Now, I should say that my love of strategy guides kind of mirrors my love of manuals. I like having that quick reference filled with pictures, artwork, backstory, etc. all right there at hand to flip through.Originally Posted by darkchrono
That said, strategy guides, at least in my experience, aren't held to a very high quality standard. Maybe a rung or two above your average games journalism these days, and a little bit below the tabloids by the grocery store checkout. It was worse in the 90's though. I have some guides that might as well have been (and very well might have been) written by some teenager doing a troutty guide for Gamefaqs. Quality was all over the map for years with these things so some are pretty damn good, others are a mess, some are horribly out of date (Starcraft 2's strategy guide that spent almost half it's pages on multiplayer).
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