Mass Effect --- lol at this. Ridiculous.

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=832088

Ok, I understand limited edition discs, but strategy guides? Isn't that a litte overboard? :?

Did you just start gaming like yesterday?

Strategy guides have been around for years. :|

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=832088

Ok, I understand limited edition discs, but strategy guides? Isn't that a litte overboard? :?

AvIdGaMeR444

All big games have a limited edition strategy guide normally they are hard cover

Wow, limited..

notfor a western rpg

wrpg + stratagy guide = great investment.

unlike noob guides for shooters. I remember seeing a strat guide for halo 2 and i was like wtf :lol: what the hell could you possible need a guide for in halo 2

Shut up.

/sips from his limited edition Halo mug while pulling his limited edition GEoW underware out of his crack

Zulgaines

Thanks for your remarkably insightful input :|

I've heard of these before, and yeah, they are ridiculous. I don't understand why people buy strategy guides anyways, if I need one, I just pull one up on my labtop and use it.1vgfan

Exactly. What is the point of owning a strategy guide when you can find all this stuff on the internet anyway? A limited edition disc is one thing, but a$35LE strategy guide that won't have anymore info than what will be posted on the internetis just a rip-off. Also, used strategy guides NEVER sell well on Ebay (unless it is from a very rare game), so it is not like you are getting any moneys worth here.

Did you just start gaming like yesterday?

Strategy guides have been around for years. :|

JPOBS

Strategy guides are generally $15 and are not limited editions. I'm arguing that limited edition strategy guides that cost $35 (which is more than most hardcover books) is ridiculous when you can just find all the info on the internet. I guess I'm way off base here...:roll:

[QUOTE="Zulgaines"]

Shut up.

/sips from his limited edition Halo mug while pulling his limited edition GEoW underware out of his crack

AvIdGaMeR444

Thanks for your remarkably insightful input :|

Just a joke dude, i thought it was great

[QUOTE="1vgfan"]I've heard of these before, and yeah, they are ridiculous. I don't understand why people buy strategy guides anyways, if I need one, I just pull one up on my labtop and use it.AvIdGaMeR444

Exactly. What is the point of owning a strategy guide when you can find all this stuff on the internet anyway? A limited edition disc is one thing, but a$35LE strategy guide that won't have anymore info than what will be posted on the internetis just a rip-off. Also, used strategy guides NEVER sell well on Ebay (unless it is from a very rare game), so it is not like you are getting any moneys worth here.

SUre, its a rip-off, you probably could find the stuff on the intenret, but the guide in and of itself is a fun thing to own.

Shut up.

/sips from his limited edition Halo mug while pulling his limited edition GEoW underware out of his crack

Zulgaines

:lol:

nice one.

[QUOTE="JPOBS"]

Did you just start gaming like yesterday?

Strategy guides have been around for years. :|

AvIdGaMeR444

Strategy guides are generally $15 and are not limited editions. I'm arguing that limited edition strategy guides that cost $35 (which is more than most hardcover books) is ridiculous when you can just find all the info on the internet. I guess I'm way off base here...:roll:

Its easy, just dont buy it. Me, im not interested but they make this for a very small group of people who are.

To be honest there's a lot of strategic depth to the gameplay not just in the combat. Its a pretty huge game full of many facets, different consequences depending on how you interact with various races and how you approach objectives.

A guide spelling out all these possibilities would need to be pretty deep itself for anyone wanting to know the game inside and out. But that just deletes the point of experiencing it for yourself and finding your own way.

I'd love a guide that outlines all the different species, weapons, technology, politics etc. Although there's something like that within the game itself anyway, a big databank I think.

As far as a limited edition goes, well it gives it collectabilty value for anyone that really wants it.

[QUOTE="AvIdGaMeR444"]

[QUOTE="1vgfan"]I've heard of these before, and yeah, they are ridiculous. I don't understand why people buy strategy guides anyways, if I need one, I just pull one up on my labtop and use it.JPOBS

Exactly. What is the point of owning a strategy guide when you can find all this stuff on the internet anyway? A limited edition disc is one thing, but a$35LE strategy guide that won't have anymore info than what will be posted on the internetis just a rip-off. Also, used strategy guides NEVER sell well on Ebay (unless it is from a very rare game), so it is not like you are getting any moneys worth here.

SUre, its a rip-off, you probably could find the stuff on the intenret, but the guide in and of itself is a fun thing to own.

Yeah, you usually get a pretty sweet poster with it as well.

Shut up.

/sips from his limited edition Halo mug while pulling his limited edition GEoW underware out of his crack

Zulgaines

Is that Limited Edition Mountain Dew Game Fuel you just so happen to be drinking?

you Can buy strategy guides for almost any game..daveg1

This has got to be the first time I've ever seen a Limited Edition SG in my life.

[QUOTE="daveg1"]you Can buy strategy guides for almost any game..Watersage64

This has got to be the first time I've ever seen a Limited Edition SG in my life.

[QUOTE="Watersage64"]

[QUOTE="daveg1"]you Can buy strategy guides for almost any game..daveg1

This has got to be the first time I've ever seen a Limited Edition SG in my life.

Could you give me link? I haven't seen this and google doesn't deliver.

[QUOTE="daveg1"]you Can buy strategy guides for almost any game..Watersage64

This has got to be the first time I've ever seen a Limited Edition SG in my life.

My fiance bought a strat guide for WoW:BC when it came out. I just about slapped her stupid, but it occured to me she might already be stupid and I didn't want to make it any worse.

She threw it away finally. Since it become patched out of date and all.

I love the girl, but jesus H. christ... she couldn't have asked me if it was a good idea before doing it?

Strategy guides have their strengths for certain games. It's true that you can find all the information on the web, but it's nice to have a book for quick reference. Then you can sit there playing the game, and flip through the book to find tips.

I don't buy them myself because I'm too cheap and I don't want to be tempted to run to it when I get stuck.

Finally, strategy guides have been around for so long. Don't see why this one is such a big deal. It would be a big deal if there wasn't a strategy guide.

My fiance bought a strat guide for WoW:BC when it came out. I just about slapped her stupid, but it occured to me she might already be stupid and I didn't want to make it any worse.

She threw it away finally. Since it become patched out of date and all.

I love the girl, but jesus H. christ... she couldn't have asked me if it was a good idea before doing it?

Bgrngod

...you act like she wasn't trying to do you a favor...

..

...sometimes, it really is the thought that counts...

..or was it for her?

[QUOTE="JPOBS"]

Did you just start gaming like yesterday?

Strategy guides have been around for years. :|

AvIdGaMeR444

Strategy guides are generally $15 and are not limited editions. I'm arguing that limited edition strategy guides that cost $35 (which is more than most hardcover books) is ridiculous when you can just find all the info on the internet. I guess I'm way off base here...:roll:

You're not off base. He just doesn't know how to read well i'm assuming. He thought you were talking about strategy guides in general, not limited edition ones (which i think are ridiculous btw).

Gears of War had one...

Catch up with the times...

Shut up.

/sips from his limited edition Halo mug while pulling his limited edition GEoW underware out of his crack

Zulgaines

Wow, talk about extreme ignorance. He was saying isn't a bit too much for a Limited Edition Strategy guide, he wasn't actually going out and bashing it or bashing people who would buy it.

Hmmmm.... a strategy guide or potentially Phantom Hourglass or some other amazing DS game? That's a rip-off, it's a strategy guide for goodness sake.

[QUOTE="Zulgaines"]

Shut up.

/sips from his limited edition Halo mug while pulling his limited edition GEoW underware out of his crack

-Karmum-

Wow, talk about extreme ignorance. He was saying isn't a bit too much for a Limited Edition Strategy guide, he wasn't actually going out and bashing it or bashing people who would buy it.

You have just won The Most Ironic Post of 2007! How does it feel?

I'm assuming you mean that the limited edition strategy guide is overboard, not the existance of a strategy guide(as it seems most posters here have assumed :O)

I don't think so. Plenty of games have had awesome strategy guides. Strategy guides for some games can be really cool; take the twilight princess and phantom hourglass guides. The limited editions of these strategy guides are more for collectors. They actually are designed to go together;they are hardcovered, the PH guide is blue while the TP guide is alightbrown and both havethe zelda phoenix in gold. They also come with some neat things like a cloth map in the TP version. For a zelda fan, they are awesome!

[QUOTE="daveg1"]you Can buy strategy guides for almost any game..Watersage64

This has got to be the first time I've ever seen a Limited Edition SG in my life.

i saw a Zelda:TP SG Limited Edition in EBgames

Did you just start gaming like yesterday?

Strategy guides have been around for years. :|

JPOBS

Its a limited edition strategy guide...cmon its kinda funny

TC what you fail to realize is that strategy guides are geared towards 2 groups, harcore gamers and idiots. Hardcore gamers buy it because they know the guide will tell them every single detail and the location of every single item from day 1, they don't have to wait for some user to play though (which in the case of Mass Effect is pretty much gauranteed to be a couple of days) and then write the actual walkthrough. And even then, the writer will most likely miss some key items/missions. It could take months for a proper, comprehensive ME walkthrough to come out on a site like gamefaqs. The other target is the bumbling idiot who can't figure out how to work google, so he/shespends $35 on the "limited edition" strategy guide thinking there's something special about it other than the cover.PBSnipes

I agree with your 2nd point...that strat guides are for the "less than intellingent" gamer. But true hardcore gamers don't want to go near them. Hardcores play through a game without any help whatsoever in most cases. You really think diehard hardcore Zelda fans buy strat guidesto find out where the missing heart container pieces are? No.

I'm assuming you mean that the limited edition strategy guide is overboard, not the existance of a strategy guide(as it seems most posters here have assumed :O)

blahzor

Most posters haven't read my original post obviously. I said "limited edition" strat guides are ridiculous. I never said "regular, run of the mill strat guides". But people just assume I just meant strategy guides in general even though I specifically mentioned LE editions. :|

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=832088

Ok, I understand limited edition discs, but strategy guides? Isn't that a litte overboard? :?

AvIdGaMeR444

uhhh.... You do know that tons and tons of games sell strategie guides... I dont know who would ever buy that garbage though, I prefere not to cheat, and if i need to look something up, theres a thing called the internet now lol...

[QUOTE="blahzor"]

I'm assuming you mean that the limited edition strategy guide is overboard, not the existance of a strategy guide(as it seems most posters here have assumed :O)

AvIdGaMeR444

Most posters haven't read my original post obviously. I said "limited edition" strat guides are ridiculous. I never said "regular, run of the mill strat guides". But people just assume I just meant strategy guides in general even though I specifically mentioned LE editions. :|

Yes i noticed, hence my comment :) I wonder how many more people to follow will make that mistake though :D

However, i do not think LE guides are even ridiculous. I understand what you are saying though; limited guides are for hardcore fans but a guide in general is not for the hardcore.. an oxymoron. However, limited guides are more then just a walkthrough. They have interesting art, sometimes some interesting extras(Zelda TP with cloth map, Zelda PH with bookmark etc) and they are collectable.. see the zelda guides(as i said before, TP and PH guides were designed to go together, asthetically of course). THe collectors guide for TP came out months after TP's release, well after i had alread "mastered" TP(including a 3 heart run through). However, being a massive zelda fan i bought it and have not regreted it(it's an amazing zelda collectable. Awell made book, it just looks good) and i'm going to get PH's guide at somepoint too, now that i've finished that!