Would you buy the guide before the game is out? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:20 am

I'd buy the guide and keep it all wrapped up until the game came out. I've already ordered my copy of New Vegas guide, should it arrive early, so be it, if not- no big deal either. But I am definitely getting the guide. I love strategy guides for big open world games like this, I find it easier to have a book open on my lap than to go to the computer and search out what I want. For some of my guides, I have gone online to print off the updated info- since guides are written before the game is released they occasionally need updates for bugged info. When addendums are available I print them off and add them to the book. If they aren't, the erroneous info is usually pretty minimal.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:57 pm

I wouldn't buy the guide before the game was out.

For that matter, won't buy it when the game is out or afterward either. For the "must-have" information after I've muddled through the game on my own a couple of times, the Wiki serves my needs quite well at a very agreeable price.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:23 pm

I don't see any benefit of buying a guide besides having a cool book about Fallout at your side.
It spoils quests and secrets, it's not as easy as looking at the wikia (which is free) and it's expensive.

If I would buy a guide, I'd buy it for a game that is not driven by a story. Like The Sims, 'cus it doesn't spoil the game. I prefer to be surprised than opening a chapter about a quest that says in the first paragraph that it has to do with, for instance, vampires (Blood Ties) without knowing that this quest had vampires when you first get the letter from Lucy.

Or maybe that unique weapon that you would go insane with joy when you found it by chance somewhere, than reading about it and where it is on the guide.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:46 am

Wow, some people don't get the question. It only applies to those interested in buying the guide.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:53 pm

Ehhhh. For most of the key stuff, I would want the guide, it'd save me trips going to my room and the living room just to read the wikia for 2 minutes :laugh:

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:17 pm

Definitely not it would spoil the game

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:22 am

Wow, some people don't get the question. It only applies to those interested in buying the guide.

Maybe the OP could have said as much when creating the thread instead of assuming everyone is psychic?

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:00 am

Ehhhh. For most of the key stuff, I would want the guide, it'd save me trips going to my room and the living room just to read the wikia for 2 minutes :laugh:

Lucky me having my desktop with a netbook right next to me. No need to even minimize games when i'm looking up information.

Generally I only look at guides when I am either too lazy to try something on my own, or I am having trouble doing something. A rarity though.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:37 am

Maybe the OP could have said as much when creating the thread instead of assuming everyone is psychic?

I posted a new poll that that will make it crystal clear for everyone....

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:03 pm

Im an expert at reading guides without spoiling content. I use the guide to help plan out role plays. Weapons wanted, perks to take and so forth. So yes I would buy the guide early, in fact I wont start playing the game until I give the guide a quick look over.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:06 pm

I might get it the same time, but I wouldn't be able to discipline myself not to read it before I get my game. It would spoil it. Heck, I can't keep myself from reading this forum, although I try to be careful and not read blatant spoilers. But sometimes it's hard not to read certain threads, lol.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:38 pm

Some people like to read from a book than a bright screen that may strain there eyes if reading to long.

But yeah the interwebz is all I need, besides I'll be playing by myself for a bit so everything feels new and no more spoilers, I won't even look at the deck of cards until after I have seen a good majority of the game and finished the main quest.

I'll save the guides for a later playthrough or if I'm really stuck on some [censored] puzzle, remember ME they didn't even give you decent directions for that block thing, basically that puzzle from KOTOR but still if I didn't play that game I would have never got it done.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:05 am

Even for the games that I do get a guide for, I always save it for the second playthrough. That way the first play is as unspoiled as I can manage. (There's always some stuff that sneaks through on forums or in reviews....)

So, no.

Why isn't the guide sold ahead of the game?

Has any guide ever come out ahead of the game? Every console RPG I've played that had a guide, they came out at the same time, as far as I noticed.....

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:16 pm

Even for the games that I do get a guide for, I always save it for the second playthrough. That way the first play is as unspoiled as I can manage. (There's always some stuff that sneaks through on forums or in reviews....)

So, no.

Has any guide ever come out ahead of the game? Every console RPG I've played that had a guide, they came out at the same time, as far as I noticed.....

The Two Worlds guide came out early... I read up on it like I had to write a thesis on the subject... I played the game for like a half an hour... I threw the copy into the depths of Sammath Naur.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:00 am

If I saw it for a dollar in a thrift shop, I'd buy it rather than read it there, but as for buying it retail, or prior to finishing the game... 'no' to both.
(For me its a "pocket change only" curiosity.)

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:46 pm

Lucky me having my desktop with a netbook right next to me. No need to even minimize games when i'm looking up information.

Generally I only look at guides when I am either too lazy to try something on my own, or I am having trouble doing something. A rarity though.

Well plot stuff isnt that much of my issue, it's the list of creatables and craftables and etc. But from what I read in the Fallout 3 guide book at walmart, it'd have unreliable data in places. The wikia tries not to.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:23 pm

Not at all.I want the guide to only be sold on the day of release.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:59 pm

Not at all.I want the guide to only be sold on the day of release.

24 hour availabilty? Now that's a marketing plan that demands a faithful clientele. :thumbsup:

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:42 am

This. would never buy a guide for a Fallout game. The Vault has all the info i'll ever need, and for free. the vault has EVERYTHING in the game, with details on how to get it, bugs involving it, and notes about it.

The only strategy guides I bought outright were one for Final Fantasy X-2 (i actually got two from the same guy off ebay because the first one arrived all damaged), and the one for MGS4, which did come in handy. I also got the special edition of Demon's Souls, because I heard without the strategy guide, the game was QUITE difficult. And I would tend to agree. the strat guide for that made it so much more managable.

As for fallout, not only are the games pretty self explanatory when it comes to quests and features, but the vault literally covers *everything*.

Except it takes about a month or more for half of the game to be recorded and posted to the Vault. Guide- falliable but always there, and ready as soon as you get the game, and info that the Vault may miss for a week or more. Vault- free and lists bugs and fixes as well as what's a reference to what. I use both actually. I don't have time to go to the internet everytime my unsure how to get something or where something is.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:23 pm

I would but buying the game will wipe out my cash reserves and with future purchases I have in mind the guide will be back burner for quite a while.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:50 pm

I'm getting the collector edition strat guide. Mainly just because I'm a [censored] for anything Fallout. I even bought Brotherhood of Steel on PS2 some years back. Uggghh

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:09 am

I am with the majority of other posters. Unless i were badly stuck on something i wouldn't search for something and if i were that badly stuck there has likely been a glitch. After hours and hours of playing Fallout 3 the only time i looked online at a guide was to try and find any side quests i might have missed.

» Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:12 pm

Some people don't have internet at home :banghead:
and have to use their phone with it's tiny ass screen that makes you feel like you're going cross-eyed annnd is slower than dial-up :swear:
lol

I pre-ordered the guide along with the CE. Other than the info within the guide there's usually concept art among other things like creature bio's n stuff that I enjoy. Plus it's also nice to have something at arms reach that's quick and easy to use. I love the Vault in all it's glory but the guide is just easier on my eyes :laugh:

I voted maybe because I don't care either way.