Steam is offering the two DCLs for $2.99 each and the Prima Official Strategy Guide for $7.99.

I'm buying both DCLs but I'm wondering if the Strategy Guide is worth eight bucks.

I tend to think it will help but just in case. . . Please advise

Those things are horribly over priced. If you have money to burn and enjoy the pictures I say go for it. However, you'll find about a gazillion fanmade guides online that'll likely be more detailed and oh yeah, free.

I went ahead and bought the guide for NV on relase. I've found that I didn't need it to look up much at all. It was nice to know some of the stuff about how the creatures and NPCs tiered, and the guns/armor stuff, but there's not as much hidden away stuff in NV as there is in FO3.

Also, I doubt the game guide has anything about the DLCs yet. You won't get that until the GOTY edition comes out, so it's utility is even less.

-Gunny out.

The fallout wiki is so much better. Not always 100% accurate of course, but so much better (and official game guides aren't always correct either, since they're written before game release). Just go, type in the name of a quest, or item, or whatever, and read the spoilers/info/possible glitches to your hearts content. All for free.

Strat Guides generally svck, IMO. Overpriced and the only thing they're good for is maybe being a collectors item in 45 years, if you don't dog-ear it. For one of the best and most well-known guides in existence, just go to:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Fallout:_New_Vegas

Guides used to be a bit better in the "old days." Or at the least, they used to be entertaining. The Guide for Dungeon Keeper Gold, to this day, can still make me chuckle when I read it. And it is very dog-eared.

On an unrelated note, I played World of Warcraft for years after it first came out, and a friend bought me the original strat guide as a gift- it was pretty basic and not all that great for actual 'strategies', more of just a 'this is a troglodyte, this is an elf' kind of basic crap. But within 6 months, let alone a year later, almost all of it was out of date as the game was updated, patched and otherwise evolved. Game guides are just a snapshot in time, which quickly gets grainy and faded.

Yeah...in this day and age, very true.
Another part of the reason they were slightly better in the "old days." Games were a bit more "static" then.

Nope, all one needs is the vault which is in my signature.

And frequently, they were even pretty much *finished* when they were released. Back when 'going gold' meant something. Now it only means 'going beta-gold'.

I actually really do enjoy reading them, they certainly are good read.
And as far as I know

Prima >>>>>>>>>>>> Bradygames

Just use the wiki, more convenient and you don't have to pay one cent for it either.

I wouldn't buy it, but that's just my opinion. I'd rather save money for Old World Blues and Lonesome Road :tops:.

This

1) All the info you could ever need:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Wiki

2) Save your $7.99 for Old World Blues, which will be released in two weeks.