Poll of the Day > Ugh, I just looked up how to do something in a video game...

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It was in Mother/ Earthbound Beginnings. I got so sick of looking for this one melody, that I just looked it up. I feel so bad about it.... I feel like I should not even play the game anymore since I didn't find out for myself. Does anyone else ever feel like that?
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It's better than looking something up and coming across a spoiler in the process.

Also yes, I felt that way during the huge wall puzzle in Catherine. I'm such a scrub.
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The more complicated the video game, the more looking up is required. Try old school Japanese RPG's for SNES, PS1 and some PS2.

If it makes you feel any better no one else will ever care that you looked up a thing
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Accept defeat gracefully, grasshopper.
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FooFighters25 posted...

Also yes, I felt that way during the huge wall puzzle in Catherine. I'm such a scrub

Let's be scrubs together.
Mead posted...

If it makes you feel any better no one else will ever care that you looked up a thing

I know no one will care, doesn't really help though.
Lightning Bolt posted...

Accept defeat gracefully, grasshopper.

Gracefully just isn't my style.
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was it optional? if so then I really wouldn't feel bad about it at all. optional shit in rpgs tend to be harder to figure out if not downright missable
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Wow I have never felt like that at all for a game. Maybe I have for problems in a math or science assignment at school though.
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Nope. Never. Usually I look things up when it's in game puzzles. I don't usually like them and I lose patience with them quickly. I don't get frustrated I just think, "I really don't want to figure this out..."
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mooreandrew58 posted...

was it optional? if so then I really wouldn't feel bad about it at all. optional shit in rpgs tend to be harder to figure out if not downright missable

Nope, its required to beat the game.
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why would you feel bad? i do it all the time, ok?

i'm in my mid 30's, i have too much to do as it is, and i'm about to have a kid. there's only so many hours in the day, and if i'm stuck for too long in a game, i move on. i let go of that 'gamer-pride' nonsense years ago, ok?


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I look up stuff for RPGs all the time. In fact I played through all of FFXV with a visual guide just so I knew when certain quests activated that I could go do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejh_Dt3z46Q
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Gamefreak9905 posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

was it optional? if so then I really wouldn't feel bad about it at all. optional shit in rpgs tend to be harder to figure out if not downright missable

Nope, its required to beat the game.

well I still wouldn't feel bad. never played much of earthbound but I got the impression it wasn't the easiest of games. I used to have to look up stuff all the time in zelda games until i hit my 20's and even then there is almost always one thing I end up having to look up just because I get too frustrated with it.
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Nope, not one bit. I used guides the entire way through both Metroid Prime 1 & 2 in order to ensure I got every upgrade, also used a guide to S rank every mission in Zeonic Front (and even if it weren't for that I still would have needed a guide for that fucking White Base mission), used a guide for Ocarina of Time's Water Temple, and there's more but those are just the ones that come straight to mind Absolutely zero regrets for any of it.

In fact, I even have a routine system set up for when I look for something. Search message board first, then the Answers section, then guides, and if all else fails ask on the message board.
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Shinebolt posted...

Nope, not one bit. I used guides the entire way through both Metroid Prime 1 & 2 in order to ensure I got every upgrade, also used a guide to S rank every mission in Zeonic Front (and even if it weren't for that I still would have needed a guide for that fucking White Base mission), used a guide for Ocarina of Time's Water Temple, and there's more but those are just the ones that come straight to mind Absolutely zero regrets for any of it.

In fact, I even have a routine system set up for when I look for something. Search message board first, then the Answers section, then guides, and if all else fails ask on the message board.

yeah in metroid games I gotta use a guide. I remember feeling really bad just for using a map in the first one, only to find out the original game came out with sort of a map, which my copy didn't have at all.
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