Quote Originally Posted by seiferalmasy2 View Post
When I played FF7,8,9 and 10 I completed 95% of the game and sidequests without having to look up anything. Granted, there is always 5% you learn from a friend but nowadays you have the net for the endgame...

I am not having a dig, just that I don't see why people use guides when actually playing through the normal game. It seems to be destroying the whole point of playing a game...

maybe that is just me.
With most games, i'm happy to play them without a guide, and simply jump online if i'm having difficulty.

However, having a guide can contribute to your experience of the game. Generally i feel a first playthrough is always best without a guide, but a guide will show you many things you can easily miss, help to reduce tediousness by offering faster methods of levelling etc and provide in depth information that just isn't available in-game.

For example: there are scenes in FFXIII that a player can completley miss if you progress the story too quickly without some heavy exploration, which is a little unfair when the game drives itself forward and suddenley expects you to stop and change how you've been playing the game until that point.

Tbh i doubt many people completed Rikkus mix list in FFX without a guide, learned how to breed a gold chocobo in FFVII, found the zodiac spear in FFXII etc I wonder how many people legitamatley completed FFX-2 100% without outside help. Guides push you to get that little bit more out of a game and in that sense are definitley worth a few £££