Anyone else enjoy looking through old guides on Gamefaqs and similar sites? The authors often put alot of their personality into the guides, making little jokes about the series or characters along the way. They would update them for a few years with new easter eggs or tricks to help players, then stop and presumably move on with life. Some guides are even left unfinished, authors planning ASCII maps of the levels, or comprehensive item lists that just never quite got done before life got in the way. An era of the internet and videogames that is truly passed.

My favorite ones are Big Rigs and Knight On The Town.

What the fuck was his problem?

>>11917547 (OP)
Yeah, there's an earnestness to them that you no longer see for fear of being branded "cringe".
Anyway, here's a pretty good one that fits the mold. Very informative and full of little quips:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/554041-final-fantasy-iii/faqs/33792

>>11917603
He was like an AI bot before the age of AI

>>11917547 (OP)
I was looking through some old guide on GameFAQs recently and the author was like, I don't know if any of this is correct because I wrote it form memory. Motherfucker, then you shouldn't be writing a guide.

>>11917659
He was being humble, this used to be a common form of politeness in pre-zoomer times.

Stuck on a boss, check old FAQs
>Anyway level 5 boss [off-topic rant]; as for what happens in the game [spoiler about what comes 3 levels later]. Anyway this boss is really easy you can do this, especially if you use savestates ;)

Check guide for an old RPG
>game expects you to be level 15 at some point
>guide recommends to grind to 25, which would take roughly 10-15 hours to do
>recommends this insane grinding again and agian throughout the guide
Every single time

>>11917547 (OP)
Who remembers the shin Megami tensei walkthrough that was updated years later to denounce the game because the author converted to Christianity? I've been looking for it for years

>need a guide
>go through all the ones available
>pick the one with the largest most detailed ascii art at the start of it
Oh yeah it's gaming time now

>>11917547 (OP)
Gamefaqs guide helped me with Hexen way more than any video.