August 13, 2002, 17:06
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Chieftain
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Prima's upcoming strategy guide
Has anyone heard anything about this upcoming stategy guide? Prima doesn't list it yet on their website, primagaming.com, but Electronic Boutique shows an October 23rd release date. I think the game manual is pretty weak (especially the index) and am hoping the strat guide is better (how can it not be??) but with several major patches released over the last couple of months how up-to-date will the Prima guide be? I know the Civ II strat guide like the back of my hand and hope the Civ III guide lives up to it
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August 13, 2002, 17:16
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King
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Upcoming? It came out when the game did.
It was out of date then. Read here. When Strat guides become what they once were then they might be worth buying again. None has been in a long while.
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August 13, 2002, 17:25
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Chieftain
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Good point! I misread the EB page
Ethelred,
Thanks for the heads up on the Civ III strat guide. I had been poking around the EB website and was looking at the upcoming PTW stuff and noticed a listing for the strat guide - it was for the EXPANSION... My bad. Went to Amazon and did a search and sure enough there has been a guide from day one's November 2001 game release. Your point about strat guides in right on the money. They aren't what they used to be. Ahh, the good ol days of Master of Magic - now that was a strat guide - and a hell of a game. Bill Gates sucks!
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August 13, 2002, 17:46
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Warlord
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Ah yes. Prima gets there with their guide before the game gets finished.
sboog
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August 13, 2002, 17:52
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Prince
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So *that* would explain the general low-worth.
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August 13, 2002, 18:38
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King
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Regarding the state of game guides.
Former game guide writer and former head of the Master of Orion 3 project has a page on their state of decline.
http://hometown.aol.com/alanemrich/a...ch/decline.htm
By the way I checked out other parts of the site. Nothing there about MOO3.
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August 14, 2002, 05:59
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I guess it depends on the kind of game. The Baldurs Gate 2 guide was very helpful because most of its advice was about the plot - presumably written months in advance - and the AD&D rules that were unlikely to significantly change since the Infinity engine was an established tool. For Civ III with new rules subject to change at the last minute its clearly a different story. Fortunately I've never felt the need to buy a strategy guide for its strategies - just browsed the book or looked on the net for information about how to find the easter eggs or unintuitive special events in RPG's.
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August 14, 2002, 09:39
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Warlord
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I think there are more strategies posted on this site and the CivFanatic site than any comercial strategy guide. Me thinks the Prima's Strategy Guide is a waste of money. 
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August 14, 2002, 10:22
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I for one, can hardly wait to rush right out and buy it! Prima's guides are known for their depth and accuracy....
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