Game Guides

[STAROCEAN980]

Do you buy guides for your games?

[Wind Lane]

The only game guides I've ever had were those that come for free with something I was already going to buy.

If I need help with a game, I just hop onto http://www.gamefaqs.com

Why pay for a guide when I can get several different guides for free? One of them will have the answer I need.

[Metaknight]

I use the internet or come and ask on here

[Sci-fi Messiah]

I've never owned one except for God of War II, and I didn't even use it - I got it for the Artwork book. I have decided that any future purchase of a Final Fantasy game however will be made with an accompanying strategy guide. Otherwise if I'm stuck (like in FFXII) I will just use the online FAQs.

[johnny139]

Yes, let's spend money on something that holds our hand through something, that we could find for free on the interent.

[Havokscry]

The only games I'll buy strategy guides for are RPG's, especially ones that have recipe's for potions, blacksmithing, alchemy, etc.

I did go to a bull moose music store last night and they had throw a couple strategy guides for Halo 2 in the free bin. I don't think that anyone needs a strategy guide to beat the game, but they can't beat free.

[Uprising]

Originally Posted by johnny139

Yes, let's spend money on something that holds our hand through something, that we could find for free on the interent.

Even before the internet I thought game guides were a waste of money. Part of the fun of a game is trying to find the secrets and attempting to beat the bosses yourself. I poo on game guides.

[mrbistro]

I'll buy a guide if I'm playing a large RPG, but I just do that for the catalog of item and spell stats. Even the best guides destroy the fun of unravelling a story.

[Havokscry]

Originally Posted by mrbistro

I'll buy a guide if I'm playing a large RPG, but I just do that for the catalog of item and spell stats. Even the best guides destroy the fun of unravelling a story.

Same here. I bought the one for Oblivion, more so as a reminder. If I put the game down for a couple months and go back to it, I'm pretty much lost. I think I've restarted it three times already.

[STAROCEAN980]

I usualy get them so if I'm stuck I just open the book. That's what I did for Zelda TP.

[K/H_Addict]

Originally Posted by johnny139

Yes, let's spend money on something that holds our hand through something, that we could find for free on the interent.

gamefaqs pros:
They're free. That's about all there is to it.


Paperback Guide pros:
They're convenient. More often than not, it's easier to have an actual book next to you, rather than having to travel to and from the game to a computer. Now is when you say "print it off," which i will respond with "printer ink is expensive, so is paper, and guides use a lot of both. It's cheaper to buy one already printed and bound."

They're easier to work with. It's a lot easier to mark a page in a book, rather than search through a 100+ page word document for where you left off.

They have easy-to-read pictures. Sure, ASCII is entertaining, but all the characters hurt my eyes.

They can't be accidentally deleted. Unless you open a wormhole or someone up there really hates you, in which case you probably shouldn't be playing video games anyway.

[royaldoy]

I collect console RPG's. So I usually collect the guides to go with them. I use them strictly as a way to find all the things that I did miss over the course of the game. I enjoy the reading afterwards.