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Since when are game strategy guides selling from 60-140 bucks?

Wow FF7 strategy guides are selling high too. Would never sell my game but could see me parting with the 2 guides I own if the $$$ is right.

Damn, the FF3 guide doesn't seem to have a high price tag, but I used that damn thing so much when I was playing it has much more sentimental value. When FF7 came out I was a little wiser and didn't need much of a guide until it came time to breed chocobos and beat Ruby/Emerald Weapon.
 
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I've never really understood the purpose of a strategy guide. Doesn't it kind of take the fun out of the game? Reading through a book, and doing exactly what it tells you to do, every step of the way?
 
Krynj said:
I've never really understood the purpose of a strategy guide. Doesn't it kind of take the fun out of the game? Reading through a book, and doing exactly what it tells you to do, every step of the way?
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Depends on how you use it. Lots of times it's more useful to use as a reference when you get stuck somewhere or if you want to "master" the game by learning advanced tactics or finding items that normally would be very hard to obtain. The FFXIII guide I got is ~100 pgs of walkthrough and 175+ pgs of side quests, leveling tips, character analysis, etc..
 
Krynj said:
I've never really understood the purpose of a strategy guide. Doesn't it kind of take the fun out of the game? Reading through a book, and doing exactly what it tells you to do, every step of the way?
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There were some times where i got stuck in a FF game for hours upon hours trying to trigger something. instead of doing that, i can just open the strategy guide and figured out that i forgot to pick up an item hiding behind a tent 3 towns back to trigger the next event.

The worst thing that happened to me in a game was in FF7 i was working through disc 3 and I forgot to pick up an item a few scenes back, and something happened in the game where I couldn't go back to get the item. i had to start the entire game all over again. biggest waste of time ever
 
Krynj said:
I've never really understood the purpose of a strategy guide. Doesn't it kind of take the fun out of the game? Reading through a book, and doing exactly what it tells you to do, every step of the way?
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JRPGs can have a lot of tricks on the player like if you don't hold on to random-item-x or open obscure-door-y or talk 13 times to person-z in chapter 1 then your character misses out on good stuff in chapter 17.

I've often used GameFaqs guides to check before leaving an area whether I missed opening that door or talking that 13th time.

Some cheesy boss fights also have tricks to winning that you'd only find by an obnoxious amount of trial and error. Now that I have a job and a lot less free time I'd rather just look up the trick after trying a couple of times on my own instead of trying every possible combination until I luck into the right one.
 
BrokenVisage said:
Wow FF7 strategy guides are selling high too. Would never sell my game but could see me parting with the 2 guides I own if the $$$ is right.

Damn, the FF3 guide doesn't seem to have a high price tag, but I used that damn thing so much when I was playing it has much more sentimental value. When FF7 came out I was a little wiser and didn't need much of a guide until it came time to breed chocobos and beat Ruby/Emerald Weapon.
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The FF7 Versus guide is the best strategy guide I have ever seen. Last time I looked for it, it was over $50. I have no idea what happened to mine.
 
Raduque said:
I dunno about you, but not everybody has a laptop or a computer near their TV. It's probably a lot easier to simply have the guide open on the couch or coffee table next to them.
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Sounds like you need an iPad son.

KT
 
dighn said:
they are collector's items, and normal valuation goes out of the window for those.
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This is why 99.9%.

They buy it to collect and probably store for 50-100 years then sell it from that point or pass to their kids, or have a project to do with it.

I sell a lot of collector's items on ebay, ranging from Voodoo cards (you should have seen that market) and misc old game stuff.
 
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