GamerNode: Columns - Daily Q: Do you still use paper form game guides?

Rarely. But I did use one for Resident Evil 4.

I don't use guides, but when my bro needs help on his games, I pull up a guide on the internet. So no.

Whats a "game guide?"

I think the last one I bought must've been the Half-Life 2 Strategy Guide. Got it with the game, along with Raising the Bar (which was certainly worth the money).

i get them for rpgs so i can have the beastiry, makes leveling a bit easier.

I never used guides, of any kind. I certainly never paid for one. Now that gamefaqs.com is around, I'll look things up for completeness once I finish games as best I can on my own.

The last one I got was was pokemon ruby/sapphire I think, but I just like to read them, rather than use them for help(gold as well, which helped me a bit). Another notable one before that was mgs2, again i didn't use it for that much help(i did abit, and read through every page and backstory after completion of game[for example, did you know that the events of mgs1 took place in 2005, and mgs2 in 2009?]), the book itself looks pretty mint mate! And mostly the tomb raider guides beforehand as well, and that's about it. If I get stuck, to the max nowadays, I MIGHT consult gamefaqs.

Only for pokemon or similar monster raising RPGs. Otherwise, I may consult GameFAQs is I'm stuck on something.

I have a very strong anti-cheating policy, and since game guides tell you exactly what's around the corner and how to do what needs to be done, I detest them. They're close enough to cheating for me to avoid them entirely.

Besides, they take most of the challenge out of the game, and in games like Zelda, it kills half of the game.

I've had only three guides in my day.

One for Final Fantasy VII, one for Final Fantasy Tactics, and one for San Andreas.

Safe to say, I don't rely on hard copy guides all that often at all.

I had to have one for Ocarina of time, i'm sorry the forest temple, how the hell was i supposed to know i was supposed to go down this hallway, then shoot an eye, go back down this hallway, flip a room and then shoot the eye froma distance. WTF?!?!?

^It wasn't that hard to figure out... XD

I used a free pocket game guide I got with a Nintendo magazine to complete that bastard of dungeon, The Water Temple, in OoT. Other than that, I've only ever read them for the interesting easter-eggs and secrets in games - never to complete the main game.

Short answer: no

Nope. No paper ones and the only time I ever use an online guide for anything is to check when I am doing the right thing in a game and it doesn't work, due usually to bad collision detection issues, or what-have-you. Or, when I want to collect everything after completing the game myself.

Or, in the rare case like the Silent Hill games recently, where I wasn't so much interested in trial and error and just wanted to know the story and to get the good endings.