Do You Use Game Walkthroughs?

[racketboy]

For games that are linear/story-driven, do you use walkthroughs on a regular basis?

[peace4myheart]

Use it in strategy and RPG mainly, due to all the secrets and hidden stuffs that would otherwise be overlooked.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

For games that are linear/story-driven, do you use walkthroughs on a regular basis?

I will buy the guides just for the poster

[Doctor Fugue]

I rarely play games that are story-driven, but there always seems to be one spot in later Castlevania games that I need to look up to proceed. No patience, and I'm lazy.

[D.D.D.]

I will but only because I don't have time to keep messing around, searching for that one little oversighted item or place to press X to flip an invisible switch or something like that. Doing that keeps me from enjoying the game and I'd rather just get something like that over with and keep progressing in the game.

That and, let's say I'm playing a game with save points and I've spent an hour since the last one, I do not have the time to waste doing that one thing over just for a tiny mistake made making me lose that hour of playtime.

When I was still in jr. high and even high school, I never used guides as I didn't need them as I was a persistant gaming fool~

[RCBH928]

I think its a waste of time to keep searching...
games since n64 days and even earlier are big worlds that have that one sport u have to press "X" on or whatever, so you can continue...this is basically impossible to do, sometimes you can never find it.

other times you dont think something are possible. I look at a jump in some game and I think i have fallen from this type of jump million times...only to know that only in this area you can jump that long or that high.

add to that impossible secrets to find, specially those that are like "finish the level uner 20 seconds"
or kill specific enemies in a specific order ....

Plus its hard to suffer looking when the answer is right there on the internet...

now after that, I wonder those who right the tutorials how can they know all this stuff and figure it out, sometimes alone without giving credit to any one.

[Ramatut4001]

It depends on the game. I have used them to varying degrees. Sometimes I've gone through it verbatim. Sometimes I just skim through a few before I start a game or if I'm stuck on something. With my backlog I don't really have time to dilly dally with certain things. I do buy the guides for a lot of games that I like mostly because I love looking at the maps and screen caps.

[Gamerforlife]

RPGs

You absolutely will not find and do everything in a Final Fantasy game without a FAQ or guide. Course, that's for the completionists who want more out of the game than just the story

Other than that, I try not to use guides/FAQs, but it something annoys me I will. I just don't have the time and patience anymore. For genres I'm not particularly well-versed in I'll sometimes use a guide for the whole game. Games like that I'm playing more for the experience than the challenge.

[peglegs]

i've never really liked the whole aspect of having to look up a guide or anything unless im all out stuck
i'd rather be playing my game but there are times when im stuck look it up and the thing i had to do was right there the whole time and i have to kick myself.

finally registered awesome site racketboy

[executioner]

only when stuck for days, or those times when you have this gut feeling you are about to finish a level and you won't come back and you could have missed something the developer stuck in the least place you could imagine. Also sometimes after finishing a game have a quick view.