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Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:40 amby Bluecast
Seems to be a lost practice thanks to youtube. Older gaming manuals always had a note section. I always used a regular pad of paper. I remember writing all the notes on paper of OoT songs so I didn't have to pause. All the QTE's for Shenmue II. The right path to take in a certain part in Grandia on the rainbow road. RPG's used to always take notes. I think I still have some when I was 14 or so in old guides. Now some games include a way to used notes like Hotel dusk to write them down in the game. 3DS has an app that let's you make notes in the system.
So do any of you still write notes for playing a game or just use a guide/gamefaq/youtube?
I'm more the youtube guy
Re: Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:56 amby Spokane
I do everything. Maybe I should take a picture and share the huge stack of papers I have just from the past year of stuff I have written down or printed out.
Re: Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:55 amby Let's Get Sweaty
In Yakuza I made notes about the hostesses' likes and dislikes so that I wouldn't give the "wrong" answer to questions I'd already faced. If anybody found those notes I think I'd shoot myself.
I also made notes of ongoing feuds in General Manager mode of SmackDown vs Raw 2006, as there was no way of checking this information while booking the card for the next show. Forgot to schedule another match between Triple H and Renee Dupree? Their 4-star feud is stricken from the game's memory; millions of pay-per-view buys lost.
Re: Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:58 amby Vyse Hazuky
Depends on the game obviously. If it's a puzzle or something, I work better with paper, but if it's just something to remember (like a password key or something to ask a NPC) I just make a note on my cellphone.
Re: Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:56 amby MiTT3NZ
I did in Tex Murphy. And Hotel Dusk, obviously. I've been waiting years for a game to come out that practically forces me to take notes and draw my own map. Unless I make it myself though, I know it'll never come.
Re: Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:30 amby Henry Spencer
MiTT3NZ wrote: I did in Tex Murphy. And Hotel Dusk, obviously. I've been waiting years for a game to come out that practically forces me to take notes and draw my own map. Unless I make it myself though, I know it'll never come.
Same here with adventure games. Especially the detective games. I did it for Virtue's Last Reward, writing passwords down on the 3DS memo (which is basically required if you want to get through ending locks otherwise you get either a bad ending or locked out with a "to be continued").
Re: Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:36 amby Riku Rose
Played Snatcher last year and made notes of the phone numbers on the notes app on my phone. I usually only do it for passwords or a phrase I will have to remember further in the game.
One of the best parts of Hotel Dusk and Last Window was making notes in your book as everything seemed like it could be of importance.
Re: Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:52 pmby St. Elmo's Fire
Not for a long time, but I would still do it if I felt the need. Though TBH I am a bit guilty of hitting Google sometimes, too.
Re: Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:24 pmby Rakim
No. The only times I can remember writing a lot down was when the only way to save was getting those long passwords in the 16 bit days.
Re: Anyone still write notes for playing a game?
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:16 pmby mue 26
In Yakuza I made notes about the hostesses' likes and dislikes so that I wouldn't give the "wrong" answer to questions I'd already faced. If anybody found those notes I think I'd shoot myself
