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.
Video game guides peaked with basic-ass text guides because not everyone has the attention span to sit through a video guide and not every video game guide NEEDS to be a video in the first place.
It's made worse with how completely corrupted with ads and promotional content and time-wasters the average "10-15 minute" video guide has become, you either want an impractical super-long-form guide that may as well be an LP, or you want to go back to the goddamn GameFAQs guide because at least you can CTRL+F, read it at your own pace, and it isn't bothering you with FUCKING ADS when you get to a specific part of it.
(Shoutouts to CyricZ for making the best GameFAQs guides ever; the ones on Yakuza/Like A Dragon games.)
It is SO annoying and impractical to watch a video guide - at least to me - that I genuinely think it is a worse experience in the 97% of cases where text is better suited to explain how to do X or Y. In the 3% of cases I want to see it in video action I am still losing out, because I most likely need help with a segment that is hard to explain in text, and there is no way that's longer than a few minutes.
But I still have to deal with annoying, unhelpful, overly long videos because the uploader cares more about subscriber count and ad revenue than putting out helpful content. And don't mention YT Shorts to TikTok to me; these things annoy me on principle, they're not designed to be helpful. (That might be the "boomer take" part...)
