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Hi everyone. This topic has been started by me about stratey guides and my anger towards them. They have seriously wasted my money. Does anyone else hate strategy guides?
It all started when I was stuck on Ocarina of Time. I got stuck and bought a strategy guide. It helped me along with the game but after I used it i felt as if I didn't need it. So I tried without it, got stuck and used it again. I wished i hadn't because i kept saying to myself after that I could have done it alone. However much I tried without the guide, I failed. Whenever I used it, i completed the game and felt it was easy. This kept going on for a while, then eventually I got bored of it so I went out and sold the guide and the game.
Then came along Perfect Dark. I ran through the first 3 or 4 levels then got stuck just after Chicago Stealth. I tried and tried to complete it but i still couldn't so i went out and spent another 10 quid on the PD guide. And again i was helped to complete it and again I felt i could have done it without the stupid guide. i tried without and got a bit further but then got stuck. And again i used that guide. The game was complete again and I was feeling that same feeling deep down about the game being easy. i still have the game and guide but I don't use them.
Then I made a major acheivement. i copleted Donkey Kong without a guide. I felt happy that I had completed a major game to me and was happy that there was no guide involved. I took into my head, the fact that maybe I am better at games. Maybe I have lost all that need a guide stuff. So I felt liike I should try another challenge.
Conker's bad Fur Day came out. I thought it looked like a bit of a challenge but i thought that it would be easy for the now expert gamer. Me. So I went out and got it. And right at the start I got stuck on the first boss. the great Mighty Poo. Well I didn't get stuck on him but it was right after. I was feeling annoyeed again so I did that stupid thing. I got another guide and it helped me complete the game. I was starting to feel that I was a rubbish gamer (which I probably am) and that I couldn't complete simple games. These are hardly even hard games and I still had that thought.
So what I am really trying to get through in this is, I think guides are a waste of money and addictive (like steroids or something. mmmm, steroooiiiiddds.):D
Does anyone else have the problem of buyaguideitus. Replies here.
Thanx 4 reading, Afro
It all started when I was stuck on Ocarina of Time. I got stuck and bought a strategy guide. It helped me along with the game but after I used it i felt as if I didn't need it. So I tried without it, got stuck and used it again. I wished i hadn't because i kept saying to myself after that I could have done it alone. However much I tried without the guide, I failed. Whenever I used it, i completed the game and felt it was easy. This kept going on for a while, then eventually I got bored of it so I went out and sold the guide and the game.
Then came along Perfect Dark. I ran through the first 3 or 4 levels then got stuck just after Chicago Stealth. I tried and tried to complete it but i still couldn't so i went out and spent another 10 quid on the PD guide. And again i was helped to complete it and again I felt i could have done it without the stupid guide. i tried without and got a bit further but then got stuck. And again i used that guide. The game was complete again and I was feeling that same feeling deep down about the game being easy. i still have the game and guide but I don't use them.
Then I made a major acheivement. i copleted Donkey Kong without a guide. I felt happy that I had completed a major game to me and was happy that there was no guide involved. I took into my head, the fact that maybe I am better at games. Maybe I have lost all that need a guide stuff. So I felt liike I should try another challenge.
Conker's bad Fur Day came out. I thought it looked like a bit of a challenge but i thought that it would be easy for the now expert gamer. Me. So I went out and got it. And right at the start I got stuck on the first boss. the great Mighty Poo. Well I didn't get stuck on him but it was right after. I was feeling annoyeed again so I did that stupid thing. I got another guide and it helped me complete the game. I was starting to feel that I was a rubbish gamer (which I probably am) and that I couldn't complete simple games. These are hardly even hard games and I still had that thought.
So what I am really trying to get through in this is, I think guides are a waste of money and addictive (like steroids or something. mmmm, steroooiiiiddds.):D
Does anyone else have the problem of buyaguideitus. Replies here.
Thanx 4 reading, Afro
Walkthroughs are better and I think that my guides are walkthroughs. They helped me complete the game and get angry in the process.
Ah well, that depends what type of guide you're referring to. There are two types of guide: The 'walkthrough', and the 'strategy guide'.
A Walkthrough is for games such as RPG's, adventure games, or any other game involving completion of a series of tasks.
A Strategy guide is for games such as RTS games, puzzle games, sports sims, or any other game involving a sliding scale of success, rather than a pass/fail hurdle.
Walkthroughs are quite useful, if you can live with yourself for using them ;)
Strategy guides however, are mostly not very good any more. The thing is, most have to be released pretty much as soon as the game is. For various reasons, (playtesting time, publishing time, writing time, etc) this means the guide is being written easily some 4-6 months before the game is actually released, which means that the guide is only written with unreliable, unfinalised beta testing information - which makes it rather unreliable, to say the least.
A Walkthrough is for games such as RPG's, adventure games, or any other game involving completion of a series of tasks.
A Strategy guide is for games such as RTS games, puzzle games, sports sims, or any other game involving a sliding scale of success, rather than a pass/fail hurdle.
Walkthroughs are quite useful, if you can live with yourself for using them ;)
Strategy guides however, are mostly not very good any more. The thing is, most have to be released pretty much as soon as the game is. For various reasons, (playtesting time, publishing time, writing time, etc) this means the guide is being written easily some 4-6 months before the game is actually released, which means that the guide is only written with unreliable, unfinalised beta testing information - which makes it rather unreliable, to say the least.
Hi everyone. This topic has been started by me about stratey guides and my anger towards them. They have seriously wasted my money. Does anyone else hate strategy guides?
It all started when I was stuck on Ocarina of Time. I got stuck and bought a strategy guide. It helped me along with the game but after I used it i felt as if I didn't need it. So I tried without it, got stuck and used it again. I wished i hadn't because i kept saying to myself after that I could have done it alone. However much I tried without the guide, I failed. Whenever I used it, i completed the game and felt it was easy. This kept going on for a while, then eventually I got bored of it so I went out and sold the guide and the game.
Then came along Perfect Dark. I ran through the first 3 or 4 levels then got stuck just after Chicago Stealth. I tried and tried to complete it but i still couldn't so i went out and spent another 10 quid on the PD guide. And again i was helped to complete it and again I felt i could have done it without the stupid guide. i tried without and got a bit further but then got stuck. And again i used that guide. The game was complete again and I was feeling that same feeling deep down about the game being easy. i still have the game and guide but I don't use them.
Then I made a major acheivement. i copleted Donkey Kong without a guide. I felt happy that I had completed a major game to me and was happy that there was no guide involved. I took into my head, the fact that maybe I am better at games. Maybe I have lost all that need a guide stuff. So I felt liike I should try another challenge.
Conker's bad Fur Day came out. I thought it looked like a bit of a challenge but i thought that it would be easy for the now expert gamer. Me. So I went out and got it. And right at the start I got stuck on the first boss. the great Mighty Poo. Well I didn't get stuck on him but it was right after. I was feeling annoyeed again so I did that stupid thing. I got another guide and it helped me complete the game. I was starting to feel that I was a rubbish gamer (which I probably am) and that I couldn't complete simple games. These are hardly even hard games and I still had that thought.
So what I am really trying to get through in this is, I think guides are a waste of money and addictive (like steroids or something. mmmm, steroooiiiiddds.):D
Does anyone else have the problem of buyaguideitus. Replies here.
Thanx 4 reading, Afro
It all started when I was stuck on Ocarina of Time. I got stuck and bought a strategy guide. It helped me along with the game but after I used it i felt as if I didn't need it. So I tried without it, got stuck and used it again. I wished i hadn't because i kept saying to myself after that I could have done it alone. However much I tried without the guide, I failed. Whenever I used it, i completed the game and felt it was easy. This kept going on for a while, then eventually I got bored of it so I went out and sold the guide and the game.
Then came along Perfect Dark. I ran through the first 3 or 4 levels then got stuck just after Chicago Stealth. I tried and tried to complete it but i still couldn't so i went out and spent another 10 quid on the PD guide. And again i was helped to complete it and again I felt i could have done it without the stupid guide. i tried without and got a bit further but then got stuck. And again i used that guide. The game was complete again and I was feeling that same feeling deep down about the game being easy. i still have the game and guide but I don't use them.
Then I made a major acheivement. i copleted Donkey Kong without a guide. I felt happy that I had completed a major game to me and was happy that there was no guide involved. I took into my head, the fact that maybe I am better at games. Maybe I have lost all that need a guide stuff. So I felt liike I should try another challenge.
Conker's bad Fur Day came out. I thought it looked like a bit of a challenge but i thought that it would be easy for the now expert gamer. Me. So I went out and got it. And right at the start I got stuck on the first boss. the great Mighty Poo. Well I didn't get stuck on him but it was right after. I was feeling annoyeed again so I did that stupid thing. I got another guide and it helped me complete the game. I was starting to feel that I was a rubbish gamer (which I probably am) and that I couldn't complete simple games. These are hardly even hard games and I still had that thought.
So what I am really trying to get through in this is, I think guides are a waste of money and addictive (like steroids or something. mmmm, steroooiiiiddds.):D
Does anyone else have the problem of buyaguideitus. Replies here.
Thanx 4 reading, Afro