How many 5 year olds could you defeat?

[Dark Jaguar]

Yeah that's about what I meant. Like "escape the reactor before the bomb goes off!" followed by a timer means "run". "Escape in 5 minutes" without a timer means "run!". However, just saying "escape before the bomb goes off" without either a timer or specifically stating a time limit means "pfft, just spend the next few hours levelling up, you'll tune out the alarms eventually".

This is also true of all sorts of other "time critical" missions. For example "We have to hurry to get to the town of Krigdaria and rescue Marin before they get on the ship!". Heh, sure I'd hurry right there except there's like 30 side quests I can only do at this point, so nuts to you! She'll be fine...

Heh, Wind Waker was like that the ENTIRE GAME. I kinda didn't like how the boat RUSHED you to do everything. Previous games didn't have so much of a rushy feeling. Every single thing I needed to do, I had to "hurry!" and do it then. If I actually played "in character" to really get into the game, I NEVER would have accomplished any side quests :D. So, I completely forget the main quest between main objectives to mess around with side quests for weeks on end (in game weeks :D).