Faralas:
"Yep, I was a beta tester for Redguard. That was a fiasco because they were so far behind schedule."
I remember it well.
"My poor Daggerfall strategy guide is barely holding itself together because I used it so much."
Appreciate the kind words. If it's mailable and you want, send it to me and I'll autgraph it and put in an inscription. When I die, it will be worth $1 more. Ha.... Speaking of strat guide value, one of my books the official strat guide for Xenogears goes for over $100 at many booksellers. Yikes!!
"Btw, how does one go about writing a strategy guide for a game as massive as Daggerfall?"
When you write an official guide, you have access to all the data for the game in readable format, like item lists and locations, etc. You simply have to play the game "to death". If you miss something, the game's creators always let you know and set you straight. Daggerfall was a tough book to write because it was not finished when I wrote it.
Because I can read Japanese, and many RPG's for consoles originate in Japan, I became a valuable asset, as I could play the game and write the book from the Japanese version even before the game had been localized. This meant the strat guide and game would come out together, considered by developers a good thing. And, that way, you have a complete working copy of the game. I never thought a couple of weeks out of my life to learn a bit of Japanese would become so handy.
"I bought my XBox 1.5 years ago and love it."
I bought and played the XBox to play Morrowind also. What a bonus when Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic came out. BTW, did you get suckered into buying some of the worst rpg's ever like Metal Dungeon?
""my home is a mini-Disney World for my teenaged nieces and nephews."
Many years ago, when only the Apple II was around for serious gaming, there was a cute game called Droll. Whenever my niece and nephew slept over, they played it all night.
"Never played Halo. Hmmmm, addicting you say?"
Halo launched almost simultaneously with the XBox. It still commands fairly premium prices, even on eBay, years after its release. Though I am terrible at FPS games, I went through the entire game on Easy, and couldn't get out of the first screen on Normal. Definitely a game to play.
