Using game guides / walkthroughs

[cookieface]

To walkthrough or not? I myself think that to play a game with a step by step guide in hand, is ridiculous. It kind of takes away the whole point of playing. Then again, some people just have a hard time finding stuff due to lack of experience with games, or something, and who's to take away their fun? The only time I will ever go to a guide, is if I get hopelessly stuck somewhere, and usually only when I'm trying to just beat the game already.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I generally don't have the time or patience to figure out every picky little puzzle that some deranged game designer's mind spawned. If I can't figure something out for myself after about... oh... ten minutes, I log on to gamefaqs. It's not that I don't think I could eventually figure it out (although some puzzles, like one in Xenogears I know I never would have figured out on my own), it's that I am not going to waste my time doing it. I have better things to do with my life than sit there for lord knows how long trying to figure it out.

[Germ Hamee]

Yeah, pretty much. I really don't see the point in playing a game if you're going to use a guide every step of the way, but I also don't see the point in it if you're not going to get anywhere because of some gargantuan lack of information in-game or a hellish puzzle built to haunt you in your dreams. I try to get through on my own, but sometimes game designer's expectations are ridiculous.

The only games I have no problem playing with a guide by my side at all times are: Pokemon (gotta catch 'em all and you KNOW it!), and FFXI.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I use guides for games that I know are going to take a lot of time to get through and may not interest me quite enough to play through a second time just to get all the secret junk. Final Fantasy games, generally.

[-N-]

I use Kishi.

[Dr.K]

I'm ok with using game guides for side quests, and things that are so ridiculously secret that you'd have to have ESP to find them. For a game that doesn't really need one though, I frown upon it.

[Aphelion]

I only use game guides when I'm stuck, or to see if there're any sidequests I didn't notice before going to the final boss castle, for example. When a game is in a foreign language (besides English and Spanish) I try to follow my own road, but in some games (like in my Japanese copy of Xenogears...bless that confused game seller) sometimes it's just better to go get a walkthrough...

[Craig]

I use them when I'm stuck.

Although to be honest there are some games that you need a guide, to beat the game. GTA: San Andreas for example.

[Sepho]

I use 'em. I've never had anything against using them, and back when I would play games from sunset to sunrise, I could afford to spend time finding where to go next. Now I can't =[

There're a lot of instances where I can't imagine figuring out what to do without some sort of guide or FAQ. Like recruiting Vincent in FF7. Can't see a lot of people finding that one out for themselves.

[Cloud No.9]

i'll flick onto gamefaqs when i get stuck. but i don't like being led around a game.

[Polyonymous]

If I get to a part that I just can't figure out, I will normally look for a guide. This doesn't happen often, and if I really like that game,after playing it through a couple times, I would go through with the walktrhough and make sure I take full advantage of all of the secrets (not that I would have missed much).

[Destai]

I use them when Im stuck or want a particular secret from the game.

[Dreddz]

I use guides if im really stuck, i ususally would spend a max of 20 mins on a certain puzzle, before becoming bored and going to gamefaqs.....

[ljkkjlcm9]

as I'm quite sure I said in a previous thread about this, I use guides for the massive charts and stuff that they have, such as enemy data in RPGS, lists of weapons, magic, armor, items, skills, all sorts of that stuff. I mean back in the day, FFI came with a map and all the monster data on the back!

THE JACKEL

[Vaprice]

I myself like to use strategy guides when Im playing a game such as...Ninja Gaiden....friggin hardest friggin frig friggidty de dy whee game....

but games that are easy shouldn't be used. But most of the time I try and stay away from them after I beat them...