hints. =)
  • edited October 2009
    About three hours, maybe four... Maybe I need to mess around more but I am too eager to find out what happens next.

    I felt kind of annoyed that even with hint frequency at 0, people kept giving me hints! The Voodoo Lady was far too helpful in this episode and Morgan was helpful with courting the manatee before...
  • edited October 2009
    took me 3 and a half hours to complete... Probably about half an hours worth was spent trying to figure out the
    SHOCK in Club 41
    puzzle.
  • edited October 2009
    6 or so hours, I'd say.

    (Plus a night of getting nary any sleep thanks to my knee acting up while playing the game last night and hurting like heck every time I bent it while trying to sleep, but I don't think that's DeSinge's doing - more like not wearing thick enough trousers while wandering through our superb ice-cold weather yesterday... :D)

    np: Mr. Scruff - Blackpool Roll (Keep It Unreal (Disc 1))
  • edited October 2009
    I got it done in between 3.45 and 4.10. I clicked 2-4 but it could have been 4-6. I did all the conversations and everything, but I've found myself on the same wavelength as the creators quite frequently in ToMI

    One thing I hated was the
    leg-lamp + chemicals
    because by that time it was about 3am (UK time) and i'd ceased to think logically so I was just randomly doing the same combinations over again
  • edited October 2009
    I was really disappointed with the time it took me to play through this chapter. I spent about 20 mins on Friday with it, two hours Saturday (that got me up to the wind machine with La Singe), then I was looking forward to another few hours today and it was all over in about 20 mins!

    So 2:40 or thereabouts seems VERY short to me :(

    For comparison, the other chapters have kept me going for a few solid days of plugging away. The Sam & Max episodes had me plodding along for days at a time.

    Still a great game, and lovely plot development, but a disappointing length. Only three main puzzles to solve (getting out of jail, feeding sponge, defeating Le Singe).
  • edited October 2009
    stu0rt wrote: »
    I was really disappointed with the time it took me to play through this chapter. I spent about 20 mins on Friday with it, two hours Saturday (that got me up to the wind machine with La Singe), then I was looking forward to another few hours today and it was all over in about 20 mins!

    So 2:40 or thereabouts seems VERY short to me :(

    For comparison, the other chapters have kept me going for a few solid days of plugging away. The Sam & Max episodes had me plodding along for days at a time.

    Still a great game, and lovely plot development, but a disappointing length. Only three main puzzles to solve (getting out of jail, feeding sponge, defeating Le Singe

    You mean De Singe.
  • edited October 2009
    Definitely took a lot less time than Chapter 3, which is still the longest for me. However, more than Chapter 2.
  • edited October 2009
    Definitely the longest one for me. The first episode took me a long time but that was only because I was trying so many random things because I hadn't had any new MI locations in AGES!
  • edited October 2009
    I had a break in between my two big play sessions, but I think it took me about 6 hours or so.

    I got stuck a few times but not for too long.

    I had episode 1 done in about 4 hours, and that included making lunch and eating while playing.

    Episode 2 took me a bit longer, about 5.

    Episode 3 was also about 5 too.

    And yeah, about 6 for 4.

    Really good value from this series, considering I paid $100 for Brutal Legend and had singleplayer done in 5 hours.
  • edited October 2009
    Indeed it is De Singe (or even DeSinge or de Singe), but that doesn't make the meaning of my post invalid.
  • edited October 2009
    stu0rt wrote: »
    Indeed it is De Singe (or even DeSinge or de Singe), but that doesn't make the meaning of my post invalid.

    No, of course not. Misspelling a character's name doesn't exactly matter much.
  • edited October 2009
    I started around 5am and finished around 9am... The puzzles that gave me the most trouble were the
    sack of legs puzzle and the pepper
    .
  • edited October 2009
    Definitely the longest one for me. The first episode took me a long time but that was only because I was trying so many random things because I hadn't had any new MI locations in AGES!
  • edited October 2009
    stu0rt wrote: »
    Indeed it is De Singe (or even DeSinge or de Singe), but that doesn't make the meaning of my post invalid.

    Yes it does!
  • edited October 2009
    I actually felt it was shorter.
    Maybe I really enjoyed it... XD

    I rather have somthing short I enjoy than somthing long and boring.
    The game works really well in the current length and puzzle level. The puzzles are really fun to solve.
  • edited October 2009
    I didn't time myself but i guess I did it in under 6 if I subtract the, also untimed, cooking and eating break.

    The hilarious thing was that the only time I considered turning hints higher then zero was when I got stuck on the simplest puzzle in the game (The ruined X case.) That was a big anticlimax right there......
  • edited October 2009
    It took me exactly 4 hours and 35 minutes. The longest of all the episodes for me, and it was plain awesome :) I only turned on the hints once on the second puzzle, but the hint Guybrush gave me "Hm I need to track the Jungle Beast somehow" didn't really help me, because I already KNEW I had to somehow get those fireflies on the Beast.
    I did solve it soon after though.

    I also got stuck for a while on the SHOCKING dessert puzzle and only discovered the solution by chance - I was walking in circles on the carpet while thinking where the shock when Guybrush exits the Club is coming from :D
  • edited October 2009
    4-6 hours, most puzzles other people had problems with were piece of cake for me, but I did spend a full hour figuring out the first 'meal' part.

    On the 'De Singe' part, did anyone see the hilarious reference in the Credits?
    Desingers instead of Designers.
  • edited November 2009
    On the 'De Singe' part, did anyone see the hilarious reference in the Credits?
    Desingers instead of Designers.

    Oh! I missed that! xD Thanks!
    I was in too much shock over what happened at the end to actually comprehend the credits, though I stared at them, whimpering, for a few minutes.

    Back on topic, I estimate it took me probably around your time, eight hours. _ _ Then again, I got stuck several times (probably because I played from late at night to early in the morning), was chatting extensively with my friends on IM at the time - except for the ending, where I ignored them - and wanted to do stupid stuff, go through dialogue trees, and explore.

    I also wanted to stand around in DeSoosaw's lab for a few minutes in shock after... that. D:
  • edited November 2009
    I liked chapter 4 it was pretty good. I completed it like in 8 hrs - 1 day. Cuzz i got stuck on the forrest i though everything i had to do was there. But the hardest chapter for me by a long shot was chapter 2. That chapter made me use the hint forum.. and once i got unstuck i felt dissapointed in myself relying on it.
  • edited November 2009
    I needed some hints... I am not afraid to admit it.. I think that there are a lot of people that do use hints but act like they do not on here...

    I dunno like it makes them less of a man or woman what ever the case may be.

    I Needed hints for
    the walking back and forth on the rug.... and folding the corners of the map.
  • edited November 2009
    Irishmile wrote: »
    I needed some hints... I am not afraid to admit it.. I think that there are a lot of people that do use hints but act like they do not on here...

    I dunno like it makes them less of a man or woman what ever the case may be.

    well I used some for chapter 3 and some one thought I was a girl on the forum sometime after
  • edited November 2009
    LOL good point OH NO!!!! I'm less of a man.... I'm going out to play some football and womanizing to make up for it.
  • edited November 2009
    well I used some for chapter 3 and some one thought I was a girl on the forum sometime after

    Oh goodnes! I hope it will make me less of a man just in my state of mind, not phisicly... I used hints only for the map corners! Honest!
    Don't cut it off! Please! I'll finish chapter 5 all by myself! Honest!
  • edited November 2009
    It took me around ten hours to beat. I'm really slow on adventure game puzzles, and this one was the hardest for me. The map puzzle especially kept me thinking on my toes. :o
  • edited November 2009
    The hardest and best for me.

    6hrs, brilliant value.
  • edited November 2009
    This is the first one I did with no hints at all, but I really got lucky when I accidently
    folded the map "wrong"
    and then I couldn't figure out how to use the
    charged rug
    and tried to
    exit the bar
    in frustration to go try something else. And I figured out the
    thigh scar
    on the first try (logic or luck? You decide).
  • edited November 2009
    Irishmile wrote: »
    I needed some hints... I am not afraid to admit it.. I think that there are a lot of people that do use hints but act like they do not on here...

    I dunno like it makes them less of a man or woman what ever the case may be.

    I Needed hints for
    the walking back and forth on the rug.... and folding the corners of the map.

    The genius of this episodic gaming that TTG has going is (for me at least) that you are a lot less tempted to use hints or a walkthough because you want the episode to last longer because you know you need to wait a month for your next fix anyway.
  • edited November 2009
    I only used hints for chapter 2 because of the corner island... And booooy did i got stuck redoing and sending those pirates off. The one who strategically put that damn island in a small corner was smart because i and my ADHD couldnt find it.

    But anyway after i used hints i felt bad because after that part i swooped fast throughout all the chapter 2, and made it feel short, even though i was stuck for about 2 days.
  • edited November 2009
    I wish X-Fire would bother to support the Telltale stuff so I could properly know, probably just over/under 4 hours i'd say though
  • edited November 2009
    I dont think I really want to know exactly how much of my life I have used up playing videogames.
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