Gamefaqs - An old gaming website that still exists somehow

Glad I couldn't help said:
Those text walkthroughs were great. One that comes to mind is this one for Sid Meier's Alpha Centuari. Pure autistic gold
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I remember using Absolute Steve's walkthrough for Final Fantasy VII back in the day. I always thought his Final Fantasy guides were top-notch, but his Perfect Game notes were absurd; I distinctly remember one where he said you should steal 99 Shinra Betas on the ship headed to Costa Del Sol and even back then I thought, "Who the hell has the time to do all that?"

I still credit his guide for showing me the Fort Condor sidequest because I have no clue how anyone had time to discover that on their own.
 
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My username here was a 'secret' r34/hentai board whose members got VERY VERY ANGRY if anyone even mentioned the name of the game elsewhere on the forum under the fear that it would bring in outsiders. So of course after stumbling on it I asked for help in the game on one of the general forums and the fireworks were glorious.

Some of the text FAQ writers were pretty good comedians. There was a dude who used the handle 'marshmallow' who wrote a guide for Jet Force Gemini which was not only funny but probably the most in-depth guide to actually finishing the hellish slog that is 100% item collection (needed to finish the game with ANY ending, not just a super-secret 100% one). I miss the big text FAQs with author voices where the authors didn't have an agenda aside from being funny and informative.
 
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ducktales4gameboy said:
My username here was a 'secret' r34/hentai board whose members got VERY VERY ANGRY if anyone even mentioned the name of the game elsewhere on the forum under the fear that it would bring in outsiders. So of course after stumbling on it I asked for help in the game on one of the general forums and the fireworks were glorious.
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Aww, there's nothing left there.

Time to doxx secret boards. Like this one, Flopon World, which used to be called "Furopon World", and was the hidden furry community. 94 pages of topics are archived, going all the way back to 2008. Though it looks like it died in 2015.
 
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The presence of the 'top 10 forums' list per console outed most of the secret boards. Another one I remember was some Apple 2 football game being a hangout for posting penthouse-style exaggerated sex stories, and some other gameboy game was an ancient aliens/flat earther hangout. It was pretty tame by today's standards but it was funny as hell stumbling upon it as a teenager.
 
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Seeing as GameFAQs is an old as fuck website, I'm wondering if the tradition of using the boards of older obscure games for completely different purposes can come back, assuming their weird censorship policies haven't gotten worse in the age of auto-flagging and bots.
 
Dumpster dived waifu said:
GameFAQs tends to go both ways I find. You'll find plenty of threads about SJWs ruining games, along side topics like View attachment 1041619

They fucking flipflop through both sides depending on which side they think will get them the most interactions.
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Thing is places like NGG and PS4 is KiA lite without the upredddit system to circlejerk around how smug you are.

I Love Beef said:
I thought little of GameFAQs, until I remembered a Guilty Gear thread where goers yelled about the canonicity of Kuro Ky, who is essentially an "evil Ky Kiske" who was popular in yaoi ai circles back in the day with Ky vanilla and Sol slash fics and something about Christianity and with Kuro Ky being a butt pirate how that doesn't work, and that they were also the origin of "DIAMONDS ARE THE HARDEST METAL KNOWN TO MAN". Does anyone remember that meme anymore?

Outside of that, at least the people who wrote FAQs weren't bored and rabid.
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They gave birth to Jason Schreier, Moriarty and Klepek who got their start writing FAQs and look at them now.
 
Gamefaqs is only worth anything which is for ctrl Fing walkthroughs, which it's damn good at but sucks at everything else.
 
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Basil II said:
Gamefaqs is only worth anything which is for ctrl Fing walkthroughs, which it's damn good at but sucks at everything else.
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I'll take that over having to sift through Google results and random videos any day of the week. FUCK video guides so goddamn much, it's always 95% garbage that obscures the actually useful shit for ad revenue. And don't get me started on those IGN knockoffs that are structured like actual clickbait.

Gamefags for lyfe son.
 
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I tend to like Wiki better then FAQs, at least when it comes to popular games. Bulbapedia is infinitely better then a plain text document for answering my autistic Pokemon questions. Even fansites are better when the fans give a shit like with Serenes Forest. Almost any game popular enough to have a bunch of click bait guides will have legitimate, informative resources that come up quickly on Google. FAQs are only really worth it if you're looking for guides on games from the Web 1.0 era or earlier.
 
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Secret boards are life.

Remember the KOS Krew? They were a cabal of super sekrit haxxors who jacked accounts. CJay even called one's ISP once to try to put a stop to it, instead of fixing his shitty code.
 
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TaimuRadiu said:
I used to post there a lot. I also posted on spinoffs, which were basically bunker boards set up by people who were banned from GameFAQs for being shitheads and taking advantage of CJayC's shitty code to hijack exceptional individuals' accounts.

The best "spinoff," that got its own identity, was of course LUELinks, then End of the Internet. I used to post there a lot but got banned for being an alt right Nazi but, y'know, Communism is a-okay, comrade, even though actual Communists have killed an order of magnitude of people more than the National Socialists ever did. (NOT a coincidence that it's a troon occupation government there) What happened with ETI is that it was once a link aggregator with people uploading shit to MEGAUPLOAD and people voting on the links, but then MEGAUPLOAD got illegally ended by the FBI and anyone who wasn't a NEET, a tranny, or an idiot fucked off. I've met SOs off of these dumbass boards.

End of story time with Auntie TaimuRadiu.


Do you have the video of him carving an X into his chest?



Ah, Shade7x and Shikigami... (I THINK those were their usernames?)

The real quarrantine of LUE happened after LUE flooded an heroine's livejournal and flooded it. Remember livejournal?
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Fun fact: Shade has a thread.
 
I still use it for obscure JRPGs that haven't been translated into English.

Also helps for ones that don't include a journal so I know where the fuck I am in them if I come back to them. I remember using a guide for Tales of Destiny (Ps1) and it was the only thing keeping my damn sanity because that game is aimless without it.
 
RadicalCentrist said:
I'll take that over having to sift through Google results and random videos any day of the week. FUCK video guides so goddamn much, it's always 95% garbage that obscures the actually useful shit for ad revenue. And don't get me started on those IGN knockoffs that are structured like actual clickbait.

Gamefags for lyfe son.
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OBSCURELUPINEFINALFANTASYRULES HERE GUYS WITH ANOTHER AWESOME VIDEO GUIDE! IN THIS VID WERE GOING TO SHOW YOU WHERE THAT PESKY EASTER EGG IS THAT'S SO OBSCURE GUIDES FORGOT TO MENTION IT. BUT DON'T FORGET TO CLICK THAT LIKE BUTTON AND RING THE BELL, OK GUYS? ALSO, PLEASE DISABLE ADBLOCKER BECAUSE ADS HELP ME MAKE MONEY TO PRODUCE MORE OF THESE AWESOME GUIDE VIDS YOU ALL ASK FOR!!
 
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GameFaqs really brings out the boomer in me. I remember using it a bunch as a kid to find all those secret code for the Rogue Squadron games. Nowadays it's mostly obsoleted by video guides and Wikis generally being better for all your autistic needs. Still I like using when discussing less popular games like Hyrule Warriors. It's also really fun tard watch site. The Smash board is a fucking dumpster fire and it's rather hilarious to watch people twist themselves into pretzel over leaks and characters they don't like.
 
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