Do they still make these strategy guides? I miss having a physical book you can leaf through in your lap while you play a game. Online guides and wikis just don't fill the same void.
>>736337274Why would they?
Yes
For the most part, no, but you can still find ones for old games super cheap at used book stores.
>>736337274Growing up too poor to afford guides.Too stupid and managed to got an entire FAQs guide printed at school.(got in trouble for over 100+ pages)
>>736337431Bitch please, I grew up before dial-up was a thing people had at home and had to ask my dad to search the internet for codes for me at work for games I was stuck in. He never did, he would instead spend lunchbreaks reading guides about the game and then come home and help me beat the section together. I miss that.
>>736337274Online guides were such a huge step back it's not even funny.
Its funny I had access to the internet back then but I just never thought to look up guides on gamefaqs until the 2000's
>>736337274The Dark Souls/Bloodborne guides were the last ones I ever got and even then there was a massive gap between those and the previous batch (ended with FFX-2).
>>736337668Thats why there were MULTIPLE guides you could pick from.All with SICK Ascii art
These guys made a guide for their game like the older strat guides, wish more devs would do it but I understand the time and effort.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1037860/Shadows_of_Adam__The_Official_Players_Guide/
>>736337274This one mogged Bradygames
>>736337668>>736337978Online FAQs for anything obscure are usually trash and often unfinished. These days if you need a push in the right direction, just ask A.I. and it'll scour every possible result into an answer.And fuck fags who make FAQs without a TOC.
>>736337274They've been enshittified
Final fantasy 9 had the worst one that gave half the secrets and required online keyword inputs to get the full tips.
Yea future press and piggyback still make them, huge ass 500 page stuff.
>>736339445Yes square was trying to push their online platform before ff11 was even a thing, it was probably the worst guide ever released as a result.
>>736337274I remember my friend buying Enter the Matrix on PS2 with the official strategy guide for well over $100 AUD combined back in 2003 and then he 100% completed the entire game in a single day only because of the guide.
>>736338198>This one mogged Bradygamesi doubt it
I notice people don't even write guides on the internet for major games now. Like every obscure JP only SNES game has a gamefaqs guide but even relatively mainstream stuff now just gets nothing but like an empty fextralife page
More people had the opportunity, time, and Fandom to help others get through the game Think of how many you know that are proficient video game players and writers and willing to post a guide. The confidence and desire have to be both there.
>>736337607Sounds like your dad was based as hell. I'm jelly. Bastard child reporting in.
Doublejump make some great guides. The one of Rogue Galaxy, as mediocre as that game was, its guide have absolutely every detailed to get 100%.On the opposite Brady Games didn't have enough. Tales of Vesperia was a RPG known for having tons of missable items and events and the guide didn't showcase how to unlock any of them. In fact you had to ask a Japanese versed person to help you translation their guides since we didn't have AI translation tools to do it for us.GameFAQs were only good for obscure games that always had a guide from one or two autists. Some times you could get help on the forums but there was some ESL that lurked on all the RPG boards and gave out false information all the time.
