Still use guides?

[The Blackangel]

Does anyone still use guides? I keep several handy just for reference. For example, despite knowing almost EVERYTHING about the game, I keep a FF8 guide handy just for reference. Like if I’m looking for a particular item, but can’t remember which monster has it, and whether or not it’s a drop ir mug item. I have a RDR2 guide for the same reason. The only guide I have because I need it is for Zelda OoT. That’s just because no matter how many times I play it, the water temple is such a bitch that I simply cannot get through the damn thing without the guide. I have no issue with any of the other temples. Both childhood and adult.

I haven’t played Majora’s Mask nearly as much, so I definitely have a guide for it.

So with a rare exception of actually needing a guide, the few I have are only reference books. I prefer to find things out about a game organically rather than a book telling me where to go and what to do.

It might be interesting to some that for a reason unknown to both of us, we actually have a guide to Skyrim.

 

So do you still have any? Why do you keep them?

Edited December 25, 2024 by The Blackangel

[killamch89]

For some older games, I have them all saved to excel sheets. Otherwise, Gamefaqs and a couple other sites still have guides from back then which also helps.

[Scorpion]

I still use guides too! They’re great for quick references, especially for tricky parts like the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time.