Poll of the Day > Do you still use the FAQs on this site?

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do you?

yeah. not very often though.

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Haven't for years. The FAQs here are almost universally worse than video walkthroughs on YouTube where you can literally see where things are or how to do specific things, and in cases where you're just looking for raw information that isn't necessarily best conveyed in video form, nearly every game released these days has a wiki out there somewhere that's about a thousand times better than even the best FAQs this site has ever seen.

GameFAQs has pretty much been completely obsolete for about a decade now. And most of the best FAQ writers have long since stopped writing for the site.

Even the game message boards are kind of useless these days, because half the time people there won't answer whatever questions you have about a game anyway.
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No. Games are too easy to require FAQs these days.

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For older games (which I do play on occasion) yes. For newer games, not really.

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Sometimes. They can be good for quick references, although for other stuff it makes more sense to see a visual element such as photos or screencaps. The one kinda big advantage is that GameFaqs can have guides for obscure titles.

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Yes, I still check it sometimes.

Never. Wikis kind of replaced FAQs/guides for me. If I'm stuck in a game I'll just google the problem.

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all the time lmao, I dunno video guides just dont do it for me like a faq does guess im just stuck in my ways
its not a faq but even in teamfight tactics mobalytics has a plug in that adds meta info to your hud but after a couple days I uninstalled it in favor of just looking at the site while playing lmao, just feels weird

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I think I've written more than I've read ones that were actually useful.

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The last FAQ I used is for Kingdom Hearts DDD that shows where to get drops for Dream Eaters

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been at least a decade

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Very rarely. I don't need them often, but if I do I can usually just Google my issue and get taken to exactly what I need.
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PMarth2002 posted...

yeah. not very often though.

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I usually just topic search for missables or point of no returns.

I don't really care for video playthroughs since I don't want to get spoiled and I don't usually want to emulate someone's playthrough.

I also don't really need a guide to find 200 pendants since developers don't really put in rewards for exploring their game anymore and put that shit in some pass instead.

If I Google something for a game, IGN usually pops up first.

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I do when I get stuck on games or want to learn more about a game.

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No, usually yt or psnprofile if Im doing trophy shit.

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KazGT6 posted...

do you?

poll results are as expected.

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Not really. Half the time I'll search for whatever I'm stuck in or need to reference and then either a wiki comes up, a walkthrough from some other gamesite, or some forum posts about that exact thing come up.

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For certain older games occasionally. Youtube really destroyed the need for them honestly

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Occasionally. It's easier to find forum threads for help now instead. Like how I randomly found a good tip for farming drops yesterday.
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why wouldn't you use them on this site? at least on this site you aren't forced to make an account to view a FAQ or do a captcha or be inundated with ads or other b*** when all you want to do is simply find the code for Doom II for invincibility & full ammo. :P

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When I'm feeling lazy because I don't have 4 hours to faf about guessing on a sidequest, and don't feel like keeping my game in one eye and a video in another.

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The old games I play usually have better guides elsewhere lol

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Thats originally joined the site when I was a young warthog and I even used to make my own binders with dividers for different games I played. I had ones printed out for: Banjo-Kazooie, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2, and a few more.

Nowadays I dont really need guides in the same way and if im stuck in a part of a game I prefer walk-throughs on youtube because I learned visual learning is more my thing.

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Periodically, yes.

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the FAQs on this site are just written by some guy who may or may not have it correct, right? And are they still walls of text you have to ctrl-f through and hope to find what you're looking for?

Objectively, googling what you want specifically is better...mostly.

Though now days you do have to skip over all the dumb recommended video links to find a written guide...so there's that annoyance. But otherwise yeah...this site is just fun for trolling forums and stuff... not much else.

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I think the only ones I've ever used have been for Gameshark/Action Replay codes for Pokemon. And that's not very often at all.

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I used the maps the other day to beat Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES version; I recently bought it for my 3DS Virtual Console).

I always check here first when I need information about a game, but that might just be out of habit.

No if I ever get really stuck in a game Ill look up a quick clip on youtube

gamefaqs should replace the FAQs with some youtubes

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Mead posted...

No if I ever get really stuck in a game Ill look up a quick clip on youtube

gamefaqs should replace the FAQs with some youtubes

Only if they're actual walkthroughs and not some guy yelling for 5 minutes before getting to the part you need.
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PMarth2002 posted...

yeah. not very often though.

Revelation34 posted...

Only if they're actual walkthroughs and not some guy yelling for 5 minutes before getting to the part you need.

Even the "good" ones are going to show you 90% stuff you don't even need to see...like a whole level played through to get that one item... and even if they don't do that...a video by nature just tells you exactly what to do...no ways to just get a hint or subtle push to figure it out on your own

Videos taking over as the main source of guides for games in the last decade or so is definitely one of those bad trends in gaming...and I say that as someone who generally prefers stuff thats seen as progress...I mean I like digital game downloads, don't mind some DLC etc... I don't consider myself resistant to new trends at all. But videos just aren't the ideal method to get what one wants in terms of game help.

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DrYuya posted...

Even the "good" ones are going to show you 90% stuff you don't even need to see...like a whole level played through to get that one item... and even if they don't do that...a video by nature just tells you exactly what to do...no ways to just get a hint or subtle push to figure it out on your own

Videos taking over as the main source of guides for games in the last decade or so is definitely one of those bad trends in gaming...and I say that as someone who generally prefers stuff thats seen as progress...I mean I like digital game downloads, don't mind some DLC etc... I don't consider myself resistant to new trends at all. But videos just aren't the ideal method to get what one wants in terms of game help.

Agreed. If I'm playing a game, I don't need video commentary as I go, especially if I'm using a walk thru for a dungeon in an rpg or something. I'm fighting the same trash mobs they are. If there's a piata mob, or a breakable wall, or a hidden chest, that's something I need to know. Sliding block puzzles, floor traps, by all means let me know.

What I don't need is either a screaming jackass or dude with a nasal voice and the charisma of wet cardboard narrarating every random encounter as they go in a video of the game I'm already playing.

Don't show me what I can already see. Tell me what I'm not seeing. In text form. So I don't have to keep pausing and rewinding. I can just scroll bit by bit to scan for what I need passively with a text walk thru.

Videos are for a game I'm not playing and don't have in front of me already.

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