I will buy it but mostly for collector purpouses, I'll buy anything related to Fallout :fallout:

I always have the wiki after I go through the game how many times I want to go through it.
Usually to find things I missed, unique weapons, and other things...

20 dollars for a copy of wiki? No, thanks. I play undirected my first one or two playthroughs anyway.

collectors eddition, I might not really need it but I wan't to complete my Fallout: New Vegas collection

No guide until I have played it through once, I like the thrill of finding all the armouries, weapon stashes and interesting places myself. Like i did in fallout 3 (Finding places such as Wheaton armoury and The national guard building was awesome)

That's one of the benefits of Steam, you can access an internet browser from the Steam UI, without leaving the game.

I personally like to play my first playthrough "blind," in which I can get the most out of it-because I don't know what will happen or what won't.

Besides, I've heard not-so-great things about the guide-and while it'll take some time before there's much on it, there's always the free guide online at the Fallout wiki. Which will work fine with me, since-again-I don't intend to go through my first playthrough knowing anything about it. Aside from what I've learned from news on the game.

So yeah, in my personal opinion, buying the guide would be a waste of money and would ruin New Vegas.

Guides ruin games for me. Heck, coming to this forum has already revealed far more than I wanted to know about the game, but I can't resist.

If I really love the game I might buy the guide as a coffee table book or one for the "porcelain waiting room." Otherwise if I really need to know something and I'm at my wit's end I'll look online.

Your kind of contradicting yourself there. Thats the whole point in myself and lots of other people buying the guide. We play the game for hundreds of hours, check the guide and discover something cool that we previously knew nothing about. One of my memorable moments from Fallout 3 was flicking through the guide after about 450 hours of play and finding out that I had missed two chinese spies hiding in a basemant.

I'm debating it. Since I'm getting the CE of New Vegas my OCD wants me to get the CE guide.

Can anyone clarify for me the difference between the two guides please? I'm all confused about that.....

Ones soft cover, the other is hard cover. the Hard Cover might have a poster like the F3 one did, nothing majorly different.

I will but I won't open it until I've finished the game a few times, I mainly have them as a collectors iteem of sorts and I loved reading FO3's over and over again same will probably go for F:NV's

Ah. Thats it?

Well I guess that makes sense. It would be unfair to include extra coverage in one guide and less in the other.

I'll probably end up getting it anyways.....

I normally do not buy Game Guides. However, Fallout 3 was the first guide I bought since FF7. Unfortunately I bought it right when the game came out and could not resist temptation and opened it during my first playthrough. This time I will playthrough a time or two before even making my purchase, then seeing all the little things like un-marked quests and stuff like Harold in FO3, stuff that is so out of the way I never would have come across it on my own.

I'm not contradicting myself. I like discovering things for myself. I like exploring and finding things I missed for myself. Using a guide completely defeats the purpose of playing a game like this, for me at least. What's the point of exploring if you're just going to flip through the guide to find locations you missed? If you use the guide to make sure you've found everything, then there's no more point in exploring the wasteland as you know for a fact you've found everything. Without the guide, you never know for sure, and I like that feeling. If you like using a guide, then more power to you, but I don't.

ill buy it because im a collector. So it will be both hardcover and softcover. Plus I hope they will have the map in it. It is very helpfull if your lost and Ill only use the guide if I can't find a certain thing.

I'm a bit surprised to find so many people will be getting the guide to be honest - they feel like such a needless cheat.

It's singleplayer game that has no time restriction and you can save and reload in whenever you want.

Be thorough and you'll find everything...

Plus it's impossible to find very specific information in it, you always have to read around a subject.

I mean, each to their own, but i'm still surprised.

Fortunately for me i have a laptop. A simple nice laptop i bought for 300 euro's 2 years ago. Best investment i have ever made.
Watching shows and reading comics while in bed, on the toilet or who knows where, is pretty cool.
And yes, that also means i can play my xbox360 with the laptop next to me. Reading forums, searching for cheats and hints has never been this easy. And not only for fallout 3, but hundreds of games.
If i had to buy guides for all those games, i would be in a huge debt haha.

Conclusion: dont buy expensive guides, buy a cheap laptop (or a mini laptop). Something that is actually worth the money.

For games this size I like to get the guide.. I like using the appendix as a general guide and stay away from reading about quests other than where to find them. The maps are invaluable. I also like books a lot better when playing on a console.. having to get up and trot over to the computer to look things up is annoying. I plan to see and do everything there is to do on my first go through. I enjoy meticulously plotting out where to go, how to build my character.. I make my own charts for things, I scan all the main maps so I can mark off where I've been and I explore every nook and cranny and write down places that aren't marked on maps that seem like interesting places. I found so much stuff in F3 that wasn't marked in the books.. but I wouldn't have known that unless I had the book in the first place. I also like to put the quests in order of "the perfect route" = the best and quickest way to explore the wasteland and see and do everything so that on my second play through I can then do everything again... just faster. So far Morrowind, Oblivion and F3 are the only games that have given me this much pleasure in being anol about exploring maps.

I am really OCD about doing everything correctly and so I get the guide so I don't miss anything, I play on my pc too and so I don't want to exit the game like I do in Oblivion and then forget what it was halfway through loading.

Between time spent on the game and visits to wikipedia I became a master in Fallout 3, so I see no need for a guide this time around either.

The birth of Wikipedia and specialised Wikis made game guides obsolete

Guides are no fun. I want to play it my way and discover what I do. Makes it more personalized instead of thinking "Cool gun is at this location. I think I'll go get this cool gun." I'd rather stumble upon it myself at the time when I get over to where it is.

There is some very interesting points being made in this topic and its kinda opened my eyes abit. I have never used a guide religiously, but like to have one to hand just to make sure I don't miss anything. But after reading the previous posts, I think I will still buy it but just won't use it as much.

maybe in like a year but other than that i`ll use the wiki page