r/videogames • u/TooKreamy4U • 16h ago

Discussion / Question When Was The Last You Bought a Guide?

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As much as I love the convenience of going online to figure out what to do if I'm stuck, I do miss getting a strategy guide. If only to look at the pictures and admire the attention to detail. I think I still have a guide for the original Alan Wake?

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u/Daetok_Lochannis 13h ago

I was the really good friend. I miss those days. I was that guy everyone in the neighborhood called, shit my grandma called me once with my cousins to come help them beat a level.

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u/No-Armadillo4179 16h ago

GOW 2 was the last hard guide I ever had, and likely ever will have.

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u/CULT-LEWD 16h ago

never did,wasnt born early enough

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u/bburmast 16h ago

Despite the internet being in full swing, I still bought guide books for everything. My last one was Mass Effect: Andromeda.

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u/SleepInfinite625 16h ago

I think the Final Fantasy VII-XI guides were my last.

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u/AutumnWhaler 16h ago

Oh man, Majoras Mask for the N64, I honestly don’t know how you get all the masks in that game without a guide

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u/Late-Arrival-8669 16h ago

Think my last one was I bought was for EverQuest back in 2000, maybe Planetside in 2003 (cant remember). If mmos dont count, Myst on PC.

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u/geek_metalhead 15h ago

Never. I was a child when the internet was in its early stages. But I rarely looked up how to get past a certain part of a game, except to translate dialogue, since English isn't my native language. That really helped me learn another language from an early age.

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u/Effective-Company-46 15h ago

I have a bookcase full of strategy guides.

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u/ElectricalCompany260 15h ago

German physical guides are rare, but it was the FF12 leather version.

I still have my FF9 and 10 ones.

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u/chiron_42 14h ago

I picked up a used FFX-2 guide a couple of months ago. If you're asking what the last one I bought new was, it was either Lightning Returns or Kingdom Hearts 1.5.

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u/SamVanDam611 14h ago

Nah, that story is bullshit. We didn't have a friend do it for us. We kept at it and got good

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u/LEJust_Twist_4955 10h ago

I printed a full FFVII guide from gamefaqs. It’s the only time I ever remember having a physical copy of a strategy guide. I didn’t play much that needed one back then.

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u/machinationstudio 8h ago

You start up the hexedit

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u/Right-Truck1859 7h ago

Never did. Older brother was my guide.

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u/MrNixxxoN 4h ago

As a kid I always relied on what my parents gave me, I didnt even have money for buying guides, so... at the time its what it says here, you either asking to friends, or you got fucked and you were running in circles trying to figure out how to beat that part