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What do you guys think of Gamefaqs these days?
- Thread starter Neverwinter27
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Whenever I need to google some tips for a game (especially an older one) like 90% of the time I'm led to the gamefaq forums where someone has the same question as me. Usually it's helpful.
So that's cool. That's really my only experience there besides using the occasional guide .
So that's cool. That's really my only experience there besides using the occasional guide .
I was active on the forums from about 2000 to 2004. I remember Current Events and Life the Universe and Everything being kinda shitty. And the console boards were of course full of console warz. Still, it was nice for conversations about specific games, and there were some genuinely nice people to chat with.
I still look up FAQs and guides there, depending on the game. But wiki guides and youtube walkthroughs have been more useful in many cases.
I still look up FAQs and guides there, depending on the game. But wiki guides and youtube walkthroughs have been more useful in many cases.
Used to post on Random Insanity for years and made some really good friends there. I haven't really wanted to think of the place since someone I had a few interactions with got arrested for a white supremacist terrorist threat.
Guides aside, it's a decent spot for finding discussions on older or less popular games that tend to get ignored otherwise.
Still go there for game guides, or the occasional "unlock things" cheat codes on older games I don't have saves for. I do remember using their forums for some time, then I moved on to gamespot's forums, then NeoGAF, then here.
Do they still use the same lingo for fanboys? If I remember correctly gamefaqs had tools for Sony, drones for Nintendo, and bots for Xbox, whereas Gamespot had the largely interchangeable sheep, cow, and lemming.
Do they still use the same lingo for fanboys? If I remember correctly gamefaqs had tools for Sony, drones for Nintendo, and bots for Xbox, whereas Gamespot had the largely interchangeable sheep, cow, and lemming.
I still use it on occasion for the guides. I haven't signed in for ages, though. I have fond memories of GameFAQs (and Game Winners, though I think that's dead now) from back when I was in high school, as I always thought it was cool to contact the makers of some of my favorite guides to share tips with them and later have those show up alongside credit to me in said guides. I didn't really know much of anything about publishing Web sites at that time, so it was neat to feel as though I was leaving my mark on the Internet in a sense.
fantastic game database for cover/back/box scans from various versions/regions.
never touched the forums.
never touched the forums.
It's where I got "started." I know a few super-great folks from there. I still chat with them to this day.
That's where my positivity toward the place ends as of 2020.
That's where my positivity toward the place ends as of 2020.
I still have it bookmarked and go to it from time to time. I find the individual boards are still good for specific games if I have a quick question. Even the game guides still get a lot of effort put into them and worth looking at if you need help.
But I don't go there for any kind of discussion like this board.
But I don't go there for any kind of discussion like this board.
I considered it my internet "home" for many years and was fairly active on the forums, particularly within a close-knit community that I joined when I was 12 years old (I'm 32 now). That community died a slow death over time but there was still a handful of us keeping it alive up until about five years ago. I'm still in touch with a few of them on various other platforms but it all feels like a distant memory now.
Doesn't surprise me to learn that the rest of the forum is full alt-right now. I spent plenty of time as a teenager arguing with chuds on the Current Events board, lol.
Doesn't surprise me to learn that the rest of the forum is full alt-right now. I spent plenty of time as a teenager arguing with chuds on the Current Events board, lol.
I love it, I go there very frequently.
Though I've never used their forums at all... I always forget they're a thing until I see people complaining about how their forums suck or something.
Though I've never used their forums at all... I always forget they're a thing until I see people complaining about how their forums suck or something.
Man what a throwback. Like others mentioned it was my first message board I grew up on.
The zelda 8.8, the PotD boards, the smash 3am updates.. lots of craziness. At some point I just couldnt take the edginess anymore.
I'm playing a lot of okder games so I still go for the guides but not the boards.
The zelda 8.8, the PotD boards, the smash 3am updates.. lots of craziness. At some point I just couldnt take the edginess anymore.
I'm playing a lot of okder games so I still go for the guides but not the boards.
Guides are still unmatched. Nothing beats a big ol' text file that has every single possible detail you would ever need to play a game. Any other guide you would find by google is always linkified by paragraph and filled with ads, making it almost impossible to use.
As for the forums...lol. I will gladly stay blissfully ignorant of what goes on in there.
As for the forums...lol. I will gladly stay blissfully ignorant of what goes on in there.
It's a good collection of guides for older games.
It was abandoned by c|net, who stopped adding new content.
I remember being on usenet and recommending Gamefaqs over other faq sites of the day. Don't ask me what they were, I don't remember.
It was abandoned by c|net, who stopped adding new content.
I remember being on usenet and recommending Gamefaqs over other faq sites of the day. Don't ask me what they were, I don't remember.
The forums were always a pit that I actively avoided and now I can't even get a .txt file of a guide without some workaround.
I learned about Gaf because of the MVC3 and Smash boards on there. Actually, I have a lot of fond memories wasting my time speculating about the MVC3 roster on there. Good times.
It's a blessing I actually had an email to register to Era when it opened though, geez are the forums horrible now. They probably were back then though I was just a stupid teen and didn't notice
It's a blessing I actually had an email to register to Era when it opened though, geez are the forums horrible now. They probably were back then though I was just a stupid teen and didn't notice
I looooved, LOVED GameFAQs. Like many others here, I kinda grew up on GFAQs, especially NGG. I don't really remember exactly when it happened, but around 2012 or so I just kinda drifted away and never felt compelled to go back or check it out. I have no doubt it's become a toxic cesspool now though.
That said, I've met some awesome folks through GameFAQs and still keep up with a couple of them, and I always get a kick out of seeing some fellow NGG gaming pals posting around here.
That said, I've met some awesome folks through GameFAQs and still keep up with a couple of them, and I always get a kick out of seeing some fellow NGG gaming pals posting around here.
Used to be best friends in real life with the guy who took over after CjayC, boy the stories I could tell....
I always went there for the guides. It's not been as useful in later years. Always end up on some ass quality IGN guide that has 20 word descriptions of huge sections of levels with a page of ads in between.
I use GameFAQs still if I'm lost and need a simple answer without a webpage filled with adds or I'm specifically trying to get everything in one go. CyricZ's yakuza guides were absolutely priceless for finding every little sub story.
The forums are real hit or miss. It's nice to still see names from when I was younger posting in the same genre of games.
RIP to Vegh Esther tho. I'm dying for someone to do an exposé on that weirdo. Probably one of the most prolific shit posters of all time.
The forums are real hit or miss. It's nice to still see names from when I was younger posting in the same genre of games.
RIP to Vegh Esther tho. I'm dying for someone to do an exposé on that weirdo. Probably one of the most prolific shit posters of all time.
I kinda miss the guides there. It sucks nowadays that you have to hope for a wiki to have the right info or for Google to find you a Youtube playthrough of a part that troubling you. Steam sometimes has guides that work well, but I feel like half the time it's all videos too.
Also I don't think anyone updates the gamefaq pages for cheats and unlocks for newer games.
Also I don't think anyone updates the gamefaq pages for cheats and unlocks for newer games.
There was a time around the turn of the century where I feel like it was at its peak - the PS2/Gamecube/GBA days. There was a lot of good social boards and the walkthroughs were best in breed. Then IGN started muscling in on the FAQ market. The acquisition by CNET and ensuing merging with Gamespot probably took away some of the uniqueness too.
I've always wondered... is the site's name pronounced "Game F-A-Queues" or "GameFax"?
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Basically identical to Steam discussions for individual games. Little to no moderation, a high likelihood you'll witness people being shitty to each other and rampant hate speech, but the small pockets of individuals who share information make it a valuable resource.
Forums suck, but some guides are a godsend. We're really missing that kind of content for newer games, nowadays there's SO much clickbait and useless stuff when googling about games. I tried looking stuff up about the latest Pokemon games, and without fail 90% of Google results were extremely padded stuff (with useless paragraphs like "Pokémon is one of the biggest franchises in the world..."). The noise/content ratio in gamefaqs will always be unrivaled.
I used it to play my import FF7 on my first gen PS1 with the thumb tack trick back in '97 (or was it '96?). I of course don't know japanese and it was the only place to go to to get a guide back then, since it was a year before the US release.
I rarely go there these days, only because I use Neoseeker and Powerpyx now. If neither of them have it, I go to gamefaqs. I never got or saw any of the drama everyone mentions since I only went to specific game boards there to get questions answered. They were usually already asked by someone else so it is a great site for that kind of stuff (like JEH mentioned above me on this page).
Their save files and cheatcode sections are great, but most games don't use them these days unfortunately.
I rarely go there these days, only because I use Neoseeker and Powerpyx now. If neither of them have it, I go to gamefaqs. I never got or saw any of the drama everyone mentions since I only went to specific game boards there to get questions answered. They were usually already asked by someone else so it is a great site for that kind of stuff (like JEH mentioned above me on this page).
Their save files and cheatcode sections are great, but most games don't use them these days unfortunately.