Do you ever use a walkthrough for a game?

I just made this thread to see how many of you out there would use a walkthrough for a game.

I don't personally, because one of the things I love about games is the sense of accomplishment as soon as you complete them or get that high score etc.

There are some exceptions however, say for example iv'e been stuck on a part of a game for days and im getting no enjoyment from running around in circles anymore, I might refer to a guide online just for a nudge in the right direction. (it usually ends up to be a switch on the wall I couldn't see or something equally as trivial haha)

Quite often, yes. Mostly if I get stuck at some point in the game I'm playing, but sometimes I use it the whole way through.

Any Legend of Zelda Game. Right from start to finish. You'll probably LOL at me, but I don't care.

Yeah, I use walkthroughs, and that's one of the main reasons why I ****ing hate videogames.

Recent example. I was playing Fallout 3 recently. I found myself in a certain area, and knew where I had to go in order to progress. There was a door guarded by a little girl. There were levers to open the door, but they didn't work when I tried to use them.

So I got some annoying little punkass little **** to join me. Hopefully, since there were two people in my party, and two levers, that'd get the job done. But nope.

So...I saw that the door was guarded by a little girl. So I tried pulling out my gun and shooting her in the damn face. But nope. That's when I was reminded that Fallout 3 is a chicken**** load of crap. I didn't manage to blow the girl's head of and then take the key to the door from her corpse. Because killing kids is somehow considered to be "bad", even though it's apparently okay to kidnap little girls and sell them into sexual slavery :roll:.

So...trying to kill the girl didn't work. Trying to manually open the door didn't work. Nothing seemed to work.

So I read a walkthrough.

Apparently, the solution is to talk to a dude WHO I ALREADY ****ING TALKED TO, and decided to not pursue that course of that person's dialogue tree.

**** this kind of ****. Seriously. This is a load of goddamned ****ing horse****. It's one thing to have to checka walkthrough in order to complete a side quest. But I was on THE MAIN ****ING QUEST, and could not proceed until I went a certain way along a certain person's dialogue tree. And the game was chicken**** enough to not even allow me to blow their ****ing heads off and just take the key.

And jesus christ, THERE WASN"T EVEN A KEY. It was an UNLOCKED DOOR. UNLOCKED!!!! How did the door get opened? By turning two levers. Which me and my party member could have done ON OUR OWN, without having to track down the one specific person who had the dialogue options needed to open the door.

And THIS kind of **** is EXACTLY why I ****ing hate videogames. This **** doesn't make an ounce of freaking sense, and there's no damn reason why I have to check a ****ing walkthrough just to get through the main quest. And all because the game for some stupid and incomprehensible reason doesn't allow AN UNLOCKED DOOR to get opened unless I activate a SPECIFIC line of dialogue with THE PERSON WHO ISN'T EVEN GUARDING THE ****ING DOOR.

Oh my God, you have no idea how much this kind of **** pisses me off. **** videogames. Urrgh!! This kind of **** is the reason why I stopped playing games in the first place, and I'm about to stop again. I mean, am I playing to have FUN? Or am I playing because I like getting abused and treated like ****? This kind of **** (along with bvroken consoles and having to pay extra for content that should have been on the game disc) is just one more example leading credence to the theory that game developers simply ****ing hate us and do everything in their power to make us miserable.

I know. You do something figuring it wuill help you, only to find out that some puck you already talked to/did something to or with is the answer. You're just going, well DUH. that was dumb...etc. :|

i try not to, i haven't done it for the ps3 that much except for a few things...the locations of the riddler maps in baa, and using cheats in gtaiv. otherwise on the ps3 ive been pretty good, i kept patient during uncharted 2 in particular when i didnt know what to do to solve something and figured it out rather then using a walkthrough. its a great feeling when you do something hard with a bit of patience rather then using a walkthrough.

but the wii...i needed the walkthrough for zelda tp, and for some parts of super paper mario.

Only if I get stuck. Although sometimes I do read the start of guides to get a general feel for the weapons, whatever.

Only if I get truly stuck to save me wasting time running around getting board. Or perhaps if a boss is particularly hard and there is a rather remote technique I should have used but never thought of at the time, or just to see if I am at the correct level in an rpg for the area I am in.

There are some types ofgames that just need walkthroughs. Role Playingand Adventure games come to mind. However, not every single game that comes out needs a walkthrough.

As a rule no, but I'll admit it, I used a walkthrough for almost the entirety of Lost Odyssey. I don't know why I felt it was necessary but I did it nonetheless. Sure, I beat the game, but at the end of it all it seemed that I hadn't taken part in an epic quest to reclaim my life so much as I had simply followed a set of instructions from a book, like I was making beef Wellington or something. So I'll try to avoid that in future.

As a rule no, but I'll admit it, I used a walkthrough for almost the entirety of Lost Odyssey. I don't know why I felt it was necessary but I did it nonetheless. Sure, I beat the game, but at the end of it all it seemed that I hadn't taken part in an epic quest to reclaim my life so much as I had simply followed a set of instructions from a book, like I was making beef Wellington or something. So I'll try to avoid that in future.

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As a rule no, but I'll admit it, I used a walkthrough for almost the entirety of Lost Odyssey. I don't know why I felt it was necessary but I did it nonetheless. Sure, I beat the game, but at the end of it all it seemed that I hadn't taken part in an epic quest to reclaim my life so much as I had simply followed a set of instructions from a book, like I was making beef Wellington or something. So I'll try to avoid that in future.

Dracula68

Something was subtracted from the experience, there's no denying it. I think I paid between 20 and 30 Sterling for it; not sure what that approximates to in USD.

I often use walkthroughs...I mostly rent games so I've got 5 days to finish them...if a game is getting too tricky or if I'm tryng to get all the collectibles in a game, I'll use a walkthrough...

I was able to finish andget all of the achievments for Assassin's Creed 2 in 5 days because of a Featherwalkthrough I found on youtube...

I do if I think it will amplify the experience, but I haven't used them for a long time when it comes to the games of this generation. I also just like to read walkthroughs, They're often quite fun to read. :D

I used one for myst and riven.

I used one for Curse of Monkey Island & Lands of Lore: GoD when I was 9 or 10 & recently used a walkthrough for Deus Ex just for one little situation.

Yes, but mainly for rpg's or when I get stuck in a game real bad.

Only when I get stuck or lost.

i used my very first one around a week ago for silent hill 2, i picked it up thinking it would basically be resident evil, not knowing it was kinda cryptic, used it a couple times until i got the hang of looking in EVERY room. does kinda spoil thefeeling of accomplishmentwhen you use them though so not planning on doing it again.

Sure. I've used game guides before. No shame in that. Games are meant to be enjoyed and there's nothing enjoyable on running around through every section of the game you've been before looking for what you're supposed to do next. This can be because I have a moment of stupidity and the answer is obvious or it could be because I stopped playing the game six months ago and have no idea what I was on.

Of course there's no shortage of times when the reason I don't what I'm supposed to do is because that oddly coloured sea shell I picked up six hours ago in the game is now meant to be combined with my character's pet kitten to summon Satan himself to cook a gourmet italian dinner for my character's boss so he can get the promotion and be given the key to the door to the next stage and the only clue I've got is a note on the fridge written in sonnet telling me to order a pizza. Sometimes the way to get ahead in the game is just a little too obscure for my brain to work out and I need some help.

So yes. Yes I've used walk throughs before.

I wont use a guide until I am ready to give up because I can't figure out where to go next. I will try time and time again before I look at a guide. And when I eventually do look at a guide, it is just for the part I'm really stuck on -- I don't read anything before or after. So in general, no I don't use them. But if I'm stuck, and the choice is between a guide or giving up? I'll take a guide every time

Yes, but not for RPG's like Fallout 3 or Dragon Age ect. I enjoy those games too much that I don't want to spoil anything.

Action adventure games quite often throw in a boss that has some single way to beat it, and I can't be assed to figure that out so I just use a walkthrough so I can perform the section and get it out the way.

Yeah, I use walkthroughs, and that's one of the main reasons why I ****ing hate videogames.

Recent example. I was playing Fallout 3 recently. I found myself in a certain area, and knew where I had to go in order to progress. There was a door guarded by a little girl. There were levers to open the door, but they didn't work when I tried to use them.

So I got some annoying little punkass little **** to join me. Hopefully, since there were two people in my party, and two levers, that'd get the job done. But nope.

So...I saw that the door was guarded by a little girl. So I tried pulling out my gun and shooting her in the damn face. But nope. That's when I was reminded that Fallout 3 is a chicken**** load of crap. I didn't manage to blow the girl's head of and then take the key to the door from her corpse. Because killing kids is somehow considered to be "bad", even though it's apparently okay to kidnap little girls and sell them into sexual slavery :roll:.

So...trying to kill the girl didn't work. Trying to manually open the door didn't work. Nothing seemed to work.

So I read a walkthrough.

Apparently, the solution is to talk to a dude WHO I ALREADY ****ING TALKED TO, and decided to not pursue that course of that person's dialogue tree.

**** this kind of ****. Seriously. This is a load of goddamned ****ing horse****. It's one thing to have to checka walkthrough in order to complete a side quest. But I was on THE MAIN ****ING QUEST, and could not proceed until I went a certain way along a certain person's dialogue tree. And the game was chicken**** enough to not even allow me to blow their ****ing heads off and just take the key.

And jesus christ, THERE WASN"T EVEN A KEY. It was an UNLOCKED DOOR. UNLOCKED!!!! How did the door get opened? By turning two levers. Which me and my party member could have done ON OUR OWN, without having to track down the one specific person who had the dialogue options needed to open the door.

And THIS kind of **** is EXACTLY why I ****ing hate videogames. This **** doesn't make an ounce of freaking sense, and there's no damn reason why I have to check a ****ing walkthrough just to get through the main quest. And all because the game for some stupid and incomprehensible reason doesn't allow AN UNLOCKED DOOR to get opened unless I activate a SPECIFIC line of dialogue with THE PERSON WHO ISN'T EVEN GUARDING THE ****ING DOOR.

Oh my God, you have no idea how much this kind of **** pisses me off. **** videogames. Urrgh!! This kind of **** is the reason why I stopped playing games in the first place, and I'm about to stop again. I mean, am I playing to have FUN? Or am I playing because I like getting abused and treated like ****? This kind of **** (along with bvroken consoles and having to pay extra for content that should have been on the game disc) is just one more example leading credence to the theory that game developers simply ****ing hate us and do everything in their power to make us miserable.

MrGeezer

i love to play video games and use walkthroughs i happen to have a players guide to mario and luigi superstars saga for gba it,s very helpful to me .:)

The only game I didn't use a walkthrough for was Rainbow Six Rogue Spear.

Walkthroughs? never
item/ability faqs to determine my character build almost always

No i dont use a walkthrough for a game

But i only do when im stuck on a level if its like on veteren mode or something an i keep dying and have to restart it over and over again and i need a nudge in the right place.:)

I use them for RPGs because I need to finish the game 100%, and I hate when I miss a certain item or a part in the game where I could get another character or something like that.Sky-

I sometimes don't use them, and I sometimes do. If I can't find where to go, then I'll use a walkthrough to help me out.

Yeah,right now i´m using one of the RE5 guides to know where are all the BSAA emblems and the treasures.