Strategy Guide anyone?

I don't really anticipate needing it.  I like to work out as much as possible on my own the first playthrough anyways (even it if means backtracking to an earlier save - if they'll even still allow that)... and by the time I get around to the second one, there should be tons of info and help available here and elsewhere on the web.

Same, I may barely touch it at all save for any development sections and any extra art/lore that they include. I buy the collector's guides because I'm a DA/ME lore geek. I buy all the tie-in novels and comics for the same reason: I love the setting, and any extra information I can get on it, I'll take. I know it'll probably end up on the wiki down the line, but the source materials are more in-depth. Plus I love looking at early concept art and development notes; I bought the ME and DAI artbooks for even more of that.

I didn't touch the DAI guide until my second or third playthrough, and that was just to get help on collectibles I felt like actually bothering with for one run, like the shards. I actually found the astrarium guides helpful for the ones I got stuck on (I prefer getting those on my own but several were a bit over my head) and online resources weren't available yet. It usually takes a few weeks for more extensive guides to crop up, so having the book was handy then. Normally I don't even use the guide part at all and only open the book for the lore. Only exception is situations like the collectibles where online didn't have the guides yet that early. I don't think I've touched my collector's guide sections in years since I can just Google the same answers now.

yeah that's why I tend to only ge tthe book if I need it for example it's got puzzles like the Astraruims or the Temple of Mythal area or I struggle with getting to grips with the mechanics of the game. The trilogy was easy to get to grips with so didn' tneed the books for it as the missions were never that hard to figure out what I needed to do so I don't anticipate needing one for Andromeda but if I run into problems due to an Astrarium like puzzle that I can't solve then I'll get it.

I'll buy it just to buy it.

yeah that's why I got the DAI book  as I felt I was going to be scratching my head for days on those Astrariums. I don't really care as to who compiled them all I need i sso0mething to pick up that wli give me a direction to go in. Hopefully I won't need the guide though as the puzzles in ME generally are simpler than DA's

OK, I might as well weight in.

I get the strategy guides because I like having them incase I need them. Also, I just like having them as like a memoir or something to collect. I don't collect many things, but for some reason I like collecting strategy guides.