Do You Need a Video Game Strategy Guide?

Video game strategy guides are no longer considered self-indulgent in the complex world of today's gaming environment. In fact they're now considered a necessity for anyone who wants to successfully navigate any adventure game. Ideally, most gamers want to win by their own efforts alone. With today's super challenging games, you can get some props for facing such a daunting 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 game cheats and strategy guides since I had the original 8-bit Nintendo. The cheats we used back then were pretty archaic. There were only eight buttons that you could push, so every game cheat was a combination of up, down, left, right, b, a, select, and start. They were pretty easy 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. There would be a long series of riddles that you had to solve and adventures that you had to complete. Having the strategy guide was great when you got lost. These guides didn't emphasize cheats so much as explain how to solve the riddles.

Many of the PC games also required a strategy guides too. I remember that I used to love playing the King's Quest games. Most of these games really took a guide to help you find 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" and 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 exceptional for video game strategy guides nowadays either. Some of them are even longer. Still, I guess that's what you need to get through a complex 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 games. I would suggest not using them though until you absolutely have to so as not to take away the challenge that your favorite game offers you. Isn't that one of the reasons why you made your purchase in the first place? Then when you absolutely need to, break out your video game strategy guide.

Steve Bruce has been an avid gamer for many years and has a great web site about gaming at GameJohn.com.

Find out about the latest games and gaming strategies and become a winning gamer by visiting GameJohn.com/blog.

Best Buy Canon XSi
Canon SD880 Best Price
Cheap Blu Ray DVDs