Honestly I don't have much interest in this book or any other type of review book. Reviews have been done to death. Give me something I haven't seen before. Conceptual sketches,personal notes from the creators,funny stories,....stuff you can only get from the source. Nothing wrong with this book and others like it,it's just that I'd rather have the stuff mentioned earlier than some fan's take on these games. I can get that on NA,gamefaqs,or youtube.
Yeah but you're sitting around thinking to yourself, "this game any good?" and the answer is in your lap. Also there is something about thumbing through a coffee table book stuffed full of reviews of obscure games. Great way to find hidden gems. Searching on the internet will only list top results based on popularity, though the exact algorithms used to generate said results vary wildly. Something to be said in terms of completeness.
An anthology so to speak. Then too people will buy anything because it's in a book. I used to have a print copy of the Internet Yellow Pages floating around. Stuff like that would be a gold mine for historians trying to document the early days of the dotcom bust. The fact that most of these sites don't exist anymore and those that do are wildly different would be fascinating to some. My Psychiatrist had a copy of a Sears and Robuck 1902 catalog sitting on his shelf in the waiting room. I thumbed through it one day out of mild curiosity. Fact is books have a permanence that all the 1s and 0s and the whim of whatever's popular online or appear in search results does not. It says, "Someone somewhere felt this was important enough to document and publish it."
Someone somewhere will be thumbing through Pat's review anthology 100 years from now when all the youtube videos and gaming review sites are long extinct, much as I did with the 1902 Sears catalog. I anticipate a great data purge in the coming years when humanity runs out of hard disk space to store their precious crap on. Archive.org may not even survive the fallout. Books will remain.
Exactly! Me being a former art major,I usually swoon over the video game artbooks....especially Rockman/Mega Man ones like the 20th and 25th anniversary ones. Those are amazing and my favorites!
I wish they had a similar artbook for Castlevania or just for Konami in general. That would be equally amazing.
HG101 has a book on Castlevania, but I have not checked it out yet. Pix n Love has one as well, if you can read French.
Originally posted by: mattbep
That is what drew me to the Visual Compendium. I thought it was supposed to be a full page or two of graphics for each game? A little text added to it for me. I'm not clear on how it's going to be now. More text and less pictures could be more or less cool to me. Will have to check it out.
Twice the text, but not on the pictures, just throughout the book as a whole. I should really forward you those updates .
Yeah I'd rather read about the history of 17 games than 750 reviews from one person's perspective. I can check out gameplay of something on youtube to decide if I want to play it.
Exactly! Me being a former art major,I usually swoon over the video game artbooks....especially Rockman/Mega Man ones like the 20th and 25th anniversary ones. Those are amazing and my favorites!
I wish they had a similar artbook for Castlevania or just for Konami in general. That would be equally amazing.
Same here! I used to own a couple of Disney artbooks and could look at them for hours. If I had come across anything for video games/anime back in the day I would have picked them up. I'm just done with books these days, got rid of most of what I had after moving so many times. Can't say the kickstarter book isn't tempting, though!
Yeah I'd rather read about the history of 17 games than 750 reviews from one person's perspective. I can check out gameplay of something on youtube to decide if I want to play it.
Exactly! Me being a former art major,I usually swoon over the video game artbooks....especially Rockman/Mega Man ones like the 20th and 25th anniversary ones. Those are amazing and my favorites!
I wish they had a similar artbook for Castlevania or just for Konami in general. That would be equally amazing.
Same here! I used to own a couple of Disney artbooks and could look at them for hours. If I had come across anything for video games/anime back in the day I would have picked them up. I'm just done with books these days, got rid of most of what I had after moving so many times. Can't say the kickstarter book isn't tempting, though!
I got rid of most of mine as well although I have kept all my Mega Man ones and a few Dragon Quest guide books that have really cool art.
Ui did an Amazon search for "NES Book" and there was a complete collecting guide to NES with a one star review. I LOL'ed when the reviewer said he was better off using it as toilet paper...
Ui did an Amazon search for "NES Book" and there was a complete collecting guide to NES with a one star review. I LOL'ed when the reviewer said he was better off using it as toilet paper...
Most reviews are worthless. Hell,I've already seen several reviews for the nes mini on the Best Buy website and it won't be released for several months. Smh...
Ui did an Amazon search for "NES Book" and there was a complete collecting guide to NES with a one star review. I LOL'ed when the reviewer said he was better off using it as toilet paper...
Most reviews are worthless. Hell,I've already seen several reviews for the nes mini on the Best Buy website and it won't be released for several months. Smh...
At least Amazon makes you wait. Reminds me of the one-star scalper reviews on the Majora's Mask 3DS. One review gained over 700 comments before it got retired. I had fun participating in that little discussion...
Pat's NES book is way way too bloated. The concept is there but at some point you need to edit. Make it more of an encyclopedia with all of the stats, designers, interesting trivia, and maybe a 1-2 line review with a score out of 10 from 5 known people including the author. Then I'm on board for every system.
The Nintendo book looks very promising. Too many people write books out of ego, and not marketplace necessity. The Nintendo book looks to be providing a ton of in depth information that wasn't previously known or at least very little known. Most books these days are made instantly obsolete by google unless they are painstakingly complete and thorough without being too bloated. A very thin line to walk.
Yeah I'd rather read about the history of 17 games than 750 reviews from one person's perspective. I can check out gameplay of something on youtube to decide if I want to play it.
Exactly! Me being a former art major,I usually swoon over the video game artbooks....especially Rockman/Mega Man ones like the 20th and 25th anniversary ones. Those are amazing and my favorites!
I wish they had a similar artbook for Castlevania or just for Konami in general. That would be equally amazing.
Same here! I used to own a couple of Disney artbooks and could look at them for hours. If I had come across anything for video games/anime back in the day I would have picked them up. I'm just done with books these days, got rid of most of what I had after moving so many times. Can't say the kickstarter book isn't tempting, though!
I think it's more of a magazine. But it's mostly just reviews. It's a HG101 review tho so you know they are good.
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Honestly I don't have much interest in this book or any other type of review book. Reviews have been done to death. Give me something I haven't seen before. Conceptual sketches,personal notes from the creators,funny stories,....stuff you can only get from the source. Nothing wrong with this book and others like it,it's just that I'd rather have the stuff mentioned earlier than some fan's take on these games. I can get that on NA,gamefaqs,or youtube.
Yeah but you're sitting around thinking to yourself, "this game any good?" and the answer is in your lap. Also there is something about thumbing through a coffee table book stuffed full of reviews of obscure games. Great way to find hidden gems. Searching on the internet will only list top results based on popularity, though the exact algorithms used to generate said results vary wildly. Something to be said in terms of completeness.
An anthology so to speak. Then too people will buy anything because it's in a book. I used to have a print copy of the Internet Yellow Pages floating around. Stuff like that would be a gold mine for historians trying to document the early days of the dotcom bust. The fact that most of these sites don't exist anymore and those that do are wildly different would be fascinating to some. My Psychiatrist had a copy of a Sears and Robuck 1902 catalog sitting on his shelf in the waiting room. I thumbed through it one day out of mild curiosity. Fact is books have a permanence that all the 1s and 0s and the whim of whatever's popular online or appear in search results does not. It says, "Someone somewhere felt this was important enough to document and publish it."
Someone somewhere will be thumbing through Pat's review anthology 100 years from now when all the youtube videos and gaming review sites are long extinct, much as I did with the 1902 Sears catalog. I anticipate a great data purge in the coming years when humanity runs out of hard disk space to store their precious crap on. Archive.org may not even survive the fallout. Books will remain.
Originally posted by: gutsman004
Exactly! Me being a former art major,I usually swoon over the video game artbooks....especially Rockman/Mega Man ones like the 20th and 25th anniversary ones. Those are amazing and my favorites!
I wish they had a similar artbook for Castlevania or just for Konami in general. That would be equally amazing.
HG101 has a book on Castlevania, but I have not checked it out yet. Pix n Love has one as well, if you can read French.
Originally posted by: mattbep
That is what drew me to the Visual Compendium. I thought it was supposed to be a full page or two of graphics for each game? A little text added to it for me. I'm not clear on how it's going to be now. More text and less pictures could be more or less cool to me. Will have to check it out.
Twice the text, but not on the pictures, just throughout the book as a whole. I should really forward you those updates .
Yeah I'd rather read about the history of 17 games than 750 reviews from one person's perspective. I can check out gameplay of something on youtube to decide if I want to play it.
Exactly! Me being a former art major,I usually swoon over the video game artbooks....especially Rockman/Mega Man ones like the 20th and 25th anniversary ones. Those are amazing and my favorites!
I wish they had a similar artbook for Castlevania or just for Konami in general. That would be equally amazing.
Same here! I used to own a couple of Disney artbooks and could look at them for hours. If I had come across anything for video games/anime back in the day I would have picked them up. I'm just done with books these days, got rid of most of what I had after moving so many times. Can't say the kickstarter book isn't tempting, though!
Yeah I'd rather read about the history of 17 games than 750 reviews from one person's perspective. I can check out gameplay of something on youtube to decide if I want to play it.
Exactly! Me being a former art major,I usually swoon over the video game artbooks....especially Rockman/Mega Man ones like the 20th and 25th anniversary ones. Those are amazing and my favorites!
I wish they had a similar artbook for Castlevania or just for Konami in general. That would be equally amazing.
Same here! I used to own a couple of Disney artbooks and could look at them for hours. If I had come across anything for video games/anime back in the day I would have picked them up. I'm just done with books these days, got rid of most of what I had after moving so many times. Can't say the kickstarter book isn't tempting, though!
I got rid of most of mine as well although I have kept all my Mega Man ones and a few Dragon Quest guide books that have really cool art.
I preordered the book off amazon lastnight while it was only $24
It is still on sale for 20-something. Also now on the Amazon Best Seller list. I wonder why?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/074401767X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469903549&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65
Ui did an Amazon search for "NES Book" and there was a complete collecting guide to NES with a one star review. I LOL'ed when the reviewer said he was better off using it as toilet paper...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/0974582735/ref=mw_dp_cr
I preordered the book off amazon lastnight while it was only $24
It is still on sale for 20-something. Also now on the Amazon Best Seller list. I wonder why?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/07...
Ui did an Amazon search for "NES Book" and there was a complete collecting guide to NES with a one star review. I LOL'ed when the reviewer said he was better off using it as toilet paper...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/0...
Most reviews are worthless. Hell,I've already seen several reviews for the nes mini on the Best Buy website and it won't be released for several months. Smh...
I preordered the book off amazon lastnight while it was only $24
It is still on sale for 20-something. Also now on the Amazon Best Seller list. I wonder why?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/074401767X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...
Ui did an Amazon search for "NES Book" and there was a complete collecting guide to NES with a one star review. I LOL'ed when the reviewer said he was better off using it as toilet paper...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/0974582735/ref=mw_dp_cr
Most reviews are worthless. Hell,I've already seen several reviews for the nes mini on the Best Buy website and it won't be released for several months. Smh...
At least Amazon makes you wait. Reminds me of the one-star scalper reviews on the Majora's Mask 3DS. One review gained over 700 comments before it got retired. I had fun participating in that little discussion...
The Nintendo book looks very promising. Too many people write books out of ego, and not marketplace necessity. The Nintendo book looks to be providing a ton of in depth information that wasn't previously known or at least very little known. Most books these days are made instantly obsolete by google unless they are painstakingly complete and thorough without being too bloated. A very thin line to walk.
Yeah I'd rather read about the history of 17 games than 750 reviews from one person's perspective. I can check out gameplay of something on youtube to decide if I want to play it.
Exactly! Me being a former art major,I usually swoon over the video game artbooks....especially Rockman/Mega Man ones like the 20th and 25th anniversary ones. Those are amazing and my favorites!
I wish they had a similar artbook for Castlevania or just for Konami in general. That would be equally amazing.
Same here! I used to own a couple of Disney artbooks and could look at them for hours. If I had come across anything for video games/anime back in the day I would have picked them up. I'm just done with books these days, got rid of most of what I had after moving so many times. Can't say the kickstarter book isn't tempting, though!
I think it's more of a magazine. But it's mostly just reviews. It's a HG101 review tho so you know they are good.