Regarding Assistance - The Strategy Guide Issue

[Uchiha.Sanosuke]

This is a quote of a letter in the Pulse sections of the January 2008 issue of Nintendo Power:

Gotta Have My Guides
Have you guys stopped making strategy guides? I haven't seen any lately.
Nick

Nintendo Power's Official Player's Guide series is presently on hold, but never fear - Prima is currently publishing guides as Nintendo's official partner.

So I guess that means that the Prima Guide is basically the Official Nintendo Player's Guide.

I'm buying it...I love teh picturze. ^_^"

 

[Masque]

Why buy a strategy guide when we have the internet?

Same thing with gaming magazines. Save some of the Japanese mags (with their NoJ connections and whatnot), the internet makes the proliferation of information infinitely easier and far more expedient.

 

[Tobi-]

Well atleast now we know what people's opinions are, which is..

I want a Strategy Guide because :
• The Pictures
• I'm a collector
• Show friends

I do not want a Strategy Guide because:
• It costs money
• The internet has better information
• Don't have to go look for it at store

 

[eep the defiler]

I'll buy the guide but I won't look at it until I play the piss out the game first

 

[Desruprot]

A bit early to really get anything from it...I'll be waiting on the internet to answer it after the game comes out...everything should at least be solved by May I think...

 

[omiz144]

Usually I buy the guide, even ifI've already beaten the game. It's a cool thig to flip through. (Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Limited Edition Strategy Guide)

 

[reu_1303]

Im still on the fence about buying one I don't think ill know till the day I get the game if ill get the guide

 

[WeeklyJumpman]

I never use strategy guides. They take from your "quest" experience, plus add $15.00 to your bill. I'll just look up info on the net if I have to.

 

[courte]

just to keep it on track

we're not discussing the purchase of the guide for help; the game includes that.

we're discussing do you feel the collection impulse, the benefit of added material, the pictures, the little tidbits, exclusive information. Then again, this IS a whole new game. perhaps their are things we can't find out right away. sure it takes away from the experience but that is on your accord. then there is never anything wrong with owning any print media; i don't but many books of anything other than some manga. sure i could watch the anime and read it online for free but ownership is always cool

 

[Lemon Drop]

I recently bought a Prima Games Pokedex/Pokemon Diamond/Pearl Guide in one. 500 pages, has 490 pokemon listed in it(Arceus, Shaymin, and Darkrai aren not though), and it has a printed pictures of every route and lists every item in an easy to find kind of way. Guides on gamefaqs are words, and words alone. Nothing more annoying when they are trying to describe something when they could just show you a picture.

I'll probably buy one and just look through it time to time. Like I do my F-Zero GX guide. To bad I sold my old Super Smash Bros. Melee guide.

 

[C.Olimar788]

I might get a strategy guide, as they tend to be better than internet guides, if only for being pretty and visual. If I get one, it'll be Prima, as I would get Official Nintendo guides, but those aren't being made anymore. Prima is the closest to an Official Nintendo guide we can get now.

If I do get a guide, it'll be after I'm mostly done with the game, i.e. have most characters, stages, and have went trough SSE multiple times. Depending on how long it is.

 

[slikvik]

strategy guides are for people who suck at videogames

 

[Kittah4]

There are pros and cons to all guides. The fun things are that they are fun to hold, read, look at, and even smell (yes I am a freak like that, I love the smell of fresh pages).

I have Prima's pokedex and when I was really into pokemon I referenced it constantly so I could use THAT as my reference instead of having to have Serebii and my ev-tracker text file open.

The cons of strategy guide's is that the information is typically incomplete, and its some sort of cosmic law that there HAS to be at least one error in a publicated strategy guide.

As far as which Guide I'll get, I have no idea at this point. Probably whichever one is better constructed.