Do You Need A Video Game Strategy Guide?
In the compex world of video games, strategy guides aren’t considered a luxury any more. It’s true they’re now considered a definite need for someone who wants to succeedingly navigate any action game. If you’re a hard core gamer you more than likely want to be able to beat the game on your own without a strategy guide. With today’s extremely challenging games, you can get some props for facing such a tough task. Your friends will be amazed if you don’t have to consult a single video game strategy guide while playing your favorite game.
Believe it or not 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 old-fashioned. 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 very simple to remember, and we were always trading them with our friends. Sometimes we would even find one accidentally.
We also had some video game strategy guides that were published by Nintendo or the maker of the game. They were really useful for games like The Legend of Zelda. These games would have a long series of riddles that you had to solve and adventures that you had to complete. 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.
A large number of PC games have video game strategy guides too. I remember that I used to love playing the King's Quest games. The games were so hard it took a video game strategy guide to get your way through. A video game strategy guide for an adventure game like that could be a 30, 40, or even 50 page long. They were more like books than “guides.” The games were already so complex that it was like reading a novel to find your way through the maze.
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 big for video game strategy guides today either. Some of them are even more massive. Still, I guess that's what you need to get through a complex video game.
You’ve probably figured it out by now that unless you’re a genius on the level of Einstein you’re probably going to have to invest in some video game strategy guides if you want to become successful with your favorite video games. I would suggest not using them though until you absolutely have to so as not to take away the challenge that your video game offers you. That’s probably one of the main reasons why you bought the video game isn’t it? Then when you absolutely need to, break out your video game strategy guide and eventually crack the code.
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