Prima's Guide isn't perfect

[Sir_deadalot]

On Prima's guide which does say that it has all the g man locations
it gives 10 locations but I have found another does exist on Water hazard. Are there any others?

 

[Asknoone]

It doesnt mention the Gman/Odessa sighting in Highway 17.

 

[RAST]

On Prima's guide which does say that it has all the g man locations
it gives 10 locations but I have found another does exist on Water hazard. Are there any others?

The Prima guide is not perfect, but I do like having the maps of each level.

On other thing is it said that F5 is save and F6 is load. F5 does a screenshot for me...

Here's a good list of G-Man sightings:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182302

 

[lasagne]

whos oddesa? srry nub question

 

[Is This Tea]

whos oddesa? srry nub question

him.

 

[lasagne]

k, thnx

 

[bboymatty]

yeh it does miss out that sighting
i think its an easter egg more than anything else.

the prima guide is awesome, although i would like to know as to wether they make up some of the stuff themselves, or if valve tells em what to brief the player on.

eg: in the guide it says elis leg got taken by a bullsquid. bullcrap or the truth?

 

[Asknoone]

eg: in the guide it says elis leg got taken by a bullsquid. bullcrap or the truth?

Truth, they got thier info straight from valve, and valve already announced it anyway

 

[sfc_hoot]

The prima guide lists 10 sightings, yet there are 13. The Prima Guide also refers to the 7 Hour War as the "7 Day War", and a few other minor mistakes like that. Still a great book. I especially enjoy the maps of all the levels.

 

[Sid Burn]

Damn... I never knew it has alot of mistakes.

 

[Wilsonator]

Stupid Prima

They also said the Combine soldiers were declawed, debeaked Zombies (?!), which is obviously a load of bullsquid.

 

[kirovman]

Prima Guide's are always wrong. I had a Red Alert 2 one, and a couple of the missions could not be won using their walkthrough methods.

They said a warfactory could survive a nuke, but that's wrong.

They write their guides quite a while before the game goes gold so a few changes will happen and their guide will be wrong. And sometimes they make rash presumptions.

 

[sfc_hoot]

One of the biggest mistakes in the HL2 Prima Guide is that they refer to the level "Our Benefactors" as "Benefactory". C'mon now - how can you make a mistake like that? :/ This isn't a monster description we're talking about, this is a game level!

 

[kirovman]

One of the biggest mistakes in the HL2 Prima Guide is that they refer to the level "Our Benefactors" as "Benefactory". C'mon now - how can you make a mistake like that? :/ This isn't a monster description we're talking about, this is a game level!

LOL. This factory...does it make things very Bene?

(ie good)

Who wrote that...did they not even question that when they typed it in?

 

[RAST]

One of the biggest mistakes in the HL2 Prima Guide is that they refer to the level "Our Benefactors" as "Benefactory". C'mon now - how can you make a mistake like that? :/ This isn't a monster description we're talking about, this is a game level!

I think that they had the guide go to the press before Valve were finished with the game. It would explain a few of the wording differences.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

They also have a habit of taking screen-shots of the Crab-Synth's rear quarters, rather than its front end...

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Flyingdebris]

did they include the gman sighting on the mini tv inside a messy closet near the beginning of the part of anticitizen where you have to start clearing out the apartments?

 

[Huntoon]

did they include the gman sighting on the mini tv inside a messy closet near the beginning of the part of anticitizen where you have to start clearing out the apartments?

yes, but it's in the hallway instead of the room