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So are you getting the Strategy Guide?
So are you all getting the heartgold/soulsilver strategy guide?
i am getting that heartgold and ho-oh figure!!! tomorrow morning ill be the 1st 1 at the gamestop doors at 9 am!!!!!!! |
No, I'm not getting the strategy guide, I don't think I really need it.
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Yes, I am. My desired team is: Glaceon,Snorlax,Dragonite,Jirachi,Suicune, and Espeon!
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Tch, I've played through Crystal enough times that I don't need no silly strategy guide! Besides, if things get ugly, I've got the Internet!
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Nah, gamefaqs is all you need!
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Probably not I'll use serebii.net best option plus it's FREE and if I don't have access I'll use my old gold
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i played silver too many times not to know what to do so i dont need one and if i dont know what to do i just do others things untill i do
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who uses a strat guide when u have access to the internet lol
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Why would I use a strategy guide? I still remember everything from gold/crystal/silver, and There's the internet too. I wonder who writes the strategy guides though....The company that makes the game? Game testers? Or another company that gets an early copy of the game?
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the only games i had guides for were frlg,emerald,and the 1st pkmn ranger,not geting it for hg
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The guide is sweet! I have it already. Only goes to Johto though :( ...
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no im not
the last one i got was for G/S and i never got another one after that. i'll just refer to that hahah jkjk XD i just check bublapedia for ingame events, secrets, poke's base stats and stuff. but strat guides are fun to look at |
I've got some newfangled thing called the internet myself. I think it's all I need.
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Yea, HeartGold, Ho-oh figure and the guide! I have played crystal over 50 times but I just like the pictures and I want to know where certain pokemon are, also peoples team line-ups really matter even tho my typhlosion can pwn the elite four
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i get the strategy guides to look at pics 2 and to look at in skool and make sure i do every thing in the games |
I use strategy guides as reading material!
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Are you serious? A game guide? It's Pokémon! You really don't need a guide for Pokémon, do you? Today's youth.... :\
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No.
Serebii should be good enough. Also am unemployed so any opportunity to save money sounds good to me. |
Yeah, I like looking at them plus they are good for looking up where certain Pokemon are and such. Good for making sure you do everything too.
I'll probably be getting the Pokedex/Kanto (the first book is only Johto I think) book too that's coming out next month. :D |
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Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I like to read things out of books, especially when I'm concentrating on something. Yes, I ordered the Guide along with Soul Silver. I plan to add it to my growing collection of guides that range all the way back to the original Red version Walkthrough/ Pokédex.
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Nope, I'm certain that I will not get it! I figured I'll try to figure out most of the secrets by myself!
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Me to april 27th thats a while though |
Gamestop opens at 8, their opening early for this, good luck being first XD
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Even though I've played through GSC so many times and memorized everything about it and could probably do half of it in my sleep, I'll be getting the strategy guide. All of the art in the guide will be the closest thing I'll ever get to having an artbook of the games... :'( The same went for the guides of the older games, especially for RBY/GSC.
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I want it, but the Johto/Knanto + National Dex Strategy Guide comes out next month, for the same price, I believe...
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Which is why I'm going to be getting the strategy guide. Probably not the current one (if it does only go up to Johto), but the one that's released at a later date. I won't use it all the time, but only when I'm completely stuck. I would use the Internet, but I'm not one to be playing my DS while sitting in front of a computer. Just never was something I could do. Besides, the book I can take with me if I go outside or have sitting on my lap if I'm away from the computer. And, well, the pretty pretty pictures. Give me maps of the regions, please. What's with my srs business posts to threads like this? |
I know the internet has its wonders, but having a guide with all that good information at your fingertips might be too much to pass up for me ;)
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Nope , no startegy guide for me ....
First , it is not getting imported to Romania . Secondly , it's called www.gamefaqs.com and it's got all you need ! |
plus, if you have DSI whats the point of a guide when you can just go online and check
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I'll most likely get the one that comes out next month.
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It's not like I really need a strategy guide, but I'll probably get it anyways since I love them. *__*
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My gamestop opens at 8 i asked the guy in the store yesterday when i put money down on the strategy guide!!!!!!! |
I wasn't planning to get it, but I ended up trading games in to pay off my preorder and got a whole lot more credit than I was expecting. My manager persuaded me into getting the books. The strategy guide is tiding me over until I get the Pokedex and/or game.
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My initial playthrough will be guide-less. When I give my brother his game (and restart mine), I'll get it for him. It's a good alternative for having to open up Bulbapedia everytime you want to check where to get something or to see something's movepool.
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Hm... I've got two questions before I make my decision:
1) Does it cost more than $15.00? Because that's all I'm going to have left over after I buy Soul Silver. 2) Is it worth the effort? Or is it just a bunch of pictures and moveset suggestions, or some other such nonsense? |
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Might aswell, makes more sense than having to look it up online every time. |
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Pokemon HeartGold & Soul Silver Official Strategy Guide. Gamestop/EB tend to have the higher prices ranges though, so I guess it's possible that you'll be able to find it slightly cheaper at another store. Handbooks generally only have the set price though, as far as I've seen. 2) I've read up to the Johto walkthrough in my handbook (and a few pages of that) and so far it seems to be pretty interesting. The Kanto walkthrough isn't included, though, which is a bit of a downside (supposedly it's included in the Pokedex, although I can't confirm that). |
I beat the Japanese SoulSilver without a guide, so why would I need one for English? Besides, with internet guides up nowdays, strategy guides are near obsolete. Not saying they're not handy though. I still buy a few, only if I need a map of a side area. But hey, you can even find those via internet. Meh.
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if I get stuck, I will switch on my laptop then go to gamefaqs.
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yeah the guide is really helpful
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Probably not, I'll probably just go online if I get stuck.
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When I play the games over the summer, I won't have internet. So I will
a) Download a GameFaqs guide and use it, and b) Use my brother's copy of the guide since he WILL be getting it and use it for the maps. And the pretty pictures. And the witty content... oh, snap, I forgot, there is no witty commentary in NP/Prima guides... c) Go based on my playthrough of Crystal last summer and how I still remember a good portion of it. |
Nah. Even though I have multiple game guides (PMD: Blue and Red Rescue Team, PMD2: Explorers of Time and Darkness, and LoZ: Phantom Hourglass), I won't. I've only played like ten minutes of Crystal *gets stoned*, so I don't know the storyline. I can't wait to play through Soul Silver and enjoy the storyline. I'll only refer to the internet when I'm super stuck and to check where I can catch the Pokemon I want on my team.
- Kat |
Yeah I picked up the guide as well as Heart Gold and loved the 10% off. I actually do use it since I haven't played G/S/C in such awhile I actually did forget somethings. XD
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No, because the internet is free, except for the monthly part, so I'm not gonna waste an extra $20 because I'm cheap.
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Do I need it? No
Do I want it? No Did I get it? Yes My mom picked it up for me with the Games because she knows how much stress I've been under lately~ :3 |
I Went this morning at Noon when the Store opened, Was the first one to get it. And that was the first store to open that sold the game. :S
So i was prob one of the first in my city to get it. Then i went back a little while after to Buy the book. I Like to buy the book since well, I don't know, Like to overlook if i missed anything, and if i get bored i can look through the book since it shows minigames, and it also tells you things you can do if you havent already done so. |
strategy guides for any game are pretty much useless now a days, especially with the internet. the only time i ever got one was for the original red and blue because i was only 6 and had no idea how to use the internet
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I will, just for a look-through!
But, seriously, I don't need it. |
No, I already know this game inside out, and even though it is a great collector's item, I passed. I got the Ho-oh pre-order figure, however, so I am still satisfied ;3
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I feel like I'm cheating whenever I use a strategy guide, the 96-page manual is enough for me. It's also really expensive.
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I got the first one, but when I saw that it only had the first half in it I ordered the second one. Then I heard about pokedex apps, so I cancelled it.
I got the first one with my HeartGold if you were wondering. |
I got the D/P strategy guide and used it on occasion, but it's much simpler to just search my issue on the internet than to look through the book. I'm obviously s.o.l. if my internet/power goes out, but it's not the end of the world.
I do think the Pokédex was the most useful "guide" I've bought in the past few years, especially if I'm traveling and get the sudden urge to draw a Pokémon but can't remember what exactly it looks like. |
Nope.
I use Serebii.net for every thing I need. |
I only got it because you get it half price with the game, for newbies it's actually quite good.
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I just either use neoseeker or gamefaqs or serebii. Would be WAY too embarrassed to go out and buy it anyways.
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I played the original Gold, and the plot is the same so I know what I am doing. Besides, I still have my old magazine, which was a walkthrough, and as good as this guide crap. And it was only £3.50 xD
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Please don't revive threads over a month old. If you want to discuss getting the HG/SS Guide Book for Johto, then you can remake a new thread for it. =]
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