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Street Fighter V Collector’s Edition Strategy Guide – Why Should I Buy?

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I’m not the one reviewing the Street Fighter V strategy guide, but I couldn’t help but open it up and take a peek at what it has in store. Besides, why should you buy a Collector’s Edition of this strategy guide? What’s the big deal behind it?

Here’s the big deal. There are some pros and cons.

Our full review for accuracy, presentation, and efficiency will post down the line. This is only a quick overview and highlights the pros for spending the extra bucks on a Collector’s Edition of the strategy guide.

What are the Differences Between Paperback and Collector’s Editions Strategy Guides?

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More often then not as of late, companies publish two versions of strategy guides, a traditional paperback guide and a collector’s edition. In the case of publishers Piggyback and Future Press, they only publish a hardcover collector’s edition. But when there are two versions, what are the differences? Is there a difference aside from the hardcovers?

Well, sometimes, no. However, sometimes collector’s editions have extras that make the extra cash worth it other than looking pretty on your shelf. I pulled a number of samples I had of both types of strategy guides to show the various differences between them and what sort of extras a collector’s edition may entail. Simply put, not every collector’s edition may be worth it to you, but here are some examples of what you can find in these collector’s editions strategy guides.

Strategy Guide Resolutions 2016

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Happy 2016 everyone! It’s hard to believe that 2015 has already come to an end, and with the end of 2015 brings on the new year of gaming for 2016. In addition, a new year of strategy guides!

As long as strategy guides are still in print, and we hope that they continue to do so, we will still be here to review them and love on them. I started this site in 2009 on Blogspot, which I’m not sure is even around. Back then, even though I bought the domain, I wasn’t sure if I would like writing about guides enough to continue maintaining a full website, so I used a free Blogger.com address, strategyguidelove.blogspot.com. Oh yeah those were the days. I was using Blogger on my personal website as well, so the format was pretty easy to use and rather familiar to me. When Blogger decided that users could no longer use the CMS on self-hosted blogs, only on Blogger’s hosting, I picked up both sites and bolted for WordPress. Thanks to Blogger overhauling everything, I couldn’t even use their own plugin to transfer the site from Blogger to WordPress, and I lost nearly 2 years of content. I copied and pasted the reviews to WordPress and plugged in the original publication dates, and then I wiped the entire site from existence after Blogger tried to approach me about stealing their content. Gee, why don’t I use Blogger anymore?

So here we are, almost six years later (it will be six years this September). I never thought I’d be writing about strategy guides for as long as I have, and it honestly wouldn’t matter if I only had 1 reader. I seriously enjoy talking about and writing about strategy guides.

As I look into 2016, what do I resolve to do to continue to make this the best strategy guide site that doesn’t have strategy guides on the web? Well first, I’m going to look and laugh at my resolutions for 2015. Seriously, what was I thinking?

  • Will not start on any 2015 games or any new games from backlog until 2014 games and guides are finished.
  • Finish 2015 games and guide reviews in 2015.
  • I’m going to resolve to finish The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD.

OMG…laughing so hard at all of these. I think I kept the first one for a month before reality set in with work and my own inability to say no to shiny new toys. I came close to the second one, but I’m sure you’ve noticed that neither the guides for Just Cause 3 and Xenoblade Chronicles X are finished. I’m very close with JC3, but very close is not the same as finished. Damn open world games.

And the last one? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I never started WW. Not. Once. I need to stop swearing to finish Zelda games, because it rarely happens. As much as I love these games, I seem to hit a wall with them, whether it’s boredom or frustration. I shouldn’t include them in resolutions ever, unless I want to laugh at myself every January 1st.

What do I resolve for strategy guides in 2016? As much as I want to resolve to finish my 2015 guides before 2016 games, that just won’t happen. The next chapter in Assassin’s Creed Chronicles releases in just two weeks, and I will play that as soon as I get my hands on it. So instead, I propose the following three resolutions (I gave up on resolving 10 things, because really, changing 10 things about yourself never works):

One open world game at a time. I constantly try to play three or four open world games at once which always yields the same result: nothing is finished. Once Just Cause 3 is finished, it will be on to Xenoblade Chronicles X. And then Dragon Age Inquisition. In theory. The first two games are far more important for strategy guide reasons.

Finish all 2016 guides in 2016. Yeah, I said something similar last year, but it’s still a worthy goal. I came really close, if you don’t count the other open world games I never got around to because I’m a horrible person…

Don’t buy every new shiny game because it sounds exciting. I actually did well with this one in 2015, and I want to continue it in 2016. There are two games I nearly bought because of the hype: Star Wars Battlefront and Batman: Arkham Knight. I resisted both thanks to being a bit broke at the time, but I’m so glad I did, because as much as fun as many had with these, deep down I always knew I wouldn’t gel with them. It’s so easy to get on board the hype train for things, whether you like them or not. I need to do better at resisting, especially with my guilt complex.

May you all have a successful and happy 2016!

Tales of Zestiria Strategy Guide Review

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Tales of Zestiria strategy guide reviewTales of Zestiria strategy guide reviewMy last review of 2015 is now complete. Sadly, I’m going to have to carry the Fallout 4 guide into 2016. At least it is only one guide! The question now is, how well does the Tales of Zestiria strategy guide hold up? Well, it wasn’t all that great. You can just watch me ramble on about what I liked and what was just in-excusable in this guide.

 

 

SGR Rating 2.5/5

Author: Joanie Chew
Publisher: Prima Games
Editions Available: Hardcover
Acquired via Publisher

Rise of the Tomb Raider Strategy Guide Review

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Rise of the Tomb Raider strategy guide review Rise of the Tomb Raider is more than your typical action/platformer with lovely puzzles to solve; it’s about exploration, raiding tombs/crypts, and finding every last damn collectible. A lot of the collectibles are marked on the in-game maps when you near them, but not the coin caches and definitely not the challenges. The Rise of the Tomb Raider strategy guide, kindly provided by Prima Games, is the best source for getting that 100% completion rating with tombs, caches, and side missions.

How does one book fulfill that tomb raiding explorer inside? Let me show you…

SGR Rating: 5/5

Authors: Michael Lummis and Chris Burton
Editions: Paperback and Collector’s Edition
Publisher: Prima Games
Review copy acquired via publisher.

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