Fallout 3: Prima Official Game Guide

Black said:
hailtotheking said:
Sometimes a game-guide will actually give you helpful advice on different gamestyles. Other times it´s a total waste of time.
How will that work in FO3 then?
"Notice that you can also kill this group of super-mutants by using your plasma rifle or tearing them to shreds with your minigun. The choice is yours!"
And useful advice? "Remember! When Dogmeat is killed, he stays dead!"

Yeah, my money too is on total waste of time for any F3 guide. Nice example :)
 
Vault 13 said:
dammit....who needs a fucking guide....release a mother fucking gameplay video already !
Can't believe it !!!
Who needs the freaking gameplay video? We already know that this will be the best RPG/Fallout game EVAH1!! What else we should expect from the makers of the award winning Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?
 
Makagulfazel said:
Master of Orion was awesome, but only had one problem.
If you lost your guide/manual, you were screwed. Well, unless you were good at memorizing ship models.

Anyway, that guide is looking pretty damn skinny. Hopefully it's only for looks.

Look at it. LOOK AT IT. Click the image then LOOK AT IT. Do you see that it is a model? That the pages at the back are obviously fake? Of course it's only for looks, they probably haven't even started writing it yet.
 
Nexus6 said:
The last guide I got was for Pokemon Yellow. It was pretty rad.
That guide was worth gold.
The burned house on that island or the Mewtu cave were pretty hard without maps.

I wanna be the very best.... blah blah catch em all!
 
I use them as reading material when I'm bored. Plus, I probably won't see everything in a couple of play throughs and the guide might have some actually useful information.
 
Buying the Master of Magic official strategy guide is one of the best purchases I ever made.

That thing is a fucking bible. Not even the internets can top it.

Billychu said:
I use them as reading material when I'm bored.
Ahh, being young...
 
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The Doors Of Perception: ""When The Music's Over -- Turn Out The Lights""



[Allow me to Larp through this thread as an ---> AGENT OF BUZZZZZZ!!!!1111!!]



Dear Consumer,

Consider a reality check by wandering into the scary dark of the world's energy futures.

True survival horror lurks.

Consider this time spin deviation, a seismic shift in the game playing, game buying continuum.

America --- batteries not included.

Premise. It's the 21st Century, it's the Neo Con's, Ann Coulter lover child's, Wilsonian interventionists' *go to hell* loot and run GTA AMERICAN Century!!!!!!!1!!, ...

... and the intelligently designed ape descendants are still chained to lead acid batteries.:(

Spend most of the home life on hand crank generator charging batteries, especially for the 3 wheeled electric car.

Twenty minute commute, now an hour in fair weather, two hours in the cold.

Lucky to have job to be late to.

Only time and kilowatt energy for game abstracts, and a printed collectable will burn longer and brighter then a Nex Gen box sleeve.


Sales pitch for the FO3 Prima Guide, the last - future perfect - survival guide you will ev-ah need!

The last point of light before - game over - and we freeze in the dark.

Your choice: the nasty burning, noxious plastic, or the brilliant beacon of beautiful BTU's -- aflame!:)


...

I envision long lines in synthetic down parkas, to assemble and then nerd rush, not the game , but the book shelves,

buying out this collectable,

don't be left out in the future's cold!



[Game over and lights out!]





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Continuum said:
Vault 13 said:
dammit....who needs a fucking guide....release a mother fucking gameplay video already !
Can't believe it !!!
Who needs the freaking gameplay video? We already know that this will be the best RPG/Fallout game EVAH1!! What else we should expect from the makers of the award winning Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?
I know the game will be shit ....but i was just curious to know how bad they have raped the game .
 
You honestly don't know why they still release those Prima game guides?

It's rather simple: Game guides are there so grandmas have something they can buy their grandchildren that looks like a book but still concerns something they know the kid likes.

If the kid likes painting, they can buy painting books. Game guides are like that for kids who like games.
 
Useful or not*, I see them as collector's items. Of course, Fallout 3 itself isn't worth having/collecting so the guide isn't either.

Some are actually pretty nice, especially if they're written by one of the game's designers (see the Torment guide) and especially if that game designer is MCA.
Also the Fallout 1 guide is very nice... haven't yet read the one for Fallout 2.
 
FeelTheRads said:
haven't yet read the one for Fallout 2.
I dug this one out of a moving box after 8 years, didn't remember having it really. The maps and pictures are decent, but when was the last time you got lost in Vault City and needed a map (or anywhere else in FO2 for that matter)? The rest of the content is inferior to Per's guide, hands down. It's not bad to read on the shitter, to compare damage ranges, ROFs and AP costs of different weapons though. It was writen in-house by someone who had a minor role at Interplay, but not as "in-character" as the manuals were, opportunity missed IMHO.
 
By the way, since the FO2 guide was written by one of the developers of the game, it would be pretty useful for me on the wiki. Since it's probably long out of print by now, is it all right for me to ask if anyone has scans of it?
 
I would really like to help but I don't have a scanner. Still, it can be found quite cheap on Amazon as I saw, and a bit more expensive on ebay sometimes.
 
I would really like to help but I don't have a scanner. Still, it can be found quite cheap on Amazon as I saw, and a bit more expensive on ebay sometimes.

I'd buy it, but don't even have a credit card, and their costs of shipping to Poland are not worth it.
 
HoKa said:
Buying the Master of Magic official strategy guide is one of the best purchases I ever made.

That thing is a fucking bible. Not even the internets can top it.

Billychu said:
I use them as reading material when I'm bored.
Ahh, being young...
I read books all the time, but sometimes I want something light, like a strategy guide. Most of the books I read are over 800 pages.
 
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