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RE: To Guide or Not to Guide: The Completely Unauthorized Final Fantasy VII Ultimate Guide (1997, Versus Books)
hey - you are back 😊
As you know I really don't play computer games 😌 but probably you can tell me if you need a guide (or many hints of friends who are playing) to be successful or is it possible to play without any guide and reach - maybe not so fast - the same 'level'?
If you need a guide to be successful it really seems like a second big business in parallel to the games...
The guides aren't required to play, but a lot of people like them because they can save a player time. For instance, if you're going through a dungeon with a lot of stairs that take you up and down levels, the guide will have a map to show you where to go so you don't get lost. This book was nice because it told you where to find certain items, or how to get them if they were secret, so if you were looking for one specific thing, you would know right where to go and what to do to find it. :)
But you don't need them to play, and a lot of people don't look at them until they have already played through the game once. Then they know the story, and they can find all the extra goodies the game makers put in there that you might not find on your first time through. :)
gaming seems to get more and more time consuming in the meantime. Many levels, really big stories, reading one or more guides, communication with other gamers,...
You really need time and passion to do it 😊
Indeed!
Unfortunately, now that I'm an old man, I find myself still having the passion, but lacking the time. ;)
😂 not so old...
steeming is the new gaming... 😅
Well, in a sense... :)