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As a child I'd occasionally get videogame strategy guides at garage sales which largely fostered my long-term love of reading.

I'm sure others have similar stories so what were some of your favorite Brady/Prima/other strategy guides?

To start off for me:

  • Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
  • Jak 3
  • Knights of the Old Republic
  • Banjo-Kazooie

Jak 3 is probably my personal favorite as I remember liking the artwork/concept art a lot as well as blurbs written in-character.

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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The 7th Guest has a great one that's like told in-character, included in the files of the digital copies of the game now as a pdf, the pdf is 368 pages long! it's scans not text but here's some screenshots of excerpts

[–] shaggymatt@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohh, that one was a masterpiece. It even included the original script, so you could read some of the stuff that got cut/rewritten.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep lots of nice extras in the digital releases, and the Making of The 7th Guest video is great too, also available on YouTube https://youtu.be/Fd63F3d2FCI

Btw we have !stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I still have my games guide for the original Final Fantasy Tactics for the PlayStation. I've kept it all these years just for the beautiful artwork.

[–] olimario@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That reminded me that at some point I ended up with a FF13 guide and, despite not living the game, really enjoying it.

I purchased an FFX guide when I was very young but unfortunately I remember it having coffee stains all throughout.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Coffee stains? Those are called battle scars. That was a great guide.

[–] skullone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I liked the official Nintendo OoT guide because it was written in 3rd person and was relatively spoiler free.

[–] cottonmon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's not an official guide but CyricZ's guides to the Yakuza series. Very informative and easy to follow.

[–] Crl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Half-Life : Prima's Official Strategy Guide

[–] Hextic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't have found half the shit without the Final Fantasy 7 or 10 strategy guide.

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