Topic: Do you use guides?

Are you against using guides to figuring out stuff in games, or do you if you can't figure something out?

I'd rather have fun making my own way through the game. If I get stuck on something and am getting bored trying to figure it out (ie. otherwise I'd just quit) then I'll look up the solution. If I'm having to look up solutions a lot though I probably wont be playing the game for long.

I collect Zelda guides, but other than that, I don't really use them. Sometimes I like to write my own though. Wrote a few class guides for an MMO I used to play. That was fun.

I do, but only for games with lots of optional stuff or extremely obscure secrets. Without a guide, I never would've finished Tales of Symphonia 100%, for example.

Only for sidequests. I figure out all the story stuff by myself.

I rarely use guides and never make an attempt to use them except in the case of Zelda and the only game I've never used a guide is in Link Between Worlds for Zelda(YAY!)

But it depends on the games. If the game is exciting for me in the very beginning, then yes, I'll do my very best to avoid reading the guide else I'd do it because of frustrating points. At times when in games like Triple Deluxe where you can't tell if you got that item in this level or not, It gets confusing and as a result, I use the guide. If the game hints to me that there are things missing in this level, I'll definitely not use the guide.

Mostly when it involve treasure hunting collectables without a map/ radar like with The Wonderful 101.

Yeah, sometimes. Like when I had no clue where the last three heart containers in Wonder Boy in Monster World were. One of them was hidden under a false lava pit. I mean, sure, it's a nod to a previous game, but there was still no indication that that lava pit was different from all the other ones.

Or like that one gem in Crash Bandicoot 2 that you find by jumping into a death pit. Or that stinking Hadoken in Mega Man X found by doing something only a complete idiot would try.

I use guides on games I can't figure out. I don't use paper guides anymore, too many free ones online. Plus Miiverse is fantastic to get help from. Just post a picture and ask for help. Normally within a few minutes you get a reply

I use them for Elder Scrolls games, and fighting games as i prefer that over the onscreen tutorial when I'm learning move sets. Other than that I collect guides.

No.

Only for help to train good Pokemons

What @Geonjaha said.
If the game doesn't give me some hint I'm missing something (which is a horrible design choice), then I'll also use a guide to find out what I missed.

Yes, but I try to use them sparingly.

Very sparingly. I prefer the method of figuring things out by myself. Makes it all more rewarding.

Pre-internet I used Nintendo Power maps for tough sections of games or to find out how to access a secret area.

I've never played an entire game (or big sections of one) using a guide though. That just takes the fun out of it.

I use them every once in a while. I only use a guide if I am truly stuck and have tried everything I can think of.

Only when I get stuck and have no idea where to go.

Most games: Only when I have no idea what I'm doing. Zelda games: I made a promise never EVER o use a guide for a Zelda game!

Only when a problem stops being fun to try and solve. I also look up tips for online games, such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Guild Wars 2.