The whole area of game guides seems to have very poor standards nowadays. Even ignoring videos, if you look for text-based stuff a lot of the results are games sites that put up a bare-bones incomplete guide within the first week or so of a game's release, and then add stuff only sporadically (or never). I assume this is based on views and that there's a lot of skeleton guides out there that are going to remain skeletal because they're not driving traffic, but it feels like there's a whole lot of effort being wasted creating worthless stuff.
Then of course the wikis that are right on the borderline of navigable websites where there's a decent chance that you will actually get the information you're looking for, once you've chased it for four or five jumps around the page and tapped away three different layers of shite.
It took weeks of writing and revising just to get to the stage of covering that though. It's kind of amazing that nowadays it's far easier to throw an hour of video on the internet.
(There is a ridiculously long tail on this type of guide by the way. The one I wrote is still getting viewed every few days. I imagine the bigger ones for RPGs are probably still racking up hundreds of daily views).
Then of course the wikis that are right on the borderline of navigable websites where there's a decent chance that you will actually get the information you're looking for, once you've chased it for four or five jumps around the page and tapped away three different layers of shite.
I wrote one for playing as Heihachi in Tekken 3/Tekken Tag Tournament back when TTT was new. It ended up being interestingly timed as it was written just as the global Tekken community was moving from figuring out the basics of the game to properly understanding it (and before the Korean Tekken community turned up at a championship and stomped everyone and turned that understanding inside out), so it ended up being a guide for getting from beginner to a decent standard and not much further.
It took weeks of writing and revising just to get to the stage of covering that though. It's kind of amazing that nowadays it's far easier to throw an hour of video on the internet.
(There is a ridiculously long tail on this type of guide by the way. The one I wrote is still getting viewed every few days. I imagine the bigger ones for RPGs are probably still racking up hundreds of daily views).
