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When I play video games, I like to discover everything a game has to offer without the usage of guides or walkthroughs if possible. In addition, I like to fully complete games that I enjoy, which includes getting all the achievements and anything else in order to achieve what the game considers to be 100% completion.
There are times, however, when I am one item, sidequest, or collectible short from full completion. I end up spending too much time trying to find it without any success. Eventually, I just look up on the Internet how to get to that one item because I run out of patience.
Naturally, the item was in plain sight the whole time.
It annoys me that I can get 99.9% of the way there without resorting to guides but then I have to look up the remaining 0.1%, which I would have stumbled upon if I only thought about looking in that one corner of the map. Of course, I have to remember that it is only a video game and it does not care if the player consulted guides in order to uncover its secrets. I just like the feeling of uncovering everything the game has to offer by myself.
There are many instances of video games hiding items in obscure places that almost requires a walkthrough to discover, though. In that case, I do not get annoyed, but instead, I question what the developers were thinking when they decided to put that item there. Not looking up information for multiplayer games
can also put players at a competitive disadvantage, but I do not play multiplayer games that much.
It just stings a bit when I did not really need to look something up. I will end up getting over it, though.
I wonder how many people try to avoid guides or walkthroughs as much as possible when playing video games.
...and yes, this happened last night so I wanted to write about it :p