Stratagey guides, or no? - Page 2

March 22, 2007, 9:08 PM

If you like the game and want to get 100% out of it. I think that you should play the game through without the guide first. After that go through the game again with it.

March 23, 2007, 12:28 AM

see that sounds like it would be a great idea, but sometimes you jsut want to start a new game like another FF or another rpg game thats really long and stuff, and going through it 2xs isnt totally an option. but if you have the time, that makes sense.

March 25, 2007, 1:34 AM

I'm with Cloud 2007 here completely. I always play the game the first time through without a strategy guide. After I beat it, and only after, will I use any sort of strategy guide, be it official or otherwise.

It just takes the fun out of the game (for me anyways) to know what to do next. I once made the mistake of using the strategy guide before beating the game with Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, and I found that instead of being engulfed by the storyline, I was instead taken over by the side quests and obtaining everything you could.

I think that, in a good game, if you try to get everything the first time around, then you're going to miss a lot of the storyline. For instance, in FFVII, you could easily beat the game in under, or at least around, 40 hours. However, in order to get everything (Beat all the weapons, breed a gold chocobo, get Aeris' final limit break before the end of the first disk, etc) you're bound to run into at least 100 hours with tons of grinding, lots of chocobo catching, constant resetting materia configurations, and then some more grinding.

I just can't get as emotionally involved with the story as I'd like to when I'm constantly being interrupted to grind for hours just so I can get a certain item before a certain point in the game when it would otherwise become no longer available.

March 29, 2007, 12:18 PM

^ You really love long posts, don't ya OmniscientOnus.
I love reading your posts though.

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Originally Posted by Poster above me

I just can't get as emotionally involved with the story as I'd like to when I'm constantly being interrupted to grind for hours just so I can get a certain item before a certain point in the game when it would otherwise become no longer available.

I know exactly what you mean. It gets really frustrating when that happens, losing your edge in following the storyline and going on with sidequests.
Problem with me is I don't like to play a game again once I'm done with it, unless it's between a span of a long time. AND I want my game completed, no loose ends and all that.

So I have to go "yeah" with guides.

May 5, 2007, 3:04 PM

i have one for all my games and they help me prepare for what is going to happen so that helps me. and it helps me look for the stuff i might hav missed

October 14, 2007, 11:27 PM

I usually don't buy strategy guides unless I absolutely have to, I prefer to play through a game the first time without getting everything and instead just going through the story and finishing it. Then I go through it a second time to get everything I possibly can, even if it takes 300 hours.

October 16, 2007, 12:11 AM

I used the computer strategy guide and i still am lost... lol...

October 16, 2007, 8:02 AM

i used one During FFX and FFX-2 but that was mainly so i could get the celestial weapons in X and all the dressphere's and Sphere's on X-2

October 26, 2007, 1:36 AM

I have all the guides and the ones i dont have i write them but i didnt need them for the clasic games you always know were to go.

October 26, 2007, 10:33 AM

I don't like guides. I used to use them all the time but looking back I realised I was never getting full enjoyment just by being told where to go. Final Fantasy is a game of discovery and exploration and we should respect that. FFXII was the first one I did completly without a guide and enjoyed it more than I would have following the big guide my brother bought.

Saying that, I see no problem in looking up on the internet to find info on things you missed out, because most you'll never find just casualy.