Game Guides??

Kimbot

Just curious if many here would buy guides for their games and play them from the very start using the guides or did you play first then get the guide and use it?

I have been playing Dark Souls and I am getting my ass handed to me so time to get the guide I think
Have used it for Final Fantasy before but only after playing it through myself first.

weiland79

I don't think anyone will judge you for using a guide for Demons/Dark souls:D

Krusader

never buy guides, if i get stuck on a part in a game for ages i just use google

Creamy Goodness

wouldn't buy the guides too expensive, better just looking at youtube walkthroughs.

ancapailldorcha

Dark Souls has excellent wikis. Save the cash and use them instead. Youtube is also a fantastic resource.

Gandalph

When I was younger I remember the guides you used to get with magazines were like novels to me, if I liked the guide I bought the game haha.

I myself spent a lot of time on youtube and google for Dark Souls, its a toughie. But most the time I get a game I complete it then maybe go to spoilers sections in guides and maybe do a re-run if I like the game enough.

Ambrotos

I'd just go to gameFAQs. I love the idea of the game guides, and I've bought a few in the past, but in the main the internet is more than sufficient for that purpose now.

calex71

The Elder Scrolls wiki was 100 times better than any guide you could buy, as was the one for Fallout, they have literally hundreds if not thousands of gamers contributing to them.

ShadowHearth

Crosáidí wrote: »

never buy guides, if i get stuck on a part in a game for ages i just use google

This.

My guide is google and boards.ie

Cheaper too.

SeantheMan

I had for FF7 8, 9, 10 to try get everything etc, after first completion (Secret Bosses, weapons etc) , as the internet was still a baby for that stuff :P
Never used the actual walkthrough, just the content at the end detailing the cool stuff

penev10

The Dark Souls guide is out of date now as they changed the weapon scaling so a lot of the stats are wrong. It's a great guide though, hardback and all. The only guide I've ever bought.

noodler

Some guides are just worth it, presentation, artwork, ease of use etc etc.

The only brand I find decent is the Authorised Collection ones by Piggyback.

Though the Dark Souls one was very good as well.

EDIT: For example they are doing the FFXIII-2 guide - now I didn't like XIII so probably won't like the sequel but for those of you who do I would highly reccommend the guide without even reading a review of it.

Wetai

GameFAQs - people have really great guides on there (esp Absolute Steve - he even recently updated his final fantasy 7 guide, and the game is out 15 years - and pointed out loads of errors in the official Brady Games guide).

Why pay for one (unless it's by the actual devs and you want to support then without buying multiple copies of the same game) when you can get ones that are intended free and usually updated for years after creation.

Sephiroth_dude

ya I Like to buy collectors editions guide books,I don't buy them for every game but got them for skyrim,fallout 3,fallout nv,ff 13 and a few others :-).

Retr0gamer

Gamefaqs and Wiki's all the way.

noodler

RopeDrink wrote: »

A very very very very young RopeDrink once used Daddy's telephone to ring Codemasters coz little young Ropey was stuck on a Dizzy game on his little C64.

The man on the phone, he spent a long long long time explaining from start to finish the entire game, in as slow a way as he possibly could so little young 7yr old Ropey could understand and write all the steps down, yay!

Little young Ropey didn't really understand the concept of 2.50 Pound Sterling per minute phone calls and coundn't understand why Daddy, a month later, went into a caniption fit and got very mad and young little Ropey.

Young little Ropey is now ancient senile Ropey, and he does NOT use guides. No sir.

Guides are for pansies.

Your pedestrian childhood development aside, the guides aren't actually for completing the main game as such.

They can be beautiful souvenirs of artwork, extra knowledge about the game and help you complete the various side missions and stories games have.

Retr0gamer

I used to get the book for all the FF games which were all great with some brilliant artwork. Except the FF9 one which was a disgrace. You had to download a lot of the details from the playonline site which kind of defeats the purpose of a guide. Now I don't have the time for all the sidequests.

cloud493

I buy loads of game guides look lovely and their good for collectables in games and stuff.

tonydude

i usually get the collector editions of the big games like ff and dark souls

noodler

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I used to get the book for all the FF games which were all great with some brilliant artwork. Except the FF9 one which was a disgrace. You had to download a lot of the details from the playonline site which kind of defeats the purpose of a guide. Now I don't have the time for all the sidequests.

With you on that, that Playonline thing was a farce.

US version of the guide also had it.

The FFX guide is probably the best guide I have ever had (Piggyback)

deathrider

I use guilds the odd time when I'm completely stuck, or when searching for collectables. I wouldn't buy a guild though, not with everything at my fingertips via the internet.