In the compex world of video games, strategy guides aren't considered over-the-top any more. It's true they're now considered a definite need for anyone who wants to successfully navigate any adventure game. If you're a hard core gamer you more than likely want to be able to win the game on your own without a strategy guide. You will definitely get high fives for standing up to this tough challenge. Your friends will be amazed if you don't have to consult a single video game strategy guide while playing your favorite game.
Hard to believe but I've been using video game cheats and strategy guides since I had the original 8-bit Nintendo. The game cheats we used back in the day were pretty undeveloped. There were only eight buttons that you could push, so every video game cheat was a combination of up, down, left, right, b, a, select, and start. They were really easy to remember, and we were always trading them with our friends. Sometimes we would even find one accidentally.
Nintendo even published video game strategy guides and so did the video game makers. They were really useful for games like The Legend of Zelda. The video games would contain many riddles to decipher and adventrues that needed completing. When you got lost it was great having the video game strategy guide. These guides didn't emphasize cheats so much as explain how to solve the riddles.
Many of the PC games also required video game strategy guides too. I remember that I used to relish playing the King's Quest games. The games were so hard it took a video game strategy guide to get your way through. Adventure game like that can have video game strategy guides that can be as long as 150 pages. They were more like books than “guides.” The games were already so bewildering that it was like reading a novel to find your way through the labyrinth.
This trend hasn't changed as video game developers continued towards more and more complex video games with increasingly complex strategy guides. I remember when I bought the Empire Earth strategy guide a number of years ago. It was at least one hundred fifty pages long! I've heard that this is not exceptional for video game strategy guides nowadays either. Some of them are even larger. Still, I guess that's what you need to get through a tricky video game.
If you have figured it out yet you would probably have to have the IQ of Einstein to be able to make it through the compexities of today's video games without a video game strategy guide. My suggetion would be to not use your video game strategy guide until you could go no farther so you don't take away the the ultimate challenge of your video game. That's probably one of the main reasons why you bought the video game isn't it? Get your video game strategy guide out when your completely lost and find out what to do next.
November 27th, 2008 at 11:59
i need help on zelda in forest temple after i saved 3. monkey