It's a surprisingly good format too.
>100% Achievement Guide (best quality)>Guide:>do all the achievements lol thumbs up see you later>remains featured guide for 5 years straight
>>724416563>completely replaced gamefaqsMaybe this would be true if guide writers actually wrote guides for their games instead of writing a "guide" that just links to youtube or gamefaqs.
>>724416563>It's a surprisingly good format too.No. Gamefaqs was way the fuck better.
>>724416563I tried to write a guide once but steam formatting made me want to go back to notepad.
>>724418180idk man. I went back to some of the old gamefaqs guides I used for FFX, and looked up a few for some old games I was playing. The info that was datamined or copied from the guidebook is all great. The problem is the actual walkthroughs are written by teenagers with all the problems that come along with that.
>>724416563A while back I was working on a steam guide and I just gave up because of how limiting the steam guide editor was. In particular I ran into section character limits very quickly, and navigating the guide itself was not very easy
>>724416563No the fuck they haven’t
>gamefaqsfor me it's neoseeker, these achievement guides are always halfassed
>>724416563More like gamefags haha am i right lol
>>724418436wdym? The community tab replaced the forums, which were dead years earlier anyways. Guides replace the walkthroughs cause pictures an stuff. I made this thread because I was searching for a walkthrough and I was like, oh yeah, just search for the steam guide there's usually at least one worth using.
>>724419284you have to be 30+ to understand.
Gamefaq usually keeps a tiny fragment of old videogame community in the 2000s. Idk how this site can keep the lights on for so long.
>>724416563categorically not true because1) Wikis replaced them first2) Not every game is on steam
Gamefaqs was replaced by wikis and youtube. And at the same time many of the stuff you needed a guide for was jsut put into the game. Like with collectibles they'll give you a counter for each area now, it's way easier even without any outside help.
>>724420107I feel like there used to be a lot more complete guides and walkthroughs online. IGN had full walkthroughs for years that would at least tell you where to go. Now it's like you can't find those anywhere unless it's a pokemon fansite.
>>724418010>HOW TO START THE GAME >HOW TO UNINSTALL THE GAME>HOW TO BE CHAD>HOW TO GET GFthat shit should give you a VAC ban
>>724416563Never, still far to many100% achievement guide and it's just a youtube video.
>can't defeat a boss>check out a guide>"... you'll encounter the boss here. He's tough, but keep going at it and you'll defeat him. Next, leave the dungeon and..."or>"... you'll encounter the boss here. If you've been following the guide up until now you'll have the otherwise useless potion from about 4-5 hours ago. That potion is great for this boss if you combine it with the special skill your character could learn in that secret side-mission 8 hours ago. Next, leave the dungeon and..."or>"... you'll encounter the boss here. The trick is to wait until he's attacked twice, just guard until then, and then use water skills on him. Your mage is the best choice here. What happens is that after two attacks the boss takes 40% more damage from water (something that's hinted at but easily missed if you talk to the bum in the last town). Remember to guard when he's glowing red, bring lots of potions, buy one-shot water items so all your characters can do damage. You will defeat him, but you haven't seen the last of him - he shows up in the last chapter and kills the king. Next, leave the dungeon and..."
>>724418352>The problem is the actual walkthroughs are written by teenagers with all the problems that come along with that.You mean the "problem" is that it's kino?
Wrong. Html guides on gamefaqs are 10000X better than fucking steam shit, where it's half Russian and Arabs gobbeldygook
>>724421985lol me playing the last remnant
>>724420718steam points were a mistake
>>724416563>I just realized that Steam Guides have completely replaced gamefaqs......unless it's an old game or not on steam
>>724424558I don't think I've ever even used those.
>>724416563>100% Achievement Guide>Guide:>watch this youtube video
steam guides aren't as detailedthey are only good for things like achievements but not for actual game completion, and it's annoying to see russian guides or shit like 'how to uninstall the game'I still use gamefags
>>724424948Don't forget to leave a like if this helped!
I played all golden age final fantasy games (1-10) this year and i literally used guides from the 1800s what are you yapping about
>>724416563You have to wade through so much shit to find something even remotely useful in steam guides section, it's not worth it.
I wrote a steam guide like a decade ago>1,947 unique visitorshmmmmmm
>>724426841good job
>>724418010>100% achievements guide>it's just an embedded YouTube video.
>>724426841i'm more interested in how many people visitied 50x
I end up writing stwam guides when I get too invested in a game and now I have like 40 of them. Some with a couple thousand views. There was a risk of rain one about items I did before the DLCs that I havent updated in a solid year but it still has like 50K views somehow
>>724427231Couwd you wite a stwam weview fow metaw geaw sowid?
>>724416563>Look at Steam Guides>Everything is RussianThe fuck is up with that?
Game FAQ autism was strong back then >Guy who copied over the entire game script >Guy who listed ever enemy variation, moves, stats and drops >Guy who would recreate maps using ASCII format (this helped me in advanced wars)
>>724416563I miss ASCII art at the top of big GameFAQs guides.Sometimes you'd also see entire maps drawn in ASCII.
>>724427380Steam is like 30% Russian, 30% Polish, 30% Brazilian, and 10% other.
>>724427379okway ;_;
gamefaq new format killed it.now you have to go trough dozen of pages instead of just quickly ctrl+f
>>724424948Even worse when the video has them meandering a lot, making what could have been a 1-2 minute read into a 20 minute minimum watch.
>>724428138>making what could have been a 1-2 minute read into a 20 minute minimum watch.Forgot to clarify, I mean this on a per achievement basis, not the whole guide.
>open guide>they put the entire contents of it in the guide description
>>724421985kek, last one got me
>>724428121thisanything beyond plain text was a huge error
>>724418280I remember gamefaqs wasn't perfect, eitherYou'd have like one or two guides that are super in-depth and very helpfulThen you'll have many others that were kinda a waste of time reading and were clearly written by a 14 year old.
>>724427405>back thenits still happening. for example here's a google sheet with all the data foir every weapon, item, ability, class, map, etc... from a game that came out this yearhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f1xkCMZ_DL3EHcJNDcRIuyXJ8S3P7xxPHKhB5NGVsMI/edit?gid=384507094#gid=384507094
I got permabanned from gamefags decades ago because I said Google Chrome was awful. The powertripping mods killed it forcing all the contributors away.
Only issue are the meme guides farming for awards.But yeah I tend to just browse Steam for guides. Works really well for niche shit.
>>724428910The mods chased away a lot of users by letting libtards shit up discussions with politics and banning anyone who didn't agree with them. They even cheered when sony started censoring japanese games. Who the hell wants to contribute after that? Also fuck them for that shitty new format, plain text did the job just fine.
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>>724416563I miss gamefaqs for RPGs and whatever else that has depth, it was always guaranteed an autist would go in detail about the mechanics, formulas, inner logic and what not through a guide. Guidebros from the modern day can't compete with the strongest guidebros of history.
>>724428121isn't the new format basically trying to copy steam guides?
>>724420718This, and people who create Steam guides that are just a page of embedded YouTube videos should have their accounts permanently deleted with no warning.
>>724428674>google sheet>souless shit>it's still happeningFuck off zoomer fuckface adults are talking
>>724416563I miss having txt files on Gamefaqs because I can just save all of itMaybe that's a gay way to think but it keeps the thing from disappearing in the future as these things tend to do
>>724416563Fuck those retards that post a steam guide thats just a bunch of videos on youtube.No I'm not giving your youtube channel views
>>724419631It was bought by Fandom a few years ago, and hosting costs for a site that's almost entirely text (besides images in HTML guides) is pretty cheap anyways.
>>724442581I like how this caused the political board to get wiped out on gamefaqs. Fandom probably saw how utterly fucked up it was and got it rid of it. Those fags were shitting up everything and are still butthurt about it to this day.I hope the website holds, there's a lot of guides on obscure games from the past that are still useful.
>>724416563Half the Steam guides are just links to Youtube videos, the other half are in Vodka Runes
>>724416563>HOW TO LE JUMP XDDD>has every single tag>12581259081251928598152 awards>no curation or way of filtering out this trash
>>724426841>66 Unique Visitors
>>724427405>ASCII art of the game's logo put through a generator made of like $$##&%%%% symbols>ASCII art of the game's logo but made by hand, with game subtitles as normal single characters>Maps made of corner characters, or more likely, slashes and underscores so the whole thing is kind of skewed>If you liked this guide, send me an email at bigdingus81@hotmail.com!>ASCII recreation of the menu layout for chapter boxes>every item stat and location in the game in easily ctrl+F format (and also with ascii boxes around it just to look cool)>total guide size: 17 kilobytes
>>724416563>no ASCII artSoulless
>>724426841My highest one is 3k unique visitors for a fps roguelite game that had borderlands graphics and a fallout settingI checked what the game dev was working on and it was a fucking stardew valley clone, he hasnt worked on any other games than the first one
IT'S 2007, YOU'RE STUCK IN SUPER JRPG THE GAME, AND YOU ONLY HAVE ENOUGH PRINTER PAPER FOR ONE GUIDE EVEN IF YOU SHRINK THE PAGES TO HALFWHAT DO YOU PICK
>>724443214I went to reddit for the first time when 4chan got hacked earlier and it was actually really good for conversations or questions about topics. I kept to strictly masculine hobbies like lifting, DIY, tools, complex electronic repair, and stayed off the mainstream things like video games and politics. Occasionally there was a lone TDS tranny that made Trump comments in every unrelated thread, but the mods always deleted that. It made me think how much better 4chan would be if it removed all politics completely and got rid of all the trannies and jeets.
psnprofiles tends to have vastly superior trophy/achievement guides
>>724445060i like trueachievements for the individual flags and user submitted solutions for an achievement instead of full guides
>>724444709Final of course. What game even is that?
>>724418280>go to the topwise from the bottom most top left of the right side of the screen, then use your main finger to rotate it countersphere to the bottomThat, but translated from Russian to English in Altavista Babelfish.
>>724445397super jrpg the game, silly
>>724444994problem is, the type of guy with the time to play gameA for 12 hours a day always has some crazy views and a fucked up personality. Same with movies/comics all of that.
>>724418853You take that name out your mouth!
It's always nice when you are playing a older game that has compatibility issues and the first thing you see is a guide on "How to run the game on a modern system."The same info is usually on Pcgamingwiki, but it's nice to have it right there.
>>724424948I.FUCKING.HATE.THIS.SHIT, do zoomers can't spend time to read and have to watch videos?>>724444260>in easily ctrl+F formatGood guides usually have this, with code in the header so you can quickfind them. >>724444994The problem with mods are often these trannies infiltrate the place and start replacing the old mods and it will turn to shite also you can't rid trannies and jeets when they're the one invading your space
I still use gamefaqs for old games, and holy fuck those old guides were soul as fuck
>>724416563IT'S BECAUSE NORMALFAGS ARE SCARED OF FORUMS
>>724444994Gamefaqs got a little better after fandom tried to tone down the political crap. Too bad it came late and most of the user base left prior. The mods were faggots for letting libtards run wild, even other non-vidya boards were eventually ruined. I only look up guides and never bother discussing with anyone there.>>724445551This is pretty much the case. I know one user has about a dozen alts and still trolls the same board for over a decade with the same topics. Here's a guy that's been talking to himself on a board for years.https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1265-sonic-the-hedgehog-general
>>724427647More like 30% American, 30% Chinese and 30% Russian. It's just all of them are all using titkok instead of steam forum except Russians.
>>724444586I feel compelled to tell you I know you’re talking about Wasted.
>one of the best steam guides for the game>its written in ChineseFUCK OFFFFFFFFFF
>>724416563they keep deleting my guides and then not deleting guides of people that reupload them.
>>724424558These were a thing far long before stem points
>play niche SRPG>0 fucking info online>full droptable and build suggestions steam guideyeah steam guides are neat
>>724446257wow those might be the saddest posts i've ever seen wtf lol
>>724416563Videos surplanting text guides is one of the biggest leaps backwards mankind has ever made.>"HEY GUYS AIDEN HERE WITH ANOTHER 8 MINUTE VIDEO TO SHOW YOU TO DO THIS THING THAT CAN BE SUMMARIZED IN 2 SENTANCES SO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS FRESH NEW GUIDE FROM YOUR MAN AIDEN. AND IF YOU HAVEN'T YET DON'T FORGET TO HIT THAT LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE BUTTON DOWN THERE IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE. OKAY WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAY LETS GET THIS CONTENT. NOW I JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU GUYS THAT I'M PLAYING THE XX04.7 VERSION OF THIS GAME SO IT MIGHT NOT BE THE EXACT SAME AS WHAT YOU SEE. ALSO MY GRAPHICS ARE AT THIS SETTING SO IF IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE YOURS THATS OKAY. JUST KEEP WATCHING AND DON'T FORGET TO HIT THAT LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE BUTTON WHEN WE'RE DONE. SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO HERE, IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE MY MOUSE IS..."Holy shit I hate this timeline.
>>724451234You forgot the promo code for Raid: Shadow Legends.
>>724451234Damn you could become a jewtuber right now with this bang ass script unc
>>724451234I fucking hate when they say "without further ado" and then they yammer on about something else, like motherfucker do you even understand what you just said?video guides are great, absolutely fucking excellent for some things, but for many others are absolutely awful and I hate how most people just think video = better all the time.
>>724451234Dudbo this game but dam wegs be crazy
>>724453054The truth is that the guy who serves up perfect 2 min guides doesn't get a tenth of the subs or algorithm placement as the self shiller does. Always make sure to like and subscribe to the true autismos.
>>724453054>I fucking hate when they say "without further ado" and then they yammer on about something elsesame. my metric is that if the video doesn't have timestamps it's not worth watching and i just move oni'm not here to listen to someone prattle on about inane shit
>>724416563Not even close. At least they're serviceable.
>>724453391>Always make sure to like and subscribe to the true autismoshaven't liked nor subscribed since the start of youtube and i'm not about to
>>724453391I have not liked a single video ever (or disliked)and I only used to subscribe to channels to see new videos of shit I regularly engaged with before they changed how subscriptions work, haven't used it since. Even then I wouldn't have subscribed to someone if it was just for a game I was playing for a bit, I don't want to see their other stuff.So while I agree, I just never even consider doing it.
>>724451234you forgot the part where they spend 2 minutes summarizing the game, the segment and the video content, without a script so every second fucking word is "um" and "er"
>>724416563Gamefaqs is a super old and deep repository of game knowledge. If you have a question about a game, some guy probably posted the answer in the forums 17 years ago. I hope when the site finally dies there will be a permanent read-only archive somewhere.
>>724453054>do you even understand what you just said?Cattle just make noises they loosely associate with emotions. Words have no meaning to them.
>>724416563How long until someone ports all GameFAQs guides to Steam?
>>724446546Stop making up wildly incorrect numbers you're embarrassing yourself
>stuck on this really hard part in a niche game>gamefaqs guide says "this bosses patterns are too complex for the scope of this guide"IT'S A FUCKING BOSS GUIDE REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>724418280Never ever beats the good ol' Ctrl+F codes on every entry in the table of contents.
>>724421985>if you've been following this guide since the beginning you'll have the super secret item of gigadeath>use it on this boss and move on easily
>>724416563gamefaqs hasn't been... for years(decades) man
>>724445765man I love the legend of iuifidhgiunivnofvonfgoscsdfndnfvjnkdfnkgugthhxcdfrdfgrtvcvfdggruthdgfjjbjvjxcn
>>724416563>Open steam guides>70% of the time it is either a dumb joke or a link to some faggots youtube>20% of the time it is a real guide but in russian or chinese>10% chance to get a real guide and in englishSteam guides are shit and should feel bad.
there's some way to filter to english only all you numbnuts, I don't remember what I did but it's there somewhere
Out of curiosity and to test a little theory, I compared the top guides of a game that has an older playerbase, to a newer gameThe results REALLY made me think...
>>724461038Isn't Ultrakill older.
>>724461695Not its playerbase
>>724451234>instead of being right at the section or area you want, they spend 5 minutes getting there from the most illogical starting point possible>the route they take is comically inefficient and they're constantly failing jumps/taking hits and being really clumsyyou're left thinking "why the fuck am i getting advice from this schmuck?"goddamn faggots have to pad the video for monetization reasons
>>724453734>without a script so every second fucking word is "um" and "er"It always put a smile on my face whenever I see a video that is not scripted but the guy or his editor removed all the filler words or otherwise split seconds where he is thinking.
>>724463128>>724453734I'd rather they stumble than use a script and not be able to read properly.
>>724422760>htmlthe best guides on gameFAQs are the pure ASCII onesand they were all done completely for free, for the sole purpose of just plain sharing knowledge for fun. nobody was trying to "create content" "build a brand" "become an influencer" it was all done as a hobby not a "career"
>>724427105yeah this one is terrible, even worse when it's just for a single challenge
>>724416563>Steam 100% guide>they literally copied the Gamefaqs guide word for word
never meet your heroes
>collectibles guide>it's just paragraphs of explaining where they are, without any images or videos
I write guides for obscure indie games that have no other guides.My most successful guide has 10k visitors.
>>724463952I feel like I know you but I wont post your name anon.If you DID make that guide for that one indie I played this year then thanks brother.
>>724418280This. The new html is great.
>>724418280Wrong. Having to ctrl+F on multiple separate web pages to find what you're looking for is cumbersome.
>>724463793Pic related, you are a faggot.>>724464964Ctrl+F on a youtube video is even worse
>>724432893It seems like that's a fucking pattern everywhere these days.>allow politics (for one side)>the most obnoxious people get to post (but not you)>they can say all the most offensive shit (and get away with it)>you disagree with them in any form (DING DONG BANNU)>end of line for platform
>look for guide on game>only on steam>because it's eroge it can't be viewed without logging in>have to recall the steam://openurl/ command to launch on clientThat's fucking gay, just host it anywhere else.
>>724463615Bro, it's the gaming social circle, what the fuck did you expect? Devs, modders, guide writters, players, reviewers, tubers/streamers, they will mostly be social outcast flocking to the CURRENT THING so they can get that sense of belonging that they never had growing up.
>>724418280No due to the fact that they can close threads arbitrarily. Hate that shit, not just with gamefaqs.
>>724428121You can type the following at the end of the html guide's page: ?single=1So this:https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4/270518-genshin-impact/faqs/79233Becomes this:https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4/270518-genshin-impact/faqs/79233?single=1Now the whole html guide is displayed in a single page.
>>724439305Fuck you spreadsheets are awesome
>>724466121Why did you defaulted to using a Genshin guide as an example, lil bro?Anyway, not him but I appreciate. It does seem to break the pictures, though, but if I ever need to use a Gfaqs guide in the future, I strongly doubt it'll be a guide with pics.
>>724467234did you default*My hands are not brown, I swear!
>>724416563Steam reviews also replaced metacritic and game journalists
>>724467321No, they didn't. Concurrent players did.
>>724424948>video got deleted
>>724416563I wish. If that was the case, it might actually be usable.>gamefaqs replaced by youtube links to videos that make you sift through an hour of content to find 30 seconds of informationThis is the truth.
>>724424948thats just shilling anon
>>724468959a friend of mine said the enshittification of google and game guides has made human interaction for learning games viable again and I have to agree with him
>>724469337your friend is a retard. No one talks to anyone in fear of a nono word stealing their money
>>724469337your friend is a faggot and so are youif i wanted to talk to somebody i wouldi wouldn't use google
>>724469438>>724469439we talk to each other about games we're both playing. hard to imagine having friends who play video games, I know
>>724416563>completely replaced gamefaqsFuck no. But it can occasionally have good guides, but not on the quality of Gamefaqs or sometimes Neoseeker.Also you have to sift through the trash like>How to jump>[chinese language]>[russian language]
>>724451234You forgot the random jumpcuts every two seconds because no one can handle a single second of silence and every single second has to be filled with noise so it sounds like this>hey guys today we're going to do a guide for cum game two [jumpcut] so to get the platinum you have to [jumpcut] move to this area [jumpcut]
>>724467234>>Why did you defaulted to using a Genshin guide as an example, lil bro?Because I like playing GI. It's a mega comfy game.
>>724451234first time i started to see that shit was wowi fucking hate it too>kael'thalas guide>24 minutes
>>724416563I like making Steam guides, although I don't care about helping people, it's just that it is the only thing stopping me from cheating at games.
>>724420718you can report posts for offtopic and they eventually get deleted, just saying
>>724469898
For me, it's YouCanBeatVideoGames.
>>724462360Me, the one guy watching the video with 5 mins of pre roll because nowhere explains how the FUCK you activate build mode
>>72442600019th century Vista guides... sovl
>>724467321I respect a random paragraph steam review from the player with 38.4 hours at the time of review far more than any article some journalist makes chatgpt shit out.
>>724444260>>total guide size: 17 kilobytesgoddamn i miss those days
I cannot play Persona without following a schedule guide, i get too nervous if i fuck up something and have to replay a 100+ hours game again
>>724444260That's how it feels yeah. It almost would have been better to be born a zoomie. The sovl got left behind somewhere.
>>724460601but it feels like yesterday..
>>724473706My buddy got 40+ hours into playing Persona 3 on his phone then got drunk and left it on a bus. I dunno if he's ever gonna play a Persona again.
>>724416563gamefaqs have been shit since gamespot bought them. They had a huge influx of woke mods that would ban you for wrongthink. Shit is basically communist china of game boards.
>>724480925I used the website but never the forums back in the day. The only forums I ever used were wow realm forums and they got pretty wild. How crazy did it get over there before the crackdowns?
