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8917794 No.8917794 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone else remember this strategy guide? There was some pretty funny shit in here. Versus Books was freakin awesome. Unlike Prima and Brady Games...

>> No.8918064

>>8917794
I liked the posters

>> No.8918072
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I have their FF7 guide

>> No.8918080

I never understood the point of these guides for every single game. If it's some 80 hour long rpg then sure whatever, but games like Mario64, or RE, or even shit like racing games had guides. If you need a guide for these games you probably can't even read it anyway.

>> No.8918083

>>8917794
yeah i still have it. it is really funny, i remember getting it and not even owning RE3 at the time cause it was funny

>> No.8918228
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>>8918080
You don't know everything about RE3

Though I doubt the guide does either

>> No.8918439

>>8917794
IIRC a bunch of Prima's and Brady Games' strategy guides in the Y2K through mid-2000s were written by Dan Birlew who got his start writing the original version of that big Resident Evil Plot Analysis FAQ on GameFAQs. He only did up through RE2 before handing it over to someone else because he couldn't continue working on it "for legal reasons" which I assume were getting hired by Prima or Brady Games since his first strategy guide he wrote for them ( looking at his bibliography) is the RE3 one.

>>8918080
I liked Prima's Shenmue strategy guide less because of the strategy guide and more because it had the official biographies for every single character, down to irrelevant NPCs, in the game. That was kind of my first experience with "lore" I guess or really the idea of thinking of every character as someone possessing their own lives and not just wallpaper for the major characters which has actually had a large influence on writing for me, as dumb as that is.

>> No.8918451

>>8918080
Some of these are good for lore and artwork, and useful tips for shorter but more mechanically tight games. It's not necessarily about just getting to the credits but smaller neat things you might have missed.

>> No.8918453

>>8918080
They made them because people bought them.

>> No.8918725

>>8918080
As a kid I couldnt play all the time, hell I was fucking up so often it became a rarity. But I could read the resident evil strategy guide over and over

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>>8917794
I had this and it was amazing. Loved all of the conspiracy theories inside.
Best one was that...
>Nemesis = Zombie Sagat

>> No.8920420

>>8918439
>IIRC a bunch of Prima's and Brady Games' strategy guides in the Y2K through mid-2000s were written by Dan Birlew who got his start writing the original version of that big Resident Evil Plot Analysis FAQ on GameFAQs.
He fucked up a bit by using the S.D. Perry novels for reference. The games never established S.T.A.R.S. as being founded in the 1960's.

>> No.8920449

>>8920417
Now THAT'S a hunk of bullshit made solely to fill up page space.


Amazing. Saved.

>> No.8920462

>>8918451
this.
>>8920417
kek

>> No.8920550

>>8917794
Yet the only ones with the damage and HP data are the Japanese ones.

>> No.8921758

>>8920550
To be fair, finding those values back in the day was almost impossible for western gaming journalists due to the lack of hacking tools. Most japanese publications got that information straight out of the japanese developers and companies.

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>>8920417
Holy shit

>> No.8923424

>>8918439
>I liked Prima's Shenmue strategy guide less because of the strategy guide and more because it had the official biographies for every single character, down to irrelevant NPCs, in the game
Those bios were on the Shenmue passport disc but you needed to hook your Dreamcast up to the internet to see them. What's interesting is that the bios actually tie in to the character behaviours. Like you'll see one NPC who just aimlessly wanders around town in a business suit rather than getting on the bus and it's because he lost his job and is pretending to his wife everything's alright. Shenmue is ridiculously detailed.

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>>8917794
I had the Brady Games guide.

>> No.8923478

>>8917794
Are there scanned versions of these guides on the Internet? Would love to read them.

>> No.8924432

>>8920550

pretty sure the beginning of the versus books re3 guide lists all the enemies and how many hits they take with each weapon including the knife.

>> No.8924436

>>8924432
Yeah but the damage values are much more important than something as abstract as "hits".