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Anon looks up a guide (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

RIP text based tutorials from gamefaqs: We all miss you.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wrote those back then. And game reviews.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago

A hero walks among us!

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months 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.