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Adelaide, Australia
Seen July 4th, 2020
Posted December 21st, 2019
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14.3 Years
(Yes I checked, there is no current thread for this)

This is a simple question. Do you buy the game guides for Pokemon at all?

I've made a habit of buying the Pokemon game guides whenever I can, ever since Ruby and Sapphire. I've bought pretty much all of them, except the Platinum, and first HG/SS versions. I even bought the Emerald guide once, and I never even got the game for myself, which was silly. :P I'm going to buy the next Black/White version one when I can next time because there are interesting things in there I want to see.

I also like some of the lulz things that Prima put into those guides. Like one time in the FR/LG guide, they replaced the sprite for Gyarados with a Weedle for Pokemon you can find in Fuschia City. I thought it was pretty funny. :D

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Age 27
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England
Seen December 11th, 2021
Posted August 12th, 2020
4,076 posts
14.1 Years
I sometimes buy them, if I have the money and have no idea of what to buy.

I haven't actually bought that many though. ;__; I've bought the guides for; XD Gale of Darkness, Emerald, Diamond & Pearl, Colosseum, and a few of the Pokedex one's. :3

I wanna buy the two Black and White one's.









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Age 31
Seen December 24th, 2011
Posted May 31st, 2011
224 posts
12.2 Years
Grrr.. F the guidebooks.. Its fun to play pokemon games when you don't have a guide. For me anyways, I really find it exciting to explore the world and find every nook of the map and encounter pokemons I don't know of.
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Seen September 28th, 2018
Posted March 16th, 2018
8,874 posts
12.1 Years
Basically what most people are saying. The guidebooks are horrifically overpriced, dumbed down and from past experience, often inaccurate. We already pay for the internet and it's much easier to get information from there than a guidebook.
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Seen June 17th, 2011
Posted May 29th, 2011
44 posts
12.1 Years
The internet is your guidebook, not like I would need one unless I am really searching for a certain Pokemon...

I remember how "WOW" it was when I found Kyurem without even knowing he was going to be THERE!


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Seen January 25th, 2012
Posted January 23rd, 2012
846 posts
14.7 Years
I'd buy the guidbook if it meant I got access to all the Porygon stuff going on in a promotion three days from now, along with the mini-poster that I like to hang up upon my otherwise barren wall. As for all practical uses, there's the Internet.
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Seen September 18th, 2013
Posted March 25th, 2013
4,391 posts
14.9 Years
More then likely somebody will post up the skin codes for the public to have, so buying the guide for that wouldn't be too practical. I bought the Ruby and Sapphire guide years and years ago. It was nice for quick references, and I didn't have to search through webpages to find my answer. Now I'd just assume search for the info then dish out $30.00 for stuff I can find for free online

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Seen July 7th, 2011
Posted May 22nd, 2011
1,517 posts
14.6 Years
I honestly try not to use guides in the first place. And if I do, I use online resources like IGN and YouTube. I don't see the point in guide books anymore unless they come with something you could never find anywhere else, like a ticket to an event or movie. :3
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14.1 Years
The last guide I bought was Diamond/Pearl one. Now I just go online for help.

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Seen May 22nd, 2022
Posted November 29th, 2021
33,354 posts
15.2 Years
I have some older ones from back before I had a laptop and couldn't always keep Serebii open, or use the Q&A threads here. But now I have my laptop with my constantly, plus I've memorized a lot of things, so there's no need for me to get the guidebooks anymore. They get more and more overpriced though. Haven't gotten a guidebook since DP.
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Seen February 27th, 2023
Posted July 28th, 2022
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12.2 Years
I never use guide book. When smaller I just never have a thought about buying guide book, and playing without use them, and now I can look for guidance on the internet.

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Seen December 16th, 2022
Posted May 30th, 2022
2,304 posts
13.1 Years
There is a free guidebook on the internet known as Bulbapedia. Can you tell me why need a guide book when there are sites telling the details of all 649 pokemon? The guide book is worthless, although do have the ultamate Pokedex from Gen III and part 2 of the D/P guidebook. Nowadays Ei just read guidebooks for entertainment.
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Posted February 24th, 2012
298 posts
12.7 Years
the last guide book I got was for the game cube version of twilight princess, the last pokemon guide I bought was for red/yellow/blue
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Posted February 29th, 2012
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12.5 Years
Ive bought the FR/LG guide and used it to its full advantage on pretty much everything. I loved it so much I go the Emerald one as well but thats it. Every other time I went to bulbapedia. The guides are fun to look at though and read different info on Pokemon such as when they evolve and what lvls they learn moves at.

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Posted January 25th, 2022
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15.5 Years
My brother buys them. I haven't since Platinum, since we have the internet. The "two volume" guides are an especially big waste of money, and the quality of these guides has been going down... on my brother's recent Pokemon guides the ink easily smears and the B/W Pokedex guide didn't even have the old 493 Pokemon listed!

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Posted August 15th, 2011
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My parents bought the Yellow guide for me when I was 11. Even so, I still used the internet, because that's where I learned about all the devious hidden values.

Naturally, I don't have any guides. I've spent larger amounts of money on stupid things, but never a guide.
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Posted October 16th, 2022
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15.3 Years
Since I've played the game for 12 years or so, I'm pretty sure the strategy guide wouldn't tell me anything I didn't already know or be able to work out. Anything small like stats or whatever I can get from the Internet, or even special passwords (I swear that C-Gear code hit the net within 5 seconds of publication). There's also that thing of the guide and walk-through spoiling the story as well, and also kinda takes the challenge out of the game.

So no, I don't think it's worth the £20 for the strategy guide.
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Posted November 11th, 2014
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Why buy the guidebooks when there is this site?
http://www.serebii.net/index2.shtml
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