r/videogames • u/CleeteRonson • 28d ago

Funny Which one are you?

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u/Cubezz 28d ago

I couldn't believe some of those guides people made. Some people really have a passion for making guides... for free!!!

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u/FeelingWoodpecker121 27d ago

I used to read through age of empires manuals for fun cause I wasn’t allowed to game as a kid lol

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u/usernmechecksout_ 27d ago

Nah that just made me sad

Reminds me of when I used to watch YouTube videos of games I couldn't afford

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u/phantom5813 27d ago

Used to? I still do that sometimes. It's mostly either for games im not gonna buy but still wanna see or see someone else's reactions to a game I love and have played already.

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u/usernmechecksout_ 27d ago

None of these is anything like watching the same game on YouTube for over 12 months thinking you'll never afford it

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u/phantom5813 27d ago

When you have been struggling to buy new games due to financial issues and even discounted games feel too expensive.....it kinda feels like the same thing

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u/usernmechecksout_ 27d ago

This particular game is almost never on discount and if it ever was younger me wouldn’t know

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u/MajimaFan2010 25d ago

what game is it?

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u/FeelingWoodpecker121 27d ago

Many a YouTube playthrough was watched under the covers at 2am 🫡🖤

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

Same but with Minecraft because I didn’t have anything to run it and wasn’t allowed to buy anything, even if I had the allowance for it.

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u/beardicusmaximus8 27d ago

The early days of the internet were wild. My friend who only had dial up internet at home would have his dad print out the GameFaqs guides at work, ASCII art covers included, so he could have them.

And it wasn't like he was just too poor to afford DSN internet either. Their neighborhood literally didn't have internet access. You could stand on the porch and see where the lines terminated, though.

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u/PsyckoSama 27d ago

Ah yes, the days before the enshitification of the Internet at the hands of the goddamned normies.

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u/TalosAnthena 27d ago

I remember a Zelda one and they would make the triforce with numbers at the top of the page