The end of strategy guides was Final Fantasy X. Most of it was filled with “Go to this web address to see the solution!”. And the game even has the website featured on the title screen with as much space as the game title.
I don’t recall that, although you’re more or less correct on timeline. FFX-2 I used a strategy guide, no website links and the damn thing was practically mandatory. I’m glad there’s better guides from fans, now.
Completely agree. The Internet has been great for that sort of thing. The advent of per game wikis, especially. You tube and even steam guides are good too.
I have my Final Fantasy X still, even used it when I played the remastered version recently. It didn’t ask me to use the website for anything. I thought it was the Final Fantasy IX guide that required you to use PlayOnline for the actual solutions.
FFX came out in 2001. GameFAQs was started in 1995. If you had the internet as a kid back then there was no reason to pay money for strategy guides any longer!
This kind of thing really turned me off adventure games. I’m here to have fun, not reverse engineer what some dude thought was the solution to some random problem.
huh. I think I’m the exact opposite. I don’t go looking for just “action” in my adventure games (I have fps and rts for that). I literally want to stop battling for a few minutes to try and reverse engineer something lol. I guess my experience comes from tabletop games and the adventure games are the closest to that but still lacks… something.
I really like TTRPGs because I can try literally anything and the GM will adjudicate on it. Computer based puzzlers feel very constrained because it always seems like there’s a right answer and I don’t know what it is.
Man, I had a friend gift it to me a few months ago. I watched a YouTuber play it years ago and it’s stuck in the back of my mind since. It’s awesome seeing this game brought up again
Who are those assclowns disliking this ? Seriously (It’s just me expressing my excitement)?<br> Anyways I’m looking forward to these RTS & Strategy games:
I actually liked Opposing Force and Blue Shift better than HL1 back when they were still new. Recently I thought I would play through them all again, but I only made it a little way into the original before I quit. Going back to old mechanics is not generally enjoyable for me. Or maybe I should have just skipped HL1 and gone directly to the ones I liked better. To be fair, I skipped ahead to HL2 and am still struggling to enjoy the dated mechanics.
Dude play Black Mesa! It’s a modern remake of the original Half Life but with a new and improved Xen at the end. I played Opposing Force and Blue Shift back in the day but barely remember them. I’d love to replay those games.
Edit: store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/ It’s on sale for $5 right now. Also it runs decently in Linux, when I played it would crash every 20 minutes or so in some sections, I think there is/was a memory leak or something.
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