What's your stance on usage of game/strategy guides while playing?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

I haven't bought a paper guide since I discovered gamefaqs about 20 years ago. Assuming you count online stuff though...

I prefer to complete a game once, and then go to a guide and see what content I missed. Strategy guides are really useful for that stuff. The other thing is that if I really can't figure out where to go for the next part of the game, then I'll look that up too. The one thing I never look up in a strategy guide is ironically a strategy. I'd rather just die in Dark Souls a lot and figure it out on my own instead of having a guide tell me.