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>that will be $150 + tax + fees + tariffs + shipping + tip please for your retro videogame strategy guide
Do most of you just skip strategy guides. I don't see how you can possibly afford it. Yet at the same time my OCD autism doesn't believe I own the full original item unless I also have the strategy guide simultaneously. It puts me in a dilemma where I can never feel like my collection is complete because I can never afford all of the strategy guides.
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>>12513516
You're just being autistic, 99% of games were sold separately from guides, and the majority of games didn't really necessitate guides in the first place. I'm not talking about a game being easy, I'm talking about stupid shit like Player's Guides for fighting and rhythm and racing and sports.
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>>12513516
Sometimes strategy guides have cool art, additional lore, or stuff like the isometric views of the levels in the MGS1 guide.
There's also some games where the visual elements of the strategy guide make it infinitely better than anything Gamefaqs could offer, such as the Kula World guide having wireframe drawings of all the levels.
And other times it's just fun to laugh at, like how the La Pucelle Tactics strategy guide features multiple drawings obviously traced from various bits of Trigun media.