Are Strategy Guides pretty much dead?
What do you think? Also, why don't strategy guides hold their value like games? I can't think of any that are more than $100 except maybe Earthbound and the FFVII Versus guides if they are in Mint condition.
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I still enjoy a good one. The last one I bought was Arkham Knight because I wanted to 100% the game. Didn't even tell you how to do all the Riddler stuff which is why I bought it. Absolute waste. Now I'm wary. I considered the Doom collector's Edition but never bought it.
Actually, no... the last one I got was for Xenoblade Chronicles X and that one was actually very helpful, but you kind of have to flip between sections to get all the stuff you need to know.
Modern guides are both useless and worthless.
I like the way the retro ones look on my gameroom shelf.
http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=99684
http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=117957
Every game guide I had at the store I work at RARELY sells. Even if I get something that sells for $15, I can put a dollar on it and it'll sit there. I usually package them with the game and sell it as a bundle to get rid of them... There's a reason why even Gamestop won't take them in.
Not sure what you mean by guides don't hold their value though. What did they used to cost, like $20 each? (I genuinely can't remember anymore) There are plenty that are in the $50+ range.
There are a ton of expensive guides from the NES and SNES era. Good luck trying to find some of these obscure ones on the cheap.
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Not all of those were sold at retail.
Then again, I guess physical NES cartridges are just a novelty now as well, and tons of us collect those.
There are a ton of expensive guides from the NES and SNES era. Good luck trying to find some of these obscure ones on the cheap.
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Not all of those were sold at retail.
Your point? They are still guides and hint books, some extremely valuable. Technically Earthbound wasn't either, it was a pack-in with the game. There are plenty of them on there that were sold and are still expensive.
I challenge anyone to start collecting guides and see how cheap it is.
Some stuff really surprises me though, hard to believe so many people would by the Call of Duty or Battlefield guides that come out or things like that where the campaign progression is brain dead, and the multiplayer strategies are outdated in days.
I'd like to get the old paper mario and Pokémon Gold/Silver guides I had as a kid, but besides that i don't care about them personally. Anybody have a large collection of them here?
I have a bunch fof the Mario and Pokémon games and a few for donkey kong and Zelda but I bought out a store that was closing and still have 600-800 of them I haven't really gone thru
I'd like to get the old paper mario and Pokémon Gold/Silver guides I had as a kid, but besides that i don't care about them personally. Anybody have a large collection of them here?
I have a bunch fof the Mario and Pokémon games and a few for donkey kong and Zelda but I bought out a store that was closing and still have 600-800 of them I haven't really gone thru
any doubles you wanna sell?
What do you think? Also, why don't strategy guides hold their value like games? I can't think of any that are more than $100 except maybe Earthbound and the FFVII Versus guides if they are in Mint condition.
Because they are a dated book about a game that is probably full of errat, and now simply contains informaiton that is easily available on the internet
I suspect that the only reason the Earthbound guide is of any value is because it was part of the Earthbound retail package.
In terms of modern guides... it is hard to imagine how they could exist in any form that somebody would be willing to pay money for.
What do you think? Also, why don't strategy guides hold their value like games? I can't think of any that are more than $100 except maybe Earthbound and the FFVII Versus guides if they are in Mint condition.
Because they are a dated book about a game that is probably full of errat, and now simply contains informaiton that is easily available on the internet
I suspect that the only reason the Earthbound guide is of any value is because it was part of the Earthbound retail package.
In terms of modern guides... it is hard to imagine how they could exist in any form that somebody would be willing to pay money for.
change the word book to cart, and what's the difference exactly?
What do you think? Also, why don't strategy guides hold their value like games? I can't think of any that are more than $100 except maybe Earthbound and the FFVII Versus guides if they are in Mint condition.
Because they are a dated book about a game that is probably full of errat, and now simply contains informaiton that is easily available on the internet
I suspect that the only reason the Earthbound guide is of any value is because it was part of the Earthbound retail package.
In terms of modern guides... it is hard to imagine how they could exist in any form that somebody would be willing to pay money for.
change the word book to cart, and what's the difference exactly?
I suspect many more people have a connection to the actual games than any supplementary information written about them (other than Nintendo Power, specifically)
I suspect many more people have a connection to the actual games than any supplementary information written about them (other than Nintendo Power, specifically)
well maybe. I only had a few guides as a kid, but then again I only had a few games as well. A better question would be why is NP more popular to collect than old guides? I get lots of people had subscriptions, but was it really that uncommon to have guides?
Just because you can look at it online doesnt mean its everyones perferred method.
Ill pay 30$ for a high quality bound book with artwork etc, just like i will pay 200$ for a game I wont play
I don't plan on using it to help me through the game.
I don't plan on it appreciating in value.
I just want to look at it probably once and then have it sit on my shelf. It's not a prestige item or anything. This example in a nutshell is what strategy guides have come to.
I think it'd be wise for game developers to start making app-guides though, maybe as a $10 addon that connects *with* the game and tells the app where you are right there and then and what to do possibly via voice. Oooh, and maybe extend it to add social features and such.
BRB, Calling EA. About to make a couple million.
This guide probably didn't help the whole strategy guide market either. It left quite a few scars on people. LOL
lol that PoS. I was really curious if they were just going to reprrint it for that 7-8-9 box set that came out last year. It wasn't really clear until release. Thankfully they re-wrote it.