Skyrim: Legendary Edition Strategy Guide Might Break Your Bookshelf

[Smooth Operator]

That is actually really cheap for a book that size and limited release at that, still have no use for it whatsoever but it's a fair deal.

 

[Akytalusia]

i... may be compelled to buy this book, even though the internet completely killed the relevance of things like this and it's nothing but a novelty. it's pretty, and i'm a long time fan of the elder scrolls series, and i just happen to have some spare cash laying around.

 

[SmegInThePants]

I'm gonna grab it, if nothing else to support the idea of making such a thing, let them see there is profit in it, that there is a demand for such things - so that maybe they put some similar sort of effort into future products. I miss the old days of things like the baldur's gate 2 spiral bound manual and such (which i still have). Having a physical item of good quality i can peruse from time to time is worth it, especially since its so rare these days.

 

[Madman123456]

Anyone remembers "Lunar: the Silver Star" on sega mega CD? I have that and i bought a strategy guide for it.
This Skyrim guide will be the second stragety guide i'll buy.

 

[cidbahamut]

This seems like a terrible investment. Aside from the brief novelty it will provide, I can't understand why anyone would want to purchase this.

 

[Erttheking]

If I buy this I'm throwing it in my school's D&D collection because fuck it it belongs there.

 

[Fappy]

Hopefully they paid close attention to the work the guys over at UESP have done. If they go into the level of detail that's done there this may actually be worth my $50

 

[Gone Rampant]

Finally, a book I can safely classify as a murder weapon!

*Goes out to beat someone to death with my big massive fuck off book*

 

[Undomesticated Equine]

Or you can google Elder scrolls wiki and have pretty much the same thing for free. Take your 50 bucks and buy the aforementioned Lord of the rings trilogy it should be enough for a nice hardcover edition.

 

[GundamSentinel]

...And totally not worth buying as Prima guides are always full of errors, missing info and messy content ordering. At least, the original Skyrim guide was that way. As were their Fallout 3, San Andreas and Final Fantasy X guides (the Piggyback FFX guide, by contrast, was bloody amazing, as were all their guides I own (9 of them :3)).

 

[ron1n]

How are Prima guides still even a thing?

Are there seriously that many people out there buying their guides for aesthetics?

 

[triggrhappy94]

What if I only want the book, how much will that cost?
$50 for everything isn't all that bad, though. Especially considering how expensive other book can get (its still a third the price of some of my text books).

I love how all their references for size were to the Lord of the Rings.

EDIT:
I just checked Amazon, and they're listing it for a little over $30.

 

[Jynthor]

If only you could access all info you could possibly want for free. It's a shame we don't have some kind of world wide thingy that allows you to share information with other people.
Oh wait, there is! It is called the internet, it's a good thing we no longer live in the 80's huh, Bethesda?UESP Wiki! [http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page]
And what is this, it even has more info than you could possibly need on all previous Elder Scrolls games!

 

[1337mokro]

I never got the whole strategy guide thing.

To me it looks like buying a puzzle and then buying a step by step instruction book for it. Where is the fun in that?!

 

[Snowblindblitz]

I never got the whole strategy guide thing.

To me it looks like buying a puzzle and then buying a step by step instruction book for it. Where is the fun in that?!

Depends on the game, and rather it is a post-play through. Getting secrets in some RPGs pre-internet era was decidedly difficult, and figuring out frames and some of the intricate combos in fighting games was also. I remember beating Final Fantasy Tactics, getting the guide, booting it up again and having a "Holy shit you can get Cloud" moment. Good times.

 

[1337mokro]

I never got the whole strategy guide thing.

To me it looks like buying a puzzle and then buying a step by step instruction book for it. Where is the fun in that?!

Depends on the game, and rather it is a post-play through. Getting secrets in some RPGs pre-internet era was decidedly difficult, and figuring out frames and some of the intricate combos in fighting games was also. I remember beating Final Fantasy Tactics, getting the guide, booting it up again and having a "Holy shit you can get Cloud" moment. Good times.

I remember the same thing... without the guide

That's the point I am making with my statement. I would have rather not known than found out because a book I bought told me so. Now I can get strategy guides for NES games because they were basically designed as mazes or had arbitrary rule changes.

However even then I still did not use it. Because for me half the fun is discovering it on your own and the other half is the knowledge that next time you will discover things you didn't even know were there.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Bloody hell.

I can almost guarantee that thing will be used as a weapon at some stage.

 

[SageRuffin]

Fifty bucks! That's pretty good value man.

I've paid more for far less of a book.

Though, I know some group of people somewhere will have something bad to say about it.

To be fair, Prima's strategy guides tend to vary in informational quality. For every good guide they drop (this, Oblivion, Jade Empire), there're at least 2 other guides that are either lacking in info (Banjo-Kazooie), misinforming (Ninja Gaiden Black), or flat out wrong (Ninja Gaiden 2). In regards to NG2 in particular, most of the strategies they detail for that game are either ineffective at best and fatal at worst, and I speak from experience.

In any event, once I get a little coffee table for my new apartment I think this will fit right nicely on it.

Edit: Had to tweak some wording there.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

Someone needs to mod that book into the game as a weapon...

Your character would become over-encumbered the instant he picks it up.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

It is a nice looking book but I don't see any reason to buy it when you can just use UESP for free. That's the thing with strategy guides, most popular series have well kept fan wikis there's no real reason to buy them other than preference for owning a book.

Now if Bethesda would release all the TES books in a hardback cover, that would interesting. And yes, I know about that one fan who did it with Oblivion books.