Thread 717546704

How did people finish RPG's like FFVI or Earthbound as children? I could barely finish Pokemon Red because i had no fucking clue what i was doing. How does a six year old finish Earthbound? Did any of you do that?

>frog
Dogshit thread

>inb4 kids were smarter 110 IQ aryan-pilled gigachads whatever
older brothers or parents helped them

>>717546821
this
i beat Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds with help from my mom

I don't think they play them that young, unless they're really clever or they have someone older to help them. A friend's younger brother completed FF7 and Ocarina of Time when he was 9 and I thought that was impressive. Everyone I know personally beat them when they were like 12 years old. Maybe they're designed for Japanese children, who are smarter or more patient or something like that

>>717546704 (OP)
By getting help from siblings, parents or friends who played the game before you.
Or by grinding a lot and clicking on literally everything in the game until you eventually reach the end.

As a kid I could get lost in RPG worlds for hours so eventually I would just stumble upon something that progressed the game, couldn't even read the dialogue cus ESL but I still finished most of the RPGs I had back then

>>717546704 (OP)
When in doubt, grind it out
As a dumb kid, I may not have understood strategy, but if I overleveled I didn't need to.

>>717546704 (OP)
I got filtered by FFIV in the Tower of Babel when I was 6.
I beat Secret of Mana when I was 8 or so. I distinctly remember constantly combing that fucking map, not comprehending what I was supposed to be doing, but rather just trial & error finding my way to story events and always being super stoked when I found one.
Looking back, I have no idea how the fuck I had the patience to navigate flying in the overworld to different continents until I found what I was supposed to do.

the thing is...when you were younger unless your parrents were super rich and trying to buy your affection you at max got like ...2-3 games a year and then mostly rented. You grinded intil you figured it out or someone told you what to do...i remember when i was younger i got link to the past, got to the third castle where you get the amulet that prevents you from turning into a bunny....but i never got the amulet you can beat the boss without it....So i beat it turned into a bunny and was like majorly confused on why i couldn't get through to the dark world. i think 3 years later i was talking to someone and brought up how i got stuck in that game..and he told me that i missed the orb, so i went back got the orb and was able to beat the game a month later...so alot of stuff if you got stuck was...asking people who might have the game for tips, looking up strategy guides in magazines, or just grinding it out yourself intil you figured it out.

Bitxhes only had money for 2 games a year

>>717546704 (OP)
Back in my day I had to go outside and mow grouchy old people's lawns for pennies. That incentivized me to actually finish the games I worked so hard to afford.

>>717546704 (OP)
>Did any of you do that?
Yes. I completed every game I got back then because I got so few of them and played the shit out of them. Even when I got to a game that was slightly more difficult than I could initially handle, that was the only new game I was going to have for maybe half a year, so I eventually figured it out.

>>717546704 (OP)
Strategy Guides from Nintendo, Prima, and the other I forgot.

>>717546704 (OP)
>I could barely finish Pokemon Red
DQM was my first gbc color game when I was 6
later I had pokemon blue and my brother had red
we always talked about it to see who could beat stuff first / make stronger pokemon
tbf iirc my main strategy for pokemon was just lvl blastoise, I had jolteon, the fossil thing, and zapdos pretty high later

perserverence and no alternatives. as a kid you didn't have access to an infinite library of games available. you just had the game and were stuck with it. it is a bad game? well, it is all you have so you are going to beat your head against a wall until you complete it.

>>717546704 (OP)
Constant trial and error
word of mouth
Nintendo Power

>>717547325
this. accidental brute force

>>717546704 (OP)
*Braaaap* oh didn't see you there stinky frog. Go clean yourself up you bitch. You smell like farts