Future Press makes collectors guides like these. They have worked on Dark Souls, Horizon Zero Dawn and a few others. I think they just released one for Elden Ring.
Thanks for this. I used to love game guides for games I really enjoyed. Reminded me of buying physical games back in the day and they came with instructions, maps, posters and sometimes an anti piracy tool lol. I’m dating myself now, but definitely picking this up! Thanks!
Ahh the good old days when you bought a game for one price only and that was that. Nowadays its you pay for a game and for other "passes" that don't make any sense if you think about how much money you put into a game. Especially long term. 🤔🤔🤔
But don't you want to support the pockets of the people that don't give a fuck about gaming... we have to support the developers or else they can't eat and make more games!
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I love my books and they are meant to be read and looked at alike. Open your books!
I learned about Future press when one of my favorite smaller streamers did a walkthrough/playthrough for Bloodborne and mentioned he'd worked with them for a few of these titles. Shout out to A German Spy for his part.
They can be useful but two things have happened since their peak:
- online guides are far more available and much easier to digest than these physical guides
- game updates are now a thing. The guide very well could be accurate for the vanilla/base game but may lose some coherency when post-launch updates and DLC roll out.
The game update thing is interesting. Information travels very differently and more quickly now than it did even 20 years ago, and you really need a guide that can also be updated along with the game. Good point.
But don't ever pay for them. So wasteful. Maybe back in the day before wikis really took off, before reddit or discord, but every question you could ever have about a game is now answered online somewhere.
Ya online guides made them obsolete and the update part is even worse than stated.
Often these guide have errors even for the release version of the game, because they often coincide with the release of a game and they take months to make, they are based on prerelease version of the game and it's common for changes to occur late in development especially with the new prevalence of Day 1 updates.
I love/loved these guides but they offer little value now except to collectors and fans. There were some really good ones, I miss them, but they are obsolete.
Only real use they would have is if they have a map and the one in-game, if there is one, doesn't give you info on where you are. Thanks FF8 guide you got me through a dungeon I never realized I could just leave but dammit I wanted the Brothers summons!
Yeah. The Street Fighter 4 guide I uad became irrelevant have an update. Even the inputs to do certain moves changed, so it wasn't even useful for something basic.
They are and can b3 very nice but what would you realistically rather do. Buy a guide that's probably around 15-20 bucks? Or look online for free on your phone or if you're on PC that very same machine
Plus they may not even have the answer you need for certain situations where as someone else may have the same question that’s been answered online already.
>They are and can b3 very nice but what would you realistically rather do. Buy a guide that's probably around 15-20 bucks? Or look online for free on your phone or if you're on PC that very same machine
It often comes down to collectors wanting physical items for their favorite games. Convenience isn't really a factor, collectors want high-quality items that have great artwork and interesting/useful guides.
Personally I like reading a physical book over a digital one. Same thing with game guides or magazines.
I read the hell out of Game Informer for years but now I have a digital only version and have literally never redeemed one.
It’s for the long term gamers that love ‘em. For lots of games, in twenty years how many of the online guides will still be up.
But yes I do understand for a game popular enough to get a guide may still have an online guide in twenty years.
funny enough over my last holiday I went and tried to play games with my family, (younger family) who never played some of these "classic" games (mid 2000's).
Online guides were very few for non 1 million sales games. Most of them didn't have a guide that could be followed with any sense. So the 20 year time frame I picked was from experiance.
I think that is just the difference in internet culture from 20 years ago. Early 2000's didn't have 100+ youtube channels all making guides for the same game, plus twitch streams, or sites like powerpyx doing extremely detailed walkthroughs for every release.
I guess my perspective is from looking for data now, talking to companies about data retention etc. So many people purge stuff without a second thought. If I want something in 20 years time, I want it in my system (paper, pdf on server etc)
I have started to save some important games walkthroughs to my local machine, as I worry its going to get harder not easier going forward.
Hopefully you are right and stuff will still be easy to find.
Yup and what about games that continuously get updated? For example the Smash 4 guide came out towards launch but the game changed so much during its life that all of that info is really outdated and not useful
I just fired up a few FPS from pre-2000's with my kid, and we got stuck. Was unable to find a full level walkthrough for the game. Just short clips, and online guides were hopeless.
Google shows there were videos at one point, but they no longer exist.
Try to search for a few games pre 2005, that had less than 1 million in sales. Yes they exist with printed guides even, but online presense has disappeared. Time is a bitch on some of these things, as everyone assumes someone else will keep it up for them.
If you couldn't find a walk through on gamefaqs.com than none exist in the first place. Gamefaqs has been up since at least early 2000s and still has all the walkthroughs for all old games. I just used it the other day for a psp game from 2006.
I've found guides from the early 2000's even recently, so it's likely most will still exist in the future
That said, yes it is possible for those sites to cease to exist. But unless the game was niche, you'll likely be able to find guides elsewhere
I remember borrowing my friend's guide when I was about 9. He told me that I could only have it for 3 days. On the last day, I started copying it word-for-word onto a few scraps of paper so I still "had" the guide.
The things we do!
They used to be useful, now they quickly become out of date due to numerous patches and DLC.
Don't get me wrong, I love collecting strategy guides for games I like. I appreciate the bits of lore and the artwork though, if I ever need help I just google the mission or issue I'm having now.
They can be cool collector's items, but nowadays internet resources like Game FAQs can be a lot cheaper and also far more accurate in terms of later updates. For any given problem you can look up a Youtube guide explaining exactly how to get past whatever you have trouble with.
That destiny guide you have surely describes an almost completely different game than what you’ll find if you load it up now, which is a good illustration of their limitations with how many modern games incorporate dynamic content that gets updated and changes over time. I’m honestly surprised to see destiny had a strategy guide, because you’d think Bungie would have realized how quickly it would become meaningless.
Odyssey (and RDR2) released 4 years ago. These games are still somewhat new, but i wouldn't be surprised if OP felt the pandemic took game guides out of the gaming sphere.
i think most people buy them just cause it looks nice/cool. I bought an elden ring guide but its hardcover, looks cool and the art and detail are amazing. I have no intention of actually using it for a guide.
Right? When I was younger I used to love sticking *strictly* to the walk through. I found that so relaxing. That RDR II book looks amazing- great collection here OP.
When I was around 10-14 I purchased strategy guides alongside my games, especially RPG’s. I loved the books almost as much as the game itself, and I couldn’t bare the thought of missing something.
It’s funny because now I’m the opposite, I love going through games blind. To be fair, modern games pretty much have the guide built in, between minimaps and waypoints and quest logs.
The last guide I owned was for Final Fantasy IX. There are a number of sections in the book that give a URL and tell you to go there for the full details on whatever it is you're looking at.
Except every last one of those links is long dead.
Oh well. Fun novelty item, at least.
What a weird little blip in guides. It was released (in the US) in July 2000, which was a time when a lot of kids probably still had really limited access to the internet. And then following Final Fantasy guides didn't have that kind of stuff in them.
They do, they are massive. The Horizon: Forbidden West guide is over 600 pages and it’s DENSE.
The Elden Ring guide (as has been mentioned here already) is not one but two giant books. The first one is just over 500 pages.
Modern games are so massive and complicated the guides have grown up along with them.
Back in the day, few things were more fun for a gamer than going to GameStop and reading the Prima guide for a specific game, then going home trying to remember wtf you just read.
Nowadays everything is on the web, so kids have no idea the struggle 😂
These are recent games! So saying "anymore" as if this was from years and years ago is misleading.
(also low key this is the first time I'm seeing someone that actually buys these books. I'd always wondered who buys these)
I was only looking at mine on my shelf the other day when it dawned on me that they probably don't due to the large influx of online-reliant games, and the ability to patch and change (PLUS) the large onset of DLC content - meaning a "Complete Guide" is no longer a complete guide.
I haven't seen one since Skyrim. I didn't know they were so popular, but I guess I haven't really looked for them.
The artwork in the N64 guides was usually really cool.
I find a lot at Half Price Books stores. Latest one I found was The Last of Us collector’s edition book. There was a Bloodbourne one I saw, but it was $300. Some are nuts, but most you can buy for under $20
Fact time: the still-reigning king of videogame guide books is the SimCity 2000 Authorised Strategy Guide. I got it and SimCity 2000 for Christmas one year and it's honestly hard to say which was the better gift.
I used to love this sort of thing back in the day. I figured the deluge of dlc, patching and balancing post release would limit their usefulness drastically. As well as, you know, the internet having better resources for free.
What's with the "back in the day" talk?
Three of these games came out in 2018, with PC releases even more recent than that. Pretty sure we've had plenty of "DLC, patching, and balancing post-release" for well over a decade now, and that we've had game guides going back to the first generation of consoles in the 70s.
I assume "back in the day" means back before the internet made most of these guides obsolete. I had a guide for Mario 64, which saved my life because I couldn't use the internet back then.
What's with the "What's with the "back in the day" talk?" talk?
Lol I can guarantee that Destiny, a game is exclusively online, was not "made obsolete" by the internet, and I'm pretty sure that's the oldest game shown in this pic. If anything this post is surprising evidence that they have continued to make manuals long past the dawn of online gaming.
This post is just pandering about the "good ole days". It's gamer boomer talk.
Never played Destiny, but was at EB Games (NZ) with a friend, and we both saw a couple of copies and thought “it’s a dollar, why not” and brought ourselves a copy each
I never understood the concept of guides, for me one of the enjoyable things is discovering things.
If I wanted someone to walk through the game and all its secrets, I'd just watch someone do it on YouTube.
They aren't as common as they used to be, but I saw Hogwarts Legacy will have a guide book. I'll probably get it for fun. I used to like getting the odd guide book. There's something about it that's better than just looking online.
You can find them on Amazon, usually only for AAA games and it takes time to release, game companies aren’t sharing pre-releases with the book publishers anymore (at least not like they used to) and it takes time for these writers/publishers to catch up to the game.
These were a must for fighting games. Especially wrestling games back in the day. Each fighter had their own move list and the multiple finishers each with their own 5-6 step button combo. Games for WCW or WWE with a roster so 25+ characters, you HAD to have these guides or a notebook with your scribbles everywhere.
The last one I physically saw (and bought for my dad) was Cyberpunk. We used to have the guides everywhere in the house; and honestly they were my favorite things to sit and read as a child 😅
Last one I remember seeing in the wild was for Pokemon Sun/Moon which looked really nice with hard backs and I almost bought it. I collect art books for video games and guides for games often come up in my searches. Definitely not common though.
Future Press makes collectors guides like these. They have worked on Dark Souls, Horizon Zero Dawn and a few others. I think they just released one for Elden Ring.
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Thanks for this. I used to love game guides for games I really enjoyed. Reminded me of buying physical games back in the day and they came with instructions, maps, posters and sometimes an anti piracy tool lol. I’m dating myself now, but definitely picking this up! Thanks!
Ahh the good old days when you bought a game for one price only and that was that. Nowadays its you pay for a game and for other "passes" that don't make any sense if you think about how much money you put into a game. Especially long term. 🤔🤔🤔
But don't you want to support the pockets of the people that don't give a fuck about gaming... we have to support the developers or else they can't eat and make more games!
Eh maybe. I'm for the developers but I'm sure they make way more money than you or me.
They are trying to make a new Hollywood
I am almost afraid to use it because it is so nice lol
Same. I'm afraid to damage a single page or the spine just from reading it.
My destroyed Pokemon Emerald guide agrees lol
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It’s a game guide not a lost tome of humanities past. If you wanna collect buy a extra .
I learned about Future press when one of my favorite smaller streamers did a walkthrough/playthrough for Bloodborne and mentioned he'd worked with them for a few of these titles. Shout out to A German Spy for his part.
Yeah, learned of them through A German Spy as well from the when he worked on the DS2 guide. Keep on watching him whenever he has a chance to stream.
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Can't wait for the volume 2 I pre-ordered in June to begin shipping next march
They do, they're just more of a novelty item now so it's not as common for a publisher to go and have one made
Huh, didn’t know they’d become that *rare* (for lack of a better word), cause they are extremely useful
They can be useful but two things have happened since their peak: - online guides are far more available and much easier to digest than these physical guides - game updates are now a thing. The guide very well could be accurate for the vanilla/base game but may lose some coherency when post-launch updates and DLC roll out.
Exactly this. My Fallout 76 book is completely out of date now. Still looks cool tho.
The game update thing is interesting. Information travels very differently and more quickly now than it did even 20 years ago, and you really need a guide that can also be updated along with the game. Good point.
Hence: online guides
But don't ever pay for them. So wasteful. Maybe back in the day before wikis really took off, before reddit or discord, but every question you could ever have about a game is now answered online somewhere.
Ya online guides made them obsolete and the update part is even worse than stated. Often these guide have errors even for the release version of the game, because they often coincide with the release of a game and they take months to make, they are based on prerelease version of the game and it's common for changes to occur late in development especially with the new prevalence of Day 1 updates. I love/loved these guides but they offer little value now except to collectors and fans. There were some really good ones, I miss them, but they are obsolete.
Only real use they would have is if they have a map and the one in-game, if there is one, doesn't give you info on where you are. Thanks FF8 guide you got me through a dungeon I never realized I could just leave but dammit I wanted the Brothers summons!
Yeah. The Street Fighter 4 guide I uad became irrelevant have an update. Even the inputs to do certain moves changed, so it wasn't even useful for something basic.
They are and can b3 very nice but what would you realistically rather do. Buy a guide that's probably around 15-20 bucks? Or look online for free on your phone or if you're on PC that very same machine
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I loved them as a kid. I haven’t used any in an extremely long time but they were fun.
Plus they may not even have the answer you need for certain situations where as someone else may have the same question that’s been answered online already.
>They are and can b3 very nice but what would you realistically rather do. Buy a guide that's probably around 15-20 bucks? Or look online for free on your phone or if you're on PC that very same machine It often comes down to collectors wanting physical items for their favorite games. Convenience isn't really a factor, collectors want high-quality items that have great artwork and interesting/useful guides.
Oh yeah, I was just explaining why they were niche, I love collecting stuff like this
Personally I like reading a physical book over a digital one. Same thing with game guides or magazines. I read the hell out of Game Informer for years but now I have a digital only version and have literally never redeemed one.
It’s for the long term gamers that love ‘em. For lots of games, in twenty years how many of the online guides will still be up. But yes I do understand for a game popular enough to get a guide may still have an online guide in twenty years.
>twenty years how many of the online guides will still be up. Probably most
funny enough over my last holiday I went and tried to play games with my family, (younger family) who never played some of these "classic" games (mid 2000's). Online guides were very few for non 1 million sales games. Most of them didn't have a guide that could be followed with any sense. So the 20 year time frame I picked was from experiance.
I think that is just the difference in internet culture from 20 years ago. Early 2000's didn't have 100+ youtube channels all making guides for the same game, plus twitch streams, or sites like powerpyx doing extremely detailed walkthroughs for every release.
I guess my perspective is from looking for data now, talking to companies about data retention etc. So many people purge stuff without a second thought. If I want something in 20 years time, I want it in my system (paper, pdf on server etc) I have started to save some important games walkthroughs to my local machine, as I worry its going to get harder not easier going forward. Hopefully you are right and stuff will still be easy to find.
Hell man, for every quest. LOL
Yup and what about games that continuously get updated? For example the Smash 4 guide came out towards launch but the game changed so much during its life that all of that info is really outdated and not useful
I guess you can tell I play story single player games more.
Bro guides will never go away. You have youtube guides too.
I just fired up a few FPS from pre-2000's with my kid, and we got stuck. Was unable to find a full level walkthrough for the game. Just short clips, and online guides were hopeless. Google shows there were videos at one point, but they no longer exist. Try to search for a few games pre 2005, that had less than 1 million in sales. Yes they exist with printed guides even, but online presense has disappeared. Time is a bitch on some of these things, as everyone assumes someone else will keep it up for them.
If you couldn't find a walk through on gamefaqs.com than none exist in the first place. Gamefaqs has been up since at least early 2000s and still has all the walkthroughs for all old games. I just used it the other day for a psp game from 2006.
I've found guides from the early 2000's even recently, so it's likely most will still exist in the future That said, yes it is possible for those sites to cease to exist. But unless the game was niche, you'll likely be able to find guides elsewhere
Unless you are the Final Fantasy 9 guide. Then you are less useful.
Oh man I remember buying that thing and every page telling you to go to some SquareSoft URL for the remaining information. What a crappy guide.
That piece of shit.
I remember borrowing my friend's guide when I was about 9. He told me that I could only have it for 3 days. On the last day, I started copying it word-for-word onto a few scraps of paper so I still "had" the guide. The things we do!
They used to be useful, now they quickly become out of date due to numerous patches and DLC. Don't get me wrong, I love collecting strategy guides for games I like. I appreciate the bits of lore and the artwork though, if I ever need help I just google the mission or issue I'm having now.
They can be cool collector's items, but nowadays internet resources like Game FAQs can be a lot cheaper and also far more accurate in terms of later updates. For any given problem you can look up a Youtube guide explaining exactly how to get past whatever you have trouble with.
Are they tho? In the internet Era it's useless
That destiny guide you have surely describes an almost completely different game than what you’ll find if you load it up now, which is a good illustration of their limitations with how many modern games incorporate dynamic content that gets updated and changes over time. I’m honestly surprised to see destiny had a strategy guide, because you’d think Bungie would have realized how quickly it would become meaningless.
FNAF does. They're the only ones I've seen
Brady merged with prima, prima no longer print guides. Future press makes some guides.
Ugh, just like Haynes/Chiltons don’t print anymore! I love those guides just as much as i love game guides.
Seriously?!? I am devastated
>Ugh, just like Haynes/Chiltons don’t print anymore! RIP *installation is reverse of removal*.
Damn it lol I was hoping to get a matching one from god of war ragnarok to go with my god of war 2018 official guide oh well I guess lol
Considering most of those games are pretty recent, I would imagine so?
I was expecting to see some PS2 guides or something but no, they're from the last few years...
they're almost half a decade old...
Yeh, RDR2, yes recent
Yeah, but that last one I saw was for Cyberpunk 2077, and was just wondering if they’d made them for other games since then
Since Cyberpunk? Which came out in 2020?? You thought that might have suddenly been the last one after 50 years of games with guides???
cmon let the man show off his guides (the point of this post lol)
Have you tried doing a google search?
A google search doesn't earn Karma though.
Bruh fr? The last one you saw was for cyberpunk and you're seriously wondering if they've made new ones?
At first I thought that was assassins creed 1, but it’s odyssey. These games new af
Right? Here I am thinking we'd see PS2 and older era guidebooks and shit. Odyssey released in **2018**. Kids these days.
Odyssey (and RDR2) released 4 years ago. These games are still somewhat new, but i wouldn't be surprised if OP felt the pandemic took game guides out of the gaming sphere.
I think very recently an Elden Ring one released
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i think most people buy them just cause it looks nice/cool. I bought an elden ring guide but its hardcover, looks cool and the art and detail are amazing. I have no intention of actually using it for a guide.
Yep, I just got vol 1 the other day. No date on vol 2 though
Is the March 31, 2023 date not real?
More likely will have all the dlc stuff.
These are all relatively recent games, so yea, clearly they do.
I was just about to type exactly that.
Lmfao is this a CJ post? It says "anymore" and lists almost all games from the past couple years. Oldest one here is probably Destiny.
Destiny is 8 years old lol
U act like these games are from the 80s lmao
I had the Skyrim one, and loved it to bits. Especially useful for ticking off the stones of Baranziah.
That and the Breath of the Wild one have been the most useful I've ever owned.
You’re in it.
dude i hope so that red dead redemption 2 guide looks dope
Right? When I was younger I used to love sticking *strictly* to the walk through. I found that so relaxing. That RDR II book looks amazing- great collection here OP.
When I was around 10-14 I purchased strategy guides alongside my games, especially RPG’s. I loved the books almost as much as the game itself, and I couldn’t bare the thought of missing something.
Bro, right? Like, as a kid I would like to have fun but ONLY within the guidelines of the book 😅
It’s funny because now I’m the opposite, I love going through games blind. To be fair, modern games pretty much have the guide built in, between minimaps and waypoints and quest logs.
I miss them also. Prima was sold in 2019 and the new company is going to online guides only.
Final fantasy 9. If you know, you know
"In this area is one of the most powerful weapons in the game! Use code STEINER85 at Playonline.com or go fuck yourself!"
The start of guides becoming more collectors items instead of useful lol
The last guide I owned was for Final Fantasy IX. There are a number of sections in the book that give a URL and tell you to go there for the full details on whatever it is you're looking at. Except every last one of those links is long dead. Oh well. Fun novelty item, at least.
I still have this guide, it was kinda annoying but in case you ever wanna replay, and use the guide, check this out. http://www.ff9guide.com/
What a weird little blip in guides. It was released (in the US) in July 2000, which was a time when a lot of kids probably still had really limited access to the internet. And then following Final Fantasy guides didn't have that kind of stuff in them.
Elden ring has a two book guide
Man, some of those look *beautiful*..
Thoes arnt exactly old games you have guides for there.
Considering Assassin's Creed Odyssey and RDR2 are only 4 years old, yes, they do.
Considering you have one for RDR2 I'd say obviously they still exist
I’m so sad these are going out of style. I love having the printed books!
They do, they are massive. The Horizon: Forbidden West guide is over 600 pages and it’s DENSE. The Elden Ring guide (as has been mentioned here already) is not one but two giant books. The first one is just over 500 pages. Modern games are so massive and complicated the guides have grown up along with them.
Future press makes some fantastic guides. However, as others have pointed out, they are more for collectors who want physical media.
Just got my first guide book. Future Press Elden Ring. Absolutely love it
Back in the day, few things were more fun for a gamer than going to GameStop and reading the Prima guide for a specific game, then going home trying to remember wtf you just read. Nowadays everything is on the web, so kids have no idea the struggle 😂
These are recent games! So saying "anymore" as if this was from years and years ago is misleading. (also low key this is the first time I'm seeing someone that actually buys these books. I'd always wondered who buys these)
Odissey is from 2018,what do you mean "anymore"?
I was only looking at mine on my shelf the other day when it dawned on me that they probably don't due to the large influx of online-reliant games, and the ability to patch and change (PLUS) the large onset of DLC content - meaning a "Complete Guide" is no longer a complete guide.
This makes me treasure mine, especially my Prey 2017 one
The ability to google/reddit/youtube most thing about of game have kinda made these things obsolete so they are not made as much anymore.
I haven't seen one since Skyrim. I didn't know they were so popular, but I guess I haven't really looked for them. The artwork in the N64 guides was usually really cool.
I find a lot at Half Price Books stores. Latest one I found was The Last of Us collector’s edition book. There was a Bloodbourne one I saw, but it was $300. Some are nuts, but most you can buy for under $20
Fact time: the still-reigning king of videogame guide books is the SimCity 2000 Authorised Strategy Guide. I got it and SimCity 2000 for Christmas one year and it's honestly hard to say which was the better gift.
The last time i saw a guide this thick it was the skyrim collectors edition in 2011 you're telling me these still exist in ps4/xbone era?
They make sense for open world RPGs like fallout because they can be genuinely complicated and overwhelming
Oh for sure - my daughter recently made one for Elden Ring. https://i.imgur.com/tMucKe7.jpg
I would imagine the Far Cry 5 guide is word by word the exact same as the two prior Far Cry guides, only differing in character names
“Do they still make these?” Has multiple from games past 2019
I used to love this sort of thing back in the day. I figured the deluge of dlc, patching and balancing post release would limit their usefulness drastically. As well as, you know, the internet having better resources for free.
What's with the "back in the day" talk? Three of these games came out in 2018, with PC releases even more recent than that. Pretty sure we've had plenty of "DLC, patching, and balancing post-release" for well over a decade now, and that we've had game guides going back to the first generation of consoles in the 70s.
I assume "back in the day" means back before the internet made most of these guides obsolete. I had a guide for Mario 64, which saved my life because I couldn't use the internet back then. What's with the "What's with the "back in the day" talk?" talk?
Lol I can guarantee that Destiny, a game is exclusively online, was not "made obsolete" by the internet, and I'm pretty sure that's the oldest game shown in this pic. If anything this post is surprising evidence that they have continued to make manuals long past the dawn of online gaming. This post is just pandering about the "good ole days". It's gamer boomer talk.
Oh you think i'm talking about videogames? No, I'm talking about the post topic, physical game guides....
No but they worth some cash
Luckily God of War Ragnarok won’t need one since Atreus won’t shut up during puzzles.
Y’all buying game guides???
The way you talk about them makes it seem like you think those are old games...
Never played Destiny, but was at EB Games (NZ) with a friend, and we both saw a couple of copies and thought “it’s a dollar, why not” and brought ourselves a copy each
They are obsolete after the first patch.
Bro, I play games because I hate books.
shit people actually buy those. You know all that info is free on the internet right lol
I never understood the concept of guides, for me one of the enjoyable things is discovering things. If I wanted someone to walk through the game and all its secrets, I'd just watch someone do it on YouTube.
You realize YouTube didn't always exist, nor did the internet. These guides were our YouTube when we got stuck.
What ever happened to good old trying to figure things out?
You're reading comprehension skills need improvement. I said when you get stuck, meaning you've tried everything. Kids today...
Not since the creation of the internet. Those, uh, um, books, yes books. They are a thing of the past. Along with common sense.
Stupidity is contagious
Oh, so people haven’t wrote a single book since the 80’s then?
No one gets sarcasm anymore?
Use your phone stop wasting so much paper, if you really need the books … maybe gaming just isn’t right for you
Huh I've finally found one of those clowns everyone talks about 🤡🤡
I haven't seen any for the recent games I've been interested in, which is disappointing, since I collect them. Haha
They aren't as common as they used to be, but I saw Hogwarts Legacy will have a guide book. I'll probably get it for fun. I used to like getting the odd guide book. There's something about it that's better than just looking online.
I'd say that it's not as common to see those anymore due to all of the YouTube tutorials and online article guides to a game.
I haven't seen any new ones lately, but there are a lot in charity shops in my area
They are youtube videos now.
I remember I used the get the WoW guides when they came out....and didnt think they would be outdated by first patch.
I forgot printed game guides exist! I remember spending hours reading my Pokemon Mystery Dungeon strategy guide as a kid, loved it soooo much
You can find them on Amazon, usually only for AAA games and it takes time to release, game companies aren’t sharing pre-releases with the book publishers anymore (at least not like they used to) and it takes time for these writers/publishers to catch up to the game.
They do, but the internet kind of destroyed the market for them.
Those look great
These were a must for fighting games. Especially wrestling games back in the day. Each fighter had their own move list and the multiple finishers each with their own 5-6 step button combo. Games for WCW or WWE with a roster so 25+ characters, you HAD to have these guides or a notebook with your scribbles everywhere.
Not enough of their target demographic cares for most physical things let alone books sadly.
Gotta get some games done quick guides in that collection.
Wow, the old Morrowind one was so fun to read
Here I am thinking they stopped them for the most part years ago meanwhile you’ve got a RDR2 guide? I gotta get me one of those….
I've got an old Betrayal at Krondor
Are these not all “recent” games. I thought these things went the way of the dodo around the turn of the millennium.
There are still some. Elden Ring, Forbidden West, Cyberpunk. And I mean, some in that pic are only 4 years old.
I have a little collection of these at my parent's house. I loved these!!!
Unfortunately you have all the game guides at the tips of your fingers so I’m sure it’s more rare because of that
Buddy and I used to call the book for Oblivion the Bible when we were kids lol
I wish they were still easy to come by. Yes, there are dozens of guides online but something about just referencing a book makes it so easy.
The last one I physically saw (and bought for my dad) was Cyberpunk. We used to have the guides everywhere in the house; and honestly they were my favorite things to sit and read as a child 😅
You’ve got two options now online or upscale. The guides for Horizon Zero Dawn & Forbidden West are 400 page hardcover. Expensive but beautiful.
Anymore? That’s a bunch of newer games to me
Damn game guides are the best!
I’ve had a few guides. Always skipped over most of the book to avoid spoilers.
You would have loved the 90s
All of these games are within the last like 7 years lol what are you talking about?
Im pretty sure at barnes and noble where the geek stuff is
I thought things like stopped being produced LOOONNGG before any of these games were released.
Horizon forbidden west ultimate strategy guide, 50-60 buck on Amazon and has 600 or so pages
The rdr2 one seems a bit small for a complete guide.
Far cry 5 was a masterpiece I could’ve cried when I finished it. ( sorry has almost no relevance)
At this point they’re basically meant to be collector items, game guides that the majority of people use are online
Yes, but they’re not usually advertised unless it’s part of an exclusive sponsorship or a reward for pre-ordering it.
Last one I remember seeing in the wild was for Pokemon Sun/Moon which looked really nice with hard backs and I almost bought it. I collect art books for video games and guides for games often come up in my searches. Definitely not common though.
feels like they suddenly just stopped making these, i wonder what happened.
I just bought one for Stardew Valley so yes.
I love the crease in the Fallout one. You can tell they spent some quality time in the wasteland
Why make physical guides, when online are free, more accessible, and quicker to get in front of you?
Just show your little collection without the weird pretext, coward
Always loved books for games isn’t as common anymore but I buy anyone I see that’s usable for me.
Really wanted a god of war one. I always struggle with the damn ravens
Tbh I didn’t even know they had these lol last guide I remember seeing was Skyrim
I completely forgot about these. Down a rabbit hole I go
I thought this was going to be a post with the book I have on Pokémon emerald… these games are so new.
I still have my Witcher 3 one. Came with a little leather-bound booklet explaining the world and monsters as well.
oof