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What are your memories of horrible guides you spent your allowance on years ago to buy, only to find they weren't worth poo poo? The guide to Majora's Mask by Brady Games was the worst. They drew their own maps for each area using some lovely 3d design software. The guide also put things in the wrong places or just didn't show them at all. It was also full of typos.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:35 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 20:42 |
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as a kid i used gamefaqs
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:36 |
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final fantasy 9 op
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:36 |
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:37 |
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koolkal posted:as a kid i used gamefaqs I did to an extent. Back in the days of dialup though, I wouldn't get much time online.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:37 |
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that dragon has a knife penis
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:45 |
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Endorph posted:final fantasy 9 op want to found out why? go to playonline and enter IMGAY
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:46 |
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I kept shooting the cyberdemon and it never loving died.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:47 |
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Ive never purchased a strategy guide in my life
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:49 |
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When I was a kid I used to buy strategy guides a lot. A lot of them seem to be not very helpful, though. I remember in Chrono Cross there was this fight the guide hyped as insanely difficult (F.A.T.E.) that I've never had any trouble with, whereas other fights that I actually could have used some hints for they refused to print anything.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 04:56 |
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For example, in order to get the good ending in Chrono Cross you have to fight the final boss, and then cast spells in a specific order, and then cast the Chrono Cross spell. The guide absolutely refused to tell you what the specific order was, with the person who wrote the guide instead printing some rambling note about how you would know it if you paid attention. It's not hard to figure out, but it's loving dumb to not print it.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:01 |
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lol nintendo power
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:04 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Lunar-Silver-Complete-Unauthorized-Strategy/dp/0761516425 Pretty much any Prima guide was poo poo and this one is in B&W and very lovely.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:05 |
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When I was 10 I bought a Super Mario 64 strategy guide which I found out later had a printing error, so worlds 1-6 were just printed over and over again and none of the rest of the game was in the book.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:08 |
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The only strategy guide I ever owned was for Luigi's Mansion, because my mom bought it for me that Christmas and must have gotten conned into buying the guide too. It was actually really good and helped a lot.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:09 |
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:11 |
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Most of the strategy guides I owned were extremely quality except for a hastily made 'pokedex book' that I bought a decade ago from a jr. high book fair.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:11 |
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rocket_man38 posted:The guide to Majora's Mask by Brady Games was the worst.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:13 |
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I used to buy these for the sake of finding lots of secrets then I discovered the internet
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:36 |
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FF9's guide made you go to this lovely website to get the rest of the information that should've been printed in the guide in the first place.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 05:49 |
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Mach2 posted:that dragon has a knife penis lol if you dont have a knife penis
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 06:02 |
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the guide for the gba fire emblem calls one of the chapters "Wigglers" i want to know why
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 06:13 |
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had a prima guide for wc3 that straight up lied in spots, doing stuff like saying how a character died in the intro to a level when you proceed to use that character in the level
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 06:18 |
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then again I also had a prima guide for dark cloud 2 that was insanely detailed besides not knowing about one of the support characters because she's super obscure
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 06:20 |
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gently caress prima
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 06:39 |
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I remember having one guide that didn't give you any sort of actual useful statistical or strategic info at all in favor of telling the game's progression as if it were the journal of the main character. I want to say it was maybe Baldur's Gate? I don't remember for sure but holy gently caress it was so useless.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 06:53 |
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didn't get much use out of the mega man legends prime guide but it had some pretty concept art in it.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 06:57 |
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I had the Baldur's Gate 2 strategy guide (maybe it was just for BG2:ToB but still, same point) from Prima and it had a full list of spells+analysis of each spell at the end "Death Spell" says in its in-game description that it instantly kills anything below level 6 without a saving throw, in a wide area. It automatically wins a surprisingly huge number of encounters even lategame, including one of the ones that the guide described as the hardest in the game (that one spot in ToB where you get swarmed by like 100+ regular soldiers and guardsmen). Prima described the spell as "ineffective against bosses" and basically useless it had a lot of other minor inaccuracies that i didnt care about too, but ive always found that one kind of funny
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 06:57 |
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Scalding Coffee posted:Pretty much any Prima guide was poo poo
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 06:58 |
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brady games guides were worse than prima guides
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 07:06 |
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I disagree.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 15:33 |
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I once bought a strategy guide from gamestop for a penny while on a bad family vacation and read it like 100 times
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 15:36 |
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SarutosZero posted:I once bought a strategy guide from gamestop for a penny while on a bad family vacation and read it like 100 times what game
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 15:42 |
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Bolverkur posted:what game I was tying to figure that out but I cant remember. It was some kind of puzzle/horror game for ps1 or ps2 but I cant find it. I do remember one of the earlier puzzles you had to collect cards or something and one of the cards said dog and the other one said god.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 15:52 |
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The Ogre Battle one for SNES stopped giving you maps and detailed hints about halfway through for no real reason and just gave you broad often incorrect summaries.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 16:09 |
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Not sure if this counts, but this certainly comes to mind.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 16:56 |
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I love players guides, even if I don't own the game. Reading enemy data at looking at stats is a bunch if fun Sometimes the best game is your imagination
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 17:02 |
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ForeverSmug posted:I love players guides, even if I don't own the game. Reading enemy data at looking at stats is a bunch if fun posted this in another thread but idgaf that guide and that game set my imagination on fire as a kid. now i am a broken shell of an adult and nothing does it for me. i never bought guides though, just got the one above for free. i did however subscribe to N64 Magazine which regularly came with booklets with guides on games. that was p. cool especially when collecting skulltulas and pokémon and poo poo.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 17:13 |
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Finish the game in 60 hours.
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# ? Oct 24, 2014 17:24 |
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Slur posted:
what the hell guide is that from, goddamn that's awful
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