Gamefaqs - An old gaming website that still exists somehow

[ToroidalBoat]

KF is the only place on the internet where I can be a normal person from 10 years ago.

It shouldn't be that way. There should be more sites where one doesn't have to act like a cult member "decent human being".

And no wonder the SJWs and SJW-infested MSM don't like this site.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Have you, indeed, in addition to leaving because of shittiness, also touched grass? Perhaps, a woman?

In fact, I only started touching women after leaving GameFAQs. I'm not suggesting correlation is the same as causation, but I can think we can all make some logical inferences there.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Isn't the latter a review site? I see them do woke reviews sometimes. I might be thinking of a different site with RPG in its name though.

Yeah you mistook it for RPG.net which is pretty faggy.

 

[Zero MK 2]

I didn't leave, as much as I stopped going to the actual message board part, as the moderation became very heavy handed, and the message boards were unironically the best part of the site when you're not reading the guides. The problem being, I wanted to talk to other people about videogames and it became much harder to do so, on top of the userbase becoming more... ... ... I don't have the proper word, but their mindset became consolidated, and I'm not talking about political views. But let's say you had a question about something and you go to the forums; you risk running into one of two answers, the first being CHECK THE FAQ, which isn't entirely a wrong answer, especially if you know it's in one of them. But the other answer would be people discussing everything around the exact answer you're seeking; they most likely know the answer, but what they give is an exercise in self-satisfactory fart-huffing about how smart they are and talking about the question, without giving you an answer. And I enjoy they implemented the Questions part, which is where I mostly go anymore; but you still get the same fucking problem there as you do on the boards. Fart-huffing retards giving a non-answer.

Edit: And I don't know where or when it started, but this is one of my biggest complaints about "the gaming community" as a whole. There's a sense of retarded elitism that exists when there doesn't need to be. Whether it's Elitist Jerks, Icy Veins, or whoever, there are weirdos out there who crunch numbers and determine the optimal path/gear/build/etc. And I'm not here to say they or anyone else is wrong; but the amount of blind deference and inability to experiment or fuck around is damaging.

Its even worse in gamedev where its basically that same bullshit amped up to 11. Hence why games are shit these days.

Sounds like what happened to most older internet forums with the old guard going full retard for no reason and handing over the keys to the place that set the stage for the digital tyranny we see plaguing the modern internet.

The rigid adherence to a meta when there are plenty of alternatives to experiment with has been the downfall of the social aspect of gaming. Way too many closeminded retards either trying to play the game for a living or just looking for a carry and modern game design being as anti-social as possible by design doesn't help things.

 

[ACE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM]

But the other answer would be people discussing everything around the exact answer you're seeking; they most likely know the answer, but what they give is an exercise in self-satisfactory fart-huffing about how smart they are and talking about the question, without giving you an answer

I remember this shit used to happen a lot on the Gran Turismo 3 board way back in the early 2000's. For some reason that board was super stingy about sharing tunes, and people refused to share them supposedly because "every driver is different" and "it's more satisfying to figure out the tune yourself" and bullshit like that. I kind agree with the latter, but many people don't have the time to autistically change one setting at a time, or are looking for a good starting point to further tinker with, or simply just don't want to bother. So you ended up with a bunch of faggots hoarding tunes and refusing to share, and constantly making posts of how they achieved "x" time on "x" track with a certain car just so they can deny every tune request in the replies.

 

[Pissmaster]

Edit: And I don't know where or when it started, but this is one of my biggest complaints about "the gaming community" as a whole. There's a sense of retarded elitism that exists when there doesn't need to be. Whether it's Elitist Jerks, Icy Veins, or whoever, there are weirdos out there who crunch numbers and determine the optimal path/gear/build/etc. And I'm not here to say they or anyone else is wrong; but the amount of blind deference and inability to experiment or fuck around is damaging.

Yeah, I saw plenty of that faggotry as a teenager. It made me feel like shit for just playing normally until I grew up and figured out those retards aren't really even having fun with their games, they're just treating it like a job, so they can lord over all the normies passing by, and feel like a big shot. Like someone having dinner, and just doing all they can to ingest the food as humanly fast as possible, and then gloating to everyone else around and claiming they're not eating efficiently enough.

Games that aren't fun and/or enriching aren't worth playing at all. Trying to act like you're better than someone else because you figured out how to run through a game as fast as possible is gay as shit. Hell, just look at all the trannies that infest the speedrunning world.

 

[Kheapathic]

Hell, just look at all the trannies that infest the speedrunning world.

Sped-runners are a fucking scourge and I'm glad my brand of autism demands 100% mastery; not running as fast as I can through stuff (skipping items or forcing damage/death fucking hurts me on the inside). But them and the people who copy them and try to enforce shit on others is frustrating; I remember when Twitch wasn't entirely unbearable, I'd want to sit down and watch a Dark Souls first-time playthrough. There's always a handful of retards in the chat "GET THE DARK KNIGHT GLAIVE!" How about you take a potato peeler to your fucking balls and fuck off? And the worst part; changes in the meta or whatever are only allowed to come from one of their approved sources. You catch anyone going for a Faith build or whatever, you're fucking wrong... right up until Lobo or someone else decides to try it. Completely fucking retarded and empty-headed, but will espouse the rules of the meta.

My hatred may also have something to do with some sped-runners going full DSP about practically demanding money while acting like a fucking shit head. I don't remember his name, but there used to be a Final Fantasy (mostly 7 and 9) sped-runner, dude had a massive fucking attitude about how smart and competent he is, but would also cry about not having enough money and how he doesn't gain weight from sitting on his ass for 14 hours a day streaming because he literally doesn't have money to buy groceries. I don't want to laugh about a dude who one could argue is a person in need; but he'd be doing something, and if you just happen to be the unlucky person who asks "Why are you doing it this way?" at the wrong time, you're banned, and he's gonna call you a fucking idiot and other shit for questioning someone who's more informed.

 

[Sabrina]

What really bothered me is the vast majority of people on the site are actual children, the mods being early 20s - who knows how old and they were bullying these kids. Now I was angry because they have fucking "be nice" rules and curse word filters and all these things to appear child friendly but went 100% unenforced other than mod bias.

The site was particularly not pozzed as it is now and full of pedos screaming about 14yo is age of consent or whatever. There was an adult female mod that was catching heat for giving sexual advice to kids On The Forums and worrying about losing their job over it. The grooming was no secret.

The mods were just trash humans. When confronted about reporting suicide baiting whenever possible, they just went off foaming at the mouth about how much they didn't care about teenagers dying. The posters were not always baiting.

I don't feel that any website is responsible for people's deaths but Jesus Christ how do you not care about anyone committing suicide, let alone kids?

Mods were in "private" boards and offsite chats instigating, coordinating, and encouraging teenagers to bully other teenagers on the site. Not only that but the victims were often turbo-autists or any given disabled child.

One time in the "help" board a mod answers a kid that had a "stupid" question with "Do you need help to the bathroom too?" That was one of the last straws for me. The owner pretended to care but didn't do much about it other than "lecturing" the mods.

In summary GameFAQ forums were about anything but video games and the rabbit hole goes deep. I had joined as a young adult back when the site/forums were fairly new and used it on and off until I realized I was there in my mid 20s and these fucking adult mods around my age were bullying and grooming fucking 14yo kids and that was never going to change.

It wasn't a free speech site that disallows kids to join according to COPPA rules in the US, it was a site designed for children that was run by a bunch of pedos that all the other adults knew about and did nothing.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

 

[Desu Mountain]

What really bothered me is the vast majority of people on the site are actual children, the mods being early 20s - who knows how old and they were bullying these kids.

Well, not anymore.

 

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In summary GameFAQ forums were about anything but video games and the rabbit hole goes deep. I had joined as a young adult back when the site/forums were fairly new and used it on and off until I realized I was there in my mid 20s and these fucking adult mods around my age were bullying and grooming fucking 14yo kids and that was never going to change.

Well, it did change though. Since no actual kids even use the site anymore, there's no more grooming!

The bizarre toxic culture the site has always had is still there though. When Tactics Ogre: Reborn came out a lot of people posted asking if there was a mod to remove the level cap and this spiraled into constant arguments about how you need to GET GOOD and BACK IN MY DAY, etc.

Like who the fuck cares how another player wants to enjoy a single player game.

 

[Pissmaster]

The bizarre toxic culture the site has always had is still there though. When Tactics Ogre: Reborn came out a lot of people posted asking if there was a mod to remove the level cap and this spiraled into constant arguments about how you need to GET GOOD and BACK IN MY DAY, etc.

Like who the fuck cares how another player wants to enjoy a single player game.

That makes me wonder if there are still retards lurking around that flip out if someone dares use an emulator for any reason. I remember those faggots treating emulation usage like on par with robbing a store at gunpoint for your game.

This is what GameFAQs users actually believe:

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

My first ban was for talking about downloading Metroid Fusion like the day before it came out lol

 

[Xarpho's Return]

My first ban was for talking about downloading Metroid Fusion like the day before it came out lol

Not sure why you'd want to, I remember how ass some of the "modern" emulators were. SNES emulation was "okay" back in 2002 assuming you didn't want to run anything with the Super FX chip, but that was about where that ended.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Not sure why you'd want to

Probably cause I was like 12 or 13 and didn't want to buy it.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Not sure why you'd want to

A very GameFAQs response. The level of autism required to get haughty about what a child did with a video game in 2002 is pretty incredible.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Yeah you mistook it for RPG.net which is pretty faggy.

Ohhh, right, thanks.

That makes me wonder if there are still retards lurking around that flip out if someone dares use an emulator for any reason. I remember those faggots treating emulation usage like on par with robbing a store at gunpoint for your game.

This is what GameFAQs users actually believe:
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I remember that now that you mention it lmao. If a game is old, unavailable, and/or extremely unlikely or impossible to re-release then there's no reasonable argument against emulation.

Not sure why you'd want to, I remember how ass some of the "modern" emulators were. SNES emulation was "okay" back in 2002 assuming you didn't want to run anything with the Super FX chip, but that was about where that ended.

GBA was running okay on my late 90's computer, a good one from '02 should have been able to handle it well. SNES seemed great to me. Actually I should note it would, in retrospect, trigger anti-piracy shit sometimes.

 

[X Prime]

GBA was running okay on my late 90's computer, a good one from '02 should have been able to handle it well. SNES seemed great to me. Actually I should note it would, in retrospect, trigger anti-piracy shit sometimes.

That was due to poor emulation. An infamous case was Demon's Crest first stage end boss being invincible by triggering antipiracy measures.

 

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GBA was running okay on my late 90's computer, a good one from '02 should have been able to handle it well. SNES seemed great to me. Actually I should note it would, in retrospect, trigger anti-piracy shit sometimes.

There were a couple bad dumps of Earthbound floating around where the dumper had disabled the first two anti-piracy checks but then that triggered the rest of them later on in the game. Secret of Evermore also had some weird dumps floating around. I don't know if it was from the prerelease version or if the dumper messed something up.

You'd see a posts every once in a while on the games' respective boards about weird shit that was happening.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

GBA was running okay on my late 90's computer, a good one from '02 should have been able to handle it well. SNES seemed great to me.

I suspect I've played more SNES games using ZSNES than real hardware or any other emulator and that statement would send the average GameFAGs user or Redditor into a full blown conniption fit.

When you're a kid, you're not concerned with "emulation accuracy" or things like that. You're just psyched to be playing console games for free on your computer.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

That was due to poor emulation. An infamous case was Demon's Crest first stage end boss being invincible by triggering antipiracy measures.

Chrono Trigger's came to mind for me, getting endlessly trapped in that time portal was slightly eerie.

There were a couple bad dumps of Earthbound floating around where the dumper had disabled the first two anti-piracy checks but then that triggered the rest of them later on in the game. Secret of Evermore also had some weird dumps floating around. I don't know if it was from the prerelease version or if the dumper messed something up.

You'd see a posts every once in a while on the games' respective boards about weird shit that was happening.

I think one of the effects in Earthbound was elevated encounter rates, I'm pretty sure I ran into that. It was actually kinda interesting.

I suspect I've played more SNES games using ZSNES than real hardware or any other emulator and that statement would send the average GameFAGs user or Redditor into a full blown conniption fit.

When you're a kid, you're not concerned with "emulation accuracy" or things like that. You're just psyched to be playing console games for free on your computer.

I've certainly used emulation more for most systems, not even just SNES. The main exceptions at this point are all 7th gen and up, because it's more of a hassle to get going.