/v/ - Video Games

I try to work things out myself but if frustration outweighs enjoyment too much I'll tend to look up advice online. I'll also sometimes look stuff up just to make sure I don't accidentally screw myself over in the future, like using a vital item that had another purpose down the line, things like that.

I like playing games without needing to look things up outside of the game. If a game requires me to look shit up on a wiki then I'll have a hard time getting into it and, in my eyes, it failed to do a proper job as a game.

Every time someone uses that pic as an OP, the thread turns to shit

I try to not get outside help. Usually when I hit enjoyment threshold I just take a break. If I return to one thing and continuously keep not enjoying it, I just look up solution or drop it entirely.

>>15050004

It might be the real cursed image.

Not until I get bored. Some games make me get bored quicker than others.

Sometimes if I get stuck on a puzzle I'll look it up online but what I do more often is look up stats for items. JPRGs for example never fucking explain what their version of resistance, armor or increased damage is. You usually can't figure out what they do without artistically spending hours testing what the damage algorithm is which often times has already been done by someone else.

If there's a mechanic I don't understand very well then I generally look it up. If I spend days stuck in a part (very rarely happens) then I look it up. Anything else though like secrets or specific builds/strategies I don't look up until after I've beaten the game at least once.

Hijacking this thread for a question. Recently there was a game releases on steam with monster girls and stuff, about exploring. What was it called? I want to download it.

>>15049934

Nah I want games to be fun so whenever it pulls bullshit puzzle I just look up the solution and continue on with the story.

>>15049934

Generally speaking, I try to do everything myself the first time I beat a game. Then cheat like crazy looking up everything the second time around, if it's good enough to play again.

Depends. I would never look up the solution to a level in a puzzle game. On the other hand, some games have no good reason to withhold information. Valid examples where it's not just acceptable, but preferable to look shit up are:

>games where crafting recipes are discovered through trial and error

>roguelikes where items have no description until you pick them up / buy them / use them

I only look up the most cryptic shit, like the game doesn't ever explain it, it isn't in the manual, it isn't even vaguely hinted at in poorly translates NPC dialogue. If other people could figure it out and I can't, I'm a filthy casual.

>>15050137

Nevermind, useless cunts. It's Hakoniwa Explorer Plus.

For the most part I'll learn on my own, and then look things up to really understand the difficult parts. Minecraft is a good example: literally nobody can understand the full depths of redstone just by experimenting, because its function isn't intuitive or based on any sort of real-world system like electrical conduction. Everyone looks up tutorials and guides.

Also, there's games like Dwarf Fortress where literally nothing makes and sense, and you need tutorials just to figure out how to START.

I like to look things up to learn about them, but not to gain a big advantage.

For example, I used to use examine on just about everything in runescape.

Depends. If I can figure things out for myself I'll keep it that way but sometimes I have a lot of issues for one specific mission and I'll do that one by a guide.

Depends on the game and whether or not it explains stuff adequately. If it's something like FF5, where it doesn't tell you what the later abilities from jobs are, so you waste a ton of time trying to max out berserker? I'm 100% going to look up what the job abilities are. That's information that should be given to the player up front. If it's something like FF6, where certain pieces of magicite are hidden away in secret areas and you have to solve puzzles to unlock new spells? If I miss shit, it's my own fault for missing that shit. If FF6 then required certain missable spells to actually progress and I missed one and needed to backtrack a bunch, then I'd play the rest of the game with a guide in hand, because fuck that shit.

Aside from that, only when I get really stuck.

>>15049934

I strongly prefer to work out strats myself but I definitely look up the details of game mechanics.

The last time I looked up for a puzzle solution was when I played the Silent Hill games (2 in the higest difficulty setting gave me a few headaches before I resorted to gamefaqs)

I usually look up guides for specific locations and collectibles.

I like looking at video game wikis

I'll sometimes look up backstory stuff or bios for characters I forget about along the way.

I prefer to go as blind as possible, which is why when I anticipate any game's release, I immediately cut off contact with 8chan, because you fuckers just can't help yourselves and post spoilers to every minute detail.

only when i am too much of a brainlet to solve puzzles after wasting an obscene amount of time trying to solve them by myself.

>>15051080

>. If it's something like FF5, where it doesn't tell you what the later abilities from jobs are

Most of the time the abilities are pretty obvious. Haste? Obvious. Holy? Obvious. Fire? Obvious. What abilities did you need more info for?

>>15049934

>that image

NEVER EVER

>>15057243

What is it?

Only when the game suddenly decides it doesn't want to be the game anymore. Fuck that shit.

>>15057250

The trees look like trees from a certain minecraft mod, so i'm assuming it's minecraft map.

>>15057297

Now that I look at it, I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be Cubeworld. A game that never happened and whose developer vanished from the face of the earth.

Depends. It's ok look for explanation for RPG or strategy mechanics but it's never ok to look for solution for puzzles in point-n-click or puzzle games.

>>15057305

To be honest, Cube World has actually come a long way since that first launch that then resulted in them going dark for months or even years. They've added in more races, they've added in content, bosses, etc.

Thing is, it's like a great man once said. "If you ship your game too early, your game will only be remembered for that bad launch. If you ship your game late, people will only ever remember how good it was."

Duke Nukem Forever is a great example, the game took forever to make, and it was still shit.

>>15058176

La mulana is a good game tainted by some retarded puzzles.

>Having to crouch on a specific pot so your character goes down like Mario on a pipe, even though you never have to do anything like that in the game.

>>15059048

>Skyrim puzzles are too hard

For the love of all that is holy, I hope you're just trolling.

I have a friend that does that. But he actually way overthinks everything and tries to min/max every tiny detail. He does all this before even loading the game for the first time. It's so bad that it's become a running joke between my group of gamin buddies. Me personally? I just play the damn game. If I really get stuck on something, I'll look for a little help somewhere.

>>15059048

imagine this nigger trying to play morrowind.

>>15059271

I'm going with trolling bullshitter. Because no one should be that fucking stupid.

>>15059048

well memed friend!

>>15059048

Wait a minute that card

>>15049985

>if frustration outweighs enjoyment too much I'll tend to look up advice online

Same. A good example that happened to me a few hours ago:

>playing Dragon's Dogma

>doing some easy quests

>picking flowers, killing rabbits

>eh, easy shit but can't complain about free money

>oh look, an escort

>it's a 200 meter escort, that wasn't so bad

>oh you want an escort where to?

>Grand Encampment? Looks kinda far

>Holy fucking shit WHAT IS ALL THIS

>Why are you so suicidal?

>WHY AM I SO SUICIDAL

You go from "flower picking" and "rabbit slaying" to

>30 well armed bandits

>3 Cyclops (2 armored)

>2 chimeras

>24 Ice Harpies

>wolves out the ass

>a couple undead knights

And during all this, the useless escort faggot keeps parking himself beneath the feet of wathever giant creature wanders near.

I DID manage to do it, but it wasn't fun, and looking up the quest online only gave me two tidbits of information:

>if you already accepted, you can't unaccept it

>this quest can appear early in the game where the player is ill equipped, beware accepting it at low levels!

It's been a while since I played a game where the developer fucks up this much, even non-intetionaly.

20 levels later, I'm enacting my revenge on the Chimera population.

>>15049934

What's the point of the wall and moat if there's a paved road leading right into town over land barely a few minute's walk from the gates? Might as well just put up a sign there saying "BANDITS ENTER HERE FOR FREE RAPE"

>>15049934

Keep beating my head against a puzzle until I'm at my wits end, and then maybe I'll look up the answer if I can't figure out even after an eternity. Had to look up a few things on La Mualana, but I gave it my best shot and figured a lot of things out on my own too.

>>15049934

Just git gud.

I don't look things up until my second playthrough to get all the stuff I missed.

>>15064822

Escort quests are lame and you should just put portcrystals at their destinations and use a ferrystone to complete the quest instantly.

>>15049934

I specifically go out of my way to look up useless stats to ignore and never invest in. I just don't have the patience to do a restart when I realize how badly I fucked up character creation anymore.

I have a habit of looking up lots of stuff for games I play. That way, if I fail then there's no question that it's a lack of skill causing the fail (As opposed to knowledge or some BS enemy or item) and I can get better.

>>15049985

This.

Also, once I finish a game, I tend to look it up to see what other content there is to do.

>>15049934

I play through the game normally and finish it first. I only look up stuff on youtube or gamefaqs if I'm truly stuck on a part. Post-game, I then look up any secrets I missed or strats I could've used.

Lurking on the gamefaqs site and forums has given me a lot help over the years. Youtube videos too.

>>15049934

If it's interesting, then I'll play it out blindly first.

If it's not, I'll just watch someone's playthrough to know what the story's about.

If there are rumors about the game's gameplay/story choices being unintuitive as fuck, then I'd look it up. I don't play NG+.