I only really buy a guide to complete it on my second run through, like most modern people, if I get stuck first time round then I just find the solution online. Yes, completing a game 100% without a guide is a massize achivement and you guys that can do it should feel really proud, but for me, completing a game to about 85-95% takes me well into hundreds of hours of game. It's at that point that I buy a guide because it feels like im wasting my life away.

And no one can say that the aquired Excalibur II on FFIX just by chance. Who would decide try to get to the last dungeon of a 40 hour game in less than 12 hours.