• Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    2 days ago

    The one thing I will admit is, game guides migrating to YouTube and not just some text file I search through has ruined the format irreparably.

    I guess wikis help but they are often too much of a project then just writing it out so they go undeveloped.

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      Amen. GameFAQs >>> Wikis > YouTube. Video is just a bad medium for reference material; to make it even passable you have to pair it with a TOC with timestamps.

      One of the first things I ever got off the Internet was a detailed GameFAQ-style document with all the secrets to the arcade version of Killer Instinct, not understanding how much they changed for the N64 version. We didn’t even have Internet at home, I printed it out from … either summer math camp or the computer lab at the local community college. I referred to the GameFAQ for R-Type Final to 100% the game (again) on the lead up the to R-Type Final 2 release, so they were still high-quality fairly recently. (Had to dust off the PS2 and lucky the CD drive still worked 9/10 times.)