Comment on Anon looks up a guide
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m 41 and video game guides/walkthroughs have been my mom for roughly 35 years. My dad is mods and used to be cheat codes.
I’m a long time enthusiastic but incompetent gamer, is what I’m getting at 😁
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
RIP text based tutorials from gamefaqs: We 1all miss you.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I wrote those back then. And game reviews.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
A hero walks among us!
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I dunno. It’s nice having at least some visual guidance that wasn’t graphed out in Notepad.
I played Postal 2 and got stuck after a huge setpiece at the mall. I looked up a guide that just said “go through the shipping containers.” I knew where the pile of shipping containers was, but could not for the life of me figure out where the fuck they had any way through.
An entire decade later, I bought it on Steam, played it on much nicer settings, and got stuck at the same damn part. I looked up what was probably the same guide. But this time - I found the one container that was open just enough to get in, and was open at the other side.
If someone claimed that Running With Scissors uploaded a fake pirate version where there just wasn’t a way past that part, I would probably believe them.