/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8278376
that site is even worse than here, somehow. big boards have a bunch of shitflinging monkeys and and the smaller, retro ones are either dead or have a contrarian baiter. ig the actual faqs section isn't awful, but most other sites for the game you're lookin for are generally better from my experience.

>>8278376
Agreed. I'm playing Xenoblade 2 with the help of a few FAQs from there right now, actually.

Gamefaqs is great for fuckin with faggots.
Otherwise it's shit.

>>8278376
i love gamefaqs i own like 30 retro boards AT LEAST

>>8278410
Yikes

>>8278417
>faggot who owns nothing and eats bugs

>>8278376
The demeanor of that place is the same as /v/, except that you cannot say "nigger"

>>8278395
You can find some absurd schizos talking to themselves for the last 10 years in some boards.

>>8278395
You aren’t supposed to chat with people there, retard. You are supposed to read the FAQs

>>8278568
sounds comfy, post one

What happens when it closes down and I can’t find guides for 20 year old games? Has anyone backed it up?

>>8278605
I would assume internet archive probably has but I was actually just thinking this too. It's only text files so pretty much anyone could back it up

>>8278574
This. But only the old FAQs, because no one submits them for newer games since modern players are too lazy to read and would rather scrub through a 5 hour video to find 15 seconds of what they need.

>walkthrough by A l e x

I have a ton of memories browsing that site. Old school forums in general. I cringe when I remember some shit I did. I actually wrote some erotic fanfiction and it actually got me an egf. I got to see tits. I was just like 13 years old. It caused so much drama I left forums forever and was afraid to socialize online. Somehow ended up here.

I'm so immensely glad those forums have been wiped out from existence. There is exactly one archive.org reference to that erotic post... Just my luck the internet archive crawled that site the day I posted it.

>>8278395
The boards got worse along the years
I hate bringing this up, but I just gotta, the mods are now SJW and will strike you down for a "wrong opinion" on it, despite not being even inflammatory, but the contrarian baiters trolling FOR the grain will get away with it scott free. Evidently, it's full of these baiters too
The moderation system also changed to a moderation voting system instead of an upward escalating method, so if you wrote something that'll guaranteed the mods will go "lol fuck this guy" instead of actually being a rule violation, you're guaranteed to lose
Basically, don't go to the boards unless you find a cozy community within a retro game board, in which you can now favourite a board and get notified of any new threads and even all posts. But even these have been dying badly compared to 10-15 years ago

>>8278443
Boy, that sure escalated quickly. Sounds like you need to take a Valium and get some sleep, anon.

I love StarFighters76 so much bros

>>8278376
While I'm a firm believe you shouldn't look up anything while playing through a game I will say that GameFAQs actually is GOAT for serving as a replacement manual for games that don't have a pdf of the manual online

>>8278727
Or apparently use some cancer-ridden wiki on fandom.com

You now remember VeghEsther

>>8278984
>the mods are now SJW
Many such cases.
Everyone driven off boards like that wind up on 4chan.

>>8279278
I'm actually an oldfag that came back exactly because nearly everywhere on the net is not fun anymore. I truly miss the '00 era of the net

>>8278376
I used to be a regular on NGG, their version of /v/, many years ago. It had its own memes and resident trolls, and much of it was hilarious to watch unfold, since you couldn't use explicitly inflammatory or offensive/racist language like you can here, so everyone resorted to subtle passive-aggressive slights aimed at a particular console, game, or fanboy grouping to get around that, until someone got legit mad and got themselves suspended or banned.

Like everything, of course, it became shit with time. I think I stopped going, along with GameFAQs boards in general, around 2012 or so.

The FAQs themselves are still nice, of course, though it doesn't always have all the info you'd want. I recently looked up an Algorithms FAQ for FFVI, and it's missing some shit, and there's no alternative on there.

>>8279304
I didn't expect seeing NGG being mentioned here lmao
I quit it around 2019-2020, I don't remember. It has long since stopped being fun bullshit about the console war and it steered too much into politics, as with the rest of the Internet

>>8279326
Let me guess, the Gamergate bullshit hit there too? Or like, actual politics?

>>8279278
To be fair, lots of people left 4chan a while back because of the /pol/ and /r9k/ reckonings. Should never have been brought back.

>>8279332
Both, all of it, exactly like the rest of the Internet. As with the rest of the Internet, after GG, loads of people became unfunny no fun allowed annoyances. Politics being constantly brought up for the grain. The very same people were against Jack Thompson and the likes are now trolling for game censorship

>>8278376
>’hey, how do I find the amulet in Minish Cap?’
>‘you fool. You absolute fucking blithering fool. How dare you come onto this website and ask such a question, in my presence. Do you think you’re funny? You buffoon, you braindead mongrel. I figured it out immediately, I figured it out before the game even came out. Fuck you, fuck you and your whore mother you retarded piece of fucking filth shit cunt’
>‘it’s in the third dungeon’

>>8279339
Except when those boards were deleted, what happened is many of their regulars that didn't leave to alternatives just spilled over to every other board and spammed their bullshit there instead. moot brought those boards back because he felt it would at least contain them, but the damage was done, and they still didn't keep to their boards, thus allowing them to keep shaping this site's character and weaving its worldview. It's why even on a small, slow board with a relatively narrow focus like this one, you still get people bitching about trannies and jews.

>>8279364
It gets annoying after a while when all of the noobies can't be bothered looking at the faqs for such basic ass question

>>8279350
The internet is so lame now.
You either get depressed virtual signaling assholes who yearns for the rope, or edgy post-ironic memelords who have more anger issues than Christian Bale. Both drive politics into every conversation. Both have the worst sense of humor.
The only alternatives are keeping to your friend groups or looking to the less popular sides of the internet, which more often than not are full of actual criminals and scum that might make 4chan seem tame. /vr/ at least has some semblance of good conversation at times, as rare as it might be. Hopefully, the social media bubble bursts a bit, or at least enough to bring back some semblance of non-crazy internet communities.

>>8279372
I feel conflicted because on some level, they might have eventually just left the boards entirely. I want to believe that bringing those boards back just gave them more power, but the internet was probably already leaning into that kind of shit for a while, especially with facebook and youtube radicalizing like crazy. Everyone's out for each other's necks.

does anyone member when it used to be gamesages?

>>8279393
I'll admit I got "into" GG when it was ongoing. I was mostly reading the happening and such and man, it was nuts. Not long after I quickly longed for no more politics being shoved in tho' but unfortunately it's kind of an impossible wish, the corps/journos/other people/etc will remind you every single waking moments of your life anyways
Otherwise, you can get on a comfy fediverse server and blocks the big political servers you don't like, that's an option.
Unfortunately, the age of personal forums and website and the likes is completely over, so they're kind of hard to come by anymore
And yeah, /vr/ is comfy slow honestly, that's why I'm here

>>8279278
Anytime I hear this, the site in question just doesn't allow /pol/ tier shitposting. Very interesting.

Besides the focus of the site is the guides.

>>8279364
Cheat engine and emulators destroyed gamefaqs.

GameFAQs is still actually useful for modern games if you mostly play niche Japanese ones like I do.

>>8278376
Theres a few dozen games I would not have played in my life without gamefags jap-eng tl guides.
I kneel

>>8279423

It was useful*

I read a guide and didn't find the answer. I downloaded the cheat engine, tested what I wanted and wrote notes for myself.

>>8279418
It was that age of skeptics and all that. Never got into that whole mess since I was busy trying to get my own apartment (was originally looking for a house, but not much you can do during a housing crisis). To me, it just seemed like the association of 4chan with outcasts lead to, in broad terms, the "outcasts of the outcasts" to try to take over the culture. And it worked.
Left for 5 years when it got too annoying. Some of the people I used to know that browsed ended up limiting internet use to local news, niche vidya subreddits, and game news sites like siliconera that don't do reviews or articlebait. Some on neocities or youtube. And as a teacher, want to know a secret? A lot of Gen Z doesn't want this, either. They just want some good news to stop feeling like the world is gonna end.

>>8279472
Yeah, I somewhat got into the skeptic thing, but didn't exactly want to go nuts about it either
I'm also attempting to avoid some of that stuff or heavily try to regulate the consumption of it. I also mostly just watch anime and do anime things, so yeah, it helps
I feel for the zoomers honestly, they never got to know the absolutely peaceful 00 Internet era and mostly came when it was starting to be a mess or became one already

>>8278730
The original, the one and only.

>>8278376
>What would your reaction be if *impossible scenario*

>>8279492
You just have to keep at it, anon. The eternal adult solution to this: try to just ignore social media, make friends at either work or some place else, get a nice hobby, pay taxes on time, vote, and do NOT wait to get yourself a savings plan. Most companies will add to your 401k as you do.
To keep it /vr/, uhhh, you have bad taste, and (your favorite game) is shite, m8

>>8279421
That means you're just a huge hypocrite who thinks your own shit doesn't stink.

>>8279521
Who is this (You), you speak of? You know nothing about me.

>>8278730

>>8278984
>check boards
>see "It's 2021 and Pokemon games still only give you 2 gender options" on the first page of Switch forum
>224 replies

Yep, worse than /v/ since you can't even be anonymous. The whole thing should be shut down.

>>8279679
Pokemon games removed gender options five years ago. Now they just tell you to pick your trainer card photo without mentioning gender.

>>8278727
>since modern players are too lazy to read
True, but mostly because modern games don't have any need for FAQs, and most are shallow enough that no one has anything to sperg about. There are some modern games, mostly JRPGs and DRPGs, which get them still, but most are designed to be beaten without any real knowledge of the systems behind them, and there is no benefit to "mastering" them like older titles which allowed you to learn them and minmax, which felt great.

>>8279698
I still see only two options there (as there should be).

>>8279708
I think the point is you can look like a boy or a girl without hard-pidgeonholing you into a binary gender option. You know, so trannies and other genderfluid folk don't get triggered.

>>8279679
>Look it up
>guy doing obvious bait that does the same in other boards by saying things such as "Windows 11 looks great!"
I can't tell if you're saying it's worse because you took the bait, or because you think they took the bait too easily. Both confuse me, since gamefaqs looks like normie central, and /v/ is not known for ignoring bait.

>>8279732
I didn't even open the thread, I just assumed it was bait, but that it even exists that long without being deleted shows what a shithole GF has become.

>>8279679
I went to check. Usually you can spot shitty trolls by checking their karma, but
>3000+ karma
>account created in 2011
shrug
What's the most annoying here is that the Switch board has a disclaimer that political threads are not fucking allowed, yet here we go. What annoys me the most about this politic trend is that it's not video games. It's basically politics entirely invading video games

>>8279530
I know you lie on 4chan.

>>8279768
Anon, there are people who have been on GameFAQs for literal decades whose only past time is trolling. So long as they don't break any rules and build enough plausible deniability around their bait, they can easily escape moderation.

>>8279768
Always figured it was because there's so much pushback on all sides. People can't get into clear conversations about stuff since they just want to call the other person an idiot and/or hurt them. Eventually, everyone shitposted hard enough that it spilt all over the internet.
Also >>8279779 is right. Mods probably can't do shit or else they get called gestapo and you get chaos. Mods here either leave it to laugh at the results, or delete things and don't care for the pushback

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>>8279809
>>8279814
kek

Wonder if anyone is still posting in LUE.

>>8279679
Pokemon doesnt have a gender option anymore. That was a troll and you got baited because you dont play video games.

>>8279902
Did they really get rid of breeding? I haven't played a game since 2006, I don't know

>>8279907
Yes, between that and Masuda announcing on Twitter that Cynthia is trans, they've pissed a lot of fans off in the past few years

>>8279717
You still get called she if you pick the girl instead of their buzzwords, which triggers the troons

>>8278730
>>8279501
>>8279538

QRD? what games?

>>8278376
ah......Home........

>>8279907
it's retarded fake drama as are most internet conversations about gender
the prompt is to pick a "photo" or whatever. picking one of the boys gets you a male character obviously, and vice versa for the girls

>>8279964

>>8279969
Oh, I thought you meant pokemon genders for breeding.

>>8279934
Wait what did this anon think I meant, breeding still exists apparently.

>>8279907
I'm talking about the characters you can pick. They don't have a listed gender. You just pick a profile picture.

>>8279809
>>8279814
It's been ages I've seen something like this. Thanks anon.

>>8279969
I don't see any boys in that picture.

>>8278735

Can I read it? I want to read it.

>look up account of someone who has been using the site since the start but they stopped logging in several years ago
>can't stop thinking what reasons led them to suddenly stop using it
Seeing anything on the internet from 2010 and before just fills me with a weird kind of dread.

>>8278582
Go to almost any obscure game's message board on there.

>>8279953
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/community/A_I_e_x/contributions/faqs
I personally used his guides for Final Fantasy

>>8280382
>post in a thread that ends up getting stickied many years ago
>eventually stop going to GameFAQs
>keep accumulating karma anyway because it counts posts on active threads as you having visited the message boards that day even if you didn't
>sticky is still up to this day

KEIKAKKU DOORI

>>8280167
based

GameFAQs forums used to be so fucking good. Shame it turned into all SJWs.

I stopped visiting when they removed the option to download the original files. Luckily I still have a bunch of stuff saved for the games I used to play.

>>8280461
>Mississauga
Cannuck spotted

Did anyone else use it back in the day?

>>8280461
Uh, you meant the literal text files for which you can go Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+V on Notepad?

Anyway, I had forgotten about RI. It was basically SFW /b/ IIRC. Or I suppose a less memetic LUE.

>>8278376
>all my embarrassing posts over the years will be archived forever
please just let it burn already

>>8278376
Whatever happened to CJayC?

>>8280476
Got bought out by Gamespot IIRC.

>>8278376
I was addicted to posting on these boards back in the day (early 2000s). Back then I thought it was cool as hell you could talk about video games with strangers on the internet (it wasn't). My mindset was "oh wow I can share my love of gaming with other people" but everyone hated everything. I put in a long ass password I couldn't remember and deleted the email I associated my account with just to get out in the mid to late 2000s. I'm not on boards all that often nowadays except to lurk and I honestly regret delving deep into communities like that one. It's more a waste of your time than just playing video games.

>>8280507
yeah I wasted time trying to be more involved with some boards too. 4chan is equally a waste of time I guess, but at least with the anonymity there's less pretence here

>>8280481
But IRL what's the guy doing now? He must be i his late 50s / early 60s at least. I can't believe still to this day no one knows what he looks like.

>>8278395
>that site is even worse than here

It's worse than reddit. My 20 year old account was banned for simply saying Its my body my choice not to get vaxxed in a discussion about covid. You got a news story about a fully vaccinated person dying from covid? Don't post it there, you'll be suspended

>>8280473
>Uh, you meant the literal text files for which you can go Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+V on Notepad?

I liked to keep the original filenames. It was a "soul" thing. You wouldn't understand.

>>8280547
The old meme back in the day was that CJayC was black, and he lived in Houston TX. That's the lore I choose to believe

>>8280606
Surprised that I actually have to say "better than reddit", but gamefaqs seems pretty based, there.

>>8280620
Lol, enjoy your fake vax for a fake disease

>>8280606
The irony is it's those same people crying "my body my choice" about the Texas abortion ruling from a month or so ago. They only want it to apply when it suits their opinions, but no matter which side you're on, both will get you banned on GF now.

>>8280606
>>8280620
>>8280635
>>8280681
And just like the anons above said, here comes random politics bullshit to infect the thread just like everywhere else.

>>8280681
You'll be modded for simply posting diet and exercise boosts the immune system, and simply being healthy in the first place is the best fight against covid, and that 4/5ths of covid deaths are from overweight people. Since the average user there is obese it really gets their blood running.

>>8280692
GameFAQs is a 25 year old outmoded message board, what do you think people talk about there? What's going on in the world. Not video games.

>>8280692
In this case it's relevant because of how vastly GF has changed. We are using examples to show extreme the infection of sjw ideals has gotten there.

>>8280716
I could give less than two shits. You are just as bad as the trannies and SJWs, bringing up your woke bullshit everywhere wanting the rest of us to give a shit. If they've taken over the normie spaces, your kin has thoroughly corrupted this one. Two sides of the same coin. Old 4chan would have griefed the absolute fuck out of both.

>>8280724
So just to be clear, your stance is "don't discuss Gamefaqs in the Gamefaqs thread". Ok, so then what do you want to talk about instead?

>>8279809
>>8279814
holy BASED

>>8280724
Sounds like you're mad your SJW tranny headquarters is being called out.

Check my video:
https://youtu.be/X7uR2Gq9g4g

Thank you

>>8280740
>>8280724
Gotta say, the way anti-vax and anti-politics people eat each other alive and all I had to do was reply once is pretty juicy.
Funny that some people can't talk about anything without mentioning that they got kicked because people don't wanna deal with them getting political.
Could talk about some of the hilarious shit like that one FF7 leveling fiasco, or just general history like how it felt during E3, but nope.

>>8279809
>>8279814

Rip Kao Megura. Best fighting games' guides ever.

>>8280773
You sure are mad. You might want to try losing weight btw, instead of getting your 4th or 5th boosty shot and free lolipop

I’m surprised mods haven’t deleted this thread yet but let me just get my blog post out before they do. I used 4chan from 2004 to 2011 then quit because I thought it was toxic. Ended up coning back here in 2019 because every other website had gone to shit. Constantly stepping on egg shells, bans for not worshipping trannies (relevant to retro gaming), every post just being a virtue signal for upvotes and likes. No one was actually talking to each other anymore. Its bizarre. They were just broadcasting empy platitudes. I rather deal with /pol/ types here because at least you can have a genuine conversation. The slow boards on 4chan are one if the few places where humans actually communicate with each other.

I visit almost daily just to do the poll of the day

I like visiting the PS4/5 boards and posting random shit using the Community tag :^)

>>8280953
Same.

>>8279809
>>8279814
based

>>8280606
>nooo I was banned for a common inflamatory bait that would gather 20x (You) on a 4chan containment board
Whew I was almost baited into believing GameFAQs was an overmoderated forum, thanks for giving it away anon.

>>8281016
Saying you don't want a questionable drug is not "inflammatory bait".

>>8281016
>common inflammatory bait
The community was already have a discussion unrelated to gaming. There are two sides of the issue, either both are inappropriate for the forum (correct answer), or they both are acceptable, or its just one side politically bullying the other into silence.

>>8280953
>>8281003
I did that, too, for over a decade at least, but stopped around 3-4 years ago after figuring it is a data mining shit from GameSpot.

>>8281016
You will literally never be a woman, and neither will any of the trannies on gamefaqs

>>8278582
This person joined in like 2005 and is still posting like this to this day.

>>8279418
> the age of personal forums and website and the likes is completely over
there is neocities at least, but theres a lot of tumblr/twitter tier shit or literal schitzos. But it's obscure enough to not be totally awful yet

youtube is the new faqs, at least if i need to specifically see something that either isnt mentioned in the faqs or explainable

>>8278397
funny. that's what im playing too

>>8278395
i only remember this one guy who makes terrible top 10s and mentions often that he will never play Final Fantasy

>>8280382
>admin of a forum I used to frequent was diagnosed with cancer about 10 years ago
>died 3 years ago
>the default theme is still a memorial version of the site

>>8281328
fucking hell

>>8279273
You did use Knights of the Round as soon as you could get it right anon?

>>8279393
to some degree, as bad as things have gotten, people can be kind of hysterical about it. You'll encounter that stuff but it's not like it's every single poster in a never ending stream,
>I literally post anywhere, everywhere is completely intolerable
just have a little thick skin and ignore it, you're probably among like minded people who would also rather avoid it.

>>8281598
yes and also I farmed for the Lionheart in the first disc

>>8281328

>>8280921
> every post just being a virtue signal
Basically I quit because some annoyance wrote some massive virtue signaling shit about the smash me too crap, which they actually spent time to read all of it. A good amount of these are usually laughably fake or grossly exaggerated and the rest are mostly private bullshit that would've never went out if the two persons had a better relationship with each others
I made fun of the annoyance for reading all this shit and writing a concerned mother like post "Ohh, we can do better, we should've seen the signs", it's like asshole, these people don't even know you and you aren't even in their community, what could've you even done? You weren't even fucking there?! The emptiest virtue signal, truly
Anyways, I got hit with a bullshit moderation about condoning/promoting child abuse, I was clearly not promoting jack fucking shit, and obviously, since everyone there became no fun faggots, I was worse than Hitler for calling his shit out
Anonymity on 4chan is great for various reasons, but having a good comfy place with fuckers you'll see for years is a different feeling. At least, it was great while it lasted before everyone became insane

>>8281337
The problems is that even if it exists, nobody is using it
Here's the thing, do you want the experience of old forums and such? Go to facebook, no, I am not fucking kidding. There's some groups (and pages) that are actually pretty great
The problem? They're constantly always on the verge of being unlisted. Some groups having been unlisted 3-4 times already. Groups have specific rules to not have anyone use the report system, because the group is going to get yanked out
Yeah, I could use these sites to actually make a forum, but who the fuck would join? Everyone are on the big websites, but nobody likes it there either. We're basically fucked until Facebook really start massively pissing people off (actually, we're nearly there), but even then, all we'll have is zoomers that have no idea about how the old Internet worked and they'll just flock to another big tech website until the same fucking shit happens

>>8278376
The only source of walkthroughs left that doesn't spread them over about 20 pages and cram them full of links, ads and clickbait. An elegant solution from a more civilised age.

>GameFAQs walkthrough

Pick your poison:

>either has no table of content, or if it has one the titles in it don't match the actual content titles so you can't easily search for things
>spend more time telling the story of the game than actual walkthrough; while giving opinion and "analysis"
>here is a story spoiler without warning that has nothing to do with the gameplay walkthrough at hand

after going through all this shit, you finally find the part that interests you
>the FAQ is so simple it doesn't even help or is outright wrong
>WIP incoming [last updated 2003]

>>8278376
Gamefaqs is pretty cozy

>>8281890
Don't forget the leet gamer humor and writing the faqs as if you were hot shit.

>>8281782
4chan is a means to an end. The joke about "You're here forever" broke as soon as it became too fucking annoying to be here, and that's why so much of the older demographic left years ago. The best alternative is and always has been a local friend group, but 4chan works when you just want a quick discussion.
/vr/ is full of both a sprinkling of people who came back for a slower, less crazy board, and millenials who have their first quarter life crisis and think things will never change or be the same.

>>8281328
based

That's my contribution to Gamefaqs. Every second year, I post this on the "Bombing Islands" boards. Doing it since 2010. Will continue until death.

>>8280724
Based

>>8280724
>old 4chan

I just want a place where we can discuss things free of political bullshit. It's sad but true that 4chan isn't this place anymore because of the swarm of those people who damn well know they can't post what they post in non anonymous places because it can have consequences on their friends, families, jobs, etc

Old /v/ had its issues, in the end there was so much trolling and trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls that it was impossible to know if a post was serious or not. But at least you didn't have "okay tranny" posts in literally every single thread. At this point those words should be banned, it's not like 4chan never banned words before when things got out of hand.

/vr/ doesn't have the worst though, when compared with /sp/ and /tv/ for instance

>>8281016
You will never be a human

>>8282461
>t. tranny
you guys fucked it up by forcing your bullshit into institutions you reap what you sow

>>8282461
>I just want a place where we can discuss things free of political bullshit.
Such a heaven does not exist. It's easy to say it's because of the 2016 election, but I remember my biology teacher went off the rails and spent the entire hour bitching about Bush winning in 2004, so it's always been like this. People just have more avenues to express it now.

>>8282461
>it's not like 4chan never banned words before when things got out of hand.
What is the point of word filters when no one gets banned for evading them, even when you report them for it? The only real exception that I can think of is in /soc/, where you can get an auto ban if you type S*ns of S*t*rn.

>>8283382
Oldfag here. The purpose of word filters was always to mark newfags, or simply because moot hated a word on a personal level. It was never about moderation lmao its always just been a joke to annoy people

>>8279809
>>8279814
very nice

>>8278735
Post it faggot

>>8280390
>>8281328

tfw i was one of the like 10 or so autists posting in the Advance wars Days of Ruin boards post-2008

>>8283382
Why those words? The former because social networks are cringe, I'm guessing, but the fuck is the last one?

>>8282461
Kill yourself, tranny.

>>8278376

its a liberal shit hole and having even SLIGHTLY the wrong opinion on anything is "trolling".

>>8280606
Wow, gamefaqs sure sounds based

>>8278395
I've gone there for literal decades and not once have created an account for the forums.

Does deleting your gamefaqs account delete all your posts or anonymize all your posts? What do they mean by anonymize all your content

CEmen represent

>>8278395
I had an account there in the mid 2000s, forgot my password, and I really don't give a shit. You go there for the FAQs and it's still 10/10 in that regard

>>8279823
Not my pic but yes

>>8284949
No, your posts are forever visible as they archive everything now. It's just if someone clicks your name they'll see the account has been closed.

>>8284949
>>8285863
they just recently added an option to delete everything if you closed your account

What's your favorite FAQ? I'm going with FF6 rage guide by Djibriel

Any of you anons ever write a FAQ? You don't have to reveal the specifics, of course. I'd just like to know what you look for in a text-only guide.
>>8286579
I've always admired A l e x and Ulillillia, for example. One is more casual yet thorough and the other is more into game-breaking and mechanics.

>>8286579
>>8286823
Specifically, Split Infinity's FF12 guide
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/459841-final-fantasy-xii/faqs/42270
is a work of art, as is Ulillillia's powerleveling guide.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/459841-final-fantasy-xii/faqs/60612

in case yall weren't aware, a full rip of every text file on the site popped up on /t/ a while back
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:589D0BBF445BD52A15DD9DB6B2A71D06634A4419

>>8281328
ABSOLUTELY based. Brought a tear to the eye.

>2003
>new neogeo fightan game just came out
>26 impractical combo guides get posted in the span of a week
Nowadays there is no experimentation anymore and everyone is too scared to make tutorials and piss off the kabala of fighting game veterans with wrong knowledge.

>>8286974
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/arcade/562630-marvel-vs-capcom-clash-of-super-heroes/faqs
Shit was wild.

My account is from 2002 and I still use it, but like another anon said, it's like walking on eggshells now about what you are allowed to post or not. So many times I have to just bite my tongue and leave/hide a thread because what I want to reply with would result in an instant ban, unlike here where it's just the norm to say anything and no one bats an eye.

>>8282175
why

>>8278568
There's this autistic girl that's been posting in the same few boards about obscure strategy games for 16 years or so and there's no difference between her old and recent posts, she still posts using emoticons.

>>8278730
>walkthrough by SaikyoMog

>>8286256
bullshit

>>8285853
There's something cozy about the concept of a board no one past a certain account number can access and post in. I know in practice, it means year after year, its numbers will dwindle until it is only a few posts per year, as already appears to be the case, but damn it, you know the few that are still around have been there for fucking EVER. No such thing as a newfag, no zoomers to blame a dumb shitpost on. Just pure history.

>>8286834
Split was one of the very few guys who dwelled into the game mechanics and programming to squeeze more out of RPGs by learning Japanese and reading the Ultimania guide. He also interacted quite a bit with the community in the forums (given how little time he must have had writing those massive FAQs back in the day).

no me

>>8287539
Did you ever read those Final Fantasy XII perfect game threads? Shit was wild when they first discovered perfect HP/MP RNG manipulation but you needed a specific model of PS2 to do it. When they discovered that, I personally gave up on doing it myself because I knew I didn't have the patience or understanding of those mechanics. I'd rather get 99 Zodiac Spears because it's simple, just a matter of time, but perfect HP/MP requires reading tables and charts and weird shit, almost like an IRL magic ritual. Maybe it has been simplified since then. Anyway, the Final Fantasy XII board seems relatively active still which is cool. The day it dies, I'll stop going to GameFAQs.

>>8287167
>tfw no autistic strategy game-playing gf

I think the zsnes forums might have been my first-ever online account.

>>8278376
When this dies a lot of in-depth mechanics info of older games will be lost, like esoteric character growth and spell formulas and such.

>>8288735
I'm sure that's all stored in other places as well.

R-right?

>>8288735
That'll just give people the opportunity to re-discover all these secrets again. It'll be like rewinding time and being able to re-live the 80s and 90s again. Internet has ruined classic games.

>>8288802

>>8288802
>>8288949
See >>8286951
https://archiveofsins.com/t/thread/1012372

>>8280681
Holy shit you're retarded

>>8288735
>>8288802
Actually yes. Because it's all text, archive sites store and keep them.

GameFucks

>>8289132
GameFAGs

>>8286256
This post is FAKE an dthis poster is DISHONEST and trying to TRICK you. BULLSHIT poster. I disapprove.

>>8278730
This nigger left out shit in a lot of his guides. SplitInfinity was the real one. Or ShotgunNova. Split put autistic detail into the guides he made.

>>8289312
Ever seen Meeple Lard's FAQs for FFVI? Informative as fuck, but shitty jokes everywhere, and of course he left them incomplete despite the fact he's still logging into GameFAQs to this very day.

>>8289383
>nooo you can't put in some humor in your guides it NEEDS to read like a shareholder's fax

>>8289410
Yes. The worst guides are those filled with filler text so you have to look around for what you want.

>>8287171
R.I.P.

It's still weird seeing screenshots posted by him a decade ago. He posted a lot of screenshots too.

>>8289669
>>8287171
>dad is still uploading

>>8287171
>>8289669
What happened to him?

>>8286256
thats not true

>>8289304
here, you happy retard? Here's your (you)

>>8289870
Look mom, I can inspect element too! Bungee jump off a cliff with a rope in your ass.

>>8278376
I remember discovering gamefaqs in 2002 when I got a ps2 and half of the board for gta3 was people wanting to know how to press r3 to honk

>>8289895
Clickable analogs were a mistake. I'll not hold L3 to run and I'll not eat the bugs

>>8280461
I remember when san andreas was revealed and the ps2 boards melted down when it revealed that cj was black

>>8280535
on regular message boards it usually just becomes some clique popularity contest shit

>>8281890
>>8282003
the datedness of the FAQs is part of the charm for me

>>8285853
>Antivaxxers dying of covid megathread
>The average Trumper still having melties >the vaccine is good the vaccine is great

Fucking boomers I stg I can't wait til they all fucking die except my based parents

>>8281797
if facebook dies it will just be replaced by another site just like it

>>8290083
It's crazy, I don't know if we'll ever return to a pre-social media world, people are too used to it.

>>8290084
zoomers aren't even interested in old school internet

>>8290084
I doubt it, and that's really sad. I can't even imagine YouTube ever going down. There's too much money involved to let it just fail, and even if for some reason it does another video hosting site will just pop up. You cut off one hydra's head and two more sprout. We are doomed for eternity with shit like Facebook, Twitter, and all their derivatives getting people worked into hysteria after hysteria.

>>8287167
>>8278568
post examples pls

>>8290117
youtube came close to potentially being shut down back in 2007/2008 right before google bought them when the movie/music industries were cracking down on them for having so much copyrighted shit on there

>>8290140
Ironic because YT is my go-to place for listening to any song I want. I just type in the name and 100 people have uploaded it, usually even the artist themselves.

>>8290140
That doesn't apply to the modern day though. 07/08 was still early on in its life when it had an uncertain future and streaming sites in general were shaky. Now I feel like there's always going to be one no matter what.

>>8290150
This was back before ads on videos. Nowadays the music business is able to make money off of youtube

>>8290152
the internet is way too consolidated nowadays for any of the biggest sites to die off

>>8289383
I remember MeepleLard, those were great. MasterZED did a lot of cool FFVI stuff back in the day too.
https://masterzed.cavesofnarshe.com/ff3.html

>>8289870
This does NOT apply to posts you fucking liar. I am sick of you being so untruthful. why are you even trying to mislead people like this?

>>8278376
I got banned for having "ResetERA is run by white supremacists" with a link citing that from the mouths of those nazi cunts in my signature.

>>8289904
>Shit that didn't happen

>>8280681
Yes, because aborting a nearly-born fetus is the same as taking an experimental vaccine that doesn't do anything and can cause permanent health issues. Stop posting off-topic nonsense, especially when it's completely idiotic.

>gets banned for swearing

>>8291458
>nearly-born
But the new law in Texas six weeks

>>8291478
It was just before I joined, but I remember hearing that "d*mn" would get you perma-banned because it's "censor bypass" which is against the rules even if it's for something as tame as damn. GF mods used to be based, now they're all shit over there that let any off topic nonsense fly. I still feels weird to me you can say pussy and fuck on GameFAQs after how strict it was in the early 2000s. I got nearly banned once for saying puss as in cat, e.g., Puss in Boots.

compared to it's heyday in the 2000s, this website is deader than the ps5 + xbawkx whatever, combined.

ascii dox is a lost art.

>>8291478
GameFAQs was based for this. Anyone who uses swear words are low IQ.

>FAQ authors that casually make spoiler comments without warning

>>8289742
Been awhile since I read about it but IIRC it was something like he got cancer or some other illness and died, but still had a ton of longplay videos on his computer he'd made but hadn't yet posted, so his dad uploads them in his memory, apparently still according to what that anon said.

>>8291730
Yeah FAQs always have spoilers welcome to the 90s.

>>8280606
Wtf i like gamefaqs now. Anti vaccine fags deserve the rope

>>8291110
Wtf I love Resetera now?

>>8291730
It actually annoys me to no end when I take the utmost care to read a single isolated paragraph only for the author to mention "btw this is the second to last chapter :)". I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY CHAPTERS THERE ARE FUCK

>>8291875
That's the risk you take when you open a guide. Should've known better.

>>8291782
>his dad uploads them in his memory
...fuck

>>8291695
You heard wrong, censor bypass only applied to banned words, and was allowed if the scunthorpe problem kicked in.

>>8291820
Not always. Some of the authors actually noted if there were spoilers at the start.

>>8286579
>What's your favorite FAQ?
i loved reading the plot analysis of final fantasy 7,8,10, resident evil series, metal gear series,silent hill back in 2003-05
>>8291116
>>Shit that didn't happen
Not him but to this day i havent played san andreas because the mc is black

>>8282015
Nah you're still here forever because everywhere else is worse, maybe real life is okay if you get some good friends.

>>8289898
>i'll not hold l3 to run
good thing it's been a toggle in every game for the last 10 years then huh

>>8293286
>toggle crouch and sprint
even worse to be honest. also not retro

>>8289870
thats still not true. you need to actually prove it

The coolest thing to come out of GameFAQs is the guy who made the Mortal Kombat series lore FAQ and suggested Noob could be the original Sub-Zero, then a guy at Midway read it, I believe it was the MK head writer, and made it canon in the next game in one of the endings.

>>8278376
>That user who was killed in the 9/11 attacks

>>8293484
> I believe it was the MK head writer, and made it canon in the next game in one of the endings

Do you proof of this? Or do you also believe that they named the movie "Rocky Balboa" because AVGN said so?

>>8291704
Fuck you

>>8291730
>>8291875
>using guides for your first playthrough
You have no one to blame but yourself.

>>8286579
>What's your favorite FAQ?
Final Fantasy Tactics Battle Mechanics Guide.

>>8293631
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/551915-mortal-kombat-deadly-alliance/faqs/25760

>So funny thing happened to me a few months ago. I got an email from *the* John Vogel, the guy currently in charge of the MK story.

>>8288959
>>8286951
Fuck me anons, a couple years ago I was searching everywhere for something like this. Now on my current ISP, p2p traffic is completely blocked and I can't torrent. Please tell me there is a mirror somewhere. My autism DEMANDS that I have access to all these txt files on my local machine.

>>8295706
I think I found it. Downloading now. Will update with links for other anons when it's done and I can confirm it.

>>8286834
when they teach autism in med school they should make you read an ulililia guide
>When I first played Final Fantasy Tactics, around 1998 or 1999 (from renting it), I found the game frustratingly difficult, unable to get past the second battle (Gariland Magic City) after 3 tries. I never saw the world map. It would be years later that I gave the game another try. I barely got past that battle and from there, I spotted a weak point in the game's design - level 99 with all jobs mastered (except summoner which wasn't listing one, of which I thought was strange) was accessible in reasonable time before doing the Sweegy
Woods event for the game's story. In other words, I essentially went through the whole game at level 99 with essentially all jobs mastered. Even though I have well over 600 hours on the game clock, I have yet to complete the game's story....
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/197339-final-fantasy-tactics/faqs/57910

>>8295730
I only have a small section downloaded but it appears to be the correct thing. It's in 9 parts and you have to remove the archive.org part of the URL from each mega link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200707075947/https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ftsdbs/gamespot_txt_gamefaqs_full_archive_32320/

Thanks to you anons who alerted me to the existence of this archive. Gonna play some games and read some guides like it's 2004 tonight.

>>8295747
The only thing that could possibly make this better if some absolute chad wrote a script to automatically generate html files for every game and system which then linked to the txt files, to mimic the look and functionality of the website in the early 2000s. That would be a lot more fun than navigating folders for txt files. However, I am very happy with what I have for the time being.

I still post on current events. It was my first real Internet forum. I was born a CEman and I’ll die a CEman.

>>8278376
>Post on board
>Banned for being on the same Geomap as a cis-scum TERF who shares the same ISP/VPN as you.

The site went woke long ago. It's doomed.

>>8279409
no i remember when they were gamespot and IGN.

>>8295740
So let me get this straight. As soon as he beat the second battle, he went on to level everyone up to level 99 and master all classes before doing anything else.

Fuck me.

>>8295740
Oh my god I love Ulililia and had no idea he wrote faqs. This is tremendous news for me, thank you.

>>8295921
>unironically posting on one of the biggest shitholes in gamefaqs

>>8287403
There is nothing cozy about LUE, most of the userbase is gone from the old days, and all that remains are the saddest most shiddit, loser, leftists fuckwads. Like that obsessive fuck who hanging out on LUE whining about muh Drumpf. Perhaps the most fascinating thing is how these fags were around during a time where the internet was far more edgy and politically incorrect but come out sounding like twitter retards anyway.

>>8279408
>especially with facebook and youtube radicalizing like crazy.
holy reddit. you probably obsess over qanon too

>>8291116
it 100% did happen. I remember the rumor before the reveal was that is was gonna be called gta sin city and take place in the 70s

>>8298873
>Early 2000 message boards were saturated with bullshit rumors
I went and got an old meme for a reaction image

>>8298883
Only tangentially related but I miss the days of stupid, nonsensical rumors for games. My favorite example that still makes me smile is finding a "cheat" for Ocarina of Time sometime around 2001, 2002. It laid out a very specific sequence of actions you could take to open a secret grotto in Kakariko Village that contains a functioning assault rifle that Link could equip. It was some crazy shit like talk to this NPC five times, run in a circle, drop exactly 12 bombs on this very precise pixel, stuff like that. I can't remember the site this was on, but it was a popular one and this "cheat" was listed right next to legitimate tips and secrets, which made it all the more humorous.

>>8298920
If I ever developed a game I would give every savefile a 5% chance of having one of those fake cheats actually do something.

>>8298926
It would have been expensive but imagine the havoc publishers could have caused by releasing a game like Zelda where something like 1% of cartridges had a modified ROM that allowed for some weird obscure cheat like that. In the case of Zelda, maybe 1% of cartridges actually contained the Triforce as a collectable item. Some random Timmy on the playground would find the Triforce, tell all his friends, and no one would believe him because it wouldn't work on their games. It could create more extreme versions of the rumors we actually got; people would offer outlandish (but true) claims about how to obtain X in a game, but on 99% of cartridges it just doesn't work. But the 1% of people who are able to pull it off will swear by it and continue to spread the information, meanwhile everyone else is calling them liars. That would have been hilarious.

>>8298920
I wonder if somewhere, in some playground in the late 90's, some kid made up some random bullshit about unlocking an Arwing from Star Fox 64 if you did X, Y and Z, only to find out years later his bullshit was actually true.

>>8299048
>he never found the black tsuchinoko of doom as a kid
Let's point at him and laugh lads
https://youtu.be/0RoX1t4zk6c

>>8299048
And now that arbitrary code execution is known to be possible in OoT, you can spawn them in-game without a gameshark or anything. So while extraordinarily unlikely, it is possible that some kid mashed buttons until they spawned an arwing. (Possible in the monkeys typing Shakespeare kind of way)

>>8299067
Oh man, now I'm imagining some random kid just fucking around in Kokiri Forest, running into walls and pressing buttons everywhere just to see what happens, and somehow he ends up ACEing an Arwing and having his fucking mind blown. Of course, he goes and tells his friends and very roughly tries to recall what he did to get it, but they all tell him he's full of shit, and he can't find anything on message boards anywhere about it. Like the situation >>8299001 describes, but even worse since it's like a 1 in a gorillion chance.

He saw what should never have been seen, and no one would believe him when he did.

>>8299089
what if schizos are just ACEing real life and seeing shit that is really there that the rest of us can't see

>>8280382
>>8280431
Used to have a high ranking account on some official nintendo forum, possibly NOA (nintendo of america forum?). One day (3 ranks from the top rank) I got into a discussion with people about what words were censored in games that surprised us. I mentioned the word G00k and homosexual references because I had never heard the term g00k before and saying 'gay' was normal place in conversation for things that sucked. Some guy quoted me and even private messaged me with "I bet you wish you never said that" and I got banned the next day. I spent so much time making a cool signature in photoshop and climbing up the ranks.

>>8299089
>be me
>9 years old
>playing Yoshi's Island
>go down a pipe and I am falling in an endless sequence, eventually it ends and I die
>this never happens again
>start telling my friends at school and we speculate that there are another 50 levels you can play if you get through this sequence
>25 years later I am watching a speedrun randomly and they use this exploit to finish the levels sooner
>my eyes opened wide and I was like WTF so it was real? I wasn't some crazy schizo kid making shit up?
>now I NEED to track down those kids I was in school with and explain how it was real and I wasn't full of shit
>only way to track them down is to get an original copy of our school photo in grade 4 or sneak into our old school and look at the massive school photo with everybody's name listed

>>8299316
That guy is a fucking legend.

>>8299365
Do you... not remember their names?

>>8299089
>>8299365
I have vivid memories of somehow getting to a secret level in the first Ape Escape after dying a lot on the first level. It was a somewhat small orange basketball court-shaped orange with enemies from the first level, but then I died again and never found that level again. I've brought it up a few times here and nobody ever has any idea what I'm talking about.

>>8299379
If it's real, some speedrunner autist probably knows about it.

anyone else driven nuts that for some reason anytime they get mentioned out loud, people are saying "game F A Qs" instead of as a word, like gamefacks?

>>8299402
that's how you're supposed to say it though? saying FAQ as the individual letters is standard for any english speaker. gamefacks sounds retarded

>>8299376
I remember one dude's name because we are still friends. Unfortunately I didn't look up any of these people during 2008-2012 when facebook was for people to post their entire lives under their real names. It's impossible to look up people you went to school with if you graduated in 2008-2010.

>>8299402
I always said it that way purely because I told a friend about it at school when I first discovered it, and the next day he came to school upset because "gamefacts.com" lead to something that was not as I described.

>>8299439
Just start pinging random people whose names you do remember and eventually you'll get leads. Before you say you're not that autistic, you definitely are so there is no point delaying it. Here is a template you can use:

>Hi, you may not remember me but my name is anon and I went to 4school as well. The reason I'm contacting you is that I'm currently trying to track down a circle of friends regarding an incident involving a dinosaur, a baby and a pipe that occurred in mid to late 2001. I'd do it myself but I don't remember any of their names except anon2 who is my most important friend. They've made it much harder to find people you don't really know on facebook now. I was able to find you because I specifically remember you and I thought you could help me. If you remember their names or still know them could you let me know? If you don't like talking through facebook I can come over and you can tell me in person. It's been years so we should hang out some time anyway. Let's keep in touch, your friend, anon.

>>8299585

>>8299365
Chill out, anon. Most likely they'll barely remember you, so I don't think they will care about you being right in a petty discussion you had +20 years ago.

>>8299617
This. Normies dont have memories like autists. They wont even m ow what you're talking about.

>>8299617
>>8299779
i always get told this but then someone will bring up conversations i had and people i knew back in grade school that i have absolutely no memory of to me

normalfags definitely remember inane shit

>>8299596
Arthur did nothing wrong.

>>8279679
>The topic you selected is no longer available for viewing.

kek

>>8281661
but wait only use bloody armor and there is no other way to beat the hardest difficulty trust me i tried

>>8286823
>Ulillillia
Huh, funny, I've got his Elemental Masters book sitting beside me right now. Hope that lad is doing well.

>>8298843
This is why I left a lot of old communities around on Gfaqs. I was on several and they literally went "muh Drumpf" and I bailed the fuck out from there around the start of the last elections, didn't want that kind of shit and they were not talkable or reasonable in the slightest about politics either. I'd get dogpilled and then gaslit about how mad I got. It's like yeah dumbass, if you do this to anyone they'll get mad about it

>>8299048
>>8299067
IIRC Airwings have a extremely small chance of spawning as a rare CPU bug while opening chests or something. At least that's what was written on tcrf before being rewritten. Now it seems like the iQue leak confirmed that the code is present around some chest opening decision

>>8278376
I wonder how many unique IPs have opened some dusty 1990 FAQ for Curse of the Azure Bonds there in the last 10 years.

I wrote the above and then went there out of curiosity and there is an exhaustive FAQ from fucking 2020 for Curse of the Azure Bonds, so even modern GameFAQs is OK in my book

>>8279809
witnessed

>>8287607
ZOPHAR HAS MANBOOBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U46zu_5TDTc