It just pisses me off when people say they are used exclusively for cheating. I have bought Strategy Guides in the past for games I had completed but really liked, as a way to find all the secrets on a 2nd or 3rd play through and most of all, as a collector's item.
Well, I'm now looking for some FF games from the UK and can't find a place to buy them.
A little backstory:
I'm a Final Fantasy fan and recently wanted to add the official Strategy Guides to my collection (as collector's items, basically, and since I still play these games even today).
Well, it turns out that all the "official" strategy guides in the US for the games pretty much suck. The FF7 guide is laughable (poorly written and without a lot of the game's secrets), the FF8 guide is full of errors with an enomously confusing layout (forcing you to flip back and forth) and the FF9 guide is perhaps the worst of all, telling you to go to playonline.com at every step even though all the links are broken! The only decent modern FF guide is the FFX one which is "okay."
LUCKILY I found out that the British guides were not written by Bradygames (unlike most of the American guides). Instead, a company called Piggybank wrote them for FFVIII/IX/X and they have samplers on their site.
http://www.piggybackinteractive.com/en/guides/downloads/?id_guide=8#d476
I think this guide looks *A LOT* better than the official one and I am interested in buying this.
However, the FFVIII and FFIX guides (which I want the most!) are no longer in production and aren't for sale anymore either! I tried searching for them without any luck.
This creates the problem of having to find 2 strategy guides that are no longer for sale, and in a different country.
Is this a futile effort? Any ideas on what I might do.
...if BradyGames just wouldn't suck as much I wouldn't be in this position...
Well, I'm now looking for some FF games from the UK and can't find a place to buy them.
A little backstory:
I'm a Final Fantasy fan and recently wanted to add the official Strategy Guides to my collection (as collector's items, basically, and since I still play these games even today).
Well, it turns out that all the "official" strategy guides in the US for the games pretty much suck. The FF7 guide is laughable (poorly written and without a lot of the game's secrets), the FF8 guide is full of errors with an enomously confusing layout (forcing you to flip back and forth) and the FF9 guide is perhaps the worst of all, telling you to go to playonline.com at every step even though all the links are broken! The only decent modern FF guide is the FFX one which is "okay."
LUCKILY I found out that the British guides were not written by Bradygames (unlike most of the American guides). Instead, a company called Piggybank wrote them for FFVIII/IX/X and they have samplers on their site.
http://www.piggybackinteractive.com/en/guides/downloads/?id_guide=8#d476
I think this guide looks *A LOT* better than the official one and I am interested in buying this.
However, the FFVIII and FFIX guides (which I want the most!) are no longer in production and aren't for sale anymore either! I tried searching for them without any luck.
This creates the problem of having to find 2 strategy guides that are no longer for sale, and in a different country.
Is this a futile effort? Any ideas on what I might do.
...if BradyGames just wouldn't suck as much I wouldn't be in this position...
