Who likes videogame artbooks?

[Roufuss]

This thread can be about free artbooks (as preorder bonuses), artbooks you bought, your favorite artbooks, your favorite VG art (that is in a book), pictures of your artbooks... I'll begin :D

As for as artbooks I've bought, I've gotten:

SNK Characters: All About Illustrations
SNK Characters 2: All About Illustrations
Some Mega Man / Mega Man X artbook that has art for MM 1 - 6 and a few X's

Some free artbooks I've got:

Suikoden V
Titan Quest
Tales of Legendia
Soul Calibur 2

I'm interested in picking up one of the Capcom artbooks, as well as the Breath of Fire Complete Works (has art from BoF 1 - 5).

[Xevious]

The only ones I have seen is : Art of Doom, Art of Halo, Art of Darkwatch.

I like those games but I never bought those books.

[SilverPaw750]

Only one I have is Street Fighter: Eternal Challenge. It's awesome.

[ITDEFX]

too expensive for me :(

i would have preferred a making of DVD :P

[A Happy Panda]

I love videogame artbooks. Except the only two I have are for Halo and Warcraft 3.

[Richlough]

I have the FF movie artbook .

[Strell]

I'd say Yoji Shinkawa's MGS Artbook is all you need, but that would deny Yoshitaka Amano the grand title of artistry, which he takes handedly.

I really haven't seen many artbooks beyond those that are great.

I'm in the middle of packing so I'll have to comment more later on.

[argyle]

I have several, and while I enjoy flipping through them from time to time I mainly have them for collector's purposes. The ones I have are:

The Art of Final Fantasy IX (bought)
Art of Guild Wars (came w/ collector's ed.)
Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (pennied out)
Art of Soul Calibur II (pre-order)
Art of Suikoden IV (mail-in freebie)
Art of Suikoden V (pre-order)
Art of Tales of Legendia (pre-order)
Art of Tales of Symphonia (pre-order)
Art of Tekken (pre-order)
Art of Warcraft (came w/ WCIII collector's ed.)
Art of World of Warcraft (came w/ WoW collector's ed.)

I also have the following CE guides that came w/ artbooks:

FFX-2
Kingdom Hearts 2
MGS3
Onimusha 3
Pokemon Colosseum


I think that's all of 'em. ;)

[chewster777]

I love artbooks so very much, but they can be a bit too expensive for me. I'd love to get some capcom stuff.

[rabbitt]

I got the Tales of Symphonia one and, even though I didn't like the games, the book is nice.

And now that I think about it, I never got my free Suikoden coin and other shit!

[levi333]

I love art books.
Got the Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Legendia, Soul Cali 2, PoP WW, and a couple others.
I wish more preorders would come with them.

[Over easy]

The only one I got is Tales of Legendia. I would have love to get my hands on the Tales of Symphonia, but I got my Gamecube late, so no luck there.

I got the Kingdom Hearts 2 CE guide with the sticker book as well.

[ShimSham]

I have the artbook of MGS, that's pretty cool.

I think there's a Japanese one for Phoenix Wright too.

[RelentlessRolento]

I would prefer and hope for the other way around... art as video games... or even artbooks as games.

So far I've never seen one I like alot... some are hit or miss, but none of them seem to have hit the mark yet.

[GuilewasNK]

The only ones I have are two of the Girls of Gaming mags from Play magazine. That probably comes as no surprise to anyone since I pimp the gaming girl thread in my sig. :lol:

I would love to cellect more artbooks eventually though. I really wanted the PoP:Warrior Within book. I have seen some for sale/trade on CAG but I just don't have the extra cash right now.

[Xevious]

The only videogame artbooks that would tempt me would be games like Myst or Riven. I dont even like those games.

[Foolman]

Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (pennied out)


I was curious about what that was. I might pick that up.