Strategy Guides.

[Gabrielle]

Strategy guides spoil too much.

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That they do but sometimes inaccurately.

[Calax]

really it depends on what I'm playing. If it's an RTS I'm gonna try to find somthing akin to a strat guide because "Go to the little italy shaped piece of land that juts to the north 2/3's of the way to the left of the map" really ain't that informative... I'd prefer to have a map for that section in front of me. there have been a few other games that I've picked up the strat guide for... One of em was Xmen Legends 1 if only because I wanted to get all the disks and everything.

 

Fighting games I simply ask "Why!?!" because all it is is a thwack fest. Meanwhile FPS games it depends on which game. Quake? no Half Life? maybe. Deus Ex? Oh sweet jesus yes.

[Darque]

I usually get a guide for a game after I beat it, if I really liked the game

 

I tend to collect them for the nolstalga (sp? ) value.

[Nartwak]

I'm the same, more or less. I usually look out for art books instead, but I've still got my Nintendo Power guide to Final Fantasy and Zelda: Link to the Past. If I need some info while I'm playing I go to GameFAQs.

[Fenghuang]

I usually get a guide for a game after I beat it, if I really liked the game

 

I tend to collect them for the nolstalga (sp? ) value.

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So lots of Resident Evil guides?

[Nartwak]

Quake? no Half Life? maybe. Deus Ex? Oh sweet jesus yes.

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[Dark_Raven]

I found the Baldur's Gate strategy guides helpful to me when I was making mods for the game. It would list an item and the item's file name if I wanted to look it up. It listed other file names that were helpful as well.

[metadigital]

Never been interested enough to buy one. If I want to replay a game and find all the secrets, then I have no problem looking at a walk-through.

 

I wouldn't rule out buying one, though, I've just never been in a position to want to.

[Darque]

I usually get a guide for a game after I beat it, if I really liked the game

 

I tend to collect them for the nolstalga (sp? ) value.

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So lots of Resident Evil guides?

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Among others.

 

I'm particularly proud of my Silent Hill guide ^_^

 

That was hard to track down.

[mkreku]

I've bought two strategy guides in my life: Kingdom Hearts for my girlfriend and World of Warcraft for my girlfriend's little brother.

 

I don't know about the World of Warcraft one, but the Kingdom Hearts strategy guide was a success. It comes with a map with things you can find and several pages full of stickers. Everytime you find one of the things in the map, you can place a sticker on its position on the map to see which ones you've already taken. My girlfriend loved that, and she's been obsessing about it for months. She is currently level 78-80 or so but refuses to finish the game because she doesn't want it to end. Ever

 

I'll buy her Kingdom Hearts 2 as soon as it is released here.

[Gabrielle]

Trying to find the VtM Bloodlines guide was hard. Not many stores had it that I went to.

[Hassat Hunter]

Trying to find the VtM Bloodlines guide was hard. Not many stores had it that I went to.

 

Wherewolf? "

[Gabrielle]

No. At least I could defeat the werewolf unlike someone else.

[Darque]

Trying to find the VtM Bloodlines guide was hard. Not many stores had it that I went to.

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Huh? That was the easiest guide I ever had to find

[Gabrielle]

I bought it way after the game had been out. Low supply by then.

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

Thats why I usually order them with the game. Plus they bundle them as well.

[Gabrielle]

Well I didn't buy the game until a year after it's release. Usually I will buy a game and the guide at the same time.

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

Well I didn't buy the game until a year after it's release. Usually I will buy a game and the guide at the same time.

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It was selling for

[LadyCrimson]

I used to like buying them to get some of the info tidbits you didn't find on your own playing, and/or some of the little interviews they sometimes had, or just because they used to sometimes be written with a lot of humor and in-depth, semi-personalized level write-ups that made them a fun read.

 

Unlike now.

 

I haven't bought one in ages...you can get all the spoilers you want on the internet these days for free, and most 'official' guides aren't worth the paper they're printed on anymore.

Edited April 5, 2006 by LadyCrimson

[Darque]

I bought it way after the game had been out. Low supply by then.

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I bought it about 2 months ago about the same time I got the game

[Gabrielle]

By the time I bought the game, the guides were scarce.

[Darque]

I might have just gotten lucky.

 

It was right there in EB, in the guide rack.

[metadigital]

Quake? no Half Life? maybe. Deus Ex? Oh sweet jesus yes.

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Ditto.

 

I do enjoy the "hunt for the G-Man" threads in the Half-Life forum. :D

[Gabrielle]

I might have just gotten lucky.

 

It was right there in EB, in the guide rack.

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Lucky you?

[Darque]

So it would seem

 

You know, as I recall, I also got it for free... some glitch on their end when they rung it up.

Edited April 6, 2006 by Darque