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Subject: Strategy Guide
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Poll: Are you getting the strategy guide  [closed]
The Limited Edition One:  30%
(13 Votes)
The Normal One:  7%
(3 Votes)
No:  63%
(27 Votes)
Total Votes: 43

I think we all know that the Prima Strategy Guide for Halo 2 is coming out on October 24th, and is coming in two versions like the game. One is a normal strategy guide. The other comes with a DVD that shows you how to get through the "tough parts" of the game. The question is will you get it? If so which one? Will you even go on the New Mombasa forums after it does in fear of spoilers?

For me i am getting the limited edition and am putting it in a case until Nov. 9th. I will not come near the forums. I get it two days after it comes out. I have it bought and paid for.

  • 08.08.2004 9:22 PM PDT
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Please post reasonings and answers to the other questions in the post.

  • 08.08.2004 9:25 PM PDT
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When I ordered Halo 2 Limited Edition, the guy said he would give me the Limited Edition Halo 2 Strategy Guide for only $5 so I went for it. I'm not going to read it though until I beat Halo 2 on its highest difficulty.

  • 08.08.2004 9:26 PM PDT
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Yea i don't want any secrets to be revealed to me Befor H2 comes out. Thats why i don't know if i want to go to the forums after the 24th of October. I better go for now though

[Edited on 8/8/2004 9:29:54 PM]

  • 08.08.2004 9:29 PM PDT
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Is there anyone who is actually going to read the Strategy guide after it comes out. I mean come on..

  • 08.09.2004 7:47 AM PDT
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Wait a year and everything in the Halo 2 guide will be in the forums... And more.

  • 08.09.2004 7:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: Cold00
Wait a year and everything in the Halo 2 guide will be in the forums... And more.


Do you really think it will be a year? Honestly the guide comes out in a little more than a month. I am sure that with some of the people here they are going to go and prove people wrong that they argued with. For me i think i will stay away from the forums After October 24th and be as active as possible now.

  • 08.09.2004 7:52 AM PDT
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I might get the guide and I might not, I'm not sure. If I have any major troubles with spots in the game I'll probably get it.

  • 08.09.2004 8:01 AM PDT
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No I don't think it will take a year, the time frame wasn't my point anyway, just wait and you won't need the guide, in fact the guide will be outdated soon enough, people have always had a nack for finding glitches and other things that amount to more then any guide will hold in its pages.

[Edited on 8/9/2004 8:07:13 AM]

  • 08.09.2004 8:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: IceDrgn437
Yea i don't want any secrets to be revealed to me Befor H2 comes out. Thats why i don't know if i want to go to the forums after the 24th of October. I better go for now though


What happens on October 24th?

  • 08.09.2004 8:09 AM PDT
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Posted by: ChaosTheory23
Posted by: IceDrgn437
Yea i don't want any secrets to be revealed to me Befor H2 comes out. Thats why i don't know if i want to go to the forums after the 24th of October. I better go for now though


What happens on October 24th?


Posted by: IceDrgn437
I think we all know that the Prima Strategy Guide for Halo 2 is coming out on October 24th

  • 08.09.2004 8:15 AM PDT
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Why would they release the strategy guide several weeks before the game comes out? That doesn't make any sense at all, especially with the plot of Halo 2 being guarded by Bungie like Fort Knox. I think whoever posted that it will in the first place is full of -blam!-.

Posted by: ChaosTheory23
Posted by: IceDrgn437
Yea i don't want any secrets to be revealed to me Befor H2 comes out. Thats why i don't know if i want to go to the forums after the 24th of October. I better go for now though


What happens on October 24th?


According to the person who posted this thread, the Halo 2 strategy guide comes out on October 24th, which is completely ludicrous.

  • 08.09.2004 8:19 AM PDT
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Gamestop comes out with it one the 24th of october. Proof

I know it is pretty dumb and i dont know why either but it is happening.

[Edited on 8/9/2004 9:25:01 AM]

  • 08.09.2004 9:15 AM PDT
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Well any other opinions?

  • 08.09.2004 9:30 AM PDT
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Dude why waste your money. Just go to gamefaqs for all your needs. God every true gamer knows that.

  • 08.09.2004 9:34 AM PDT
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I don't need no damn guide! i'm too good. Besides as your_sisters_hot said go to gamefaqs if your really stuck.

  • 08.09.2004 9:36 AM PDT
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It dont come out in the uk till november 16th and it dont make sense that the guide would come out before the game because people actually need the game to actually need the guide!!

  • 08.09.2004 9:36 AM PDT
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Im gonna get it for live stratagies and not read anything else untill after i beat halo 2

  • 08.09.2004 9:37 AM PDT
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I have millions of Strategy guides. And never once have a looked at a walkthrough. I normally just get it to read about maps. Different guns and different enemies.

  • 08.09.2004 9:38 AM PDT
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Umm Guides always come out before the game does. Just go to your local game store i bet they have a guide for something thats comes out next week. Who cares.

  • 08.09.2004 9:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: your_sisters_hot
Umm Guides always come out before the game does. Just go to your local game store i bet they have a guide for something thats comes out next week. Who cares.


Do they really. I guess I never noticed until now.

  • 08.09.2004 9:39 AM PDT
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me? i didnt have a clue that the guide would come out this early until i opened this thread.

and besides, gamefaqs is the biggest pile of horse -blam!- i have ever seen

  • 08.09.2004 9:59 AM PDT
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I never noticed either. It just doesn't make sense. The game and guide should come out on the same day, or the guide slightly after.

[Edited on 8/9/2004 10:03:24 AM]

  • 08.09.2004 10:02 AM PDT
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You don't need a guide for a FPS...

  • 08.09.2004 10:06 AM PDT
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i was going to read the weapon stratagies... just to know what is wrong with it. oh, and probably the rest of it.

  • 08.09.2004 10:43 AM PDT