What are your favorite game strategy guides?
As a child I'd occasionally get videogame strategy guides at garage sales which largely fostered my long-term love of reading.
I'm sure others have similar stories so what were some of your favorite Brady/Prima/other strategy guides?
To start off for me:
- Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
- Jak 3
- Knights of the Old Republic
- Banjo-Kazooie
Jak 3 is probably my personal favorite as I remember liking the artwork/concept art a lot as well as blurbs written in-character.
The 7th Guest has a great one that's like told in-character, included in the files of the digital copies of the game now as a pdf, the pdf is 368 pages long! it's scans not text but here's some screenshots of excerpts
Ohh, that one was a masterpiece. It even included the original script, so you could read some of the stuff that got cut/rewritten.
Yep lots of nice extras in the digital releases, and the Making of The 7th Guest video is great too, also available on YouTube https://youtu.be/Fd63F3d2FCI
Btw we have !stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com
I still have my games guide for the original Final Fantasy Tactics for the PlayStation. I've kept it all these years just for the beautiful artwork.
That reminded me that at some point I ended up with a FF13 guide and, despite not living the game, really enjoying it.
I purchased an FFX guide when I was very young but unfortunately I remember it having coffee stains all throughout.
Coffee stains? Those are called battle scars. That was a great guide.
It's not an official guide but CyricZ's guides to the Yakuza series. Very informative and easy to follow.
I liked the official Nintendo OoT guide because it was written in 3rd person and was relatively spoiler free.
Half-Life : Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Wouldn't have found half the shit without the Final Fantasy 7 or 10 strategy guide.