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The name is morgan and gaming is part of me, I am always ready for new games and ready to accomplish more and more, I really play alot of games but i enjoy action and avnture games with alot of interaction rather than games with less of this such as CIV 4 and that type. My favorite games are ,Oblivion for the PC, Zelda:twilight princess for the WII, any COD, any Halo, and DOOM 3,I have so many favorites but these are good, and u should check them out if you havent. I love to hear game suggestions, so give me a few, Thanx for reading this whole thing, and good luck on future games! :D
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Game Walkthroughs=failure?
Morgan17 | 3:27 PM on 03.21.2009 19 comments


Have you ever needed a walkthrough for a peice of a game, the whole game, or most of it? It has only happened on one game and I feel like a failure when I need the walkthough. But I must say some games seem hopeless. Not many people like to talk about not being able to accomplish a part of a game for the sake of people thinking they are stupid. But I think sometimes it can be the game itself. Now, I like challenging thinking games, and game makers want to make sure they have a challenging enough game for these kind of gamers. The game I needed a walkthrough on was surely fun for me and I enjoyed playing it and its a PC game I would have to recommend for someone up for a thinking challenge, called Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. I got most of the game but on parts such as the whole Warehouse 12, and the unlocking of the cell door at the mental institution using the spoon just seemed like parts i needed a manual to know that was supposed to do things or how I was suppposed to do them. Has anyone ever played games like this? Well, if you have ever needed a walthrough for a game I wont call you stupid, or a newb, but a gamer who has tried hard to accompish another game. Remember there will be roadblocks and impossible-seeming puzzles everywhere in life, even on games, no one is a perfect gamer.so if You are reading this and are stuck on a game then keep thinking and trying. Just cause you cant solve or figure something out DOES NOT make you a game failure.



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MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 16:11
MrSadistic
I hate playing adventure/point-and-click games on the PC, because the ones I play are mostly hard as balls and I am a bastard and tend to look at walkthroughs. So, it pisses me off when I have to alt-tab to look up a guide to tell me where to look for an object or how to pass an area.
adultswim810's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 16:19
adultswim810
i believe i looked at a walkthrough for a part in metal gear solid.
bluexy's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 16:52
bluexy
I loves walkthroughs, because I love getting 100% completion in RPGs and hate wandering aimlessly. In puzzle games though, I share your frustration. Looking at at a point&click walkthrough is like admitting to defeat. Fucking puzzles!
gbear86's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 16:55
gbear86
Yeah, I do feel like a failure when I turn to online walkthroughs. :( Sometimes its just bad game design that makes things unnecessarily confusing, but usually its just me missing something obvious. Of course then I facepalm after reading the walkthrough and realizing what an idiot I am. I don't play many puzzle games though, most of the games I play tend to be pretty straightforward fps or action.
ammoelf3's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 17:19
ammoelf3
In many cases with games like RPGs, there is so much you miss without walkthroughs it is forgivable. Off the top of my head, the entire side-quest for a Gold Chocobo to get the Knights of the Round summon in FFVII is ridiculous. I doubt there's anyone who did it without a walkthrough, because that whole thing is just tedious and random. And if you tell me differently you're lying. So concerning RPGs and the random little sidequests I think RPGs are cool, but on action adventure games like Zelda I feel like a failure for using them sometimes when I get so far.
Corak's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 17:28
Corak
I don't usually play puzzle games but I sometimes turn to walkthroughs on some games to get hard to find items or find something that I otherwise would have never thought to look there. Only after I finish it myself though. I used one recently with the emblems in RE5. Some of their placement was like holy shit they put it there, mostly the ones so far off in the distance that you couldn't see it unless you had a sniper rifle scope on it. Could I have found them myself? possibly but I don't have the time or the will to scour every area of a level looking for some far off target that someone had to put there as a joke.
Balls of Ryu's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 17:31
Balls of Ryu
I usually beat a game straight up and then use a walkthrough for the shit I missed. (i.e. RE5, mgs series, FF games)
F Whipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 18:12
F Whipple
I only use them if i get stuck
Mr Kite's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 19:07
Mr Kite
Mostly I like to use them for stuff like recipes in harvest moon or Megaman zero, and the damned zodiac spear.
Narishma's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 19:43
Narishma
I never used walkthroughs when I was younger and had a lot of free time and no money so I was stuck playing only a couple of games over and over till I found everything there is to be found in them.

Now that I have more games than time to play them I use walkthroughs when I'm stuck in RPGs and don't feel any bad about it, the alternative would be to stop playing that game entirely.

Also, I hate puzzle games and cheat codes.
Spike401k's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 20:33
Spike401k
I usually end up with a walkthrough because of the fast talking bastard at my gamestop. He always comes up with some reason why I have to get it with the pre-order, and I always fall for it. Half of the guides go unused, but sometimes they are great for harder games. I was tricked into getting a RE5 special edition guide, I didn't have to use it, but it did come with a Calendar, which was a cool little suprise.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 20:47
Kyousuke Nanbu
I use them for everything, I hate missing out on shit, its even worse when some of the stuff you miss is one time only.
Lurfadur's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 21:16
Lurfadur
I use them when I get stuck. The first one I remember using was a walkthrough for Discworld on the PS1 and after that I primarily use them for RPGs when I get stuck.
JRisJunior's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/21/2009 21:32
JRisJunior
i've used them a lot. they're great reading material too. some games i just wanna do everything possible. without the help of a guide, i will personally never figure it all out.
flabzilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/22/2009 10:00
flabzilla
Depends on the game, I wouldn't use a walkthrough for somthing like portal it would jus seem wrong and the take all the fun away from solving it.

RPG's like some people have mentioned do have tonnes of crap that you can miss and seemingly random objectives to complete sidequests that you would never know how to do or even know they existed in the first place.
Don't care about point and click games that much because I usally just want to see the next cut scene anyway.

I would be very against using cheats in games but I have used SaveAnywhere codes in final fantasy ha ha, save points and limited saves suck balls.
norm9's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/22/2009 12:43
norm9
I have been stuck for weeks in games because I had no clue where to go next, and refusing to look at walkthroughs. Then I take a peek at the walkthrough, finish that section, and curse myself for having looked at the walkthrough because the answer was right under my nose.

The lesson I learned? Don't look at walkthroughs no matter how long you are stuck. But that's just me.
IpcressFiles's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/23/2009 13:11
IpcressFiles
I see a lot of walk-throughs in the shops, priced £13 or so. I find that to be too expensive and unecessary for many games, but I did get one for Oblivion and it was very helpful. Whether you really need walk-throughs lke God of War in the shops, i am not so sure about . . .
Mary Firefighter's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/13/2011 09:33
Mary Firefighter
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