http://yfrog.com/oew3m8j

The guide for Skyrim has 651 pages...

But those are for n00bs.. right ? XD

651 pages of how to murder your most Adoring Fan.

Wow, that's pretty crazy. Probably one of the biggest I've seen along with EVE or Dark Souls. Though EVE wins because the free 400+ page guide is basically what you're given as a manual. God that shit is dense.

Jesus. 150 pages more than Oblivion.

Christ.

XD Just proves how much content this game has :P

I never bother with strategy guides. I'll just UESP.Skyrim what I need to know.

Do want so bad, but I doubt I can afford it.

Amazon has the collector's edition guide for $23 and change. I may pick it up eventually. Apparently they've included 200-ish character rolls.

Strategy Guides are for pussies.

@GreenBeret3 said:

I never bother with strategy guides. I'll just UESP.Skyrim what I need to know.

Real Elder Scrolls gangstas roll in blind.

The novelty kind of wears off on these strategy guides, at least for me. Sure, it looks great and thick (that's what she said) but I don't know if I'll get too much use out of it.

The only strategy guide I have bought in many many years has been Dark Souls. I won't be buying one for Skyrim. It's not necessary.

XD Just proves how much content this game has :P

I certainly wouldn't mind owning one, but most of the fun from these types of games is going in completely blind and screaming like a newborn baby.

Strategy guides tend to be bloated by odd design choices. Lists of items spread out over more pages than are necessary, for instance. So it's longer, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything about the game. I have little doubt there's more content in Skyrim, but like with Oblivion there's really not much point in picking up the guide. Almost everything will be put online within a few weeks of release. If you want all the answers immediately, I guess it might make sense. By the time I make it though my first playthrough of the game, everything will be posted in a wiki. I plan on taking my time.

I want it, so Ill get it once I get far into the game, because I don't want any spoilers.

I might buy that. That seems like the kind of thing i'll be really glad I bought ten years from now.

You are spending money for something that will be up in a week in the Skyrim wiki.

Strategy Guides? What is this, 1998?

I pre-ordered the hardcover and I'm not even going to read it until I've done everything!

Last strategy guide I bought was Final Fantasy XII. Thought about the Fallout 3 guide a while ago but the online wiki was more than enough.

Oblivion 365, Shivering Isles 175 = Total 540.

A hundred more for Skyrim, that means even without expansions Skryim is gunna be a long ass long game!

@Chavtheworld said:

Oblivion 365, Shivering Isles 175 = Total 540.

A hundred more for Skyrim, that means even without expansions Skryim is gunna be a long ass long game!

I'm not sure it works that way. ; )

@Cloudenvy: If only :P I really liked the Oblivion guide, am tempted for this one...

Strategy Guides? Anyone know where to get one for real life?! Ahahaha, but no really? Like some have said, I would rather do everything myself, trying to find kickass items is so much of the fun! Really tho, a real life strat guide with winning lotto numbers and the codes to bank vaults would be fantastic! =)

I pre-ordered the hardcover because it only cost me $3 after applying Amazon credit. I have a fetish for hardcover books. Also, after exploring a cave its kinda nice to be able to check that you didn't miss the little trap door that leads to the Goonies-esque pirate ship cavern and all that booty.

If the guides for elder scrolls are good for one thing its telling you about all the little easter eggs and extra curricular shit you never realised was in the game. I wouldn't start reading it until your like 100 hours in though.

Very tempted. I found New Vegas' strategy guide to be invaluable. Each quest had a crazy web diagram of how the scenario could play out... no way I'd be able to comprehend that through silly wiki pages.

I wouldn't bother with the guide myself.

Couple'a reasons: first like most people here I want my first playthough to be a surprise, without foreknowledge or warning. Second, my friend had the Fallout 3 guide, and just flipping through it I found a number of things that were not true in the final game (the guide likely being written on a non-final build). Third, www.UESP.net will be more awesome as an information source by the time I'm ready to read about the game on subsequent playthroughs.

I do respect the size of the volume, at least. From the picture in the OP, I have a feeling it isn't just padded out with illustrations (unlike the Dark Souls guide, which I uh... borrowed a copy of from a friend... when my local EB didn't have it)

I find it weird that people still buy strategy guides in this day and age.

like everyone said it uesless buying it cause in a couple of weeks the stuff will be online in a matter of weeks. As for me the only stratigy gued i have ever bought was for resi 4 and it was for that dame sldeing puzzele the next day my dad got a computer and put the intrnety on it..£20 i will never get back :(