Game Walkthroughs: PC vs Consoles

[finglobes]

I have only been playing games on PC's since 2007. I mostly played all the Half Life and Stalker games. I also played Oblivion. For game guidance I skipped guides and used walkthroughs on YouTube. For all the games I played the walkthroughs on YouTube were around 30 segments long.


Then I tried playing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic and suddenly the vids were over 70 in number. I notice this is common for the console games. I figure its because of their chatty nature. In Stalker no characters say much (aside for the random insult). With KOTOR all of sudden I was having lengthy meetings all the time.


Is this common with console games? Do 70+ walkthrough episodes mean games take 2x as long to finish or is there just more material to listen to along the way? I just started Dragon Age Origins and noticed the walkthroughs are long for this game as well - and the game is chatty. Should I just get used to chatty games?

 

[Veliko]

Only if you are playing Bioware RPGs. KotoR and Dragon Age are Bioware games as is the Mass Effect series.

 

[Barfo]

What fun is it to watch a video of someone beating a game and then doing the same?

 

[finglobes]

What fun is it to watch a video of someone beating a game and then doing the same?

I don't like to read guides (many of the guides that come with games are unreadable anyway) and would rather get going on a game watching someone getting started and listening to their tips. I find my chances of starting and finishing a game are better when I get a good start and don't get held back by little details. Where they are really useful is when I don't get back to a game for awhile and can't recall what was going on very well when I come back to it. Some walkthroughs are also very entertaining.

 

[finglobes]

Only if you are playing Bioware RPGs. KotoR and Dragon Age are Bioware games as is the Mass Effect series.

Ah thanks that makes sense. I had tried Mass Effect and liked it for the gameplay but when I got to the city I started getting bored by all the meetings and chit chat . After 3 Stalker games that was kind of a culture shock thing

 

[RavenSEAL]

The challenge of the game IS to figure things out, otherwise, just go watch star wars or something.

 

[finglobes]

The challenge of the game IS to figure things out, otherwise, just go watch star wars or something.

That's true up to a point. I will play on my own for the most part but when I get stuck for too long I would just as soon move on and not spend 2 hours looking for a weapons stash or health etc. I try to find my own way driving but if I get stuck I just look for someone to ask directions instead of knocking myself out.