I'm reading through Master of Magic's Prima Strategy Guide

[Heresiarch]

And what a wonderful experience it is. The strategy guide is HUGE (478 pages), there are TONS of information in it, with tons of maths and personal reviews on different units/spells made by the authors. What made me feel really is, even the authors praised that "the reason this book was not rushed and was given the time it needed to include the level of quality material presented herein is that those at Prima defend the ideal of quality over speed...""... If we thought we were crazy taking on such a large book project, they were equally crazy being so supportive and backing us up all the way". Even though I would never consider myself a hardcore fan at MoM (because I suck at it), I would still consider the book one of the best reading material.

Any other similar good game books to read?

 

[Jive One]

I know both the original X-Com and Master of Orion strategy guides were just as big and informative. I'm not sure if you play them, but a lot of PSX-era Square RPGs had really great guides as well.

 

[Zeus]

A big fat tome of Master of Magic knowledge =

 

[commie]

The Wing Commander guides had some really good stuff about the design processes that went into the creation of the early 'AAA' titles.

I know there are many other brutal massive guides. Check out Underground Gamer, they have compilations and you can pick and choose to see which are worthy.

 

[Luzur]

RPG Companion.

never leave home without it.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

The Wing Commander guides had some really good stuff about the design processes that went into the creation of the early 'AAA' titles.

I know there are many other brutal massive guides. Check out Underground Gamer, they have compilations and you can pick and choose to see which are worthy.

I lost my UG account ages ago - could get anything I needed from it from DJ Oldgames, Abandonia or elsewhere - but this has piqued my interest. I always loved browsing whatever meaty Prima guides fell into my lap (never paid for one, just kept... getting them from somewhere) as a kid, even for games I had no interest in. I'd fucking love to take a crack at one for X-Com or Might and Magic. Any invites going?

RPG Companion.

never leave home without it.

I searched Google for uploads of this and all that turned up were links to your posts take it nobody's uploaded it?

 

[Elzair]

Check out the King's Quest companion. The strategy guide for Ultima IX is much better than the game itself. There was a publisher, Versus Books that made some entertaining guides back in the day.