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i am over 18
I know its a boomer take, but the concept of Video Game Guides peaked with textual GameFAQs.
Like, occasionally having a picture is nice to figure something out, but other than that Video Guides and the video game site Guide Spam has just been people re-inventing the wheel but worse each time.
The only "improvement" I want to see in video game guides is something even more basic that gamefaqs, like a spoiler free check list I can just use to make sure I haven't missed something.
it's a Gen X take, plz remember us 😭
but fully agree, GameFAQs is invaluable and watching the FAQ culture decline has been so sad. so many games are so much worse documented these days compared to 15 years ago. the move toward YouTube/video and the proprietary silo Discord has done a lot of damage.
Even in the year 2024, if I need to look up a guide my first instinct is to go for gamefaqs. Although they also have html guides these days, and I think those are generally fine; except when things break like one Bayonetta 1 guide where all the links are broken. That never happened with ctrl+f codes.
me, 20 years ago: Printing out a plaintext digevolution chart for Digimon World, soothed by the white noise drone of the family inkjet printer, excited to follow the recipes within.
me, now: frantically scrolling back and forth on a 1080p 'no commentery all secrets' video playthrough that took fifteen minutes to load, desperately trying to find the point I'm at, but not advance too far ahead. I mistime and see a massive spoiler, then the page crashes. I reload, and have to watch two minutes of ads for a coffee machine and a funeral plan while the top rated comment is a series of racially charged slurs about a third person who gave the game an unfavourable review on another website.
