>play elden ring>google "strongest builds and weapon locations">play terraria>google "how to summon wall of flesh">play baldurs gate 3>google "how to save shadowheart from bad ending">play subnautica>google "where to find diamond depth module">play stardew valley>google "most profitable crops by season">play old school runescape>google "optimal quest guide waterfall quest">play binding of isaac>google "what does this item do blue pill">play hollow knight>google "where to get double jump">play outer wilds>google "how to get inside tower of quantum knowledge no spoilers"I love playing video games
i do this
>>746041445you love not playing them
Play games that don't require you to look up guides. Alternatively, you could just play the game blind.
>>746041445>replay game I beat on the hardest mode 10 years ago >google tips for beginners
I usually go in blind until I hit a wall or take too long to progress on my own. I'm too old to waste too much time on useless padding on video games.
>>746041445What is the difference between this and just using hacks to grant yourself the item or teleport to a map? They're both just cheating
>>746041445You're not googling how to spawn wall of flesh because youll have accidentally done it multiple times as a newb
>play game>use a strategy guide for the entire thing>get platinum and never play again
>>746041445The entire appeal of Souls games is playing blind your first time and discovering things yourself. You are a retarded fag.
>>746042398>beat game on hardest difficulty>go back to playing on normal because I can finally play the game at my own leisure
>>746041445>>play outer wilds>>google "how to get inside tower of quantum knowledge no spoilers">>play elden ring>>google "strongest builds and weapon locations">>play terraria>>google "how to summon wall of flesh"i did this
hey man just don't do it
>>746041445I had to look up what to do in Octopath Traveler when you get to chapter 2 because the difficulty spike was insane. All the NPCs and lore and story mention nothing about the unmarked shrines that you're supposed to get first.
>>746044692wtf did you just say to me you bigoted piece of shit ??????? I ACTUALLY can't believe you would say this to me. I'm just stunned, absolutely petrified that some INCEL like you can just hurt people on the internet with their words like this.
>>746041445Elden Ring is understandable. The game doesn't give any clue as to where to find stuff
>>746044095No it isn't. If you play Souls games blind you lose out on a huge chunk of hidden content. Just do everything and then look up what you missed. Best of both worlds.
Based, old fags will talk shit because they had to pay for strategy guides back then.
>>746044095the entire appeal of souls games is telling people that you play souls games
I've never not played a persona without a social link guide to finish all the games content in a single playthrough. I will NEVER replay a JRPG
>>746041445Did you google how to write this post?
>>746042913sameespecially with collectiblesi usually find 90%+ on my own, then look up the last few
>>746045337This is, quite frankly, a soulless way to play videogames.
>>746043945do people throw random stuff into the lava often?
>>746046361The demons carry it and they'll drop it when you kill them. It falls into the lava that permeates the area.
>>746041445you control the information you search
>>746046467fair enoughi knew of the wall's existence way before, so i started with covering the lava pits
>>746041445I do this very rarely as well because I don't like it when things go wrong. For exmaple a few years ago I fucked up Theresa's quest in VtM:B so I looked up how to do to save both and restarted on the spot to do it right.
>>746046293Going through this in Stellar Blade now. I tried for hours to find the hidden cans and little paintings you take pics of, but only got like 80%. The remaining 20% were so out of the way with very little help it have taken weeks of brute force exploring to find them all.
So are big arrows that tell you where to go good or not
>>746043694the difference is that hacks reduce the difficulty of a game, but for games where the difficulty isn't the puzzles or wasting time, learning info is not gonna reduce difficulty, just cut time wasting tboi never had a way of telling you the effects of items (until very very recently)so, you would never even know what countless items and trinkets even do (mysterious paper for example) especially when they pile up and random shit start seeming really random, so that the next time you would just not pick up a weird item you could not figure out, which adds to the confusionI've 100% tboi so many times without any mods or online guides, but I still think it's 100% justifiable to look up the wiki every now and then so that you optimize your play style
>>746041445there's nothing I hate more while playing than knowing there is a secret or easter egg I missed, I genuinely obsess so much that I always just end up giving up and looking up a guide, which also makes me even angrier that I could not figure it out myselfI still remember the shame and disappointment of not finding the last hero's shade and missing the whole climax of the questline in zelda tp, and getting an ending while the thought lingers in my head
>>746041445You're acting like Gamefaqs hasn't existed for longer than most people on this board have been alive.
>>746041445nigga PLAY TUE FUCKING GAME
>>746041445>play elden ring>google "strongest builds and weapon locations"I have a friend that does this and says that elden ring is too ez because he looked up all the cheese strategies and weapons. I keep trying to explain to the retard that he basically cheated and that the game is difficult to people who play games blind. That being said I did look up play through guides for elden ring because I only played once and the game locks you out of too many quest if you dont do things in some autistically cryptic order.
>>746049316LOW SEMEN
>Play Elin>Game is so opaque I have a 300 post long discussion with the google chatbot since the game doesn't even tell you the effects of spellbooks you get before you use them. >Every mechanic is some vaguely explained highly technical bullshit only even slightly addressed in an in game rp book that you don't get immediately most of the time. >Every adventurer follower is kinda shit, except for about a dozen that are basically secret bosses unto themselves.>Building up a base is near impossible without guides. Gaming.
>play Baba is You>look up Crushers solution
>>746045337Maybe if you mean actually blind. Use your eyes and your brain and you'll find most of the hidden content on your first playthrough. Anything you miss you can find on the other playthroughs it'll take you to get the other endings anyway. Because surely you're not a cheating faggot who backs up your save to get all endings at once, right? You just look up stuff, you wouldn't cheat.
I looked up where to find the whip in ER for my Belmont playthrough and I have zero regrets
>>746041445>40 years dumb oldfag>get back from work>load dark souls>stuck in anor londo>ask google gemini "where to?">"look left, broken window"Pic related
>>746042060There are none, give me a game with no guides instead
>>746052186There are no guides if you don't look for them yourself. Open a game you've never played before and dont watch any content about it online, there you go
>>746044095>Play the game blind>Miss Sir Poopsworth's questNope. I don't do repeat playthroughs either, so I'm looking that shit up
>>746052186No amount of guides are gonna get you top times in Defrag
I ask ChatGPT for advice in every single game I play
>phone image>twitterfag meme>pointless "I'm a retard please pity me" postFuck you retard, hope the jannies rape you for this shit thread.
>>746052126This was the only thing I had to look up at all in DS1. In my defense I wiped the rest of the game with my ass, I beat O&S in three tries, and putting parkour "puzzles" in a game with slippery slidey walkways and invisible walls fucking everywhere is retarded.
>>746052126>Playing picrel>walking street confused like a time traveler>strat asking AI "why is there a lady throwing water on the floor?">"why is there a dude running on the street with a stick?">"how much is a ryo?">having fun with the game while learning about japanese culture
>>746052673mindbroken
>>746041445>Binding of IsaacI played a shitload of BoI like 10 years ago but the original flash version. Playing Rebirth now, and there's so many items I've forgotten, and so, so many new ones.So I just permanently have "Binding of isaac " ready to ctrl+v so I can figure out what these fucking trinkets and items actually do. This feels like the definition of a Wiki game, so many things aren't even hinted at in how they work, can't intuit shit.
>>746052775Just the one? I legit have no fucking idea how anyone would ever find the DLC starting conditions blind
>>746042398>replay game I beat 10 years ago>discover I misunderstood a mechanic that makes it infinitely easier
>>746041445I hate when devs try and balance their game around people like this.>we dont want people to ruin the game for themselves so we made this reward randomized instead of being a cool hand picked i temwho cares? let them ruin it for themselves and meta game. Just make the game as good as it can be for people who play normally and let the guide readers eat shit.
>>746053370he probably missed like 9/10 secrets but this part was the only part he "had" to look up because you actually need to do it to beat the game. I cant imagine a guy who didnt figure this part out figuring out how to get to ash lake
>>746044571Couldn’t you have done that from the beginning?
>>746053749I actually did but only by pure accident, I was testing out a claymore for the first time in that little area by the chest and hit the false wall, I found the bitch that starts the DLC when running back past the hydra spot because I didn't realize the ladder past it and the door you open with the crest from the blacksmith lead to the same area and I noticed the golden golem thingy there
>>746052126same energy as la mulana climbable root
>>746041445I don't get why benny boy looks so dead inside in every photo
>>746041445>acting like guides werent a thing back in 00, 90s etc. you fucking retard that was the whole point of nintendo power. YOU GOT THE POWER WITH NINTENDO POWER. people have been using guides since the dawn of gaming dont act like this is new to modern era
>>746054780If you were one of those kids who bought a strategy guide and read the shit out of it before you even beat it, you were a huge faggot.
>>746054828My relatives didn't know anything about me other than I liked video games so they got me a strategy guide for a game i didn't own and I did read it a ton why wouldn't i
>>746053370>how anyone would ever find the DLC starting conditions blindFrom software themselves posted how to start the dlc.Four kings is the one that filtered me, no fucking idea how I was supposed to figure out I needed to throw myself in the abyss
>>746044034>muh cheevosKill yourself.
>>746050945>the game is difficulty by random chanceThat's the thing you can randomly blindly get the OP shit. There's nothing preventing this. That's why I call it for what it is a gear simulator.
>>746059789> randomly blindly get the OP shit>gear don't scale with your lvl>you need lvl 100 for this lot table
>>746041445Yeah even back then in WoW you had to use ThotBot. Or you can just make the game linear.
>>746041445>Want to watch a movie>Look up all the key scenes and ending on Youtube
>>746061126>this is the trailer actually
