Re: Pointless Poll - Online Guides

JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:

With the abundance of information available online how much do you use
online guides when playing a game.
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a) Real gamers don't use guides they let their stronk skillz carry the
day. Get back to playing Tetris if you're not good enough.

b) Try and use them as little as possible as I want to learn how to
play myself but some times beginner tips can be useful if you feel
like you're floundering.
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c) Knowing a lot of the in-an-outs of the game is really helpful but
only so I can then play the game the way I want to and not just follow
what someone else has said.

Mostly B or C or even A, really depends. If a game is interesting enough
then A. But thinking of the System Shock Remaster for example, it's a
huge maze with loads of backtracking. I wasn't really happy when I
partly followed a walkthrough that didn't say much about the why of
doing stuff, it was just go here, do this, do that. Well, at least I did
find out what things were for afterwards. But I didn't want a PhD on
Citadel Station either.

Fallout: London is a little like this too. It's easy to miss a side
passage or get lost in the mazey interiors. Or exteriors. They've
actually sprinkled these oil lanterns to point out interesting places
and outright arrows to follow in some places where they apparently think
people might get lost. It's also surprisingly hard to find any guides
for the mod, except video.

I'm not a fan of character creation so I'm basically recreating my
Fallout 4 sneaker character, although London is sufficiently different
I'm changing things as I go. I know which perks I want, just trying to
guess which perk would be most useful next. So for the character build
I'm basically following a guide or at least the frame for a sneaker
character that I found somewhere.

Also I remember KOTOR. I didn't have the faintest about how to create a
well rounded character with the whatsit rules. I just put points on this
and that and ended up with a shifty character who couldn't convince
anyone that water is wet. So attempts at persuasion caused people to
attack me which was fine, even as a light side character it was then
just OK to murder them and take their stuff. I did check out some guide
for a further playthrough but KOTOR was so long I didn't get very far.

d) You want me to actually learn how to play a game on my own, why do
that when you might miss out on having a maximally powerful
character. Who doesn't like an archer that can one-shoot anything you
meet?

Only when I'm bored with the game. So going back and looking up how to
farm for some rare loot combos and seeing how things go when you have
really good gear. Thinking of Borderlands 2 here a little before
Borderlands 3 came out. I think the drop rates may have been fixed by
that time, at least I got the guns and shields I wanted pretty easily.