Do you think using Brady Games strategy guides is cheating?

[zimmunky]

uhhmmm, the title is self-explanatory........

[Dreddz]

Yep :)

[Tavrobel]

Not if it's the FFIX guide.

But yes, for anything else, yes. Even Prima and other guide companies are cheating. But if you want to unlock EVERYTHING, and after you have played the game once through, then you earn the right to play the game with someone to hold your hand, since you have proven that you can beat the game alone.

[ljkkjlcm9]

depends, I got the Tales of Symphonia guide for the charts of Skills and stuff, not for the walkthrough, and games like Fire Emblem, yeah it can tell you the number of enemies, where items are, and where the enemies are, but it's still a very difficult game.

THE JACKEL

[Miriel]

God, if you use the Brady Guide for FFXI, you might as well just shoot yourself in the face. It's not cheating when a good chunk of the info they give you is incorrect or sometimes ridiculous lies.

[DJZen]

What he said. You can't exactly call someone a cheater when the cheat they're using doesn't work. You can't call someone who eats tons of ice cream before a boxing match a cheater.

[zimmunky]

Not if it's the FFIX guide.

But yes, for anything else, yes. Even Prima and other guide companies are cheating. But if you want to unlock EVERYTHING, and after you have played the game once through, then you earn the right to play the game with someone to hold your hand, since you have proven that you can beat the game alone.

thats what i do. i usually do it for games that i've heard having a secret ending with 100% completion. on ffx-2, i only got like 90 without the guide, so i didnt get my movie

[*~Angel Wing~*]

I got one for FFX-2. I really only bought it cuz I liked the pictures of the cute outfits, and cuz I HATE games where you need 100% to see a special ending and stuff, and I usually go online anyway if that's the case. But I never used the strategy guide for any other game except that one, which is funny cuz I think that's the easiest out of all the Final Fantasys. (and the worst... ) I really could have used a guide for FFVII and some of the temple puzzles in FFX, but I figured it out on my own!!! :kaohappy2

[Zeromus_X]

Meh. I usually use the guide the first time for a game, so every other time after that, I won't need it anymore.

Most of the Brady guides are missing little tidbits of information, so they're really only good for a nice walkthrough. It'd be better to just use an online faq, if you really want help

[Rengori]

Not if it's the FFIX guide.

Yeah, my friend owns that. He was trying to tell me how to do Olivert since I was there a very long time. I just ignored him.

I think it's just plain cheating until you beat the game once.

Or at least beat it again after forgetting everything the guide taught you.

[Necronopticous]

Don't get me wrong, I love pretty much everything about strategy guides, and I even collect them for my favorite games. However, using a strategy guide the first time through the game defeats the purpose of playing the game, especially in an RPG. You might as well just watch a movie or read a book.

But yeah, the Final Fantasy IX strategy guide is a horrible piece of garbage that contains about as much information as an instruction manual.

[HowlingMonkey]

In England, we have piggyback strategy guides for every game from FFVIII onwards, something for which I'm extremely grateful. In comparison to the shoddy FFVII Bradygames guide, the piggyback are simply awesome.

Yeah, it's kinda cheating, but I've used them in the past and I'd do it again.

[DeathKnight]

Yes, stop struggling and being so damn weak! Using strategy guides are for WIMPS!

[Crossblades]

I don't think it's cheating. The point of a strategy guide is to help you get the full experience of a video game, or in this case, an RPG. I don't mind using a strategy guide when playing FF or another RPG, because I don't want miss that very important item or that certain sidequest, so I want to do everything right. Plus, I like collecting strategy guides

[Chocobo King]

its not cheating. they just say what to do but its u that has to do it like a boss fight in FFX, it just gives u hints or best ways to beat em. u dont have to do what they say to do.:fencing: