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The_Picard_Maneuver, 18 dni temu (edited 17 dni temu) do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

Nothing beats those old ascii art guides. When you're playing an old game, you know they won't let you down.

vrighter, 18 dni temu

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

schnurrito, 18 dni temu

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

vrighter, 18 dni temu

yes, but thanks for telling me anyway :)

Jax, 18 dni temu

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.

M137, 17 dni temu

Nah, there’s a lot of text guides too. But the problem is that they’re often just copied from one source that somehow manages to get basic shit wrong every damn time. And videos definitely have their place, so many times I’ve first searched for a text guide and only got more confused. As long as the videos are short and to the point I always appreciate them. Found some great channels that way that have helped me through several games.

WorldsDumbestMan, 18 dni temu

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…

Toldry, 17 dni temu

I have never been lied to by data in a .txt file which has been hand-aligned https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/file_extensions_2x.png

blazeknave, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

I still have NES guides up there!

rodneylives, 17 dni temu

Thank you for your service!

BreakerSwitch, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

Good memories. I was a regular on the boards at one point in time, and regularly contributed to the secrets/cheats/bugs sections

meathappening, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

Big shout-out to the absolute GOAT CyricZ, who has perfect guides for every single Yakuza game in existence.

MIDItheKID, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

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.

Speculater, 18 dni temu (edited 18 dni temu)

That day you learned a very valuable lesson about permission and forgiveness.

WorldsDumbestMan, 18 dni temu

It’s easier to ask for forgivness, than to ask for permission.

Got it!

FordBeeblebrox, 17 dni temu

Having hypothetically done similar things with work printers, there’s also a lesson to be learned about not using too much paper and ink in one go, space it out over a few restocks.

paraphrand, 18 dni temu

I did the same! But never got caught.

ivanafterall, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

Using that site always made me feel more deep shame than any porn site.

WorldsDumbestMan, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

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.

goombakid, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

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.

kurushimi, 17 dni temu

I feel this; I did the same but for Summoner 2. Man I loved that game. Tried getting back into it once and it was tough :(

kaklerbitmap, 17 dni temu

Waa there a Bust a Move rhythm game? Are you thinking of Bust a Groove?

goombakid, 17 dni temu

Yes and no. In the US, it was released as “Bust A Groove”. The original Japanese release (first release) was “Bust A Move”. That’s the game I first played and based the FAQ off of.

early_riser, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

I think wikis have taken over that niche, at least for more popular games.

P1nkman, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

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!

samus12345, 18 dni temu

Which spot were you stuck on?

P1nkman, 17 dni temu

I was never able to figure out that you had to put a magnet onto the hand grabber, and then put the hand grabber into the giant ball of yarn to grab something.

samus12345, 17 dni temu

I remember that part! Typical point n click moon logic.

dual_sport_dork, 17 dni temu

But that part was so wholesome. Not to mention physically improbable.

zipzoopaboop, 17 dni temu

Think there was an extra step to put the hand on the broken grabber too right?

P1nkman, 17 dni temu

Maybe? It’s been about 17 years since my last play through. Maybe I should get it running on my steam deck!

zipzoopaboop, 17 dni temu

Indeed you should. Scummvm worked really well for monkey Island 3 on it for me

nocturne, 17 dni temu

I was stuck on getting the light bulb from the fireplace in their office for far longer than I care to admit. Thanks for the help GaneFAQs.

samus12345, 17 dni temu

I don’t remember that part! Been a long, long time. Wish it had been remastered like Day of the Tentacle was.

nocturne, 17 dni temu

I loaded it onto my Steam Deck not too long ago and my 19 year old son had a blast watching me play it. A few of the jokes did not age well, but over all it is amazing still.

samus12345, 17 dni temu

What are some jokes that didn’t age well? That’s always a thing when playing 90s comedy games. Probably not many games worse than the Leisure Suit Larry series!

nocturne, 17 dni temu

What are some jokes that didn’t age well?

Some of the stuff with the conjoined twins. And how they talk about Trixie.

samus12345, 17 dni temu

I’ll have to watch a playthrough again to jog my memory.

nocturne, 17 dni temu

It is, or was available on gog as well as steam.

samus12345, 17 dni temu

And ScummVM.

northernlights, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

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.

paraphrand, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

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.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA, 17 dni temu

i’d strip out useful information into my own guides. never published any, but they are useful

taiyang, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

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.

rizzothesmall, 18 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

Use the staple remover on the gopher

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA, 17 dni temu

close microwave door

DarkFuture, 17 dni temu do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

Honestly been one of the most useful websites for me over the years.