Current Events > Do *you* look up walkthroughs/ videos/guides etc

(+) Yeah! (+)

Especially on a first playthrough?

I am a great gamer, I never look up that drivel

Sometimes

I'll do this for RPGs with major missables that aren't clearly listed in the game, or when the goal is to make sure I actually experience all the content in the game without having to replay a 50-100 hour experience. I'll also do it for certain action games like Bayonetta where I want to do all the verses (battles and challenges), but the game has completely unmarked cutoffs that make it impossible to go back and do certain fights, or requires you to turn around at arbitrary points to get things that spawned in behind you with no notification.

For adventure games where you can get everything up until the end of the game, like a Mario game or God of War, or a puzzle game, or a game based around exploration like Breath of the Wild or Outer Wilds? 100% blind playthrough, no looking up any solutions, pick the hardest difficulty for the first playthrough if there's a selection.

first time playing through chrono cross, yeah, some side quests get annoying enough for me to set everything up before going to a certain location

Walkthroughs, no, but stuff like an alchemy guide for Skyrim, yeah. Stuff that saves time against the more tedious elements of a game.

This is because of Vegy's topic isn't it >_>

Anyway, no I generally don't look up guides anymore. I used to when I was younger, because sometimes I would be completely stumped on what to do next. I had 100's of pages of gamefaqs guides printed out and put in a binder.

The biggest offender back then was Brave Fencer Musashi. There were several points in the story where you had to talk to certain characters and go to specific locations to progress. For example after you help fix the gondola, the mayor gives you a calendar and rock salt as a reward and tells you that he's sure you'll find a use for them. That's all the game tells you. What you have to do is go into the forest and sprinkle the salt on this giant slug statue, which shrinks down into a real slug and crawls away. Which let's you access a new area. And the calendar is part of a puzzle that doesn't happen until much later in the game. Figuring that stuff out as a kid was tough

So I used a guide in that game, not because I wanted spoilers or was worried about missables, but because I would frequently get stuck.

Before I even buy it.

I use guides if a game has a lot of hidden items that are needed for progression or have a really obtuse puzzle. I tend to go at them for about an hour before deciding not to waste any more time.

There was a game a played recently where you find a dense map full of street addresses and another note giving you 50 instructions (left, right, straight) and the starting location. Can't zoom out of the map so you only see a fraction of it at a time which makes it more difficult to track everything. Ideally I would have taken a screen shot of the entire map and kept track of the roads and instruction by drawing a line.. Anyways once you find the correct address on the map (out of like a hundred addresses) you are also supposed to know that you have to look up that address on the internet (in-game). I figured out what I needed to do early on but I just suck so bad at following map instruction .

The same game also let's you have like 20+ inventory items at once and there is a point where you have to put together some dumb contraption. Only 1 solution and items have to be used in order. So frustrating . It made no sense either imo.

Also some items are hard to find. Had no idea a particular room actually has two pipes and not just one. The pipes are just hard for me to see omfg.