With the guide companies closed down, who is doing the Starfield guide?
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I guess a gaming wiki?
I have two different Skyrim guides. One from release, one for the LE version. I never used them. I have the collector's edition artbook and love flicking through that, but guides just don't make sense with online hubs like the UESP and Wikis these days imo =/
I have two different Skyrim guides. One from release, one for the LE version. I never used them. I have the collector's edition artbook and love flicking through that, but guides just don't make sense with online hubs like the UESP and Wikis these days imo =/
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I wish you two the best luck as you journey into the galaxy, you got a deadline of August 31 to make the guide happenWe can do it
That just means it'll be aesthetically pleasing!
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get me the game and I can do itI wish you two the best luck as you journey into the galaxy, you got a deadline of August 31 to make the guide happen
That just means it'll be aesthetically pleasing!
Any physical guides for Bethesda games are always useless compared to something like the UESP or Fallout wiki. UESP puts every other video game wiki to shame.
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Gaming wikis have always served that purpose for me. Still a shame that guides aren't as popular anymore though.
If you need help, you should probably reach out to u/Gokamo, who put this 400+ page compendium of info about the game before the Direct.
Yeah. Piggyback and Futurepress still create guidebooks.
Most recent examples are the TOTK guide coming in July and Elden Ring guide which is split into two volumes. The 2nd isn't even out yet.
For a Starfield guide this would be a golden opportunity for either Future Press or Piggyback to take advantage of.
Great, still bad compared to the Fallout wiki or UESP. An official guide isn't going to have the reference ID of every item in the game. It isn't going to have detailed information on every reference and easter egg the entire game. It isn't going to have detailed lore on everything going back decades. It's not going to have detailed console commands for bug work arounds. It's not going to list every quest stage for every quest.
Frighteningly accurate depiction of how I imagine you both IRLWe can do it
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I wish i was that cool or attractive as either one of them
I wouldn't expect a guide book to list Item IDs or Console commands nor would these be relevant for Xbox players. As for lore, there are Lore books specifically for those reasons. Case in point the 3 volumes of the Skyrim Library are exactly this.
Some of these things are beyond the scope of a typical game guide.
Yeah they are all beyond the scope of a game guide that is true. Why would I pay for something worse?
Are they really going under? I feel like I still see guides. Pretty sure there was one for Hogwarts and/or Jedi Survivor.
I feel like the market for physical guides isn't so much about detailing every single aspect of a game anymore, and is more about having a nice book with pretty layout and pictures that also has some useful information--sort of a companion/replacement for artbooks.
I think it's kind of a weird market tbh but it clearly still exists, given the popularity of guidebooks in the Era artbooks thread.
Even if someone could write one, you'd need to constantly flip to an appendix to even use it.
It'll be youtube videos and IGN / forum entries guided by search engines. Polygon also does a lot of random guide entries.
It'll be youtube videos and IGN / forum entries guided by search engines. Polygon also does a lot of random guide entries.
A combination of this and dozens of barely (if at all) functional "walkthroughs" and guides from sites that all look the same and give you the same degree of useful information.
At least when strategy guides weren't super helpful it was at least amusingly confusing and interesting to read. I have an Omikron the Nomad Soul guide under my desk right now that's practically a work of art in how unintelligible it is. I'm pretty sure it's the same kind they used in the Super Best Friends playthrough which absolutely explains their confusion lol.
Flipping to an appendix sounds waaaaaay faster than skipping through youtube videos trying to find the part where they actually tell you what you want to know instead of dancing around the subject for 10 minutes. Or opening 5 website tabs when searching for info cuz odds are 4 of them are going to be clickbait or so light on details they may as well be.
I love/loved strategy guides. The official artwork, some tips, and general map layouts of launch content (or full game content back in the day).
Its why I'm getting the ToTK guide, I'm almost done with the game and likely will have it on the shelf by the time the guide comes. HOWEVER it will look really cool next to Hyrule Historia.
Its why I'm getting the ToTK guide, I'm almost done with the game and likely will have it on the shelf by the time the guide comes. HOWEVER it will look really cool next to Hyrule Historia.
Piggyback's still around, I could see them doing a really nice guide. The one they did for TotK looks incredibly comprehensive.
I would personally wait to buy any kind of Starfield guide until there's a GotY Edition of the game (all DLCs, expansions, etc.) and a guide is written for that version.
I would personally wait to buy any kind of Starfield guide until there's a GotY Edition of the game (all DLCs, expansions, etc.) and a guide is written for that version.
The UESP is great info dump but in same token there is an appeal having access to full colored maps or in hands reference you can immediately refer to.
This isn't like the days of Brady or Prima.
The recent output Piggyback and Futurepress has put out is fantastic. All of them hardcover with tons of art.
There is also having reasonable expectations. Having an entire wikis worth of content such as UESP would take dozens of books, definitely not something to expect from a guide book.
I don't expect it from a guide book. I just don't have a need for a worse source. I'm sure there is a market for people wanting art. For me, just the facts.
I already have the TotK guide pre-ordered but had no idea about the ACNH guide. Any links to more info on that one?
The Morrowind and Fallout 3 guides were so well written.
Like 500+ pages and even random ass quest lines had jokes here and there. There was a charm that made you want to read quest descriptions even if you already beat the quest.
Like 500+ pages and even random ass quest lines had jokes here and there. There was a charm that made you want to read quest descriptions even if you already beat the quest.
Futurepress maybe? Elden Ring Book 2 keeps getting delayed, but I'm assuming at this point they're including the DLC. Maybe they're pivoting to Starfield in the meantime?
If the FF IX remake is true, Piggyback better remake the Official Strategy Guide as well...
688 pages, hardcover, has everything including DLC.
Thanks. I feel like this is the only practical way to see everything in ACNH, haha.