anyone with a strategy guide, do me a favor and turn to page 231. sidequests.

read about the patient in the desert and let me know if you also get stuff like "ferryman missing sidequest on page ???)

theres a few more of these. and then after page 233, it suddenly becomes an esper guide before finally going back to a normal sidequest guide on page 239. wtf is going on? where is the ferryman mising sidequest information. why does the "cactuar family" sidequest only have a map and no explenation whatsoever????

theres something wrong here. and i'm really getting pissed. am i gonna have to find a new copy of the strat guide? fucking brady games and their stupid mistakes. they have no updates on their site either. anyone else have this?

Haha... That's kinda funny. Mine also says, "Complete the Dalmasca's Desert Bloom hunt (page ???) to begin this event. Too bad you can't do anything about it. Havn't you ever read the Warrenty info in the back of any Brady Games books?

haha, I think we all have that. I have a lot of (???)'s....

2 things to add to this-
1.) A lot of monsters are not in their proper place in the guide. The walkthrough sections don't list all the monsters in the section, and the bestiary doesn't list all the monsters in the area, either.
2.) The entire second section of Henne mines is never mentioned in the guide, except in 1 of the 2 esper lists, where it mentions to talk to some guy to open the area up, then be ready for tough battles.
This has got to be the worst FF strategy guide I've ever read.

anyone with a strategy guide, do me a favor and turn to page 231. sidequests.

read about the patient in the desert and let me know if you also get stuff like "ferryman missing sidequest on page ???)

theres a few more of these. and then after page 233, it suddenly becomes an esper guide before finally going back to a normal sidequest guide on page 239. wtf is going on? where is the ferryman mising sidequest information. why does the "cactuar family" sidequest only have a map and no explenation whatsoever????

theres something wrong here. and i'm really getting pissed. am i gonna have to find a new copy of the strat guide? fucking brady games and their stupid mistakes. they have no updates on their site either. anyone else have this?

that's why i've never bought, nor will buy a strategy guide
if there's hidden things that would normally take hours to discover, you're better off looking up that junk on gamefaqs...it's free and probably more accurate than bradygames

It's kind of weird to me. I've only ever bought Brady Games guides and I think I've had one or two problems with them. What they are I can't remember, but I just got the thought / somewhat remembered that I did at some point.

At least you guys are noticing the mistakes and such. It helps me not buy it (yet at least).

Oh I remember a strategy guide problem, but it wasn't Brady Games, it was the redish Final Fantasy VII guide. It was poorly glued (Yes, a glued strategy guide) where the pages attach.. A few weeks ago I (somehow) found a still-wrapped-up copy of the Final Fantasy VII guide - and I'm not opening it. :D

I just bid on a brady guide on ebay, gutted now its got bits missing, i hope i dont win it. Piggyback guides are the best

that's why i've never bought, nor will buy a strategy guide
if there's hidden things that would normally take hours to discover, you're better off looking up that junk on gamefaqs...it's free and probably more accurate than bradygames


yah but when it comes to sidequests gamefaq's can take forever to finally get anything useful. gamefaq's is only good if the game has been out for a long time already.

not only that, but PICTURES!!!! that's why i still buy strat guides. gotta love the pictures.

yah but when it comes to sidequests gamefaq's can take forever to finally get anything useful. gamefaq's is only good if the game has been out for a long time already.

not only that, but PICTURES!!!! that's why i still buy strat guides. gotta love the pictures.

but what good is it if you spend money on something only to find out that it's missing parts or has errors?
if you want immediate results for sidequests...try the millions of forums that are just chock-full of information
why pay for something you can get for free...information should not cost anything
as for pictures...if you like pictures and DON'T want to waste your money...get the artbooks
artbook pics > strategy guide pics

actually i also meant pictures as in the maps. :D


also. forums take time and sometimes you can't always get an answer...


and regarding "information" you should totally read a thread i made about information in another forum. holy shit i almost got hanged for thinking information should be free. O_o i still thing it should but holy crap does it have dogs trying to resist such an ideal. lol

lol
isn't there information missing from your guide though? =P
and you ARE seeing if you can find what's missing on those pages on these forums...
but there ARE artbooks out there that have beautifully re-worked maps
trust me...it's better to wait for good artwork than waste your money on a quick-pleaser (my friends nearly killed me when i got my hands on the Valkyrie Profile artbook)
but if i were you...i'd see if you can return it to get something that's more complete and accurate ^^

i think i'll keep it since mine was the special edition that came with an artbook. :p but thanks anyway though. i thought i did have printing errors, but they are more like typos and little mistakes than pages missing and stuff. it was the fear of having missing pages that got me angry and made me post here. :p i now see it wasn't as bad as i feared.

but i guess all the random ???'s can be fixed by either reading the guide from cover to cover...or keeping an eye out for people posting in here that have done so already and have found what you're looking for

yah. i just gotta piece things together now. :p

that's what forums do best =P

PICTURES ARE COOL!

I just like getting the strat. guide sometimes just to get them.

I have not found any errors yet however I will look. One question I do have though is there a page about the treasure chests that yur not suppose to open till later, So that you can get that spear.

Well it tells you in the book which ones not to open in the walkthrough section. So it would be advised to look ahead through your book a bit to see what you should do. They are always in little side text boxes, so it's easy to spot which ones.

Isn't there only like 4 chests that your not suppose to open?

correct. 4 LOCATIONS to be exact.

1) Treasure chest in Lowtown, outside of Old Dalan's place

2) When sneaking into the palace there are several chests in the Cellar. Do not open the two chests in the southeast corner.

3) All treasure chests in the Confiscatory (the place where you get your weapons and armor back after being captured)

4) In the Phon Coast, later in the game, there is an island with 16 chests all near each other. The 4th chest that must NOT be opened is among these, so it is best to leave them all alone. They only contain Gil anyway.

Cool Thanks

To z.zetsumei,

I buy guides just to say I have them.

As a matter of fact, since apparantly this guide has so many errors, it'd be a good thing to buy it. Why? How many games and guides actually have errors? Maybe they'll come out with a reprint later on - thus you won't be able to get the original unless you go on ebay. Think about that one :)

To z.zetsumei,

I buy guides just to say I have them.

As a matter of fact, since apparantly this guide has so many errors, it'd be a good thing to buy it. Why? How many games and guides actually have errors? Maybe they'll come out with a reprint later on - thus you won't be able to get the original unless you go on ebay. Think about that one :)

go buy more BradyGames and Prima's guides...there's errors in just about all of them
but for some reason...i think that even though some say the get them for the sake of having them...they really need them to complete a piss-easy game like this

yah i agree. "easy" to miss half of everything! i'm a completist. must do everything all at once or nothing! :p without a guide, practically impossible.

lol
that's what makes me play games twice...otherwise i'd just rent all my games =P

But as I mentioned, if you buy a guide and it has errors, and then another edition by the same company re-releases the guide w/o the mistakes, wouldn't that make the first edition more valuble? I think so.

collectors value? for sure. us collectors can make anything valuable if we just want it. :p