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My stance is this. Games these days which focus on a percentage are designed purposefully to be unbeatable without using one. No one is the world is going to 100% a GTA game (and by that, I mean find and do every thing in the game) without a walkthrough. So if you're trying to get 100% in something like that, I say have at at.

Now, if it's just about beating something and you can't find your way through? Then it's cheating. You're basically giving up and the moment you look at a guide, you have invalidated your right to say you beat it... because you didn't. YOU didn't beat it by yourself... you needed someone else's help. There's a difference.

Also, and this slightly off topic, but if you beat an old game (like something on SNES classic or a stolen ROM) with save-states? You also didn't beat it. You cheated.