write or publish??

Prima because I like their guides and I like guides because i like books. I will never buy those abominations kindles or nooks because paper is the way to go. Just my opinion of course.

Or they're for people who like to read about the game they just bought before they go to bed. Way to generalize, sport.

The Oblivion guide was way better than the Morrowind one.

i personally loved the morrowind prophecies. i would start reading about the quest and it would be so like a story in its self. sometimes after i turn the game off i would read it as i went to sleep to plan out what i would do the next day. it felt like a book, not just a simple a to b description of what to do.
i will by the skyrim one if it is wrote by bethesda.

I don't care since I won't buy one. If I'm stuck somewhere or need help I'll just check the UESP wiki, or post in this forum.

Yeah, I'm not one to buy the strategy guides. I don't like to have help from online or books, I want to figure out everything for myself, it's just too fun.

Apparently. You know what they say about fools and their money.

A strategy guide tells you things your supposed to find out during game play and anyone reading one is essentially cheating and that can not be denied no matter how you rationalize it. But hey if anyone wants to lower their game's value by reading one then i say more power to you but I will still express my opinion of the value of such a publication as being null to anyone other than cheaters.

I still have my 270 page long Oblivion walkthrough guide that was in the box, it was quite handy in pew places. I bet there will be another one with Skyrim (paper one or .pdf)

Yeah, I have pretty good internet access, so I'll just stick with UESP.

I did use the guide for Morrowind though. When I first got Morrowind, I was...12? And the only other games I had played were JRPGs and Random PC shooters. So at the time, it was pretty helpful. It was hard to even wrap my brain around the fact that you really could just do anything you wanted to in Morrowind. It appealed to me instantly.

But now my fetal brain has evolved into a much more powerful state, for now I am 20 years of age! And I can solve in-game puzzles, all by myself!

Bethesda should write it. The Morrowind Prophecies was fun to read, whereas the Oblivion guide lacked all of the humor and fun of the original.

If I absolutely have to I will either check wiki's or go to Gamefaqs.

This. I used to buy strategy guides until the internet became such an endless source of info.

The Prima guide was totally comprehensive. But I didn't really like the "power-gaming" attitude they had to Oblivion (e.g. "Never choose this race, their stats svck").