Yeah they've been in full reetard mode for a while now, no point in using this site anymore.
Before the internet it might have been useful for those guides but now any help you need you can get it just from watching walkthrough guides on YouTube.
YouTube guides fucking suck. I don't want to have a parse through dozens of hours of video content just to find the one piece of information needed.
I'm pretty sure GameFAQs has banned actual gaming "insiders" before for not following the rules to the letter.
A lot of the guides greatly suffer in text format. You can't really help it if it's something like "It's all about timing, start jumping when the spikes are about a quarter of the way done pulling back up". Other bugaboos include mazes ("okay, the maze is simple...L U R R U R L U R R R R D D L U R R D L L L") or dreaded ASCII maps which don't work if not in monospace format.
Its forums are virtually worthless since any wrongthink is bannable, unless you're extremely vague and passive.
And the funniest thing is that if you had asked any of the regulars, they were under the belief that Gamefaqs had been taken over by conservatives and alt right types.
Or they know that's not true, that they have taken over, and just pretend there's a Nazi infestation in order to crack down on dissent even harder. Maybe I'm just giving them too much credit though.
Pirating books is very easy nowadays. If there was ever a printed players guide, it might have been scanned and you can download it as a PDF. Those are always much better than GameFAQs' colossal text documents.
A while ago, I found a post on Reddit of someone ranting about how GameFAQs had turned so sour, and the top comment was some idiot ranting about, well, exactly that. An argument ensued, and you can just feel the autism. Interestingly, though, someone pointed out how their daily poll numbers used to have well over a hundred thousand responses, and now it's down to just a few thousand. Combine that with how I mentioned a while ago, in this thread, about how the average user age is in their mid-30s, and I think that shows how GameFAQs is just populated with extraordinarily autistic guys who've been around forever, but never left.
Anna's Archive only seems to have captured a lower-end version of the "borrowable" books from Archive.org, most of them have pictures that have downgraded to black lines or overall too dark.
I got an offline copy of all gamefaqs walkthroughs off archive.org. I have a lot of fondness for the all text walkthroughs of the era where gamefaqs was relevant.
I'm honestly amazed people are still putting up a fight in that shithole.
You're not wrong, but as someone who has done both; there is sadly no right answer, and a lot of the autists who have the drive to make guides, don't always have the best manner of planning out how to put together a comprehensive yet easily navigatable video guide. Written guides suffer because autists aren't always the best with their words or putting their deranged thought process into something structured and can be vague. Video guides suffer because autists want to get big on YouTube and have vocal fry, fail to use post production, or try to commentate their humor or something else and offer no real insight. It's a total fucking mess, and unfortunately you have the younger generation who can't use CTRL+F to search a word document, they need the videos.
Sir, this is a videogame website (allegedly).
I will never forget how in the late 2000s someone wrote a choose your own adventure story on Current Events that featured the main character getting abducted by an attractive, yet psychotic Asian girl that he tried to spy on in a changing room. He ends up waking up in a Saw style dungeon of sorts with a tranny trying to give him a blow job, only to escape and for the tranny to proceed to chase him down the street. Nothing dumb and goofy like that would ever get posted on that awful site nowadays, not even immediately prior to Fandom's take over.
The big thing I can never forget is some guy who was hyping up that he was going to kill himself because he was a forever alone or something, and he had this big story about all he cared about was the TV show Lost and like he skipped going to his prom to watch Lost and shit like that. So he hyped up that after the Lost finale he was going to kill himself and I remember users like...kind of egging him on. He ended up claiming that the Lost finale gave him the will to keep living and he didn't kill himself, but it just makes me laugh cause you know the second anyone would do anything like that today the mods and admins would probably be deleting everything and putting up all sorts of statements about suicide and getting help and be spamming the suicide hotline everywhere and shit.
