There is no reason to do so, unless you collect things like that.
I got the D1 and D2 guides (bought them recently cheap off ebay) and the amount of information in there which is correct is very very low. Both those games changed alot, and I would assume D3 to go through lots of balancing as well, rendering any guide books useless.
I might pick one up like a few years from now just for fun, looking back at how wrong the book have become.
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Picking up the deluxe hardcover guide at some point after release. Not so much because I need the info (ty Diablofans and countless faqs/wikis), but because I like to occasionally read and collect that sort of thing.
the only reason to buy a strategy guide for a dynamic changign game is to look back and se how things was in the begining of the game. Skills balance items monsters areas ect, and i find that pretty fun, as that information will be pretty hard to come by in a few years time.
from typing this i got a pretty funny idea, to save all skills descriptions for every patch after release, to be able to look back to it a few years into the future to se what has happened to the skills.
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It's pretty funny to look back at my WoW strategy guide and read what it says. I mostly bought it for the awesome Penny Arcade comics though! I don't plan on buying the D3 guide.
I bought the collectors strategy guide just to have it on the bookcase and have something to read after im done with the behind the scenes DVD with the 3 hour wait before servers.
After which point itll never be opend again.
Oh, and for that bookmark, that bookmark looks awesome, and will work get from when I got "The Order"
I see it more as a "collector's" item than a really useful tool. It's always nice to have hard copies of information (I'm a bit of a luddite, I prefer physical items to digital ones)
Absolutely. I'm with ya 100% on having a physical item vs. a digital item if there is a choice. I don't buy a guide for every game I play but once in awhile I'll come across a guide that is really well done and contains some great art work or just something that I find cool about it and I'll pick it up. I have some great guides I bought for games on the PSX and N64 that I still love to look through for nostalgia's sake
Strategy guides made more sense when our family lacked a decent internet connection, so we'd usually still have version 1.0 and the strategy guide for that version. I actually really loved strategy guides back in the day, many of them were very extensive talking about all sorts of random stuff, and with pictures. My AoE II guide explained good starting build orders and stuff, and had some history stuff along the way. The StarCraft guide was pretty cool, too. When you have no clue what to do and you have no internet they're stupidly nice to have.
A lot of games back then were also highly counter intuitive.
I did use my Demon's Souls manual extensively, mostly because I think the game didn't get patched much and the Wiki on it was horrid (although the manual lacked tons of info...). A lot of those are good for an overview of keys, as well.
I'm not really against owning a guide, just for the sake of having a book, having something to just look through initially, and look back on later and be like "this is what it was 4 years ago, whoa".
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also you will have the wiki on it also (may require internet acsess)
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I got the D1 and D2 guides (bought them recently cheap off ebay) and the amount of information in there which is correct is very very low. Both those games changed alot, and I would assume D3 to go through lots of balancing as well, rendering any guide books useless.
I might pick one up like a few years from now just for fun, looking back at how wrong the book have become.
Amazon has them for the cheapest Ive seen so far.
from typing this i got a pretty funny idea, to save all skills descriptions for every patch after release, to be able to look back to it a few years into the future to se what has happened to the skills.
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13 years = 2 decades.
Math has come a long way since 1999.
1990 decade 1
2000 decade 2
2010 decade 3
but as we are in decade 3 199X was 2 decades ago.
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I also had the Diablo II LoD guide which was pretty awesome, but then went pretty much obsolete with patch 1.10.
I stopped buying strategy guides when I realized that I could find the answers with Google.
After which point itll never be opend again.
Oh, and for that bookmark, that bookmark looks awesome, and will work get from when I got "The Order"
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A lot of games back then were also highly counter intuitive.
I did use my Demon's Souls manual extensively, mostly because I think the game didn't get patched much and the Wiki on it was horrid (although the manual lacked tons of info...). A lot of those are good for an overview of keys, as well.
I'm not really against owning a guide, just for the sake of having a book, having something to just look through initially, and look back on later and be like "this is what it was 4 years ago, whoa".