Steam launches 'Game Guides' beta
Valve has released a beta for "Game Guides," a new feature that lets experienced players publish walkthroughs that appear right inside a game's Hub page.
It's been a big week for new features entering beta on Steam. Just after the test launch of its Community Market feature, Valve has announced the beta release of "Game Guides." This set of tools and information sorting lets knowledgeable players create walkthroughs that are presented right alongside the games in Steam's community.
The announcement details how to make a guide. Once you've joined the Steam Community Beta Group to get access, you can go to a game's Hub page and click on the Guides tab. That will let you insert images from your Steam Cloud, add YouTube videos, or give your friends access to help you write it. Once you publish it, the community can start reading it. Simple as that.
Valve published a simple Portal 2 guide as an example, and the community has already produced a few more. Guides can be rated for quality or reported, but at the moment the company hasn't announced any personal benefit for writing a popular guide. In the beta phase, at least, you should just do it out of the goodness of your heart. Also bragging rights.
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Valve has released a beta for "Game Guides," a new feature that lets experienced players publish walkthroughs that appear right inside a game's Hub page.-
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Prima might take issue with this, however buying the digital guide for Hitman:Absolution has got to be the biggest waste of $20 ever, only covers normal so playing expert half the time it doesn't help :/
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I like prima's physical books, but I guess I didn't realize how far downhill the guides have gone......
Is brady any better? Or are they loads of crap on a page too?-
I remember getting a guide book like those with my Diablo 2 copy (it was the Diablo 2 Special Gift set and had a dvd with all the D2 cutscenes and some from other Blizzard games!)
That guide gave the worst goddamn advice ever, totally gimped my character, I couldn't even get to act 4 with. This was on normal, as there was no mention whatsoever of higher difficulties. Later as I learned actual D2 thanks to the internet it was confirmed that all the things the guide said about characters I hadn't played were just as wrong.
The reason I am telling you this is so that I can tell you these books have not gone downhill, at least not since 2000.-
Some guides are better than others. I like my New Vegas guide, not so much for level tips or anything, but to look for the odd quests or items, the books artwork is great, and I've never liked alt-tabbing to look at a guide. Steams in-game browser was never fast for me, granted it has gotten much better.
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well sure, but they haven't had a special place on steam, now that they do, prima will just be bumped out.
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The last guide I remember being purchased was Final Fantasy 7's guide. And then we got internet.
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