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How do you guys tackle classic RPGs? Look up a guide/walkthrough online or just wing it?
 
I like to look up the guides and get the item lists for each area so I don't miss anything, but I don't read anything else other than that.
 
Unless I'm stuck, I'm winging it. Talking to every NPC, searching for every chest, exploring every room, trying out every magic spell. It's an adventure :smokin

For Zelda, I need to get every single heart piece and item to feel like I completed the game, so I'll look at a guide if needed (only when I have reached the final boss).
 
How do you guys tackle classic RPGs? Look up a guide/walkthrough online or just wing it?
Man I remember this dude in HS that had polio let me borrow his FF7 strategy guide. I never gave that thing back to dude. He was asking me for that thing for like a year. 
 
There are emulators for the Vita?

I've been hanging on to my psp because I thought the vita couldn't do it.
now I'm going to have to look this up. I've been hanging on to my psp for the same reason.
 
Unless I'm stuck, I'm winging it. Talking to every NPC, searching for every chest, exploring every room, trying out every magic spell. It's an adventure :smokin

For Zelda, I need to get every single heart piece and item to feel like I completed the game, so I'll look at a guide if needed (only when I have reached the final boss).
I'm the same way with Zelda. A Link to the Past, OOT, and Majora's Mask are all so ingrained to my mind that I rarely ever have to look anything up during a playthrough though :lol:.


How do you guys tackle classic RPGs? Look up a guide/walkthrough online or just wing it?
Man I remember this dude in HS that had polio let me borrow his FF7 strategy guide. I never gave that thing back to dude. He was asking me for that thing for like a year. 
Some kid got me for my Dragon Warrior Monsters: Cobi's Journey strategy guide back in middle school :smh: :lol:. It was like a ritual for me (well, my parents), everytime I got a new game I NEEDED the Prima strategy guide.

There are emulators for the Vita?


I've been hanging on to my psp because I thought the vita couldn't do it.

now I'm going to have to look this up. I've been hanging on to my psp for the same reason.
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How do you guys tackle classic RPGs? Look up a guide/walkthrough online or just wing it?
I should just look up a guide online.

But when FF7 was released on PS4, I went on eBay and bought the guide lol.

Waste of money.
Yeah man some sites have guides so well done that I'd actually pay for if they were in print form. Starmen.net for the MOTHER (Earthbound) series comes to mind.
 
I'm still searching for the best, most-elaborate, guide for FF7. I realized the one I bought of eBay was the common one that everyone at the time disliked lol.
 
How do you guys tackle classic RPGs? Look up a guide/walkthrough online or just wing it?


you should tackle them like they were originally tackled


that is - get the maps & guides that came with the game only

if you must - reference the original nintendo power magazines & such...but no walkthroughs produced years after the game itself


if the game came out in 1989 - play it like it is 1989!
 
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I remember when I had my mother buy the official Nintendo strategy guide for A Link to the Past for me. She bought by mail and it took weeks for it to arrive. 

By the time it came, I had already beaten the game. 
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Is it true that the resolution of playing old systems on current TVs won't be good? 

Is there a way to upscale the resolution without have to pay hundreds?
 
The ff9 guide was a waste of money every time you need an answer it would direct you to square online. I was 56k at the time :frown:
 
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