Skyrim: Legendary Edition Strategy Guide Might Break Your Bookshelf

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Seems like something I might want to get a hold of at some point. Just got Skyrim, haven't yet started it...

 

[Imbechile]

Yeah..... because I really need a 1000 page strategy guide for a game with shallow gameplay and a quest compass.

 

[LightningBanks]

I really want to get this just so I can put it on a golden altar in a dark room only lit by torches.

Though seeing a few stories about this hs re ignited my urge to want to actually get Skyrim. Hopefully alot of the ps3 related bugs are fixed in the legendary edition and I can get both the game and guide... jesus the game is cheaper than the guide.

 

[Lightknight]

Bethesda games are still one of those few games for which a guide is really a great buy.

 

[scorptatious]

Still not as big as the collected Calvin and Hobbes.

You have the Calvin and Hobbes collection too?

I always feel pretty classy reading from one of the books. But they're so big and bulky so I don't read from them often. XD

 

[scorptatious]

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?!

I don't know. For me, it was a way for me to experience the game without actually playing it. When I was little, I would buy strategy guides to my favorite games and take them everywhere I went practically. Sure, I would know what was coming up in a game, but back then, knowing how to do something and actually being able to do it were two different things for me. I might know how to beat a boss, but I probably wouldn't be skilled enough to actually beat him. At least not on the first try.

Also, I just loved looking at the various screenshots of the game and also reading on the lore or background of the game that some guides would add.

Now-a-days, with the internet, if I was stuck on something I could just look up GameFaqs and if I wanted to experience the game again when I'm not playing it, I would just go to Youtube. So yeah, guides are kinda redundant now in those aspects and I don't buy them anymore.

Still though, guides were a pretty big part of my gaming childhood. And I'll always hold a soft spot for them.

 

[kypsilon]

Still not as big as the collected Calvin and Hobbes.

You have the Calvin and Hobbes collection too?

I always feel pretty classy reading from one of the books. But they're so big and bulky so I don't read from them often. XD

I don't think I've ever read from them but only because I can't get the books out of the hardcover box they come in. They're also on a shelf that doesn't have enough vertical spacing for me to tip them forwards and they're so damned heavy and..and...sigh...

I imagine this is why wizards faded into myth, their spell books were unwieldy like the Calvin and Hobbes collection.