Do you feel bad about looking at guides and online help?

Do you feel bad about looking at guides and online help?

depends

no

Yes. Powergaming has ruined my fun.

No. I don’t have a lot of time to replay games. I like seeing everything I can in one go. I usually use them to help me navigate and ignore enemy strategies.

On the one hand, when I was young, I had incomparably more time. Moreover, Internet was expensive and fewer easily accessible sources/walkthroughs were available. I could spend weeks or even months trying to finish a level/puzzle.

On the other, now I have less time and solving a puzzle is as quick as typing something on a smartphone and having the solution being highlighted by google itself. However, the puzzles in modern games are extremely easy and do not require any of the sort.

Basically, games are often designed to waste my time (both in, say, NES era and today). Circumventing that can help with the burn out but at the same time, it may reduce what the game has to offer. If I replay an older title, I am not going to google anything, because I knew what I was in right from the beginning. But searching for an optimal build in an MMO? Maybe.

Don't you feel bad at night before sleep thinking someone beat Bloodborne without any help or guide and you took a week to beat even with online help?

When the puzzle takes me more than 10 minutes, no.
Also neither when it's Soulsborne shit like a NPC's questline. I just spoil me that shit because fuck it.

Only when the solution to where i'm supposed to go, or what I'm supposed to do was glaringly obvious

Absolutely not, I acknowledge that playing games is a skill (without the stupid Sup Forums connotations) and I might be worse at it then other people - all it matters that I had fun while trying to solve it myself.

I have no problems regarding my self-esteem ("feel bad at night") since my work is related to algebraic quantum field theory and I am sure of my mental capabilities.

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Sup Forums shitposting: 1 vs my mental capabilities: 0

No because i only use guides when im absolutely defeated and either have to use the guide or stop playing. Id rather just keep going than just drop a fucking game i paid for.

what if you are just a turbo autist? Many turbo autists are good mathematicians, physicists, etc
Or what if you were a neet? what would you do to feel better about not beating bloodborne without a guide?

Well, in that case the issue is not related to videogames - you would feel the same when you compare yourself to your peers w.r.t work/social connections, when you look in the mirror, when you fail at keeping promises, when you evaluate your life choices, etc.

If the problem exists independently of videogames then, of course, one can channel whatever issues he has through their failures to dodge telegraphed attacks on the screen. I would sincerely advise putting some points in self-reflection or seeking a therapist if no points are left.

Not in the slightest. A number of games literally DEMAND that you do. I see it as a fuck you to the game for being too archaic

>Visit therapist
>She is a 32 year old dumb blonde whore who spent 5 years in university smoking weed and having casual sex with mexicans and chads
>go to her facebook
>she shares "feel good about yourself'' memes like Dalai Lama quotes
I felt good that day. I realized I could make tons of cash if I was willing to be a high paid prostitute professional memer but I have morals and not going that low

Not if I put genuine effort in the task I end up using a guide for and/or I think said task is bullshit.

No. Pic related.

no, I appreciate good design but I'm wage slave so if I can't get around it long enough I'll just look how to do it

>i COULD be successful i just dont want to!
hmmm

This is a real problem, I agree, believe me - here in Яussia the state of psychology (and medical treatment in general) is atrocious, far from whatever you have endured in more developed countries.

Yet my advice still stands - if you do not find others to be competent enough to help you, constructive self-reflection is accessible to anyone who can read some books on logic, statistics, history, and cognitive biases.

Yes because i just dont enjoy the game in the same way.

Completing a hard puzzle by yourself or have a "HOLY SHIT" moment is something you can only experience once.

Im not trying to be elitist, but youre seriously missing out on the best part of vidya when you use guides.

I don't want to spend 5 years studying lies so then I can charge the poor bastards 60 bucks an hour to say irrelevant stuff

I purposely don't and even judge people who do. I know fun is subjective, but if someone looks up shit I don't count it as them playing the game. Having everything laid out and explained you you is no different than just watching someone play it.

>if someone looks up shit I don't count it as them playing the game
They have the controller, they move the character, they are literally playing the game

My greatest regret in life is that I played through Demon's and Dark without a guide.
I fucking wish I hadn't.

By the strictest definition yes, too bad it's a hollow victory. It's the same feeling as being on a football team stuck on the bench the whole season while your team makes it to the playoffs. Yeah, you made it there, too bad you didn't do shit to deserve it.