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Since my last post, I've actually become less likely to use guides. I read up voraciously about games I'm playing anyway so any encounter with them is likely to result in a few spoilers.

I don't dislike guidebooks, and they are especially useful when games aren't designed well and have so-called "guide dang it" moments.

However, being a gamer who values the experience of a game, including its twists and turns, I recently have found myself feeling very, even overly, genre-savvy. I'll be talking twice to every townsperson. I'll be instinctively checking side paths everywhere and looking at my completion rates. And stuff like that.

And sometimes it feels tiring that I'm not enjoying the game itself as an experience, a plot, an adventure, but rather as a task to be completed.

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Quote (cloud17 @ 4th July 2007 00:38)

I don't like to use the guides on my first play-through, but I will consult them if I'm really stuck, for example, when you need the key to the Ancients on FFVII. I don't think I would have worked that one out otherwise.

But generally, no, I don't like to, but I have no issues on play-throughs after that.

I found the key by accident.

But guides are too expensive for me. I'd rather not pay 20 bucks.

I seem to have voted in this topic before. I think I said "Yes." ^^

I actually really like getting guidebooks (well, specifically the Ultimanias) for the Final Fantasy games. I ended up using my Dissidia Ultimania A LOT when it came time to farming for items and finding out what could be synthed into what and where I could get certain items.

I usually do try to get through a game first without consulting guides or FAQ's, unless I'm really stuck. Then I'll go back and try to do sidequests and other optional things that sometimes I go, "...how the EFFING HECK would I know that WITHOUT looking it up?!?!" XD

I prefer to just play the game and get stuff as i go along,but if i get stuck and get really frustrated,i go towards a guide book.

The older games are easier in that sense because they got less hidden stuff,but newer ones have far more hidden content that cannot be unvailed so easily.


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