Imagine if Control had a physical game guide book. There is so much material in that game that is worthy of print!
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
That would be great
@InfiniteClouds4 жыл бұрын
Futurepress is releasing an Art Book for Control next month, at least.
@Chronically_JBoo3 жыл бұрын
Ikr, i got stuck at s certain point n gave up
@kendonl.taylor5111 Жыл бұрын
@@Cannotbetamed1 If you know, Dead Rising 2: Off The Record is Non-Canon.
@neonautumn345 жыл бұрын
The moment you randomly opened that Icewind Dale page in the CRPG book, my heart just felt like it got wrapped in a warm blanket of nostalgia and wonderful memories of all the autumn evenings I spent with that game.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
That’s the one BLack Isle CRPG I never out much time into. I’ve always kinda wanted to go back to it
@eastbeast13795 жыл бұрын
It's not very often that I collect video games books or strategy guide, though last year I did get myself a Smash Ultimate strategy guide as I'm a fan of Nintendo's biggest fighting game. Strategy guides are a neat part of the collection of video games, especially if they show off screenshots and artwork. I've still got old strategy guides by Prima for Nintendo GameCube and Xbox Original games. It's amazing how much work has gone into it, as well as going into depth about what to expect and where to find things like secrets and Easter eggs. There's not many video games art books I have thought, probably because I didn't know that video games art books existed, apart from how to draw characters books.
@lordjs97265 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, Pam. I no longer have any game books and strategy guides. I gave all of them away back in 2006 when I stopped being a dedicated gamer person.
@soldieroftafari5 жыл бұрын
something about pixel graphics on print is wonderfully trippy!
@YuniorGamboa5 жыл бұрын
I love and appreciate the artwork on this books They are so rich in detail
@TheMultiGunMan5 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing Pam. I was just looking for Hint & Strategy Books for my Sega Genesis RPG games on eBay. Thank you for making this video.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@Venoix5 жыл бұрын
Back in the day I did own the Valkyrie Profile strategy guide. It was particularly useful as some dungeons had specific objectives to complete to give you bonus experience, and you also had to send your warriors to Asgard at the end of each chapter, so it helped you to decide who to send to fulfill each criteria. The art was nice also. I don't have any of my game guides, anymore. Sadly. I have bought a few here in Japan, but they are all in Japanese and because my Japanese isn't at native level, I can't appreciate them like I could the English ones. Anyway, nice to see your collection.
@MajinErick5 жыл бұрын
That's the best thing about having strategy guides...looking the exclusive artwork.
@theunfungamer72635 жыл бұрын
Great video as always. Pat's book is tremendous. A lot of detail.
@ClutchSituation5 жыл бұрын
It's fun to watch people talk about things they love. :)
@DaddyGamerDiaries5 жыл бұрын
Pam goes ASMR by tapping on the Dragon Age Origins book and I immediately smile.
@Progger112 жыл бұрын
"Game Secrets" was actually the publisher/series name and not just the name of that particular book. It was Prima's label before they were "Prima Games," I believe. They also published several unauthorized guides under that same label. I still have the one I bought ages ago for Super Mario 64. I remember being shaken because they say "hell" and "damn" in it. Lol.
@roguerifter97245 жыл бұрын
I don't have much in the way of art books since they are of little interest too me but I have tons of strategy guides, and game related novels. Most of the guides are FPS, RTS, or sim related, guides you already have, or both. The novels run everywhere from X-Com, and Wing Commander to Homefront and Everquest.
@Xhanatos3 жыл бұрын
Now I will buy this CRPG book, hope I find it.
@PS3GamingScotland4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic collection of video game books. I do love a good strategy guide! Great video! :)
@Cannotbetamed14 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@daveblake21455 жыл бұрын
I used love me a good strategy guide book back in the day. In fact, I remember before I got the FF7 one back in the day, I legit printed out the entire Game FAQ and had it in a binder. Lol
@Lightblue22225 жыл бұрын
Especially before internet, id go to the bookstore to find stuff on videogames.
@roguerifter97245 жыл бұрын
Yeah I remember when our Prodigy subscribtion ran out I printed off guides for tons of games, and I still have the binders I keep them in.
@daveblake21455 жыл бұрын
Rogue Rifter ok glad I wasn’t the only one lol
@Aeonova5 жыл бұрын
Brady's Final Fantasy IX strategy guide is the best of all time. Want to know more? Check out Playonline.com and use the code "Sarcasm". For those that don't know, it was a strategy guide that had the majority of the secrets, complete lists, and stuff you would buy a strategy guide for all located on a website and only gave codewords to enter on SquareEnix's information portal site playonline.com if you wanted the info you paid for. The codes were worded in a way like the initial sentence in this post.
@Philious5 жыл бұрын
I bought the FFIX strategy guide when FFIX came out, and I remember being SO disappointed with it. I loved the FFVIII strategy guide, so I was hoping FFIX would be good as well.
@samuelxander5 жыл бұрын
30 minutos on strategy books and game books? Nice way to start my Monday!
@CheapestGamer5 жыл бұрын
I used to buy so many of these in the earlier gens for $9.99 to $14.99 apiece. At the time EB Games (before Gamestop gobbled them up) would give you a couple bucks for them in trade. So it was a nice way to get rid of ones for games you beat and no longer needed them for. Thing is I never knew that stores eventually 'pennied' these things. I found that out in 2005 and went nuts buying them. I bought something like 700-800 in a little over a year or so of scouring various stores with some stores (Best Buy, Gamestops that always forgot to pull them) providing 50-60 a shot. I still have a bunch of them for games I'd like to re-buy at some point but for others I'll probably NEVER buy/re-buy the games.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
That’s a lot of strategy guides!
@CheapestGamer5 жыл бұрын
@@Cannotbetamed1 Indeed. I kept mostly ones for games I have or that I may re-buy at some point. Though there are some I definitely will likely never find a good condition copy of again. like Syphon Filter, that I probably should get rid of. Having that many did pay off a number of years back though as Amazon was offering decent credit for some of them. I think I turned 30-40 of them into $600-800 in gift cards from them.
@krisfrederick50015 жыл бұрын
I know you aren't a huge Zelda fan but the guide for Link to the Past is great and very artistic, surprisingly. The Nintendo Power Super Mario 3 "special". Also the NES Game Atlas is a favorite in my collection of 3. I remember buying it at K-Mart when I was little.
@RJ-cq8dd3 жыл бұрын
I've got quite a few books as well.. Mostly because I loved the games, not because I needed a guide. I especially like the book The art of Oddworld.
@8bitopa1485 жыл бұрын
Wow those books are really neat! Those pictures of King's Quest took me back. I remember playing that in my dad's friend's den on his PC in like 1985ish. We didn't have a PC. Makes me want to fire it up on ScummVM. Good friend of mine LOVES everything Mass Effect and turned me onto a one-off fan song produced. IDK if links are allowed here but I recommend looking up "Old Machines (Reaper Dubstep)." Has to be the reaper dubstep version for obvious reasons. It's pretty deep and dark but neat. Great video once again. :)
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
I’m not a big dubstep fan, but I looked up the song and it’s pretty good. It goes so well with the creepy Reaper noises.
@7thangelad5865 жыл бұрын
Grand collection! The best I can boast about owning are the Nintendo Power Final Fantasy strategy guide and the Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete guide. :) I especially love the heavy “coffee table” art books.
@cliffg.42055 жыл бұрын
I have almost all of the same Strategy guides on PSX. Had the books for Parasite Eve 1 and 2, All of the FF games from VII to X-2. Love the Special edition cover I got with Rikku on it. X-2 is such a great game. You being a fan of shooters, have you ever checked out Radiant Silver Gun? It is an absolute masterpiece on the Saturn.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
The special edition FFX-2 guide is so nice. I had it... but I don't know where my art book went.
@retluoc5 жыл бұрын
Good grief, I had no idea books in that much detail existed. I just liked my Nintendo Power magazine.😉
@terrysalt5 жыл бұрын
This was a nostalgia trip and a half. :) So many great games. Shadow Hearts: Covenant is still one of my all-time favourites. :)
@CCoyle-fs3ym5 жыл бұрын
The Final Fantasy IX guide drove me mad back in the day, something with the chocobos had me confused for ages, back when it was released the internet wasn't as common, I remember playing it over a summer break with no internet access anywhere!
@TheDannylarson5 жыл бұрын
I still got all my snes and ps1 rpg walkthrough guides, my favorite was always the Lunar 2 eternal blue hard cover guide. Great video 😃
@brightglory57345 жыл бұрын
Awesome.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@hazy334 жыл бұрын
Piggyback used to do the best pure strategy guide books ie. Kingdom Hearts. Absolutely gorgeous art included. Not a guide but a wonderful coffee table book is "20 Years of Tomb Raider" by Meagan Marie and another coffee table book i'd recommend although might be difficult to find now is "Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar" about the development of Half Life 2 and includes lots of great art that wasn't included in the game.
@mtshark75 жыл бұрын
Awesome collection Pam!
@shadeofneon33255 жыл бұрын
This video makes me want to go through my collection. I have a few of the art and guide books shown in the video on my shelf =) One of my personal favourite is my Kingdom of Amular guide, now that's a tome!
@cyberpunkholiday4 жыл бұрын
Somehow I missed this video. Thanks Pam!
@orbitingdecay67975 жыл бұрын
Just picked up Metal Slug by Bitmap Books. Fantastic art and great interviews. I like my coffee table books to have some information to read as well as great art and game/consoles that mean something. With that said the only art books I own are the Bloodbourne and Dark Souls Design works.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
The Metal Slug book looks gorgeous
@skijumpnose3 жыл бұрын
After seeing the Room Tour video i had to watch this, I used to have that Escape From Monkey Island guide! Oh and i checked out that Bitmap Jrpg book, It looks awesome! Over 600 pages. Oh and thanks for recommending The Tea Party in the new video 👍 Recommending cool bands as well as great games.
@Feenix1025 жыл бұрын
Very cool. If you like art books more generally, something to check out is Davids Drawings, which is a collection of drawings created for Alien Covenant (David, the synthetic, is an avid sketcher...among other things). I dont have any art books of games, actually - I would kind of like one for the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill 2 and 3 in particular, I think that would be kinda cool. I think there is one for Dead Space too, which would be pretty cool, I think.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
A Dead Space art book would be cool
@Feenix1025 жыл бұрын
@@Cannotbetamed1 Hmm, Ive had a look at it and it looks pretty nice. Might get it at some point. :o)
@dahakhamoontouched41335 жыл бұрын
I'd be surprised if Supergiant Games didn't put out some art books for their games at some point. I'm not really into strategy guides myself, but that CRPG book looks really cool.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
I'd love if Supergiant put out an art book.
@Jamescush5 жыл бұрын
I have all of those FF guides! Plus the FF Tactics one! (which included a wood finished soaked back thanks to my mom) About that Lunar guide. It's based on the Japanese version of the game and Working Designs changed a lot in the North American version so it doesn't really work well with the game. See if you can find the WD guide. It's in color with WD's notorious humor spread throughout.
@anthonywheeler20825 жыл бұрын
Final Fantasy XII has a really great strategy guide/artbook combo thing. Both books are inside a beautiful bigger book. FFIX artbook is cool too. The Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Legendia artbooks are fun too. The Resident Evil Archives book tells the story of RE up until RE0. It's half strategy guide-half novel. That's a few game books I have.
@AFnord5 жыл бұрын
I hope you don't mind a bit of constructive criticism. I found the music in this video to be a bit distracting. It felt like some of the songs had a weird stereo effect, and some of them were rather distracting in how they sounded, switching their sound noticeably and very sharply. I only own a small handful of strategy guides, never felt like it was something I would want to spend money on. My favourite is probably the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past guide that I have, which would dedicate a few pages to talk about Hylian culture, clothing and so on. Far more interesting than the main guide itself!
@sierrakobold68964 жыл бұрын
I like how the PC adventure game history book is called the art of point n click, but has just as much coverage on the beginning and following 6 years or so of graphic adventure games that almost all used the text parser
@Cannotbetamed14 жыл бұрын
That’s a good point
@kccastorena11023 жыл бұрын
The alan wake collector's strategy guide is my favorite.
@glucosaminecondroitan91352 жыл бұрын
I love strategy guides. it's a bummer they don't make them much anymore. The latest games I was able to get them for were Cyberpunk and Red Dead Redemption 2. Life Is Strange has a cool coffee table style book about the town it takes place in.
@TorryGood2 жыл бұрын
Future press is only one still around making them, they just announced elden ring strategy guide
@xman777b Жыл бұрын
@@TorryGood and Piggyback
@TorryGood Жыл бұрын
@xman777b I have not seen any more piggyback guides after cyberpunk 2077 I thought they closed down.
@glucosaminecondroitan9135 Жыл бұрын
@@TorryGood I haven't seen anything after that either.
@Tiago68365 жыл бұрын
here in Brazil we had the magazines super game power, ação games and gamer ... good times when I went to stores to buy
@brightglory57345 жыл бұрын
You've some of my favorites just in the thumbnail.
@jimmyfoppiano28225 жыл бұрын
Thanks again for another video. I really liked the Duck Tales NES stream a week ago. You should do Castle Of Illusions for the Sega Genesis in the future.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
I’ve been wanting to play that one
@IronicTonic84 жыл бұрын
Love the Alice series games. Didn't know there was an art book.
@bvigil18884 жыл бұрын
at 25:58, Pam, that is the bad version strategy guide for Lunar. Look into the Official Strategy guide by working designs. It is a magnificent looking guide and really thick with content and tips. I highly recommend it.
@Cannotbetamed14 жыл бұрын
I saw that one once at a convention. It was expensive
@bvigil18884 жыл бұрын
@@Cannotbetamed1 at a convention sure. I got mine on ebay a couple of years ago when the market was still semi affordable. Working Designs really took special care and interest with these guides. There's the Lunar 1 and 2, Vanguard Bandits, Alundra, and the first 2 Arc the Lad games. Since you have that guide, i looked into the "official" one, its not too expensive for the first lunar game, runs about 40 to 50 bucks. But damn for Lunar 2, that one is expensive 😳 . Still i recommend getting your hands on the first book
@SanfilippoAngelo5 жыл бұрын
Wow nice video
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@BenRai2k4 жыл бұрын
Really nice video Pam :)
@Videogamelover585 жыл бұрын
Nice collection
@LindaTheGAMERGal5 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏 Here we go! New video!
@AVPboy67544 жыл бұрын
I am begging for one about the hole Elder Scrolls games, it would be huge.
@drewdogg773 жыл бұрын
If you haven't played Lunar SS or EB, you are missing out on 2 of the best JRPGs of the era
@kccastorena11023 жыл бұрын
I recommend the collector's edition of Assassin's Creed origin
@waldirlima85675 жыл бұрын
I love the content of your channel videos! Big hug here from Brazil, you look more beautiful in red.
@outpostorange95805 жыл бұрын
Nice library
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@billsowers88593 жыл бұрын
Nice video.who do you think made the best strategy guides?
@brightglory57345 жыл бұрын
I need that crpg book now.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
It’s really in depth, I’m glad I got the physical copy of it.
@TravisGianni5 жыл бұрын
That’s a great shirt! I’m wearing the same one! GameDave FTW!
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
I love the shirt! It’s such a nice design
@RaapOnPoint5 жыл бұрын
*You’re the best!!!*
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
🙂
@kainemaxwell5 жыл бұрын
This is great!
@socrates06035 жыл бұрын
I really need to get those books by Bitmap ❤️
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
They're very nice
@wfkernea5 жыл бұрын
I only have 2 strategy guide books for GTA San Andreas for PS2 and God of War Ghost of Sparta for the PSP
@YourSweetPotato4 жыл бұрын
Awesome collection!
@brightglory57345 жыл бұрын
I prefer the sequels skill tree but I still think Origins is the best Dragon Age.
@Jesse__H5 жыл бұрын
Origina is definitely the best, but I actually enjoyed my time with all of them.
@christopherkelly5775 жыл бұрын
I have a spare megadrive I could send you sometime Pam, such is my admiration for you 😍
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
That’s a very generous offer. However this comment just made me realize that most things I said when I talked about that book were wrong. The whole time I was thinking about the Master System (which I have not played), not the Genesis (which I’ve played a number of games for).
@noneofyourbusiness46165 жыл бұрын
You did that video about the lack of mom protagonists in video games. Just saw this movie trailer that seems like it would make a good mom-centered game: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJm1dqWHnallabs
@drez47265 жыл бұрын
Anyone else sniff their art books and strategy guides? Maybe I’m weird... 🤷🏽♂️
@dungeonmasterelk67355 жыл бұрын
Dragon Age!!!
@Starscreamious4 жыл бұрын
You haven't ever played a Sega Megadrive/Genesis game? That's a bit surprising. When you decide to try it out let your community know. I'm sure we'll inundate you with game suggestions.
@Cannotbetamed14 жыл бұрын
That was a brain fart. Despite just having pulled out a schematic of the Genesis for some reason the Master System was stuck in my head. I've not played any SMS games.
@Starscreamious4 жыл бұрын
@@Cannotbetamed1 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh okay. I gotcha. I love Sega but I've never played a Mastersystem, 32x, or Sega CD title.
@victorstrong83805 жыл бұрын
😃
@bobjohnson53415 жыл бұрын
Not a cold person...lives in Canada.
@brightglory57345 жыл бұрын
I keep meaning to finish X-2 I just hate it so much.
@Cannotbetamed15 жыл бұрын
Then you should probably not put any more time into it :p
@brightglory57345 жыл бұрын
I know but I love X and I wanted to continue the characters stories.
@tamjames14965 жыл бұрын
Strategy guide collector and you have nothing by Future Press?.. ☹️
@TheOriginalKomamura5 жыл бұрын
I really want you to be my wife.
@stevenriften7561 Жыл бұрын
Pretty lady. Cute face. 👌
@jedi-xe2er5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. I have Xenosaga 1and 2 guide. Xenosaga 2 is the limited edition it has a spot for a disc it was not in it. I enjoyed the video.