If you're looking for a step-by-step walkthrough? Indeed not (though the Dark Souls wikis generally have pretty good text walkthroughs, as a counterexample). If you're just looking for "who drops this?" or "where is this character?" or "where does this sidequest start," though, they tend to be a lot better because you can get your answer by just going to the page for that item/character/sidequest. A very large number of people look for that sort of guidance when they need help with a game: they just want to figure out the one thing they're stuck on, rather than getting a guide for everything.
And then when Wikis don't work so well, you get youtube as another resource, or Reddit for more active discussion of the game than you usually get on GameFAQs... GameFAQs can still be the best place to get the information you need in some cases, but there are a lot of alternatives now that tend to do a better job.
I was thinking of the Dark Souls wiki when I made that post. They are definitely better than others but still trash.
ToastyPOP posted...
Gamefaqs has HTML guides now, so that would help with this.
The problem is they're mostly just made for the newest, more popular games. So if you want a guide for an older game, you'll probably have to settle for some crappy plain text guides.