Scribblenauts Strategy Guide Defeats The Point

[LewsTherin]

Imaginative crutch, indeed. Be that as it may.

 

[joystickjunki3]

Knowing all the of the possibilities would be cool, but I do agree that this kinda defeats the point.

 

[Amnestic]

People still buy strategy guides? What, is typing in 'www.gameFAQs.com' too hard?

 

[Emphraim]

I wonder if I can summon a strategy guide in the game. Then summon a flamethrower and burn it.

And besides, I can find the really odd words off the internet, I don't need a guide for that.

Yes you can. I'm pretty sure Destructoid had an article where they stated strategy guide could be written. Seriously, why buy this guide when the game is pretty much made for experimentation and a much bigger list of obscure words will be online within a week?

 

[MrPop]

Well that would suck the fun out of this title. I've always seen strategy guides as being redundant anyway. I like a challenge for once sometimes.

 

[Eric the Orange]

The only thing I'd want something like that for is a list of words and there effects.

 

[Disembodied_Dave]

I don't see why anyone would be up in arms about this or why this is even news.

 

[MajoraPersona]

The main reason why it's silly is that grenades solve all problems.

Either that or dinosaurs. But do you really need to use the time machine first?

 

[The Great JT]

First of all, the idea of Scribblenauts sounds interesting.

Second, why in the world would you make a strategy guide for a puzzle game? To help the mentally disabled and grandpas?

 

[Azhrarn-101]

the main content from the "obscure" list will probably be all the memes and words that got included from the NeoGaf forums, and ofcourse post 215. =D
(just go check the Neogaf Scribblenauts thread for that one, it's rather epic)

Memes include longcat, keyboard cat, and numerous others. Quite hilarious.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Strategy guides are completely irrelevant now with the internet, (and detailed walkthroughs are easy to find on Youtube) and even if you do prefer a more detailed, hard copy version you can just pay a small yearly fee to IGN or Gamespot and get PDF guides that you can print out, as many as you want for all the games you need. I guess by law all major releases require that one strategy guide be released for them.

 

[Proteus214]

The problem I have with such puzzles and the many ways to solve them, is that 90% of the time the player is going to choose the least common denominator for solving them. Whichever is the fastest and cheapest way to do it is probably the best way to do it. But when you have puzzles like that where the designer spends hours designing a puzzle that can be solved in ten different ways, it just seems like a waste.

 

[mikecoulter]

Some people may really need one though...

 

[The Shade]

I miss the good ol' days (that may or may not have existed) when the only strategy guides were posted by fans on the Internet that they had painstakingly constructed as they played through the game themselves. And those guides were few. Nowadays, people shell out their hard-earned cash for professional guides even though there will be a free one that's just as good posted on the Interwebz the next day.

I was my local Electronics Boutique Games the day Gears of War 2 came out (I was there to buy Fallout 3, oddly enough) and while I was there, some guy came in and bought both GoW2 AND the strategy guide. Seriously, dude? You're anticipating that much difficulty? Or do you just wanna rank up all your achievements in the first run? Shameful, if you ask me.

 

[theonecookie]

but if you had a problem with zombies why just not summon a counter army of zombies

 

[DazZ.]

This game is making a big pile of hype, hope it can be as good as it advertises...

OT: Guide is pointless, but I find them pointless in all games.

 

[funksobeefy]

that game sounds really sweet!

It would be like buying a strategy guide for Portal, it could help but you might as well not play the game

 

[Symp4thy]

I see the point of those 500+ "obscure words" people may not have thought of, but couldn't they have just included them in a hints section in the manual or something.

My bad, they couldn't make more money that way...

but if you had a problem with zombies why just not summon a counter army of zombies

I would summon Francis, Zoey, Louis, and Bill

 

[Amnestic]

I see the point of those 500+ "obscure words" people may not have thought of, but couldn't they have just included them in a hints section in the manual or something.

My bad, they couldn't make more money that way...

but if you had a problem with zombies why just not summon a counter army of zombies

I would summon Francis, Zoey, Louis, and Bill

It only takes one guy to buy the guide, type them all up and then post it up and get it Digg'd (Dugg?) for them to be freely available on the internets, and then anyone with the ability to use Google can get it for free.

 

[slopeslider]

Who needs a guidebook for obscure words when on launch week there'll be dozens of threads on the best words in the game.
Im going to type in PSP, It'd be awesome if a small turd appeared!