Honestly been one of the most useful websites for me over the years.
Before the Internet got social media, we had the GameFAQs voting thing; you’d get head to head popularity contests of coolest characters. Cloud always won, but it was nice to check daily to see who was most popular.
I still use GameFAQs, though. Even after the buyout, the guides are important to those of us RetroAchevement-ing through some older titles.
I would take the txt guides for RPG games and print them on the laser printers at my high school.
I saved paper by printing them 4 sheets to a single page.
I was around 8-9 when i was stuck in Sam & Max: Hit the Road for a long time. Restarted the game and got stuck on the same spot. Finally caved and asked my brother how proceed, at which point he showed me a walkthrough. It blew my mind that that was a thing!
Which spot were you stuck on?
I was never able to figure out that you had to put the “long” hand onto the magnet, and then put the magnet into the giant ball of yarn to grab something.
Use the staple remover on the gopher
I got in trouble in Middle School for printing out an entire FF6 guide from GameFAQs. It had all of the items and their stats, all of the spells, espers, maps etc. It was absolutely massive and the administration was not happy about me using all of that paper and toner. Already printed it, sucks to be them. 3 hole punched it at home and put it in a binder. It was awesome.
That day you learned a very valuable lesson about permission and forgiveness.
It’s easier to ask for forgivness, than to ask for permission.
Got it!
I did the same! But never got caught.
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I remember being the first one to make a guide for the game “Bust A Move” (Rhythm dance game). I think it’s still there. My own little contribution to the gaming world.
I think wikis have taken over that niche, at least for more popular games.
Big shout-out to the absolute GOAT CyricZ, who has perfect guides for every single Yakuza game in existence.
Nothing beats those old ascii art guides. When you’re playing an old games, you know they won’t let you down.
everything is fucking videos now. You get stuch at a very particular place? Prepare to sift through literally hours of video instead of, for example, just searching for the name of the place you’re in ingame
everything is fucking videos now
did you know that the more inappropriate the place you put the word “fucking” in is, the more seriously people will take your comments? :D
The written language is developed by the spoken language. I.e. colloquialisms are king.
I raged against people using literally when they mean figuratively for years. I lost.
yes, but thanks for telling me anyway :)
I was fascinated at one point by ASCII art. I had seen someone manually drawing some ASCII emoji on a cup as a kid. Weird…
Boy the KOTOR gamefaq guides I had bookmarked were something else. I would have missed so much of the games without them. Instead, I got to see every single possible dialogue line in the games.
Really sad to see your entire generation give in as it shrinks, and do nothing else with their lives. Next year, the youngest Millenial becomes 30.
Goodbye, friends.
Good memories. I was a regular on the boards at one point in time, and regularly contributed to the secrets/cheats/bugs sections
I absolutely love the no-nonsense approach of gamefaqs (and the likes). <3
if I’m stuck in a game (usually some 90’s point&click adventure), more often than not I just want an easily ctrl+f searchable walkthrough, and does the site ever provide.
I remember how useful the FFX-2 guide was. We didn’t have a computer at home when I was a kid, but I was able to head to the town library and print off the neat formatted text only guide.
man, the mention of printed-faq’s opened a core memory. I had One Must Fall 2097 and Mortal Kombat move-lists printed out
I used to print armored core walkthroughs and take them to my room. I think that’s why my parents let me have a computer in my room. So I could use a floppy to bring them over without printing
