View Full Version : Guides vs. FAQs
darthstrife
10-05-2006, 12:54 PM
Which do you think is better? Obviously, both have their strengths and weaknesses...
Guides:
Provide Screenshots of what to do
Can sit with you in front of the TV
Cost money, sometimes depending on the rarity a lot of money
FAQs:
Can go more in depth
Are Free
Aren't designed to have in front of the TV
Apossum
10-05-2006, 01:01 PM
FAQs. when I do need help with a game, it's for a secret or a strat to beat some boss or something. nothing that justifies the price of a guide.
exception: Some fighting game strat guides are worth it-- the SF:AC and Tekken 5 guides can really help improve your game. The Alpha Collection guide also looks awesome.
Warner1281
10-05-2006, 01:06 PM
Given the availability of penny guides, I will use those whenever available. Otherwise a FAQ will suffice if needed. Before I knew of penny guides, I only used FAQ's for computer games. Everything else I would just play without the use of hints/cheatbooks unless I was just completely stuck with no idea whatsoever. In that case I'd look it up online and figure out what to do.
botticus
10-05-2006, 01:08 PM
Guides are worth the $5 or less I would ever pay for them. But I never go out to find a guide because I'm stuck; if I have a guide, awesome. Otherwise I just hop online and check it out.
Rodimus
10-05-2006, 01:45 PM
exception: Some fighting game strat guides are worth it-- the SF:AC and Tekken 5 guides can really help improve your game. The Alpha Collection guide also looks awesome.
Really, I thought the SF Alpha Collection guide was awful. As far as I know it mentions nothing about the Special isms in HSFA3.
I rarely buy Guides anymore, most are so poorly made. I'll use a faqs if I want to unlock all the secret stuff. I think the last Guide I got was Dragon Quest 8, and it was okay.
Apossum
10-05-2006, 01:48 PM
Really, I thought the SF Alpha Collection guide was awful. As far as I know it mentions nothing about the Special isms in HSFA3.
I rarely buy Guides anymore, most are so poorly made. I'll use a faqs if I want to unlock all the secret stuff. I think the last Guide I got was Dragon Quest 8, and it was okay.
that sucks. I thought it would get the same treatment as Anniversary Collection. Thanks for the warning!
it just suck that some guide have such a crappy map (I am looking at you, Tales of Sympthonia guide). I seen better maps in some faqs.
jalu6
10-05-2006, 01:56 PM
Guides for RPG (when they're done right) and FAQS for platformers/action games.
Normally I get stuck on something rediculously obvious and I check a FAQ really quick so I can find the big red door switch I somehow didn't see.
Kaijufan
10-05-2006, 02:12 PM
FAQs unless I can get a guide for really cheap. Sure it's nice to have a guide right with you when playing a game, but with the Wii having a built in web browser I wont have that problem anymore.
Roufuss
10-05-2006, 02:19 PM
that sucks. I thought it would get the same treatment as Anniversary Collection. Thanks for the warning!
The guide as a whole is awesome, it covers the 5 games in the series pretty damn well. It dosen't really go into any of the extra stuff that I can remember, but I remember it being quite awesome.
It's not as in depth as SF Anniversary Collection but it's not a bad guide by any means.
I go for guides over FAQ's because most FAQ's these days are poorly written and pretty shitty, and I don't like getting up to go the computer 50 times in the course of a game. I only get guides for fighters / RPG games anyways.
You want a shitty guide, check out the Mortal Kombat Deception guide, it didn't even list fatalities :roll:
if you have a notebook you can have a faq right next to you. Even most pocket pc/plam/psp can display a text file can show text files.
darthstrife
10-05-2006, 05:57 PM
if you have a notebook you can have a faq right next to you. Even most pocket pc/plam/psp can display a text file can show text files.
ive considered this...