I was searching on the net for more info about the Portal 2 Game Guide, and found out that there are two versions available; the official guide and the collectors edition. As I understood from the results of my search, the collectors edition has 20 pages less (332 compared to 352) but has a different cover and an extra art section.

Did someone buy one of the guides? If so, please reply below. Are the differences I noticed correct, or is there something more (that I missed)?

thanks,
RockeTeK

rellikpd wrote:
a game guide.... for a puzzle game...
isn't the purpose of puzzles to exercise your brain?

Yes... but please answer my question

I guess just follow the advice of where ever you got the information on the guides. If you like an arty guide - go for the bigger one.

chickenmobile wrote:
I find guides ultimately useless. It's like buying a guide on how to solve a Rubik's cube.

I totally agree

yohoat9 wrote:
Okay, does anyone here besides me know how to solve a rubik's cube?

No, but a Rubik's Cube wasn't painstakingly designed and playtested to be solvable in a fun and interesting way. Portal 2 was.

I agree that you shouldn't want or need a guide. But that's not the question at hand.

RockeTeK: I don't think anyone on here has bought either of the guides, and you will not find the answers you're looking for. This is a mapping board, not a general Portal players' board. Try the Steam forums or anywhere else with a Portal 2 section.

The people who make maps for games aren't the kind of people that have other people tell them how to solve maps.

yohoat9 wrote:
Okay, does anyone here besides me know how to solve a rubik's cube?

I brought it up and you don't think I can :O!

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Nah seriously, what Hober said. Try on the steam forums. At least one person would have bought it there.

Not to use to solve the game. I bought it after. However, the guide comes with complete layouts of all of Valve's maps, which I found inspirational when coming up with my own puzzle ideas. The collector's edition also comes with a complete history of both games, interviews with the designers, and a section of Portal 2 art. For like 20 bucks, I love it.

Hober wrote:
you shouldn't want or need a guide

well if someone was an idiot they would want one, or if they wanted to find all achievments and were lazy butts, and had alot of extra money, or if they couldn't beat one level, and had alot of extra money, or they big fan and they want to buy all collectors item for their collection

Hober wrote:
The people who make maps for games aren't the kind of people that have other people tell them how to solve maps.

i agree

ForbiddenDonut wrote:
I have bought the collector's edition.

Not to use to solve the game. I bought it after. However, the guide comes with complete layouts of all of Valve's maps, which I found inspirational when coming up with my own puzzle ideas. The collector's edition also comes with a complete history of both games, interviews with the designers, and a section of Portal 2 art. For like 20 bucks, I love it.

cool!

Hey guys,

My name is Seb and I am the Founder of GamerGuides.com. We just launched and one of the guides we produced was for Portal 2!

Wanted to let you guys know about it as we've put a lot of work into it think it could be really helpful.

Included in the guide is a full single player walkthrough, Co-op mode walkthrough and achievements guide (with videos).

Single player walkthrough: http://www.gamerguides.com/guides/porta ... lkthrough/
Co-op Challenges: http://www.gamerguides.com/guides/porta ... hallenges/
Achievements Guide: http://www.gamerguides.com/guides/porta ... guide-100/
Easter Eggs: http://www.gamerguides.com/guides/porta ... -eggs-105/

We hope you guys like it!

An introduction to our Portal 2 Guide written by the author:

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Never happy to rest on their cash-laden laurels, Valve know a cracking mod team when they see one and promptly snapped up the devs behind the mind-melting original Portal.

Still encompassing a vast array of brain-bending spatial puzzles, it now possesses a fully fleshed out single-player story (joined by the amazingly voiced Wheatley and the - infamously glib - GLaDOS), co-op mode and a sack load of Easter Eggs tucked away for good measure.

Naturally, we take you through every single Test Chamber in the story and co-op modes, along with rock-solid strategies for bagging all the Achievements/Trophies and we'll show you the cunning hidden Easter Eggs as well (cause we're nice like that).

Naturally, a fluid puzzle game like Portal 2 may have multiple ways to solve each room, so if you reckon you've found an easier/quicker way of doing it, we'd love you to either share it in the comments of the guide itself or why not bring it to everyone's attention in our forum?