Great collection there. I've still got about 20 guides from the PS1&2 days, through to my most recent addition of the of MGSV hard back. I know there's the internet for guides and help, but there's something refreshing about reading from actual texts, rather than constantly melting one's brain with monitors and mobile screens. The artworks, posters etc you sometimes get inside these books are extra cool.
love strategy guides as well..they are really detailed and theres nothing like holding a physical copy..fav. one i own is ff official nintendo strategy guide.
last year at an estate sale i bought over 100 guides for a quarter a piece. The person who passed away was a massive RPG fan and SNES fan. Just about every RPG you can think of. The Earthbound guide with the scratch and sniff stickers was there.. If only they had found the actual games to sell me.
That MGS guide looks awesome!! I played that game through almost 20 times because someone told me that snake would be wearing a ninja costume! One of the best games ever made.
Hey thanks for uploading this video Alpha. I truly think strategy guides are somewhat of a lost art form these days. A lot of work and care went into making them. So its a shame you don't see them that much anymore.
I never use to buy Strategy Guides. Always wanted to discover something awesome i never seen coming. But as i get older, i know i dont want to rage-quit because i cant get past a certain boss because i neglected some (LOADING SCREEN TIP) halfway through the game! So i now collect guides. Great Vid Alpha
The xenosaga 3 strategy guide was pretty darn good. I still remember buying it from this gamecrazy that disappeared like two months after my purchase. The way it tells you where everything is without spoiling the story was superb. And my big bro knew that I beat 1 and 2 so he got me the third one for my birthday so it was pretty memorable for me.
Love the strategy guide collection bro. I remember having the final fantasy 9 strategy guide... years after i beat it over and over trying to find all it's goodies. Ahh good times.
I understand the love for strategy guidebooks. I wish my small collection was as great and big as yours, but I still love it. What got me to start getting guides was Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire games. I had trouble getting Rayquaza, and decided to get the guide because of it. Now every time a Pokémon game comes out, I get their guides. I also love just to read them. I find them entertaining for some reason. My favorite was the KH2 guide. The many times I've read the thing.
+Spyrite Pichu Trust me man it's taken a lot of years and time and effort and patience. This has been building up since 1997 so it's been a helluva trip
Quite an accomplishment. So many years of beautiful collecting. I shall aspire to obtain greatness of the guides. You made me more eager to keep getting them.
Damn these bring back so many good memories! Seeing your Breath of Fire 3 strategy guy reminded me on my first few playthroughs. Holy crap did I have to replay it over to get over things like the Desert of Death and such. And Castlevania SOTN... Oh lord how I died so much in that game. Good times. Rock on man!
I am so glad you spotlighted Grandia II on here. It's one of my all-time favorite RPG's. If you are reading and haven't played it, it's affordable and a must play on Steam! Pick it up!
+Wastingsometimehere I remember using the strategy guides for Zelda: OOT on N64 and DKC2 on SNES, both when the games were brand new. Those were good days.
I have good old memories with strategy guides. Before the advent of the Internet, this was all there was for us outside of magazines and word to mouth conversations. I didn't have a bunch of them, but some of the ones I have run into are nice to read.
WOW, that's amazing that the FF VII guide is still in print! I thought it was impressive that my younger cousin was able to buy it new, sometime in between 2003 and 2006, I really can't remember which year it was. And I thought at the time, that was the tail-end of that guide's print. I guess I was wrong haha. I actually still have the guide for FF VIII, never even used it, mostly because I've never gotten around to playing through that game yet.
I never bought guides as a kid. Somewhat saw them as a waste of money being a kid. Now I got some from games from my childhood. Nothing overly special, but just little extra collectibles for my collection. Think games like Halo 2/3, GTA 4, several mario games, Donkey Kong, Mario Party and Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 etc. I'm most proud of my Gamecube-era guides since I grew up with these games and therefor they hold somewhat of a nostalgia value, dispite the fact I never owned the actual guide. But I have some for Mario Sunshine, Mario Party 4, Super Moneyball, Windwaker and one more I can't think off right now.
I loved strategy guides. They were sometimes necessary growing up in the days of NES. Nintendo Power got me out of many jams. I remember the first full strategy guide I bought was for Super Mario RPG.
Thank you so much for making this video! Grandia 2 has been my all time favorite JRPG and I had no idea it had been remade! Playing it on the dreamcast with VGA outputs is nice but the steam port is gorgeous and well worth the $20 price tag!
I can recall playing PS1 RPGs back in the day with my friend, we usually had a guide with us and those things had some serious miles put on them, they usually looked like shit when we were done with them. That Legacy of Kain guide is one I distinctly remember using, and FFVII of course.
I am a big fan of game guides as well. I also have all of my old PSM magazines which had great walkthroughs on a good amount of RPG's and other PS1 classics!
hell yea badass video!!!! I remember back in the day everyone that played games we read their strategy guy in class so when you got home you could kick ass!!!! and then wed share strategy guides if one person got it
I love strategy guides. I would actually enjoy a video for your entire collection. I have a modest collection. The prize is my Versus guide for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Also have my own Pokemon guide but the original Red/Blue only. Still has that page of all the stickers. The highlight of this video was definitely the guide for the first Silent Hill.
I used to have a huge collection, but sadly it's still with my guardians who I don't live with or talk to anymore. The only ones I still have are my original FFVII guide, Skyrim and Oblivion, and all my original Pokemon guides (from every game). I'm so jealous of your collection man.
Collected a lot of official Nintendo and Final Fantasy guides when I was a kid. Probably one thing I should try and complete since I have a lot of them.
Remember to hit up Happy Console Gamers strategy guide video as well since well ya know this was a video response to his. Plus that lucky bastard has the Persona 1 strategy guide. Makes it worth the watch alone ua-cam.com/video/jbUgMxKohq8/v-deo.html
I had a strategy guide from Prima for Final Fantasy VI that was like a fucking bible. Gave indepth biographies for every single character and precise charts maps and locations for everything. I wish I still had it to this day.
+AlphaOmegaSin Just finished a Breath of Fire 3 video guide not long ago and yea man great idea with Folklore might get some trophy support then as well for all the trophy hunters
I love Guides I have one for most of the bigger RPG's I own, and recently got the Zelda TP CE Guide and Dark Souls 3 CE as well :) Guides have so much more to offer then just information on the game, they add some value to some games in my eyes ^^
god, alpha, it's going to cost me a lot today... i'm also a guide collector, i got a pretty big collection, and yet, you showed a few guides i totally forgot about. great vid!
What I really liked (looking back) about the strategy guides from back in the 90's was that they did not tell you what to do but gave hints. Walkthroughs can wreck puzzle and exploring aspects of rpgs. The best ones were the Bards Tale 1 guide (best = first). I used t get all the gold box guides and the last one was Baldurs gate 2. I am sure4 that there is a maket for coffee table 'World of' art and descriptive books in the modern age.
Impressive strategy guide collection. I use to own a few back in the days but I accidentally through them I was moving out and kinda regret of doing it.
Nice collection of strategy guides - one of my earliest strategy guides was a beautiful Official FINAL FANTASY 7 Guide as-well as a guide for METAL GEAR SOLID
AlphaOmegaSin Gonna have to play through Breath of Fire 3 again. Playing around with the dragon genes and fairy garden was some of the most fun I have ever had in an RPG.
Doublejump had some amazing guides for alot of good RPG's and also I know they did the Disgaea guides for the first 3 games and those guides were a beast I have the Disgaea 3 guide and I think that one was about 200+ pages of nothing but information.
Ah yes, the long rumored Game Room Tour! I've heard tales of this adventure, in fact I partook in said event long ago. To go on that grand journey once again would be joyous... one can only hope.
Nintendo Power came out with the best strategy guides ever! My first guide was the Nintendo Power Super Mario Bros 3 edition. I feel that some guides are better then others, I look for lots of artworks and character renders, enemy section, detailed maps, just an overall great layout is key to a great guide.
I never see anyone talk about Folklore, and I'm glad you did! I love this game, even if I didn't finish it. I'm planning on doing a LP of it when I get to it :'D I also don't own any strategy guide, and I've been thinking of starting to try and collect them. The only one I ever got was FFX and I bought it for my girlfriend.
I loved the FFVII guide but it did miss a few enemies. Shit like Movers, which weren't in my copy, I drew in myself with all the details, just to keep it up to date. You're right though, the FFIX guide was mince. They kept referring you to an online site to get a lot of the extra information (PlayOnline if I remember right), which totally defeated the purpose of having a strategy guide. I've got quite a few but my favourite one is definitely my Killer Instinct strategy guide. I have two copies, one which is really worn, due to the number of times I used it, and the other is in perfect condition, that I kept wrapped up ever since I got it like 20 years ago.
+Andrew Brown taking into count that FF9 had one of the most secret quests ever in video games, it makes sense, theres too much of that game to be honest
Quite a few PC strategy guides from the 90s were written in the first-person in an attempt to be entertaining as well as informative. The writer would take a character through the campaign and jot down their adventures.
tales of vesperia was my first tales of game and i truly loved it, so far its my favorite, im currently in the long process of going through them all haha. its good to see i wasn't the only dying to get the ps3 version ported over here.
When i played Nocturne for the first time 5 years ago it made me love videogames so much again. That and Demon souls made me appreciate videogames again.
Great video made me remember my lost strategy guide collection damn I miss it. The only ones I have left are my Twilight Princess and Marvel vs Capcom 2. The one that really kills me was my Super Mario World and Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past Players guide wished I had those backs.
For some reason I have two Japanese strategy guides for Clock Tower 2 (Clock Tower on PS1 in the West) and Struggle Within (Ghost Head) and they are gorgeous strategy guides. The Struggle Within even has a fantastic manga strip at the front.
Man 'm so jealous of some of those, that SoTN guide goddamn. and Zestiria for only $5? WTF made out like a bandit on that one. Most of mine are in meh shape because I usually only find them in thrift stores. Pawn shop I frequented used to have guides for $2 a piece, then they got 'wise' and started pricing them according to ebay siiiiigghhhh. My favorite guide I have is a Nightwarriors: DarkStalker's Revenge for Saturn I found recently. Half the guide is awesome artwork and the strategy part is very in depth with frame data for every move.
always fun seeing what strategy guides show up in thrift stores...... and not funny when you get surprised by what some people do them. Last week I found an Official Zelda Twilight Princess (Wii/GCN) strategy guide which appeared in overall great condition, I flipped through it quick and everything seemed okay so I bought it. then when I was going through it in the reading room I got to the final boss fight section and discovered whoever owned it clipped out the images for the boss fight with Ganon for some reason - literally just rectangular holes like you would see in a cartoon, it was funny and sad at the same time.
+AlphaOmegaSin My area is weird as you don't see many good games in the thrift stores around here (mostly generic sports titles) but Strategy guides are somewhat frequent. Grand theft Auto: San Andreas pops up at least once a week for some reason. Loved the day I found the guides for Dragon Quest VIII, Final Fantasy XII, and Kingdom Hearts.
Video FINALLY gets to Parasite Eve, my all time favorite game ever, and would of loved to hear you talk about it..... Aaaaand then the video cuts out and we're on the Pokemon.... FFFFFFFFUUUUU
Hello AlphaOmegaSin, awesome collection sir! very impressive. I love your channel not gonna lie just binge watched your lets play! of all the Resident Evil games and they were fantastic really brought me back to days of yore, I would like to see a Lets Play of Resident Evil 3, I would totally watch that, thank you for all your hard work AlphaOmegaSin.
Very awesome collection! I remember when my best friend used to get free demos in magazines. I think it was for the original playstation. He sold everything (sigh)
Oh man, strategy guides take me back to the 90's when they were pretty useful, informative or just fun to check out extra stuff. Since the Internet really kicked off and things are WAY more common, the use of them has def diminished. But I had guides for FFVII, FFVIII, FFX, Dino Crisis 2, Misadventures of Tron Bonne (perfect for raising the Servbots to peek potential). I also have the Zone of the Enders guide (because I was obsessed with that game), Devil May Cry and I have freebie guides of Diablo 2+ LOD expansion as well as the condensed guide of StarCraft & the Brood War expansion :3! I have one magazine that detailed the bosses and weapons of FFX while havign a crap ton of other games with some quick guides/help or secrets. I did buy the Street Fighter V hardcover one and def don't regret it, as it's beautiful as hell. I used my FFVIII guide the most and want to get a replacement as the front cover has fallen off, it saw a LOT of use xD! all my other guides are pretty good condition. But yeah, there's almost an art to them in their design and the idea of havign a tome of knowledge for these games... I sometimes get too nostalgic!
Awesome collection. I never owned a strat guide or a game I didn't regret getting rid of. just hit the sup button. Been watching a while sorry it took so long.
The memories! I still have the. strategy guide of MGS 1 and Resident evil 2!
So Old now!
Finallly!
And damn that Persona 2 and Symphony of the Night guide!
lol that persona guide
Great collection there. I've still got about 20 guides from the PS1&2 days, through to my most recent addition of the of MGSV hard back. I know there's the internet for guides and help, but there's something refreshing about reading from actual texts, rather than constantly melting one's brain with monitors and mobile screens. The artworks, posters etc you sometimes get inside these books are extra cool.
Glad I'm not the only one who collects strategy guides. I don't even use them other than to look at the art and collecting addiction I have.
love strategy guides as well..they are really detailed and theres nothing like holding a physical copy..fav. one i own is ff official nintendo strategy guide.
last year at an estate sale i bought over 100 guides for a quarter a piece. The person who passed away was a massive RPG fan and SNES fan. Just about every RPG you can think of. The Earthbound guide with the scratch and sniff stickers was there.. If only they had found the actual games to sell me.
Yeap
That MGS guide looks awesome!! I played that game through almost 20 times because someone told me that snake would be wearing a ninja costume!
One of the best games ever made.
Hey thanks for uploading this video Alpha. I truly think strategy guides are somewhat of a lost art form these days. A lot of work and care went into making them. So its a shame you don't see them that much anymore.
I never use to buy Strategy Guides. Always wanted to discover something awesome i never seen coming. But as i get older, i know i dont want to rage-quit because i cant get past a certain boss because i neglected some (LOADING SCREEN TIP) halfway through the game! So i now collect guides. Great Vid Alpha
Love when UA-cam randomly recommends an old school Alpha vid 🎉
Love seeing game collection stuff on your channel! You're the reason I started collecting in the first place so I always love to see it
The xenosaga 3 strategy guide was pretty darn good. I still remember buying it from this gamecrazy that disappeared like two months after my purchase. The way it tells you where everything is without spoiling the story was superb. And my big bro knew that I beat 1 and 2 so he got me the third one for my birthday so it was pretty memorable for me.
Love the strategy guide collection bro. I remember having the final fantasy 9 strategy guide... years after i beat it over and over trying to find all it's goodies.
Ahh good times.
I understand the love for strategy guidebooks. I wish my small collection was as great and big as yours, but I still love it. What got me to start getting guides was Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire games. I had trouble getting Rayquaza, and decided to get the guide because of it. Now every time a Pokémon game comes out, I get their guides.
I also love just to read them. I find them entertaining for some reason. My favorite was the KH2 guide. The many times I've read the thing.
+Spyrite Pichu Trust me man it's taken a lot of years and time and effort and patience. This has been building up since 1997 so it's been a helluva trip
Quite an accomplishment. So many years of beautiful collecting. I shall aspire to obtain greatness of the guides. You made me more eager to keep getting them.
Alpha looks like he been werkin out
ikr, he looks ripped from the angle he's in
+Darryl Ryan He's starting to look like Bradley Martyn lol
Great to see the shenmue, lunar series, and blood omen one :D
i bought a ff7 strategy guide from ebay and found a receipt from 1997 of the game the person bought
I'm glad that you and Johnny get along well :) You're pretty much my 2 favorite youtuber
Damn these bring back so many good memories! Seeing your Breath of Fire 3 strategy guy reminded me on my first few playthroughs. Holy crap did I have to replay it over to get over things like the Desert of Death and such. And Castlevania SOTN... Oh lord how I died so much in that game. Good times. Rock on man!
I am so glad you spotlighted Grandia II on here. It's one of my all-time favorite RPG's. If you are reading and haven't played it, it's affordable and a must play on Steam! Pick it up!
OMG Alpha, so gald to see someone giving Grandia 2 as much love, so cool, Ryudo and Millenia are so awesome. Great Collection btw
Nice. Everyone from the 90's remembers how valued some of these have been before better internet.
+Wastingsometimehere I remember using the strategy guides for Zelda: OOT on N64 and DKC2 on SNES, both when the games were brand new. Those were good days.
jkadoodle I tried not using them for new games until I got stuck, but they did add to replay value. the next time.
I have good old memories with strategy guides. Before the advent of the Internet, this was all there was for us outside of magazines and word to mouth conversations. I didn't have a bunch of them, but some of the ones I have run into are nice to read.
WOW, that's amazing that the FF VII guide is still in print! I thought it was impressive that my younger cousin was able to buy it new, sometime in between 2003 and 2006, I really can't remember which year it was. And I thought at the time, that was the tail-end of that guide's print. I guess I was wrong haha. I actually still have the guide for FF VIII, never even used it, mostly because I've never gotten around to playing through that game yet.
Yeeeah man. Versus Books. The Pokemon Crystal guide is out of this world. So good!
+foolio1990 I've heard that from others too
I never bought guides as a kid. Somewhat saw them as a waste of money being a kid. Now I got some from games from my childhood. Nothing overly special, but just little extra collectibles for my collection. Think games like Halo 2/3, GTA 4, several mario games, Donkey Kong, Mario Party and Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 etc.
I'm most proud of my Gamecube-era guides since I grew up with these games and therefor they hold somewhat of a nostalgia value, dispite the fact I never owned the actual guide. But I have some for Mario Sunshine, Mario Party 4, Super Moneyball, Windwaker and one more I can't think off right now.
Absolutely LOVE this video! I love strat guides, me and my brother have a ton as well! Great job, gonna enjoy watching this whole thing!
I loved strategy guides. They were sometimes necessary growing up in the days of NES. Nintendo Power got me out of many jams. I remember the first full strategy guide I bought was for Super Mario RPG.
Thank you so much for making this video! Grandia 2 has been my all time favorite JRPG and I had no idea it had been remade! Playing it on the dreamcast with VGA outputs is nice but the steam port is gorgeous and well worth the $20 price tag!
Respect for keeping your guides in pristine condition 👌🏼
+Chris Christodoulou Try to take care of them as much as possible
Oh Folklore
Thank you for bringing up Folklore. That game is seriously underrated!!
I can recall playing PS1 RPGs back in the day with my friend, we usually had a guide with us and those things had some serious miles put on them, they usually looked like shit when we were done with them. That Legacy of Kain guide is one I distinctly remember using, and FFVII of course.
Dino Crisis(game and strategy guide) was amazing! Good stuff brother!
I am a big fan of game guides as well. I also have all of my old PSM magazines which had great walkthroughs on a good amount of RPG's and other PS1 classics!
hell yea badass video!!!! I remember back in the day everyone that played games we read their strategy guy in class so when you got home you could kick ass!!!! and then wed share strategy guides if one person got it
The one to be proud of is the collectors edition to fallout 4. Such a well presented guide and all the extras are brilliant.
+Armageddon0uttaHere I unfortunately lack any Fallout guides :\
Strategy guides were the BEST as kids and in 2024 they harken back to a more innocent time in gaming
I love strategy guides. I would actually enjoy a video for your entire collection. I have a modest collection. The prize is my Versus guide for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Also have my own Pokemon guide but the original Red/Blue only. Still has that page of all the stickers. The highlight of this video was definitely the guide for the first Silent Hill.
I used to have a huge collection, but sadly it's still with my guardians who I don't live with or talk to anymore.
The only ones I still have are my original FFVII guide, Skyrim and Oblivion, and all my original Pokemon guides (from every game). I'm so jealous of your collection man.
Strategy guides were the best when we were kids. In 2024 they harken back to a more innocent time in gaming
Collected a lot of official Nintendo and Final Fantasy guides when I was a kid. Probably one thing I should try and complete since I have a lot of them.
Remember to hit up Happy Console Gamers strategy guide video as well since well ya know this was a video response to his. Plus that lucky bastard has the Persona 1 strategy guide. Makes it worth the watch alone
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I had a strategy guide from Prima for Final Fantasy VI that was like a fucking bible. Gave indepth biographies for every single character and precise charts maps and locations for everything. I wish I still had it to this day.
GOD DAMN ALPHA YOURE FUCKING RIPPED!!!!
alpha I am a big fan will you ever do any kind of playthrough
+AlphaOmegaSin Video game strategy. Noice. I'm a thinker not a fighter btw. :)
+AlphaOmegaSin Just finished a Breath of Fire 3 video guide not long ago and yea man great idea with Folklore might get some trophy support then as well for all the trophy hunters
"I prefer to have something that is physical on my lap."
AlphaOmegaSin, 2016.
I love Guides I have one for most of the bigger RPG's I own, and recently got the Zelda TP CE Guide and Dark Souls 3 CE as well :) Guides have so much more to offer then just information on the game, they add some value to some games in my eyes ^^
I have close to 200 guides that I've been collecting since the 90's
I don't even have 1
Great collection. I always get the guide for any rpg game that comes out. I have a small store near me that always has the old guides for real cheap.
god, alpha, it's going to cost me a lot today... i'm also a guide collector, i got a pretty big collection, and yet, you showed a few guides i totally forgot about. great vid!
+torque800 Heck man try to check em out if you can, always happy to tell people about shit they didn't know about or perhaps forgot about
What I really liked (looking back) about the strategy guides from back in the 90's was that they did not tell you what to do but gave hints. Walkthroughs can wreck puzzle and exploring aspects of rpgs. The best ones were the Bards Tale 1 guide (best = first). I used t get all the gold box guides and the last one was Baldurs gate 2.
I am sure4 that there is a maket for coffee table 'World of' art and descriptive books in the modern age.
just got my "prima official strategy guide" in today for ninja shadow of darkness. very happy with it. that game deserves a HD remake.
Beautiful. BoF3 is the reason why I got into RPGs too. Had no clue what "genre" meant at the time. I just liked playing "games".
First guide pulled being Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. You good sir have amazing taste in video games.
thanks a great reminder of days before the Internet. I remember having to have strategy guide to Myst
Impressive strategy guide collection. I use to own a few back in the days but I accidentally through them I was moving out and kinda regret of doing it.
Video game strategy guides are very nostalgic to me especially anything from snes to ps2
+D Newt Same here, heck thumbing through a few of them has caused me to go back and revisit old games
+AlphaOmegaSin i found a near mint condition guide for DKC3 a few weeks ago for $5 at my local game shop i was pretty happy
Nice collection of strategy guides - one of my earliest strategy guides was a beautiful Official FINAL FANTASY 7 Guide as-well as a guide for METAL GEAR SOLID
Strategery!
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+Christopher Vallette (CV Scaryseizure) Strategeriest
+AlphaOmegaSin I still the Silent Hill Guide Too! XD The same one you have!
AlphaOmegaSin
Gonna have to play through Breath of Fire 3 again. Playing around with the dragon genes and fairy garden was some of the most fun I have ever had in an RPG.
+ryuuotaku35 I have that same Silent Hill guide as well. I was shocked when they didn't have a map for Nowhere listed.
Great video! I always flip on some AlphaOmegaSin when I'm bored at home!
Doublejump had some amazing guides for alot of good RPG's and also I know they did the Disgaea guides for the first 3 games and those guides were a beast I have the Disgaea 3 guide and I think that one was about 200+ pages of nothing but information.
I bought the hardcover Bloodborne strategy guide last year and it is beautiful.
Nice stroll down memory lane dude. Loved it!!!
Ah yes, the long rumored Game Room Tour! I've heard tales of this adventure, in fact I partook in said event long ago. To go on that grand journey once again would be joyous... one can only hope.
Enjoyed this, I love your longer videos.
Alpha I have been a huge fan for about 2 years now, I would be more than happy to give you my Resident Evil 1 Strategy guide...I hope you get this.
oh that's right! guides did exist at a point. i forgot about them even tho i own a few.
Nintendo Power came out with the best strategy guides ever! My first guide was the Nintendo Power Super Mario Bros 3 edition. I feel that some guides are better then others, I look for lots of artworks and character renders, enemy section, detailed maps, just an overall great layout is key to a great guide.
I never see anyone talk about Folklore, and I'm glad you did! I love this game, even if I didn't finish it. I'm planning on doing a LP of it when I get to it :'D
I also don't own any strategy guide, and I've been thinking of starting to try and collect them. The only one I ever got was FFX and I bought it for my girlfriend.
Not a lot of collectors talk about (or even collect) strategy guides. I always found that odd.
I loved the FFVII guide but it did miss a few enemies. Shit like Movers, which weren't in my copy, I drew in myself with all the details, just to keep it up to date.
You're right though, the FFIX guide was mince. They kept referring you to an online site to get a lot of the extra information (PlayOnline if I remember right), which totally defeated the purpose of having a strategy guide.
I've got quite a few but my favourite one is definitely my Killer Instinct strategy guide. I have two copies, one which is really worn, due to the number of times I used it, and the other is in perfect condition, that I kept wrapped up ever since I got it like 20 years ago.
+Andrew Brown taking into count that FF9 had one of the most secret quests ever in video games, it makes sense, theres too much of that game to be honest
Quite a few PC strategy guides from the 90s were written in the first-person in an attempt to be entertaining as well as informative. The writer would take a character through the campaign and jot down their adventures.
I love the FF strategy guides. They feel really special. My FF7 on was used so much, the binding fell apart.
My FFT guide is in a binder because the glue they used last for like 12 days.
***** Wow! That sucks :/
Grabbing some popcorn before watching this!!!
I sometimes can't sit through a 10 minute rant video but I'll watch every second of a 40+ minute collection reveal. Go figure.
im all for you actually finishing a lets play
Very cool collection, please do a part 2, and show off the rest.
tales of vesperia was my first tales of game and i truly loved it, so far its my favorite, im currently in the long process of going through them all haha. its good to see i wasn't the only dying to get the ps3 version ported over here.
Breath of Fire 3 was my first playstation game and still one of my favorite games of all that I play again like every other year
When i played Nocturne for the first time 5 years ago it made me love videogames so much again. That and Demon souls made me appreciate videogames again.
Great video made me remember my lost strategy guide collection damn I miss it. The only ones I have left are my Twilight Princess and Marvel vs Capcom 2. The one that really kills me was my Super Mario World and Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past Players guide wished I had those backs.
I used to plenty of them. (Not as much as Alpha though lol) Sadly I got rid of them. Made me wish I hadn't. At least just to look at the artwork.
For some reason I have two Japanese strategy guides for Clock Tower 2 (Clock Tower on PS1 in the West) and Struggle Within (Ghost Head) and they are gorgeous strategy guides. The Struggle Within even has a fantastic manga strip at the front.
sweet collection of guides alpha O:)
Dino crisis !!!! My first guide :) , I was a kid and my mate read it while I played . Good times .... I'm old :,)
Man 'm so jealous of some of those, that SoTN guide goddamn. and Zestiria for only $5? WTF made out like a bandit on that one. Most of mine are in meh shape because I usually only find them in thrift stores. Pawn shop I frequented used to have guides for $2 a piece, then they got 'wise' and started pricing them according to ebay siiiiigghhhh.
My favorite guide I have is a Nightwarriors: DarkStalker's Revenge for Saturn I found recently. Half the guide is awesome artwork and the strategy part is very in depth with frame data for every move.
always fun seeing what strategy guides show up in thrift stores...... and not funny when you get surprised by what some people do them. Last week I found an Official Zelda Twilight Princess (Wii/GCN) strategy guide which appeared in overall great condition, I flipped through it quick and everything seemed okay so I bought it. then when I was going through it in the reading room I got to the final boss fight section and discovered whoever owned it clipped out the images for the boss fight with Ganon for some reason - literally just rectangular holes like you would see in a cartoon, it was funny and sad at the same time.
+Wolfsite I don't find many when I go unfortunately. Found maybe a handful in my lifetime since collecting
+AlphaOmegaSin My area is weird as you don't see many good games in the thrift stores around here (mostly generic sports titles) but Strategy guides are somewhat frequent. Grand theft Auto: San Andreas pops up at least once a week for some reason. Loved the day I found the guides for Dragon Quest VIII, Final Fantasy XII, and Kingdom Hearts.
Video FINALLY gets to Parasite Eve, my all time favorite game ever, and would of loved to hear you talk about it..... Aaaaand then the video cuts out and we're on the Pokemon.... FFFFFFFFUUUUU
I was wondering why that happened also
Hello AlphaOmegaSin, awesome collection sir! very impressive. I love your channel not gonna lie just binge watched your lets play! of all the Resident Evil games and they were fantastic really brought me back to days of yore, I would like to see a Lets Play of Resident Evil 3, I would totally watch that, thank you for all your hard work AlphaOmegaSin.
Damn, the only strategy guide I have left is a Super Mario RPG one. Never needed it, but I enjoy reading it from time to time.
Lunar and Lunar 2 very well might be my favorite RPG's of all time!
I love collecting the old Nintendo player's guides. Unfortunately, they are also some of the most expensive to buy.
Alpha looking pumped on the biceps! 👉💚
Good for him
+TheGebs24 AlphaOmega Gun Show in full effect
Love that Blood Omen guide...that is sweet.
Very awesome collection! I remember when my best friend used to get free demos in magazines. I think it was for the original playstation. He sold everything (sigh)
omg legacy of kain brings back so many memories...great video
Them loading times in Blood Omen though... I'd absolutely love a remaster that simply does away the crazy loading times.
Oh man, strategy guides take me back to the 90's when they were pretty useful, informative or just fun to check out extra stuff. Since the Internet really kicked off and things are WAY more common, the use of them has def diminished. But I had guides for FFVII, FFVIII, FFX, Dino Crisis 2, Misadventures of Tron Bonne (perfect for raising the Servbots to peek potential). I also have the Zone of the Enders guide (because I was obsessed with that game), Devil May Cry and I have freebie guides of Diablo 2+ LOD expansion as well as the condensed guide of StarCraft & the Brood War expansion :3!
I have one magazine that detailed the bosses and weapons of FFX while havign a crap ton of other games with some quick guides/help or secrets. I did buy the Street Fighter V hardcover one and def don't regret it, as it's beautiful as hell. I used my FFVIII guide the most and want to get a replacement as the front cover has fallen off, it saw a LOT of use xD! all my other guides are pretty good condition. But yeah, there's almost an art to them in their design and the idea of havign a tome of knowledge for these games... I sometimes get too nostalgic!
I carried a strat guide around in my binder at all times when i was in high school. Strat guide, a gaming mag and my gameboy. LoL
I wish that Capcom would bring back Dino Crisis and cross it over with Resident Evil...
"have something physical and on my lap..." what a missed opportunity for a joke there
Awesome collection. I never owned a strat guide or a game I didn't regret getting rid of. just hit the sup button. Been watching a while sorry it took so long.
Damn, Dino Crisis strategy guide !! I remember I got stucked in that game & what need to be done in order to proceed the next one.