Thread 11917547

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.

>>11918382
A man who makes great ascii art is a man who's enough of a sperg to write a thoroughly detailed FAQ

>>11918369
The real helpful shit was in the stickies on the message boards.

>>11917547 (OP)
Yeah, it's a time capsule filled with detritus from the good ol' days of gaming authored by dumbass teenagers. Glad gamefaqs is still a thing.

>>11917706
>He was being humble, this used to be a common form of politeness in pre-zoomer times
As evidenced by the hordes of insufferable, middle-aged assholes on this board whose vocabularies consist mostly of the words "zoomer", "retard", "faggot", and "reddit"?

>>11920668
He said there "used" to be. It's not the case anymore because of zoomers who have zero reading comprehesion, like in your case, so there is no point in using words they wouldn't understand, which inevitably makes us fall back to calling them (You) retards.

>>11917547 (OP)
>FAQ has random off topic unfunny jokes and other garbage inserted at random intervals

>>11921020
Heh'd.

>>11917547 (OP)
I think both Mario Kart and MKII have guides dating back to the mid 90s. It’s a fun internet time capsule

Enjoy? Nigga I'm still using that shit to this day just like a lot of people

I used to buy games then just rawdog them blind and had fun. Now the first thing I do when playing a game is look up a list of missables so I can 100% the game even though I don't really care and it's not a fun way to play.

I used to download all the FAQs on GameFAQs for the games I was playing. But now I prefer reading wiki for games I'm playing. I even contribute to some wikis.

>>11921202
always do your first playthrough blind

if for some reason you're so autistically captivated by the game that you feel a need to 100% it, then do a second playthrough

>>11920668
You roaches were so putrid you ruined a good thing. Everyone hates you because we had paradise and you all destroyed it. Just kill yourselves already and be done with it.

An excerpt from a Morrowind character creation guide that has stuck with me for over 20 years:
>[Orcs] are, however, butt-ugly, so if you're
a vain player you might want to play a Redguard instead (unless you're a vain,
racist player, in which case play a Nord, and get some therapy.)

An excerpt from a Morrowind character creation guide that has stuck with me for over 20 years:
>[Orcs] are, however, butt-ugly, so if you're a vain player you might want to play a Redguard instead (unless you're a vain, racist player, in which case play a Nord, and get some therapy.)

>guide is based on some magazine beta which has SOME locations changed.
Still mad I didn't unlock everything in MK Deception.

>>11921413
lmao first thing I do when playing elder scrolls games is install a mod to remove redguard

>>11920749
Only as strong as the weakest link. How far have we fallen.

>>11920560
>detritus
stfu, that shit is gold.

>>11921202
People have been conditioned now that games are meant to be consumed rather than experienced.

>>11917547 (OP)
I remember reading a guide for windwaker where it mentioned that the guy who sells you the sail is iceman from megaman 1 and that tingle tuner doesn't allow to bomb tingle at all, so it is broken.

To this day, I still refer the guy as Iceman

>>11921202
I used to be like you, then I just stopped doing things I didn't enjoy in games. Dragging out every fight in a FF so I can steal from the enemy? Fucking. Boring. I just stopped caring. Oh no, I missed an item that could make an already piss easy game even easier! Who fucking cares?

>>11924653
but then i took an arrow to the knee

>Couldn't afford many new games as a kid
>REmake comes out
>Decide to experience game by reading the walkthroughs on Gamefaqs
>It lists every item in each room, including all the Handgun Magazines
>Couldn't figure out why this mansion had so many magazines about handguns

In my defense, the only gun we owned actually took clips, and RE2 had its handgun bullets in the boxes.

Did YOU write any guides, Anon?

I wrote a few guides for some Sonic games. I remember I made a shortcut guide for Sonic Riders and a Boss guide for Sonic Rivals.

>>11921046
What is the oldest guide on there? Is there an easy way to figure that out?

>>11917659
Just a little mental excursion to pass the time lol

>really like to try RPG games
>always use a walk-through from gamefaqs because I don't want to miss anything or wandering around completely lost

What should I do?

>>11917547 (OP)
Mainly for fighting game or if I get stuck since I usually don't want spoilers. A fun thing to do is copy the text file onto a floppy and view it on a retro computer such as an Atari ST which supports pc formated discs.

>>11925107
I've made a few that are on gamefaqs. I wrote my first guide for Hunk in Resident Evil 2 at the age of 12, but it was for a fan site.
Honestly I've dabbed in a bit everything, wrote guides, made levels/mods/romhacks for games, dumped some games, contributed to tcrf and mobygames, etc I don't know what I'm still doing on /vr/ to be honest this place used to be people like me but since the attack now it's just retards and shitposters

>>11925275
>getting lost in an rpg
??? are you talking like 1940s dungeon crawlers?

>>11925107
I sometimes think about writing guides just for the fun of it.

>>11917547 (OP)
I like reading old reviews on GameFAQs, it's fun.

I like to have a read of FAQs for games I haven't played or won't play just to get an idea of them.

>>11921335
second playthrough feels like a waste of time because I already know the story

>>11926160
then you probably weren't too invested in 100%ing it in the first place

>>11925267
The oldest original guides are from 95 at most because that's when the site began. There are guides going as far back as 1991 scraped from elsewhere: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/564664-the-adventures-of-willy-beamish/faqs/1906 The faqs/* part is the order in which they were added at some point.