your take on strategy guides

Personally I think strategy guides sucks.

They aren't even that detailed and most of the times, I find Gamefaqs.com much more informative.

Not to mention they are way too overpriced.

The only ones i bought were for FFVII and XII. Other than that, i just use game FAQS if i'm stuck

I try not to use Game faqs unless im like hopelessly stuck somewhere. and usualy I just read the part having to do with my particular problem, other times the game is boring and im not realy into investing alot of time into it so id pass a tedious part with the help of the FAQ...

As far as actualy buying a book about a game ...Id have to be really into the game. otherwise it just seems like a waste of money

I use them in three situations:

1. I get hopelessly stuck. I do this a lot, because I tend to overthink puzzles and give developers too much credit. I latch on to the most complicated solution, or the most logical one, and constantly forget that logic plays no part in games. This leads to...

2. Adventure games have their own bizarrelogic and most of their puzzles involve searching for tiny hotspots and mixing items that have no business being mixed. I get stuck a lot in them, and to this day I'll never quite understand why people love the genre so much when all of the puzzles are just plain ridiculous.

3. Once I beat a game I'll go back and check a guide for my second playthrough, since often I'll have missed things the first time through, and I'm not really ruining anything.

I'll never fire up a new game and follow a guide step by step through the whole process, of course. But I don't hate people who do that - it's their money and time if they want to ruin the experience for themselves.

They are useful. They help save you time. You don't have to flip between a computer and the tv as well.

Instead of doing some long dungeon that requires hitting 4 dead ends to finish, now it's done faster. Time is saved.

And some guides, well, you can't really have a guide for somethings. Street Fighter for instance. You could have something telling you to do a combo. But it really depends on your reactions and presses.

They are useful. They help save you time. You don't have to flip between a computer and the tv as well.

Instead of doing some long dungeon that requires hitting 4 dead ends to finish, now it's done faster. Time is saved.

And some guides, well, you can't really have a guide for somethings. Street Fighter for instance. You could have something telling you to do a combo. But it really depends on your reactions and presses.

Revelade

Yeah, I always laugh when I see MMO game guides on sale at stores. Aside from the fact that you'll learn all that stuff as you play through the game, the guides become useless after awhile thanks to patches. And the stuff that is actually useful to know (like the amount of aggro each attack in the game generates) can only be found on forums by fanatical players who went through the trouble of calculating all that stuff out.

[QUOTE="Revelade"]

They are useful. They help save you time. You don't have to flip between a computer and the tv as well.

Instead of doing some long dungeon that requires hitting 4 dead ends to finish, now it's done faster. Time is saved.

And some guides, well, you can't really have a guide for somethings. Street Fighter for instance. You could have something telling you to do a combo. But it really depends on your reactions and presses.

gameguy6700

Yeah, I always laugh when I see MMO game guides on sale at stores. Aside from the fact that you'll learn all that stuff as you play through the game, the guides become useless after awhile thanks to patches. And the stuff that is actually useful to know (like the amount of aggro each attack in the game generates) can only be found on forums by fanatical players who went through the trouble of calculating all that stuff out.

I thumbed through the WoW guide on sale at game recently. LOL, it still mentions some of the old dungeons as being "top level dungeons" for the "hardcore and best gamers". You can't make a guide for a game that is constantly being updated! :P

I never buy strategy guides.

I do, however, use gamefaqs, but I don't really like doing that either. Only if I've tried loads of time and am hopelessly stuck. In those situations gamefaqs really is needed.

I used to use cheats years ago after I finished games but for the past few years i've even stopped doing that. They just mess up the game.

The only ones i bought were for FFVII and XII. Other than that, i just use game FAQS if i'm stuck

BuryMe

Same here. I've only bought a couple and that was a LONG time ago. I prefer faqs/walkthroughs on the net. But I only use them if I'm stuck somewhere. Either that or if I'm a little fuzzy on the story. JRPGs can get pretty convoluted. All in all I think faqs/walkthroughs are a great resource to have available if you happen to need it.

I've gota couple; the Halo 2 one I got for free at a midnight release, and the Morrowind one I boughta week before the game was released to do a little reading.I actually had stick-it notes on some pages of the book lol >.>

Anyway, normally I try and just do my own thing, unless I'm really battling at a particular stage of a game. Then it's off to GameFaqs to figure out how to solve a specific problem; once i've gotten past the previously unpassable, it's straight back into the unknown.

I really don't care for them. I mean, what's the point in playing a game if you already know everything there is to know about it? Sigh. I quess it's only part of the new generation of gamers that hate challenges. >.>FoodThing00

Suppose you find a puzzle you are unable to solve. By not solving this puzzle you are missing out on a good chunk of a game which you probably could do. By not finding a way to pass this puzzle, you are wasting your money by only making use of a fraction of the game.

[QUOTE="FoodThing00"]I really don't care for them. I mean, what's the point in playing a game if you already know everything there is to know about it? Sigh. I quess it's only part of the new generation of gamers that hate challenges. >.>donwoogie

Suppose you find a puzzle you are unable to solve. By not solving this puzzle you are missing out on a good chunk of a game which you probably could do. By not finding a way to pass this puzzle, you are wasting your money by only making use of a fraction of the game.

[QUOTE="donwoogie"]

[QUOTE="FoodThing00"]I really don't care for them. I mean, what's the point in playing a game if you already know everything there is to know about it? Sigh. I quess it's only part of the new generation of gamers that hate challenges. >.>FoodThing00

Suppose you find a puzzle you are unable to solve. By not solving this puzzle you are missing out on a good chunk of a game which you probably could do. By not finding a way to pass this puzzle, you are wasting your money by only making use of a fraction of the game.

First off, mr smartarse, not every game is on GameFAQs, there are some rather exotic ones which are not listed. Secondly, I never said BUY it, I said I'd use one, ie. walk into a store, find the puzzle I am stuck on, read it, then leave :P

I really don't care for them. I mean, what's the point in playing a game if you already know everything there is to know about it? Sigh. I quess it's only part of the new generation of gamers that hate challenges. >.>FoodThing00

IMO there's more to games than just how challenging it is.

[QUOTE="FoodThing00"][QUOTE="donwoogie"]

[QUOTE="FoodThing00"]I really don't care for them. I mean, what's the point in playing a game if you already know everything there is to know about it? Sigh. I quess it's only part of the new generation of gamers that hate challenges. >.>donwoogie

Suppose you find a puzzle you are unable to solve. By not solving this puzzle you are missing out on a good chunk of a game which you probably could do. By not finding a way to pass this puzzle, you are wasting your money by only making use of a fraction of the game.

First off, mr smartarse, not every game is on GameFAQs, there are some rather exotic ones which are not listed. Secondly, I never said BUY it, I said I'd use one, ie. walk into a store, find the puzzle I am stuck on, read it, then leave :P

Guides are pretty good if you need them, but I rarely do.

Plus the Internet is much more cost effective for them than high-street stores.

Print strategy guides are completely unnecessary when you have the internet (especially GameFAQs) at hand. If I need a hint to get through a puzzle, or if I feel like collecting all 100 secret doodads in a game, I just open my browser.

[QUOTE="donwoogie"][QUOTE="FoodThing00"][QUOTE="donwoogie"]

[QUOTE="FoodThing00"]I really don't care for them. I mean, what's the point in playing a game if you already know everything there is to know about it? Sigh. I quess it's only part of the new generation of gamers that hate challenges. >.>FoodThing00

Suppose you find a puzzle you are unable to solve. By not solving this puzzle you are missing out on a good chunk of a game which you probably could do. By not finding a way to pass this puzzle, you are wasting your money by only making use of a fraction of the game.

First off, mr smartarse, not every game is on GameFAQs, there are some rather exotic ones which are not listed. Secondly, I never said BUY it, I said I'd use one, ie. walk into a store, find the puzzle I am stuck on, read it, then leave :P

Searched through 10 pages of google with no luck on finding a Pro Evol 6 FAQ, if you find one, let me know :P

I've never purchased a game guide and I never will. I'm amazed that epople still do, especially since GameFaqs and other such sites offer multiple walkthroughs and guide for free.

The First time I used a walkthough for assistance, my wife though I was cheating... until she used one herself. I try my best not to use them, but in RPG's sometimes I just get stuck and need a little help. I don't follow them word for word, beginning to end. Why play a game if you are going to do that?

[QUOTE="FoodThing00"][QUOTE="donwoogie"][QUOTE="FoodThing00"][QUOTE="donwoogie"]

[QUOTE="FoodThing00"]I really don't care for them. I mean, what's the point in playing a game if you already know everything there is to know about it? Sigh. I quess it's only part of the new generation of gamers that hate challenges. >.>donwoogie

Suppose you find a puzzle you are unable to solve. By not solving this puzzle you are missing out on a good chunk of a game which you probably could do. By not finding a way to pass this puzzle, you are wasting your money by only making use of a fraction of the game.

First off, mr smartarse, not every game is on GameFAQs, there are some rather exotic ones which are not listed. Secondly, I never said BUY it, I said I'd use one, ie. walk into a store, find the puzzle I am stuck on, read it, then leave :P

Searched through 10 pages of google with no luck on finding a Pro Evol 6 FAQ, if you find one, let me know :P

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/data/932319.html

you just had to know that most countries know the game as winning eleven. and it's really not obscure, it sells millions

[QUOTE="donwoogie"][QUOTE="FoodThing00"][QUOTE="donwoogie"]

[QUOTE="FoodThing00"]I really don't care for them. I mean, what's the point in playing a game if you already know everything there is to know about it? Sigh. I quess it's only part of the new generation of gamers that hate challenges. >.>FoodThing00

Suppose you find a puzzle you are unable to solve. By not solving this puzzle you are missing out on a good chunk of a game which you probably could do. By not finding a way to pass this puzzle, you are wasting your money by only making use of a fraction of the game.

First off, mr smartarse, not every game is on GameFAQs, there are some rather exotic ones which are not listed. Secondly, I never said BUY it, I said I'd use one, ie. walk into a store, find the puzzle I am stuck on, read it, then leave :P

LOL. don't worry about it.

[QUOTE="donwoogie"][QUOTE="FoodThing00"][QUOTE="donwoogie"][QUOTE="FoodThing00"][QUOTE="donwoogie"]

[QUOTE="FoodThing00"]I really don't care for them. I mean, what's the point in playing a game if you already know everything there is to know about it? Sigh. I quess it's only part of the new generation of gamers that hate challenges. >.>bugsonglass

Suppose you find a puzzle you are unable to solve. By not solving this puzzle you are missing out on a good chunk of a game which you probably could do. By not finding a way to pass this puzzle, you are wasting your money by only making use of a fraction of the game.

First off, mr smartarse, not every game is on GameFAQs, there are some rather exotic ones which are not listed. Secondly, I never said BUY it, I said I'd use one, ie. walk into a store, find the puzzle I am stuck on, read it, then leave :P

Searched through 10 pages of google with no luck on finding a Pro Evol 6 FAQ, if you find one, let me know :P

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/data/932319.html

you just had to know that most countries know the game as winning eleven. and it's really not obscure, it sells millions

Checked that page already, and if you look at the available FAQs, they aren't really that helpful and don't really help you improve you game whereas the guide did.............