I was tempted today to look at online guides for a game I bought recently: Final Fantasy X-2.
It's not that I'm stuck in the game (not yet anyway). But the Final Fantasy games have a lot of hidden bonuses in them which can be easy to miss if you don't talk to the right character at the right time or investigate all the crystals in the second chapter or whatever. I missed some parts of Final Fantasy X because I didn't do the right thing at the right point and later on wasn't able to go back and rectify it without playing the game all the way through from the start again, which I couldn't be bothered doing.
I was wary of reading too many spoilers for the new game. Already I've read enough to know I've missed some crucial secrets already :o(
In my opinion there is a huge difference between spoiling a video game like Final Fantasy and spoiling a television series like Stargate, for example.
Firstly, just reading the details of what happens completely ignores the direction and production values that a movie or tv program will have. In a videogame I don't think these values are so important.
Secondly a lot of the enjoyment of watching a dramatic production (even something like Stargate :o)) is the atmosphere created by the actors and the script and watching actors you like becoming characters you like. This is absent really in a video game, even something like Final Fantasy which does try to be deep.
So while I am a sucker for television programme spoilers I am able to successfully resist too many spoilers for videogames like Final Fantasy!
On a completely unrelated note something appears to be wrong with my "About Me" blog not displaying properly and I'll try to fix that soon.