I was 12 years old. Didnt know the english language. My mother translated final fantasy 7 for me when i was playing. She fell for the story and now she has beaten the game 8-10 times. Last time she did she was 54 years old.
@@user-ns3nj1jr8h Yes. I told her, i even tried to get her to play it after i beat it. But Shes 58 now, she says shes not going to play the remake since its not the same game basically.
Oh i still remember, me and my buddy sitting in his bedroom, playing Resident Evil 3 The Nemesis, on his portable CRT TV... Me holding the map which was published in the PSN magazine, and guiding him while we played... Good Ol' days... it was so much fun then...
This basically explained my whole experience with Skyrim which I realize I could have easily used the internet for but yeah about 90% of my deaths in that game we're because of auto save
Haha my first thought was "phone a friend"... And then I remember that in those days, I was that rare breed - female gamer - whose friends couldn't help because they weren't. So I had to either try until I solved it, give up, or ask my Little Brother and his pals for help... yeah, the start of the pile of shame. ;-)
1: Try and try again 2: Word of mouth 3: Give up and try again later 4: Get someone else to try the game 5: Buy a magazine or gamebook that might help us 6: Rage quit and try again a month later 7: (my case at least) Beat the game with dads help.
And there the joke goes, sailing over his head like a parakeet in flight... I remember a point in time when RPGs came with a physical copy of the world map and a beastiary on the reverse, which was your key to victory.
I liked being limited. Games felt more... fulfilling. Now you see videos, streams, guides EVERYWHERE. Man even early internet wasn't bad. GAME FAQS and just pure text so no pictures to ruin things.
In Final Fantasy VII there was a point where RED XIII's old man wants you to get a Key located somewhere in the world ( i believe it ended up being under water near Emerald weapon). I searched the world so much for this item that all my characters were level 99( I think this part is also located on the 2nd of three disks) and eventually I actually forgot what I was even looking for. Turns out you can obtain the key before the old man even tells you to, so all I actually needed to do was speak to him again. Instead, I took his advice and went looking, I looked for this item for at least a year thinking that I was never going to find what I was looking for. Needless to say that the rest of the game was a breeze once I figured out that I already had the key. I know I should of looked in my Key Items the whole time, but I obviously didn't.
I had almost the same experience. Except the underwater tunnel where the key is located looks very similar to another which leads to Lurcrecia's cave. Thought it was the same one so i ignored it every time.. Or just saw the dead end and thought "nothing here" i spent days looking for the key. I finally broke down and bought the guide. Total facepalm moment when I finally found it.. But like you, I had gained sooo many lvls exploring everywhere that I breezed thru the rest like nothin.
I actually play Xbox and have never owned a PlayStation, but I love your videos; they are so entertaining and relatable to all gamers regardless of the system. Back in the day before the internet we had to just keep playing the game until we passed the difficult parts, but we did also resort to cheat books and hard copy strategy guides, as well as the cheats section of the monthly subscription to Nintendo Power magazine that we had. My brothers and I also invited friends over to see if they could beat it or had a different, more successful method of approach.
The manual didn't normally have much info besides on characters and controls. Sometimes there would be some obscure control option that could help, but often not.
Yah, I know. But as a kid it didn't stop me from checking back to it to see if some magical text materialized on the notes page on how to pass this certain part that I was stuck on. Lol
I remember the game manual for that old Jurassic park game on Sega (where you could play as a raptor or Grant) actually gave the level code for pretty close to the end. I felt like the sneakiest snake this side of snakerton being able to skip most of the game like that.
I had that game! And to be honest...that was sort of what I am talking about. That game was super fun. But the end was lame once you figure out the spot on both Grant and the raptor to easy kill the other.
Something like that! I remember each page was on a timer so you had to write down all of the cheats fast otherwise having to wait for it to come around again. That was agonising!
@@falvalisious ah i believe you guys are talking about GameCentral which existed on those pages and fun fact they still exist today metro.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/
There also used to be call in numbers (like in Nintendo Power Magazine, or if you were lucky, maybe even included in the manual somewhere) usually for a charge, but where you could sometimes actually get a live human being for tips, some of these regarding specifically asked questions (for example, Shadowgate for the original NES).
Anyone else have the Brain Boy as a kid? GameShark for GB/GBC lol. I remember using that to get any Pokemon I wanted, with maxed stats and any move on any Mon I wanted lmao.
Story time: I used to play FFVII on my PC, using the steam version. I had literally reached the final area before the point of no return, getting every last materia and ultimate weapon possible. I do not remember the why, but at some point I left the game for a month or so. I finally get the chance to come back to it, and in the place of my saves and try to load up my latest file. SAVE DATA CORRUPTED Well shoot, I think. Guess I’ll load up one of the other 8 from earlier. Select the next one... SAVE DATA CORRUPTED Every single one. Even the auto saves. Broken hearted, I try starting up a new game, and find myself greeted by a cloud with all his previous materia, level 99, same stats as before. Somehow, my corrupted game’s data had transferred to my new game, while also giving every character (even Aerith) 99 levels.
@@saunakchakraborty8682 no I'm just a victim of an evil sibling who corrupted a 90 hour final fantasy VII along with other games and breaking the disks to my lunar silver story complete
'TYPES OF TROPHIES THAT MADE GETTING THE PLATNIUM MUCH HARDER' 'Hard mode' trophies - Wolfinstien 2 was notorious for its hardest difficulty with no continues. Also, the Uncharted games and Dragon Age: Inquisition had my blood boiling all the way through. 'X number' trophies' - Often requiring an insane amount of kills, collected items, completed quests and can these take anywhere from a few hours to a few sodding days! Looking at you 'Batting 500' from Diablo 3! 'Don't Mess Up' trophies - Beat the level without getting hit, using a certain item ONLY, in under X minutes, with an S Rank, without your parents disowning you. You know, the usual. 'Online Trophies - Just...just stop, please. 'Play X amount of hours' trophies - I got 100% on Saint's Row 4 & Gat out of hell and still had over 10 hours of time to waste EACH before the trophy popped, had to leave the PS4 on all night. 'Complete the Challenges' trophies - This is really bad because usually they never give the player an ACTUAL in-game reward for all the hard work and patience. Just a trophy. But the 2 WORST ones are: 'MISSABLE' trophies - Better look up some guides with possible spoilers or you'll miss these trophies in events you haven't played yet and are usually really late in the game. Grind trophies - Unlike the 'X number' trophy where there is a set goal of say '100 enemies'. This is more like killing as many enemies as possible in the HOPES you get the materials for the trophy. If 100 didn't warrant you enough, then kill 200 or 300 until you succeed.
Online trophies in predominantly single player games are a menace. I will never platinum AC Black Flag because of those 5 online trophies. I am not an online gamer, I try to avoid it as much as possible. Also as a part of missable trophies; Hidden Trophies that you don't get from doing parts of the story. These are rare but they crop up when you don't expect it. Battlefront 2 has the "Kill 5 enemies with 1 barrage" which is a hidden trophy. So unless you look up trophy lists online, you will not get this trophy unless you did it by accident
You finished Wolfenstein and Uncharted on the highest difficulty? Well, certainly props earned for that. But how did you manage that and how long did it take?
@@moretotheshellI used Wolfenstein 2 as an example. I'm not that much of a lunatic to try the 'Mein Liben trophy'. XD As for the uncharted games , they got easier as the series progressed but it would still take 3 days to beat it. Uncharted 1 on the other hand was a full week...cause that game was harder than getting Dave to platnium 1 game.
What if I told you I had a decent stack of Nintendo Power magazines and guides sitting well preserved in storage? What would that scent be worth to you, Mr. Playground Code?
Rob always mentions having friends he spoke to about games in the day. Am I the only one on this that literally was socially isolated by my peers in the day for liking games? No one I met talked about games when I was growing up.
I guess that's depends on where you live too. I'm brazilian and most of my friends didn't had any consoles or PC back in day. Meanwhile, my dad was an arcade owner. I had a lot of "grown ups" to talk about games, but almost no one from school friends who knew anything about gaming, besides a bit about Winning Eleven
I was pretty isolated in general when I was a kid...but hwne pokemon came out, damn, you could be the biggest loser, as long you where a pokemon fan, you where at least somewhat part of the group. XD
Maybe it is where you live. I’m from Ireland and went to an all girls convent school where it seemed if you weren’t into the latest tv soaps and pop singers they didn’t want to know you. Wasn’t a total loser, was know for my talent in art and athletics. I was into Pokemon, had a Gameboy colour and PS1. Was never part of any click really, I talked to everyone, just no gamers it seems.
That is weird, everyone I knew had a console of some kind, nes, SNES, megadrive, maybe and I'm guessing by your name your a girl and back then it was deemed strange for girls to like the video games, for a while it was a boy orientated thing
'Now I'm the dad and occasionally I'll be called into the living room to help my daughter navigate a tricky section in paw patrol on a roll!' This was me, my hubby and our son. Oh my gosh this line hit me so hard, having done it myself!
Two words “psycho mantis” No internet back then. Was stuck on him forever and got very frustrated. So was my cousin and he called a tip line... yes there used to be tip lines for video games. He got the answer and he told me how and we both beat mantis. We both had no idea that Campbell just tells you if you kept calling him.
Rob, I have a video suggestion: 6 times we got jump-scared in games that weren't horror games. I even have games and scenarios to suggest, in the following order. 6. In any FPS game when you walk through a door without noticing the claymore mine/C4/tactical RC and get blown to blazes. 5. The first time you got attacked by a moray eel in Asassin's Creed 4 Black Flag. 4. Every time you fast travel to Mordor in LEGO Lord Of The Rings and get Jumpscared by the eye of Sauron. 3. Every time Peeves jumped out of a locked chest in the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets video game. 2. When Herobrine attacks in Minecraft. 1. When you "accidentally" steal something in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion and you are about to go on your way when suddenly... "STOP! You violated the law!" you are stopped by a guard.
I remember when i was a kid playing zelda ocarina of time, was a part in fire temple where all u had to do was jump from this metal netting floor to a higher up ledge with a door. I thought it was too high to jump so spend half n hour talkin to the game helpline, before i tried it, it worked lol...called back about heart pieces later on, and he just mailed me the list of every heartpiece in the game. :)
I remember the tip books. I still have a few in my collection. I've done them all but hardstart the game(7) Naughty Rob, doing that to your poor sister. I did something like that to my older brother. Ahhhh those were the days.
The parenting bit really hit me hard. My son 6 is catching up to me in skill. Kids learn so quickly. He learns advance moves from the internet. I remember personally the first game i could not figure out was Zelda 2. I took it to a friends place and got Nintendo pro magazine from the library.
We used to call a shop called "OK Video" (in Penticton) and the guy would find the game in question in a magazine and tell you what to do. He was a big gamer and read the mags all the time so he usually remembered which one talked about which games. I beat Destiny of an Emperor for the first time thanks to him. Good times.
Oh, gods! Thank you! First time I played VIII, I got as far as the Adel boss before she stone walled me. Dozens upon dozens of tries, nothing. No-one I knew ever beat her. I spent months trying to think of new ideas... Eventually I just started over from the start, anxious about when I finally got to Adel again and still no better idea about how to beat her, until finally I fight Adel... and beat her my first try. Turns out -- something I did not know at the time -- in VIII enemies level with you. My first save, I was level 75 and she was too strong for me. On my second save, I was only level 35 and beat her no trouble.
God I am giving away my age a bit but eh well. This video was like strolling down memory lane when my video game journey began as a bright eyed little girl sitting in front of a black and white with my shiny new NES. So many hours and sometimes days trying to figure out how to get past that one particularly hard boss in final fantasy. Yea I didn't get color tv right away so worked with what I had. Strategy guides and such. No chance of that. Took a bit of grit , sweat and sometimes tears and sleepless nights to figure out how to get past that digital obstacle blocking your virtual 2D path. Its so much simpler then it was before. Memories right? Cheers all. Love every bit of shows. Keep it up.
I had to Hard restart Th Witcher 3 Blood and wine.. *Spoilers* I just didn't know that Dettlaff was coming for a fight because I avoided the Internet because of fear of spoilers. He said he just wanted to talk! I had no health items whatsoever my sword and armor were damaged and I had no repair kits. Thankfully that was my original save of the game so I started a new game plus played through the entire main story (because why not) and played all of blood and wine again while all the way through thinking about that final boss battle and preparing for it. I read the glossary and learned about vampires, gathered all the ingredients and made the superior vampire oil and just basically destroyed Dettlaff when I finally faced him again. Ahh The Witcher 3. So yes it does happen nowadays too Rob👀.
I got mad respect for the hard restart. Nowadays if it's not a guide you read ahead of time, or look up when there's a tough decision, there's some sort of respec system for your character. Back in the day it was brutal, but it made games like Diablo 2 and other RPGs bway more replayable as well
I had to call my friend to tell me how to escape the Ice Path puzzle each time I had a playthrough of Pokemon Gold. Once I got past it, I always used fly to skip to the next town.
As a non-English speaker, my "sleep over" moment was a "Story of a Bird without the Voice" from Silent Hill 1. It took me literally 4 YEARS to come back to it and solve it - I had to learn a language to do it!
So many memories brought back with this vid. The first guide I bought(yes bought for £9.99) was the Turok 2 walkthrough as I was stuck in the lair of the blind ones and I still have never finished it to this day as I used the level skip code. Ive beaten all the Halo games on Legendary yet never beat Turok 2. Oh time how you've changed.
That's how good a marketer Nintendo is, every form of media Nintendo had control of from, movies, tv shows, magazine etc. In the 80's to early 90's That's why there are Nintendo cult existed now
I got stuck on the theodolite section on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and when I asked my mate at school about it he bought in several pages of hand drawn notes to show me how to get past it. What a legend. I did late come across the walkthrough in a small book that also included the walkthrough for the first Monkey Island game and another game.
when i was a kid, i used to write down the walkthroughts for many games and dropped them at the local videogames shop where you could read them for free. for gamers who usually rented games for the weekend was so helpful. if you never been stuck for hours, on a rpg you only rented for the weekend, you dont know that feeling wich is a mix of frustration,regret and blind rage.
There is one other way not mentioned. Go to a BBS. Yes, there was "on line" before the Internet. When you used your MODEM to contact another computer. Most companies (Sierra, SDI, etc) ran a BBS that you could download play guys from for free. There were also Echo forums (like FIDONet) dedicated to games you could look in to find an answer, or ask and find others that knew how to do it.
Yeah, but it's still technically pre-internet and most people didn't utilize it. I do have a turndial phone though, but it's a single piece reciever not a two piece.
Actually, there was a lot of activity in that area by 1990. AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, GEnie, and others had already become common, and many game companies offered patches and text files to help players.
FFVIII sure got mentioned a lot, is this a subtle hint? Can I finally finish it when it comes to PS4??!!! Rob, can't you use your Playstation access powers and let Square Enix know that Final Fantasy 8 needs to be on PS4!!!??? Pleaaase??!! Please!
Quistis Obel FFVIII is the only one FF that can’t be remastered. I read somewhere that Square Soft used a different engine when they developed it. So if they will release it in the future they will develop it from scratch and most likely it will not because for Square FFVII is the greatest game/story they made (look at all the spin-offs). PS - I am also a huge fan of FFVIII because that was my first FF game.
It's on Steam, and possibly PS3?? I'll bet there are emulators out there on the internet, as well. Definitely worth a try if you can get your hands on it!!
My older brother was subscribed to a monthly magazine called Game Pro... and it provided walkthroughs for games. This was especially helpful for FFVII and FVIII. We lived by those magazines. It gave locations for miss-able items and stuff. Good times
Guides from magazines were always my go to. My local HMV would sell game guides aswell, still got my FF7, 8 and 9 guides from back then. Sigh this list makes me feel old.
My sister and I were both playing Twilight Princess at the same time, I nearly at the end, her having trouble with the first temple proper. She eventually asked me for help so I smashed it out for her. Then muscle memory kicked in and I saved right over my own save instead of hers. Haven't picked it up since.
I did a similar thing with Monster Rancher. I accidentally saved over my 50 year game with my sister's one year game. I flopped on the couch and cried for about five minutes.
@@Stephen_Eee hey me too, I still got my original PS1 Card with a couple of saves from back then, one of which is a 99hours FF7 witht eh Sephiroth icon and another one is my 200% save fale of Castlevania Symphony of the Night
The "Hard Restart" happened to me with XII when I didn't fully understand how the license and gambit system worked and so I also pulled the "Sleep On It" indefinitely. It was not until I got older and less dumber where I finally hit reset and just read carefully about the license and gambits. Such wonderful memories.
There was never a point in my life that the internet wasn't accessible but I didn't get any internet till I was 11 and until that point I had completed Pokemon Yellow 30+ times and FF7 and FF8 at least 10 times each because that's all I had to play that I wasn't bored with so I can genuinely appreciate old games and games that you need to figure hard puzzles out yourself
The exhaustion tactic always worked for me! It's the tactic of redoing eveything you possibly can if you get stuck: If you can't find the way, hug every wall and take leaps of faith from suspicious cliffs! If you can't beat a boss, grind a bunch of levels just to see if they are succeptable to being outleveled. If a puzzle have you stumped, write down every move you have, and how they can be combined, and then just go through every solution you can think off! This was how i solved a lot of the point and click games i played...
Going back pre console, C64 and spectrum games were notoriously hard. Games such as Forbidden forest, Dizzy and Maniac Mansion were filled with puzzles that were not always logical. So you had to just try EVERYTHING. Stuck in a weird mirror world with a queen chess piece blocking your path? Try picking up some chewing gum so that it sticks to your hand, so you can then pull the sword from the stone, become king and defeat the queen. Logic quest aside, you also had items that would break the game if you picked them up (hole in the pocket..im looking at you), items that were useless but you spent hours trying to get to work(Maniac mansions gas-less chainsaw) and switches that did stuff but you were never quite sure what (Codemaster loved doing this, with their Vampire game being one that has always stuck in my mind). Add to all this the fact that there were no saves,and that most games did not even have lives, so one hit from a bad guy would put you right back at that start. How did we beat games pre-internet? With a lot of patience.
@@shawnbenjamin9636 Its undoubtedly changed the world in the biggest way possible in my 40-odd years on this planet, but not all for the better. Sure, business and retail love it, and for us gamers it has helped big time in that we can download games now rather than have to physically get up off our backsides to a shop to buy them; and patches are a thing (I remember playing Frontier Elite 2 back in the day on the Amiga and that was a quality game, but it was insanely buggy and had no chance of getting fixed); but in plenty of other areas, the internet makes us a slave of our technology, and thats far from a good thing.
When I was little I got my friends older brother to copy his ff8 save file onto my memory card so I could fight the last boss. Now I can breeze through the game myself. Fun comparing your childhood to being an adult, or telling kids you grew up without wireless controllers...
I still buy PiggyBack strategy guides. They are always amazing. Also... I used to make my own guides hahahahaha Literally made a FFVII guide in Microsoft Word once. Took me like a year! XD
I had to sleep on the original Silent Hill for over 10 years. Finally was able to play it again, and got the the point I was stuck at, and discovered it was a simple way forward that I just never noticed before.
There is this game called Valdis Story. You sit right in between the war between angels and demons and early on you fight an angel general & you have the option to spare or kill him. I spared him like the goody twoshoes I was: BIG MISTAKE. Little did I know this meant that later on, when fighting a demon general, that angel general would come back and be like "hello there, now you have to fight me too!" so an already tough bossfight suddenly changed into a double bossfight where you'd have to take care of both bosses and their mechanics simultaneously... I did a hard reset for that one, it was impossible for me :')
Back in the days before the internet, we either beat games, got someone else to beat them for us, or spent hours just constantly grinding for Gil and XPs everywhere, not really knowing where the best farming spots were.
To my shame I never could beat Resident Evil on the PS1. I almost did but I screwed myself over by the end as I had used far too much ammo and stupidly only had minimum healing items left making that final tyrant battle near impossible and back then I was not quite skilled enough to dodge its attacks I think I eventually got so angry I deleted the save game and started over. It remains the only main resident evil game I have never actually finished bar the resident evil 2 remake which I had not yet got but will own this next week. Similar thing happened on Code Veronica X on PS2 when I stupidly saved my game with Chris on low health and hunter outside the room that was impossible I had to start over that save game lol
I used to get the game manuals just for the art because I loved to draw the characters. Yes, no internet for references. And here in the US, you can still buy them at GameStop.
You sort of mentioned this in passing, but one thing I always did was: muck about and press every button and perform every action on every conceivable tile I could interact with until something happened.
when stuck in a game and after exhausting all other options, i would telephone my local Electronics Boutique and ask one of the employees working there. back then they were mostly friendly, helpful, knowledgeable, and not busy playing on their smartphones. thanks for the help on the Silent Hill piano puzzle dudes!
Ahh, Final Fantasy 8. I had a similar experience - Hard Resetting, that is. I believe all of us who bought this game when we were too young had this experience. The Junctioning System was not easy to understand when I first started the game. I got stuck at Adel, I never saw Ultimecia in my first playthrough. My characters HPs were in between 2000 - 4000. I know, hard to believe. My attack power was abysmal. I could not defeat Adel with my physical attacks alone, they just didn't cause enough damage because of how weak I was. Any damage I did, would easily get healed when she siphoned energy from Rinoa. I couldn't do magic, It would also hurt Rinoa. GFs (had 6, I think) did the same. So, the game ended in one of two ways: * I got killed * Rinoa died Then I realized I was not getting passed her, and if by some miracle I did, how was I going to deal with what was waiting for me later? I did the hardest thing I could do, so as to not get tempted to go back to that save file - I deleted it and started a new game. Things got way better in the second playthrough. I had wisened up. Each playthrough became easier and easier, especially after discovering GameFaqs - YES, I had limited internet at the time. Downloaded the whole FFVIII guide. Good days
Add to the 'phone a mate' call the system helpline. At college, my friends and I used my roomate's phone so often to call the Nintendo Helpline, we had to pay his phone bill most of the year. We called about everything from getting to the minus world on Super Mario Bros. to finding out how to take down some difficult bosses.
I had a personal rule back in the day of complete typed out walkthroughs that were 50+ pages long (I'm a sucker for RPGs and JROGs): If I was stuck on something and I'd exhausted every other option, and I couldn't progress further, I refused to look for cheats for a YEAR AT LEAST in order to try and figure it out myself. I'm the youngest of 4 so asking my older brothers for help felt like a defeat. And for FFX-2, I did just that. I wanted to complete it 100% and wouldn't have been able to without the strategy guide. But I refused (and got the so-so ending) until a year had passed.
FF 8 had an evil learning curve. If you didn't upgrade your weapons, you could not beat the game. Something you don't find out until about 3/4 through the game.
Don't forget if you decide to build up favorite characters and the level progression with the other monsters followed suit. Also I hold a eternal rage that would have Doomguy to tell me to chill against those damn Couerls..... I was never livid against a monster than against those smug furballs.
7 Ways We Used To Beat Games Before The Internet Grind Grind Grind and git gud, that's how I did it back then. Also wtf is up with youtube of late? My posts get quadrupple posted instead, so I always need to delete 3 of them, and every white space I leave is multiplied too, WTF?!
I remember when Sierra entertainment (Ah, the memories. King's quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Leisure suit Larry) had a hint phone hotline. You'd get an automatic answering machine, and you had to navigate through a tree of questions about which game you were seeking help with, which part of the game, and eventually you'd end up with the solution to your specific problem. For me living in Europe in the 80s and 90s, dialing a US telephone service whenever I got stuck couldn't have been cheap for my parents.
back before internet i used to have physical friends and we used to draw maps and write down some waypoints to each other on breaks while in school. and when you where at your friends place you helped them and vice versa. i remember getting to the water temple in zelda ocarina of time for the first time, took me days to complete it (1-2 hours per day) then shadow temple came... took even longer
I recall my dad raging at the itemised phone bill when it turned out every day for 3 months I’d spoken to my mate for at least an hour about our progress on Final Fantasy 8 for that day and tips for bosses etc
I remember going back to grade 5, I was getting both Final Fantasy 7 and 8 for my birthday, something that I found out about because my parents forgot to hide the games and left it on their bed for a while after the purchase. I then found that my brother had purchased one of the gaming magazines that came with a guidebook for 20-30 games which included the worlds most basic guide to FF7 but had information to getting the huge materia, as well as tips to breed the best chocobo in the game. I think I read through that guide more than a dozen times before I ended up opening the game on my birthday. The sad part though, being a pre-owned game and me being a kid who didn't understand the value of an unscratched disc, by the time I reached the space section my disc was badly damaged and would freeze during the cutscene where you go into space. It wasn't until last year (16 years after I first got the game) that I went back and finished it's re-release on the PS4. Now I thankfully have the platinum to remind me that yes, I did actually finish the game.
I was 12 years old. Didnt know the english language.
My mother translated final fantasy 7 for me when i was playing. She fell for the story and now she has beaten the game 8-10 times. Last time she did she was 54 years old.
That is cool
@@user-ns3nj1jr8h Yes. I told her, i even tried to get her to play it after i beat it. But Shes 58 now, she says shes not going to play the remake since its not the same game basically.
@@user-ns3nj1jr8h Yes I know what you Mean. I have experienced the same thing with other games. Which games did you feel that wa towards? If i May ask
That's wholesome af😊
Rewatching Friday Features in 2023. Still loving every one of them.
Dave talking to himself on phone. Dave has peaked
Calvin Caesar The Dave hath be doubled!
Daveception.
Daveception
Daveception.
Well he was going crazy last Friday Feature when the Metal Gear Solid tallies returned so I guess it did finally break him hahaha
Oh i still remember, me and my buddy sitting in his bedroom, playing Resident Evil 3 The Nemesis, on his portable CRT TV...
Me holding the map which was published in the PSN magazine, and guiding him while we played...
Good Ol' days... it was so much fun then...
Yup never come back again... 😔
What About when auto save was still new and it would save in a spot where you had very little health left and a ton of enemies around you
Fun times! Fun times indeed. Made me check my HP before going through any and every door.
This basically explained my whole experience with Skyrim which I realize I could have easily used the internet for but yeah about 90% of my deaths in that game we're because of auto save
Chronicles of Riddick this happened to me
ohh man I remember that
Haha or what about knowing its about to save so you run back as far as you can just to find 5 extra hp lol
Haha my first thought was "phone a friend"... And then I remember that in those days, I was that rare breed - female gamer - whose friends couldn't help because they weren't. So I had to either try until I solved it, give up, or ask my Little Brother and his pals for help... yeah, the start of the pile of shame. ;-)
1: Try and try again
2: Word of mouth
3: Give up and try again later
4: Get someone else to try the game
5: Buy a magazine or gamebook that might help us
6: Rage quit and try again a month later
7: (my case at least) Beat the game with dads help.
7 was never the case for me as my dad was rubbish at games!
damn no number 7 for me. he was busy selling DRUGS :)
Number 6 was always my go to lol
Tbh i prefer this way rather then checking RUclips for simple guide without suffering or hard work
I’m in that situation now with my son, feels good tbh
I was the first kid in my school who knew the God mode and all weapons code for Doom. I was in hot demand for a few weeks.
lol XD
iddqe iddkfa right ?
@@niels-christianschultz1658 Close. IDDQD is the first.
IDKFA is the second.
IDCLIP to go through walls :) great doom cheats xD
"And don't tell me you've never done it because I don't believe you." XD
Ways we used to beat games before the Internet???
_Countless broken controllers_
Tell that to my brother
I have never broken a single control all my life
hinatalovetonaruto
Where did you buy your Nokia made controller ?
@@velvetmidnight9535 i didnt have a nokia game controler i think xD all controls were official of their consoles
And there the joke goes, sailing over his head like a parakeet in flight...
I remember a point in time when RPGs came with a physical copy of the world map and a beastiary on the reverse, which was your key to victory.
The age before the internet. Life was simpler back then, no day 1 patches, no dlc, game magazines, etc
Wronggggg , there was an addon for Sonic back then :)
I liked being limited. Games felt more... fulfilling. Now you see videos, streams, guides EVERYWHERE. Man even early internet wasn't bad. GAME FAQS and just pure text so no pictures to ruin things.
Or do a Capcom, and release the same game with the updates on a new Cart.
I remember it vividly..!
@@lanceseaman88 You want a simpler gaming experience, don`t go online and do not look it up!
There's something odd about making eye contact with Rob as he says "surrender your trousers"
No it isn't. .......... Okay it is.
That's a GIF in the making.
It's hypnotic and oddly convincing
You call it odd, I call it friday
Perfect rabbit 🐰 pelt
"Surrender your trousers....."
Please Rob, not again :'(
We'd all do anything for Rob, we know we would! :D
@@MegaHentai00 Lul yes you would. You've done it for plenty of big guys when they told you to.
@@MegaHentai00 If Rob told us to jump off a bridge, we all know we would! He'd sort out Brexit! ;)
My friend's wife calls me once in a while. "Get him out of this part in (game title) or I am going to kill him!"
I was a game guide buyer. Metal Gear Solid, FFVII, FFVIII, Star Oceans 2. I still have my FFVII guide. I also bought guides for many of my PS2 games.
Piggyback were always amazing guides. Prima... not so much :/
I once asked my Dad for the official FFIX guide. He saw the price and smuggled me into his work to use the internet there.
In Final Fantasy VII there was a point where RED XIII's old man wants you to get a Key located somewhere in the world ( i believe it ended up being under water near Emerald weapon). I searched the world so much for this item that all my characters were level 99( I think this part is also located on the 2nd of three disks) and eventually I actually forgot what I was even looking for. Turns out you can obtain the key before the old man even tells you to, so all I actually needed to do was speak to him again. Instead, I took his advice and went looking, I looked for this item for at least a year thinking that I was never going to find what I was looking for. Needless to say that the rest of the game was a breeze once I figured out that I already had the key. I know I should of looked in my Key Items the whole time, but I obviously didn't.
I had almost the same experience. Except the underwater tunnel where the key is located looks very similar to another which leads to Lurcrecia's cave. Thought it was the same one so i ignored it every time.. Or just saw the dead end and thought "nothing here" i spent days looking for the key. I finally broke down and bought the guide. Total facepalm moment when I finally found it.. But like you, I had gained sooo many lvls exploring everywhere that I breezed thru the rest like nothin.
I feel you! I spent sooo much time looking for that key.
I feel you it was one of my favorite games i played for lik 200 hours!!!
I bought the FF VII official strategy guide...and treasured it. Best game guide purchase I ever made.
You're truly brilliant, I can totally relate to everything you say. I've literally been there and done that. Atari 2600 was my first console.
That was my first console too. Could not stop playing Pitfall
Imagine playing modern games with the joystick of the Atari 2600. Still good memories.
I actually play Xbox and have never owned a PlayStation, but I love your videos; they are so entertaining and relatable to all gamers regardless of the system.
Back in the day before the internet we had to just keep playing the game until we passed the difficult parts, but we did also resort to cheat books and hard copy strategy guides, as well as the cheats section of the monthly subscription to Nintendo Power magazine that we had. My brothers and I also invited friends over to see if they could beat it or had a different, more successful method of approach.
What about checking the game manual in hopes of finding insight?
And when you couldn't find it, you feel even more lost even though you have all but memorized it.
The manual didn't normally have much info besides on characters and controls. Sometimes there would be some obscure control option that could help, but often not.
Yah, I know. But as a kid it didn't stop me from checking back to it to see if some magical text materialized on the notes page on how to pass this certain part that I was stuck on. Lol
I remember the game manual for that old Jurassic park game on Sega (where you could play as a raptor or Grant) actually gave the level code for pretty close to the end. I felt like the sneakiest snake this side of snakerton being able to skip most of the game like that.
I had that game!
And to be honest...that was sort of what I am talking about.
That game was super fun. But the end was lame once you figure out the spot on both Grant and the raptor to easy kill the other.
Teletext, Learned all of my Mortal Kombat 3 Fatalities thanks to that old service, My god I'm old.
Something like that! I remember each page was on a timer so you had to write down all of the cheats fast otherwise having to wait for it to come around again. That was agonising!
@@falvalisious ah i believe you guys are talking about GameCentral which existed on those pages and fun fact they still exist today metro.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/
@@Domino2097 thats awesome
remember when youd check Teletext for the pictures timetable haha
Teletext was too beautiful for this world.
I’m designed to soak up curry, ketchup and Dr Pepper
How did you know what I had for a dinner?
I remember taking my memory card over to a friends house and they would load up my saved file and go through it with me that way...
There also used to be call in numbers (like in Nintendo Power Magazine, or if you were lucky, maybe even included in the manual somewhere) usually for a charge, but where you could sometimes actually get a live human being for tips, some of these regarding specifically asked questions (for example, Shadowgate for the original NES).
Somewhat similar with the guidebooks... but surprised there wasn’t mention of the Gameshark cheat system lol
Oh my god GamesMaster!!! All praise the giant head in space!!!!!!!
Anyone else have the Brain Boy as a kid? GameShark for GB/GBC lol. I remember using that to get any Pokemon I wanted, with maxed stats and any move on any Mon I wanted lmao.
I know that was my final option
You monster corrupting a 40-hour save on final fantasy VII.
Story time:
I used to play FFVII on my PC, using the steam version. I had literally reached the final area before the point of no return, getting every last materia and ultimate weapon possible. I do not remember the why, but at some point I left the game for a month or so.
I finally get the chance to come back to it, and in the place of my saves and try to load up my latest file.
SAVE DATA CORRUPTED
Well shoot, I think. Guess I’ll load up one of the other 8 from earlier. Select the next one...
SAVE DATA CORRUPTED
Every single one. Even the auto saves. Broken hearted, I try starting up a new game, and find myself greeted by a cloud with all his previous materia, level 99, same stats as before. Somehow, my corrupted game’s data had transferred to my new game, while also giving every character (even Aerith) 99 levels.
Are you his sister
@@saunakchakraborty8682 no I'm just a victim of an evil sibling who corrupted a 90 hour final fantasy VII along with other games and breaking the disks to my lunar silver story complete
😮
You think thats bad? My brother i dont know how corrupted my copy of x6 and the game would no longer give me the power ups after beating them
'TYPES OF TROPHIES THAT MADE GETTING THE PLATNIUM MUCH HARDER'
'Hard mode' trophies - Wolfinstien 2 was notorious for its hardest difficulty with no continues. Also, the Uncharted games and Dragon Age: Inquisition had my blood boiling all the way through.
'X number' trophies' - Often requiring an insane amount of kills, collected items, completed quests and can these take anywhere from a few hours to a few sodding days! Looking at you 'Batting 500' from Diablo 3!
'Don't Mess Up' trophies - Beat the level without getting hit, using a certain item ONLY, in under X minutes, with an S Rank, without your parents disowning you. You know, the usual.
'Online Trophies - Just...just stop, please.
'Play X amount of hours' trophies - I got 100% on Saint's Row 4 & Gat out of hell and still had over 10 hours of time to waste EACH before the trophy popped, had to leave the PS4 on all night.
'Complete the Challenges' trophies - This is really bad because usually they never give the player an ACTUAL in-game reward for all the hard work and patience. Just a trophy.
But the 2 WORST ones are:
'MISSABLE' trophies - Better look up some guides with possible spoilers or you'll miss these trophies in events you haven't played yet and are usually really late in the game.
Grind trophies - Unlike the 'X number' trophy where there is a set goal of say '100 enemies'. This is more like killing as many enemies as possible in the HOPES you get the materials for the trophy. If 100 didn't warrant you enough, then kill 200 or 300 until you succeed.
Online trophies in predominantly single player games are a menace. I will never platinum AC Black Flag because of those 5 online trophies. I am not an online gamer, I try to avoid it as much as possible.
Also as a part of missable trophies; Hidden Trophies that you don't get from doing parts of the story. These are rare but they crop up when you don't expect it. Battlefront 2 has the "Kill 5 enemies with 1 barrage" which is a hidden trophy. So unless you look up trophy lists online, you will not get this trophy unless you did it by accident
You finished Wolfenstein and Uncharted on the highest difficulty? Well, certainly props earned for that. But how did you manage that and how long did it take?
@@moretotheshellI used Wolfenstein 2 as an example. I'm not that much of a lunatic to try the 'Mein Liben trophy'. XD
As for the uncharted games , they got easier as the series progressed but it would still take 3 days to beat it. Uncharted 1 on the other hand was a full week...cause that game was harder than getting Dave to platnium 1 game.
What if I told you I had a decent stack of Nintendo Power magazines and guides sitting well preserved in storage? What would that scent be worth to you, Mr. Playground Code?
Swallowed my pride and opened my wallet for an overpriced game guide book, several times.
The shame! 😭
Just bought my first game guide in at least 10 years, for star ocean 3, mostly for the maps in it!
Bought the one for silent hill only to get it home to realise that someone had ripped out the page with the piano puzzle out! :(
Rob always mentions having friends he spoke to about games in the day. Am I the only one on this that literally was socially isolated by my peers in the day for liking games? No one I met talked about games when I was growing up.
I guess that's depends on where you live too. I'm brazilian and most of my friends didn't had any consoles or PC back in day. Meanwhile, my dad was an arcade owner. I had a lot of "grown ups" to talk about games, but almost no one from school friends who knew anything about gaming, besides a bit about Winning Eleven
I was pretty isolated in general when I was a kid...but hwne pokemon came out, damn, you could be the biggest loser, as long you where a pokemon fan, you where at least somewhat part of the group. XD
Maybe it is where you live. I’m from Ireland and went to an all girls convent school where it seemed if you weren’t into the latest tv soaps and pop singers they didn’t want to know you. Wasn’t a total loser, was know for my talent in art and athletics. I was into Pokemon, had a Gameboy colour and PS1. Was never part of any click really, I talked to everyone, just no gamers it seems.
That is weird, everyone I knew had a console of some kind, nes, SNES, megadrive, maybe and I'm guessing by your name your a girl and back then it was deemed strange for girls to like the video games, for a while it was a boy orientated thing
I had my outside friends, and then a single gaming friend growing up. Then the decline in split screen led us to stop hanging out lol
Me as a kid couldn’t solve a RE2 puzzle,
When I found out RUclips existed is it the first thing that I searched for and I found it happely.
I got stuck for months on the paintings puzzle in RE1 ! :D
You must be young.
@@AlmightyPolarBear Me or Th1boi?
Man gaming before the internet was great.
nah it wasnt
Doing random BS to get the Triforce in OOT was fun!
Metroid..... For weeks.... 🤣
10:05 damn, rob... that is cold-blooded.
and hilariously evil. XD
He doesn't regret a minute of it. He's a sociopath pure and simple. He'd sort out Brexit! :D
Ahh the memories, kind of miss those days...
'Now I'm the dad and occasionally I'll be called into the living room to help my daughter navigate a tricky section in paw patrol on a roll!'
This was me, my hubby and our son. Oh my gosh this line hit me so hard, having done it myself!
Two words “psycho mantis”
No internet back then. Was stuck on him forever and got very frustrated. So was my cousin and he called a tip line... yes there used to be tip lines for video games. He got the answer and he told me how and we both beat mantis. We both had no idea that Campbell just tells you if you kept calling him.
Rob, I have a video suggestion:
6 times we got jump-scared in games that weren't horror games.
I even have games and scenarios to suggest, in the following order.
6. In any FPS game when you walk through a door without noticing the claymore mine/C4/tactical RC and get blown to blazes.
5. The first time you got attacked by a moray eel in Asassin's Creed 4 Black Flag.
4. Every time you fast travel to Mordor in LEGO Lord Of The Rings and get Jumpscared by the eye of Sauron.
3. Every time Peeves jumped out of a locked chest in the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets video game.
2. When Herobrine attacks in Minecraft.
1. When you "accidentally" steal something in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion and you are about to go on your way when suddenly... "STOP! You violated the law!" you are stopped by a guard.
I remember when i was a kid playing zelda ocarina of time, was a part in fire temple where all u had to do was jump from this metal netting floor to a higher up ledge with a door. I thought it was too high to jump so spend half n hour talkin to the game helpline, before i tried it, it worked lol...called back about heart pieces later on, and he just mailed me the list of every heartpiece in the game. :)
I remember the tip books. I still have a few in my collection. I've done them all but hardstart the game(7) Naughty Rob, doing that to your poor sister. I did something like that to my older brother. Ahhhh those were the days.
Those were the days, when your brother would beat you up?
Damn, had forgotten how petty tyke-Rob was, i love it!
I wonder if the apple falls far from the tree?
What about calling a tip line? 2.99 a minute worth it
I was too busy calling, ahem, other premium phone lines back then! :D
The parenting bit really hit me hard. My son 6 is catching up to me in skill. Kids learn so quickly. He learns advance moves from the internet. I remember personally the first game i could not figure out was Zelda 2. I took it to a friends place and got Nintendo pro magazine from the library.
We used to call a shop called "OK Video" (in Penticton) and the guy would find the game in question in a magazine and tell you what to do. He was a big gamer and read the mags all the time so he usually remembered which one talked about which games. I beat Destiny of an Emperor for the first time thanks to him. Good times.
"It would be like tears in the oceans of AC..."
WAS THAT A BLADE RUNNER REFERENCEEE
Almost.
That is what I thought of too.
Can you make a list of 7 saddest sounds in games?
Oh, gods! Thank you! First time I played VIII, I got as far as the Adel boss before she stone walled me. Dozens upon dozens of tries, nothing. No-one I knew ever beat her. I spent months trying to think of new ideas... Eventually I just started over from the start, anxious about when I finally got to Adel again and still no better idea about how to beat her, until finally I fight Adel... and beat her my first try.
Turns out -- something I did not know at the time -- in VIII enemies level with you. My first save, I was level 75 and she was too strong for me. On my second save, I was only level 35 and beat her no trouble.
God I am giving away my age a bit but eh well. This video was like strolling down memory lane when my video game journey began as a bright eyed little girl sitting in front of a black and white with my shiny new NES. So many hours and sometimes days trying to figure out how to get past that one particularly hard boss in final fantasy. Yea I didn't get color tv right away so worked with what I had. Strategy guides and such. No chance of that. Took a bit of grit , sweat and sometimes tears and sleepless nights to figure out how to get past that digital obstacle blocking your virtual 2D path. Its so much simpler then it was before. Memories right? Cheers all. Love every bit of shows. Keep it up.
Laughed at the phone call bit with Dave. Hilarious!
I remember getting all the way up to fighting Seymour on MT Gagazet and having him crush me repeatedly to the point I just restarted the game
Man, that Seymour fight was worse than anything at that point in the game. Even leveling beforehand still didn't guarentee success. Good times..
you should make a 7 Massive Games You'll Play For 200 Hours (At Least) part 3
I had to Hard restart Th Witcher 3 Blood and wine..
*Spoilers*
I just didn't know that Dettlaff was coming for a fight because I avoided the Internet because of fear of spoilers. He said he just wanted to talk! I had no health items whatsoever my sword and armor were damaged and I had no repair kits. Thankfully that was my original save of the game so I started a new game plus played through the entire main story (because why not) and played all of blood and wine again while all the way through thinking about that final boss battle and preparing for it. I read the glossary and learned about vampires, gathered all the ingredients and made the superior vampire oil and just basically destroyed Dettlaff when I finally faced him again. Ahh The Witcher 3. So yes it does happen nowadays too Rob👀.
Mashew a Witcher must always be prepared
Wait, what? You DESTROYED Dettlaff? You don't just destroy him, especially not on Death March lol
@@lightsidemaster I was playing on blood and broken bones. I was so over leveled so he was easy. 😂
If you want peace, prepare for war :) .
(Always be ready for a fight, even if you don't want to :) .)
You didn't have any saves before the fight??
I got mad respect for the hard restart. Nowadays if it's not a guide you read ahead of time, or look up when there's a tough decision, there's some sort of respec system for your character. Back in the day it was brutal, but it made games like Diablo 2 and other RPGs bway more replayable as well
I had to call my friend to tell me how to escape the Ice Path puzzle each time I had a playthrough of Pokemon Gold. Once I got past it, I always used fly to skip to the next town.
Rob: “You’d tune in to one of those video game shows on the tv like Gamesmaster...”
Me: YAY!!!
Rob: “...or Gamezville!”
Me: BOOOO!!!
Or G4
Y
Bad Influence?
Same thing to me. Lol.
Robert Wisdom Trust me, it’s not! 😂
Oi, Gamesmaster! (Poor old Patrick Moore!)
He played the xylophone.
The legendary Patrick Moore! GOOD EVENING!!!!!
That dry sarcasm when he gave you codes for more blood and gore in Mortal Kombat Trilogy...
I do miss the gaming days before the Internet but if we didn't have the Internet = no Friday Features!
As a non-English speaker, my "sleep over" moment was a "Story of a Bird without the Voice" from Silent Hill 1. It took me literally 4 YEARS to come back to it and solve it - I had to learn a language to do it!
So many memories brought back with this vid. The first guide I bought(yes bought for £9.99) was the Turok 2 walkthrough as I was stuck in the lair of the blind ones and I still have never finished it to this day as I used the level skip code. Ive beaten all the Halo games on Legendary yet never beat Turok 2. Oh time how you've changed.
I still have a box of SNES and PS1 guides in my storage room.
I cant believe people would pay to call the Nintendo help line
That's how good a marketer Nintendo is, every form of media Nintendo had control of from, movies, tv shows, magazine etc. In the 80's to early 90's That's why there are Nintendo cult existed now
The same idiots that pay for micro transactions now...
I was stuck on the Piano puzzle in Silent Hill 1 for ages.
I feel you, brother. I FEEL YOU. 😭
I got stuck on the theodolite section on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and when I asked my mate at school about it he bought in several pages of hand drawn notes to show me how to get past it. What a legend. I did late come across the walkthrough in a small book that also included the walkthrough for the first Monkey Island game and another game.
when i was a kid, i used to write down the walkthroughts for many games and dropped them at the local videogames shop where you could read them for free.
for gamers who usually rented games for the weekend was so helpful.
if you never been stuck for hours, on a rpg you only rented for the weekend, you dont know that feeling wich is a mix of frustration,regret and blind rage.
There is one other way not mentioned.
Go to a BBS.
Yes, there was "on line" before the Internet. When you used your MODEM to contact another computer. Most companies (Sierra, SDI, etc) ran a BBS that you could download play guys from for free. There were also Echo forums (like FIDONet) dedicated to games you could look in to find an answer, or ask and find others that knew how to do it.
Yeah, but it's still technically pre-internet and most people didn't utilize it. I do have a turndial phone though, but it's a single piece reciever not a two piece.
Actually, there was a lot of activity in that area by 1990. AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, GEnie, and others had already become common, and many game companies offered patches and text files to help players.
Tannoy announcement: "men imported in with bloated heads."
Miss that game.
FFVIII sure got mentioned a lot, is this a subtle hint? Can I finally finish it when it comes to PS4??!!!
Rob, can't you use your Playstation access powers and let Square Enix know that Final Fantasy 8 needs to be on PS4!!!??? Pleaaase??!! Please!
Quistis Obel FFVIII is the only one FF that can’t be remastered. I read somewhere that Square Soft used a different engine when they developed it.
So if they will release it in the future they will develop it from scratch and most likely it will not because for Square FFVII is the greatest game/story they made (look at all the spin-offs).
PS - I am also a huge fan of FFVIII because that was my first FF game.
It's on Steam, and possibly PS3?? I'll bet there are emulators out there on the internet, as well. Definitely worth a try if you can get your hands on it!!
My older brother was subscribed to a monthly magazine called Game Pro... and it provided walkthroughs for games. This was especially helpful for FFVII and FVIII. We lived by those magazines. It gave locations for miss-able items and stuff. Good times
Guides from magazines were always my go to. My local HMV would sell game guides aswell, still got my FF7, 8 and 9 guides from back then. Sigh this list makes me feel old.
My sister and I were both playing Twilight Princess at the same time, I nearly at the end, her having trouble with the first temple proper. She eventually asked me for help so I smashed it out for her. Then muscle memory kicked in and I saved right over my own save instead of hers. Haven't picked it up since.
I did a similar thing with Monster Rancher. I accidentally saved over my 50 year game with my sister's one year game. I flopped on the couch and cried for about five minutes.
Jesus, Robs smile when he tells how he corrupted a FF7 save file..... it will haunt me!
meh, it was only a 35h save ^^
@@Stephen_Eee hey me too, I still got my original PS1 Card with a couple of saves from back then, one of which is a 99hours FF7 witht eh Sephiroth icon and another one is my 200% save fale of Castlevania Symphony of the Night
The "Hard Restart" happened to me with XII when I didn't fully understand how the license and gambit system worked and so I also pulled the "Sleep On It" indefinitely.
It was not until I got older and less dumber where I finally hit reset and just read carefully about the license and gambits. Such wonderful memories.
There was never a point in my life that the internet wasn't accessible but I didn't get any internet till I was 11 and until that point I had completed Pokemon Yellow 30+ times and FF7 and FF8 at least 10 times each because that's all I had to play that I wasn't bored with so I can genuinely appreciate old games and games that you need to figure hard puzzles out yourself
8: Cheat codes...I've always wondered where people got those from.
Facts
Luck
Magazines
Word of mouth
Selling your soul to satan
The exhaustion tactic always worked for me! It's the tactic of redoing eveything you possibly can if you get stuck: If you can't find the way, hug every wall and take leaps of faith from suspicious cliffs!
If you can't beat a boss, grind a bunch of levels just to see if they are succeptable to being outleveled. If a puzzle have you stumped, write down every move you have, and how they can be combined, and then just go through every solution you can think off!
This was how i solved a lot of the point and click games i played...
Going back pre console, C64 and spectrum games were notoriously hard. Games such as Forbidden forest, Dizzy and Maniac Mansion were filled with puzzles that were not always logical. So you had to just try EVERYTHING. Stuck in a weird mirror world with a queen chess piece blocking your path? Try picking up some chewing gum so that it sticks to your hand, so you can then pull the sword from the stone, become king and defeat the queen. Logic quest aside, you also had items that would break the game if you picked them up (hole in the pocket..im looking at you), items that were useless but you spent hours trying to get to work(Maniac mansions gas-less chainsaw) and switches that did stuff but you were never quite sure what (Codemaster loved doing this, with their Vampire game being one that has always stuck in my mind). Add to all this the fact that there were no saves,and that most games did not even have lives, so one hit from a bad guy would put you right back at that start. How did we beat games pre-internet? With a lot of patience.
OMG.. I still play FFVIII to this day! It's a masterpiece 👌
Marilu Calderon yeah i recently put it on my phone. Turns out ps1 emulator is really easy for android to run.
Wait, the internet used to not exist? *shudders
And what a glorious world it was.
@@shugaroony That depends on what subject you're talking about. Because on some occasions, you'd be totally screwed without it.
@@shawnbenjamin9636 Its undoubtedly changed the world in the biggest way possible in my 40-odd years on this planet, but not all for the better. Sure, business and retail love it, and for us gamers it has helped big time in that we can download games now rather than have to physically get up off our backsides to a shop to buy them; and patches are a thing (I remember playing Frontier Elite 2 back in the day on the Amiga and that was a quality game, but it was insanely buggy and had no chance of getting fixed); but in plenty of other areas, the internet makes us a slave of our technology, and thats far from a good thing.
I once rang a hint line (yes, with my parents' permission) to figure out how to get the red caps in Super Mario 64 :/
When I was little I got my friends older brother to copy his ff8 save file onto my memory card so I could fight the last boss. Now I can breeze through the game myself. Fun comparing your childhood to being an adult, or telling kids you grew up without wireless controllers...
I still buy PiggyBack strategy guides. They are always amazing.
Also... I used to make my own guides hahahahaha Literally made a FFVII guide in Microsoft Word once. Took me like a year! XD
I remember those things, they were great. Thanks for all your hard work XD
I'm looking forward to the Kingdom Hearts 3 piggyback guide :D Gonna be beautiful
@@lightsidemaster It's gonna be massive too lol
@@lightsidemaster Here's hoping it's made available in the U.S. like they've been doing with Final Fantasy guides as of late.
You've outdone yourself this week, Rob. Great Friday Feature. Legend.
I had to sleep on the original Silent Hill for over 10 years. Finally was able to play it again, and got the the point I was stuck at, and discovered it was a simple way forward that I just never noticed before.
I look at guides all the time
I'm an adult with a job and a family
It helps tremendously when you have limited time to enjoy gaming
Psst...guys...you still have Hollie on the picture at the end?
Hollie. Gone, but not forgotten.
They should livestream the Rosie photoshoot.
Hollie's Twitter is also linked in the bio.
game genie, game shark and action replay should be In there.
I just moved and found an old gameboy game shark. Didnt work of course
There is this game called Valdis Story. You sit right in between the war between angels and demons and early on you fight an angel general & you have the option to spare or kill him. I spared him like the goody twoshoes I was: BIG MISTAKE. Little did I know this meant that later on, when fighting a demon general, that angel general would come back and be like "hello there, now you have to fight me too!" so an already tough bossfight suddenly changed into a double bossfight where you'd have to take care of both bosses and their mechanics simultaneously... I did a hard reset for that one, it was impossible for me :')
Back in the days before the internet, we either beat games, got someone else to beat them for us, or spent hours just constantly grinding for Gil and XPs everywhere, not really knowing where the best farming spots were.
To my shame I never could beat Resident Evil on the PS1. I almost did but I screwed myself over by the end as I had used far too much ammo and stupidly only had minimum healing items left making that final tyrant battle near impossible and back then I was not quite skilled enough to dodge its attacks I think I eventually got so angry I deleted the save game and started over. It remains the only main resident evil game I have never actually finished bar the resident evil 2 remake which I had not yet got but will own this next week. Similar thing happened on Code Veronica X on PS2 when I stupidly saved my game with Chris on low health and hunter outside the room that was impossible I had to start over that save game lol
I was stumped for months on that picture puzzle on Resi 1 back in the day!
I used to get the game manuals just for the art because I loved to draw the characters. Yes, no internet for references. And here in the US, you can still buy them at GameStop.
You sort of mentioned this in passing, but one thing I always did was: muck about and press every button and perform every action on every conceivable tile I could interact with until something happened.
We never “beat” games, we completed them.
The distinction is that beating a game means watching the ending cutscene. Completing them means you're so sick of it you never want to play it again.
Completist gamers need to get a life
when stuck in a game and after exhausting all other options, i would telephone my local Electronics Boutique and ask one of the employees working there. back then they were mostly friendly, helpful, knowledgeable, and not busy playing on their smartphones. thanks for the help on the Silent Hill piano puzzle dudes!
Ahh, Final Fantasy 8. I had a similar experience - Hard Resetting, that is.
I believe all of us who bought this game when we were too young had this experience. The Junctioning System was not easy to understand when I first started the game. I got stuck at Adel, I never saw Ultimecia in my first playthrough.
My characters HPs were in between 2000 - 4000. I know, hard to believe.
My attack power was abysmal. I could not defeat Adel with my physical attacks alone, they just didn't cause enough damage because of how weak I was. Any damage I did, would easily get healed when she siphoned energy from Rinoa. I couldn't do magic, It would also hurt Rinoa. GFs (had 6, I think) did the same.
So, the game ended in one of two ways:
* I got killed
* Rinoa died
Then I realized I was not getting passed her, and if by some miracle I did, how was I going to deal with what was waiting for me later?
I did the hardest thing I could do, so as to not get tempted to go back to that save file - I deleted it and started a new game.
Things got way better in the second playthrough. I had wisened up. Each playthrough became easier and easier, especially after discovering GameFaqs - YES, I had limited internet at the time. Downloaded the whole FFVIII guide. Good days
Add to the 'phone a mate' call the system helpline. At college, my friends and I used my roomate's phone so often to call the Nintendo Helpline, we had to pay his phone bill most of the year. We called about everything from getting to the minus world on Super Mario Bros. to finding out how to take down some difficult bosses.
I had a personal rule back in the day of complete typed out walkthroughs that were 50+ pages long (I'm a sucker for RPGs and JROGs): If I was stuck on something and I'd exhausted every other option, and I couldn't progress further, I refused to look for cheats for a YEAR AT LEAST in order to try and figure it out myself. I'm the youngest of 4 so asking my older brothers for help felt like a defeat. And for FFX-2, I did just that. I wanted to complete it 100% and wouldn't have been able to without the strategy guide. But I refused (and got the so-so ending) until a year had passed.
FF 8 had an evil learning curve. If you didn't upgrade your weapons, you could not beat the game. Something you don't find out until about 3/4 through the game.
Lmao, I remember rage quitting the first time, restarting, then my brother telling me I'd have to get materials to upgrade. Those were the days.
Don't forget if you decide to build up favorite characters and the level progression with the other monsters followed suit. Also I hold a eternal rage that would have Doomguy to tell me to chill against those damn Couerls..... I was never livid against a monster than against those smug furballs.
7 Ways We Used To Beat Games Before The Internet
Grind Grind Grind and git gud, that's how I did it back then.
Also wtf is up with youtube of late? My posts get quadrupple posted instead, so I always need to delete 3 of them, and every white space I leave is multiplied too, WTF?!
I remember when Sierra entertainment (Ah, the memories. King's quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Leisure suit Larry) had a hint phone hotline. You'd get an automatic answering machine, and you had to navigate through a tree of questions about which game you were seeking help with, which part of the game, and eventually you'd end up with the solution to your specific problem. For me living in Europe in the 80s and 90s, dialing a US telephone service whenever I got stuck couldn't have been cheap for my parents.
back before internet i used to have physical friends and we used to draw maps and write down some waypoints to each other on breaks while in school. and when you where at your friends place you helped them and vice versa. i remember getting to the water temple in zelda ocarina of time for the first time, took me days to complete it (1-2 hours per day) then shadow temple came... took even longer
I recall my dad raging at the itemised phone bill when it turned out every day for 3 months I’d spoken to my mate for at least an hour about our progress on Final Fantasy 8 for that day and tips for bosses etc
imagine not just talking about it at school
I remember going back to grade 5, I was getting both Final Fantasy 7 and 8 for my birthday, something that I found out about because my parents forgot to hide the games and left it on their bed for a while after the purchase. I then found that my brother had purchased one of the gaming magazines that came with a guidebook for 20-30 games which included the worlds most basic guide to FF7 but had information to getting the huge materia, as well as tips to breed the best chocobo in the game. I think I read through that guide more than a dozen times before I ended up opening the game on my birthday. The sad part though, being a pre-owned game and me being a kid who didn't understand the value of an unscratched disc, by the time I reached the space section my disc was badly damaged and would freeze during the cutscene where you go into space. It wasn't until last year (16 years after I first got the game) that I went back and finished it's re-release on the PS4. Now I thankfully have the platinum to remind me that yes, I did actually finish the game.