turns out when you make a vidya community off a site where people go when they are stuck at vidya said community ends up with lots of people that aren't good at vidya
CJayC sold the site to Gamespot. Went shit right there. Before that it was basically proto-Ganker just without images and adult content (except for a few boards which were batshit insane).
There is no such thing as a site without mods like this unless the community is so small that mod is essentially just an honorary position, or rather someone with the patience to deal with the occasional chinese or pajeet spambot that comes through. The position of moderator is always a fricking beacon for the worst possible personality type imaginable.
>no coomers >no zoomers >no /misc/ >no shitposting >actual vidya discussion >every game has its own dedicated board >mods actually do their fricking jobs
It's paradise provided you stick only to the vidya boards. I don't care about politics or social boards because those aren't fricking video games.
>>no coomers >>no zoomers >>no /misc/ >>no shitposting
vidya discussion
game has its own dedicated board >>mods actually do their fricking jobs
you don't browse gamefaqs
i have no idea. i post like once every three weeks or so. only mod i ever disliked in particular was that homosexual detroitdj, is he still around? hope his website flopped
>trying to find out a specific piece of information about a certain item/etc. in a game >only relevant information is a single youtube video that's like an hour long with the piece of information I'm looking for being summarised in the comments because the video itselfl didn't even cover it
Honestly it's kinda amazing how little has changed there. I bring up the page and yup, that's still GameFAQs. Sure some little aspects have changed but for the most part the site is the same it's been for 20 years.
My account is from the 90s and tied to a classicgaming.com email address I had that IGN destroyed after they took over GameSpy. I can't login and maintain my FAQs, some of which have no peers on the site.
The internet expanded and now it's much easier to google a specific problem you're encountering in a video game and get a wiki page or youtube video about whatever it is than to scroll through an entire text guide for the entire game looking for it.
there's something to be said for just ctrl f-ing for what you want instead of scrubbing through an hour long video looking for the exact answer to your problem
Honestly it's kinda amazing how little has changed there. I bring up the page and yup, that's still GameFAQs. Sure some little aspects have changed but for the most part the site is the same it's been for 20 years.
honestly, based. don't frick with what works, add bullshit 'social' features, shit that slows the browser down, etc
Some things were better, others sucked and we didn't know better. Going into stores to buy video game magazines, local multiplayer at your friend's house, going to the arcades, visiting weird japanese websites on a 56K connection, jerking off to Sailor Moon gifs, arguing about Nintendo consoles on forums. Things were just more localized and "slower", there wasn't so much irony and "avoidance of cringe" in everything people did, everything felt more genuine.
Social media and the iPhone pretty much ruined the internet forever with the flood of unwashed masses, it destroyed forums, smaller community websites, fansites etc. However, I think this was inevitable, the internet was always meant to become a worldwide spanning network connecting every human. We need to be grateful to have experienced a time where dedicated (now called autistic) people put in the work to make unique things about stuff they were passionate about.
Honestly that's a respectable level of dedication, the dude was around long before CJayC left and he's still there. >t. NGGa who remember when SBAllen finally nuked the bullshit by letting old games be discussed
>Red Ventures >owns Giant Bomb, Lonely Planet, CNET, ZDNet, TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot, GameFAQs, The Points Guy, and Chowhound whatever the frick half of those are
Just another conglomorate praying if they buy enouogh shit they can become the next sky or turner or some shit, I guess.
Made my account in Febuary 2000 baby. Although I haven't actually been there or posted on that site for well over a decade now, moved on to Something Awful and then Ganker.
He literally plagiarized OSGs. A lot of the top contributors would point it out and they were pretty pissed that he was allowed to get away with it because, hey, site traffic.
The inner circle shit was real and creepy as frick, especially when the forum mods would have this abnormal level of solidarity among themselves even when someone is abusive to the point of doing straight-up illegal shit with users' personal info.
I can't believe I spent a decade there in hindsight.
>even when someone is abusive to the point of doing straight-up illegal shit with users' personal info.
This was literally the only time I got into an argument with gamefaqs mods and actually won. I managed to dig up a page on cnet's main site pitching to potential investors and/or partners and they listed shit they were legally bound to regarding personal info. The reality is that mods legally couldn't even look at your info unless it was specifically relevant enforcing the TOS when moderating a post. And then they were supposed to memoryhole it, certainly not discuss it, parade it around in forums, or brag about having it backed up elsewhere offsite. When they realized I could actually contact someone higher-up than Ceej himself over their blatantly illegal doings, they immediately shut up. So cnet actually saved the day for once.
People whine about the occasional powertripping janny here, but they have no fricking idea how bad shit can get.
Nope. There's a thread (not mine, but I like it) discussing hamburgers on the PS5 board. The one about ghosts has been up for like 5 months. Community tag is the immunity tag. You can do whatever you want with it on.
Former GameFAQs writer here. I made FAQs for many frickin' games back in the day. I had constant problems with frickers lifting my shit and posting it on their own website, slightly edited of course, and now people can just spinnerbot the text and make it their own original writing to circumvent copyright laws. Motherfrickin' Black person admin CJC sold that shit to GAMESPOT and I was like "NOOOOOPE frick those Black folk I want my guides GONE."
I had a ton of my FAQs legally removed which I had to legally fight over for years before they finally settled. Frick that Black person site. I became a guide making video game youtuber and I get way more frickin' views these days and get paid handsomely. It's also way easier and faster to make videos than to type out a gorillion frickin' pages of shit.
I remember it was really funny for awhile because gamespot users were marked with a (gs) of shame after their name. It automatically let people know someone was a moron before reading the post, which created a lot of butthurt.
I remember when one of the mods lost his mind and started randomly banning everyone he didn't like on Current Events, and that was after writing up a multi-post thread talking about his sexual adventures with some girl.
There was a mod that wrote "I wish I could kill Donald Trump" then deleted it seconds after but not before I took a screenshot, posting a imgur and withing seconds my account got instantly banned.
>all those RP threads on Random Insanity/Current Events I was apart of >that RP girlfriend I had that I was seriously convinced was real and was going to last >all those friends I made that disappeared over the years >tfw been chasing that era for so long, despite knowing it will never be the same again
I didn't post at the time but I lurked some of the boards back in the 00s. One of the best boards was the OoT board, you had some dedicated autists documenting everything about the game back before wiki culture was a thing, you had trivia threads where you'd ask where specific npcs were located or where you could find a hidden image of a triforce in MM, you had off topic threads because everybody knew each other and it was its own community. A lot of the big games had recognizable groups, FF7 was big, SM64 of course which is where the A button challenge first started, a lot of romhacks branched out from gameFAQs boards like all of the FFT romhacks at the time, several pokemon hacks, I don't know if SMWCentral was popular at the time or if it spun off gamefaqs, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a ton of overlap in there.
But as others said, first major warning sign was selling the site off to gamespot. Then as the years passed, the old moderation team got replaced by easily offended homosexual jannies that banned all of the old userbase, completely nuked LUE, and then watched as the site died and was overtaken by wikis and youtube guides. A shame.
nothing went wrong but the unfeeling, inexorable march of time. ah, to be on the sa2b chao board afain back when it was active. I still wonder occassionally how lobster's kids are doing. or WHY THE FRICK they never let hypermega's massive chao guide get put under the guides, and instead left it to rot in the forums until it got unstickied and fell into the depths.
turns out when you make a vidya community off a site where people go when they are stuck at vidya said community ends up with lots of people that aren't good at vidya
The mods are infamously garbage. Even a decade ago Gamefaqs mods were mocked for being highly strung manchildren.
CJayC sold the site to Gamespot. Went shit right there. Before that it was basically proto-Ganker just without images and adult content (except for a few boards which were batshit insane).
objectively incorrect.
There is no such thing as a site without mods like this unless the community is so small that mod is essentially just an honorary position, or rather someone with the patience to deal with the occasional chinese or pajeet spambot that comes through. The position of moderator is always a fricking beacon for the worst possible personality type imaginable.
>no coomers
>no zoomers
>no /misc/
>no shitposting
>actual vidya discussion
>every game has its own dedicated board
>mods actually do their fricking jobs
It's paradise provided you stick only to the vidya boards. I don't care about politics or social boards because those aren't fricking video games.
>>no coomers
>>no zoomers
>>no /misc/
>>no shitposting
vidya discussion
game has its own dedicated board
>>mods actually do their fricking jobs
you don't browse gamefaqs
And neither do you since the boards I browse have all of that.
sounds like someone didn't browse the smash boards
me
ah good old smashfaqs. 4 was the bomb but ultimate just wasn't the same
i have no idea. i post like once every three weeks or so. only mod i ever disliked in particular was that homosexual detroitdj, is he still around? hope his website flopped
People stopped contributing FAQs
Idk, maybe grindr is more popular for these people now
Wikis happened.
Draven
CJayC left. Also the age where people needed text only guides to games went the way of the dodo with Web 1.0
Had the best forums on the internet in the 2001-2004 period though
Still beats scrolling through some moron's video to find one collectible.
>trying to find out a specific piece of information about a certain item/etc. in a game
>only relevant information is a single youtube video that's like an hour long with the piece of information I'm looking for being summarised in the comments because the video itselfl didn't even cover it
I still use it for their guides. Specially for unknown 20+ year VNs
Honestly it's kinda amazing how little has changed there. I bring up the page and yup, that's still GameFAQs. Sure some little aspects have changed but for the most part the site is the same it's been for 20 years.
pop
>my login still works
Holy shit, that account is 17 years old.
My account is from the 90s and tied to a classicgaming.com email address I had that IGN destroyed after they took over GameSpy. I can't login and maintain my FAQs, some of which have no peers on the site.
it's all been downhill since they closed lue.
Lueser here
The internet expanded and now it's much easier to google a specific problem you're encountering in a video game and get a wiki page or youtube video about whatever it is than to scroll through an entire text guide for the entire game looking for it.
Also, games have gotten easier
there's something to be said for just ctrl f-ing for what you want instead of scrubbing through an hour long video looking for the exact answer to your problem
honestly, based. don't frick with what works, add bullshit 'social' features, shit that slows the browser down, etc
I mean that's a screenshot from 2010 but go to GameFAQs main page right now, it's basically the same as it was 12 years ago.
Too many Capcom shills.
that's eventhubs
CyricZ is a fricking hero for the amount of work he puts into the Yakuza guides
I agree.
Loved when dudes would go through the effort of drawing ASCII art for their guides. Really something you don't see anymore.
Some things were better, others sucked and we didn't know better. Going into stores to buy video game magazines, local multiplayer at your friend's house, going to the arcades, visiting weird japanese websites on a 56K connection, jerking off to Sailor Moon gifs, arguing about Nintendo consoles on forums. Things were just more localized and "slower", there wasn't so much irony and "avoidance of cringe" in everything people did, everything felt more genuine.
Social media and the iPhone pretty much ruined the internet forever with the flood of unwashed masses, it destroyed forums, smaller community websites, fansites etc. However, I think this was inevitable, the internet was always meant to become a worldwide spanning network connecting every human. We need to be grateful to have experienced a time where dedicated (now called autistic) people put in the work to make unique things about stuff they were passionate about.
CJayC sold out ages ago to cnet and it was never the same again. Then they sold out a second time to gamespot.
Yeah but they haven't been under Gamespot for years now. I'm actually not sure who runs the site these days, maybe it's still SailorBacon
Its still SBAllen(SailorBacon) as Admin so I suppose.
Honestly that's a respectable level of dedication, the dude was around long before CJayC left and he's still there.
>t. NGGa who remember when SBAllen finally nuked the bullshit by letting old games be discussed
>Red Ventures
>owns Giant Bomb, Lonely Planet, CNET, ZDNet, TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot, GameFAQs, The Points Guy, and Chowhound whatever the frick half of those are
Just another conglomorate praying if they buy enouogh shit they can become the next sky or turner or some shit, I guess.
I remember leaving in like 2009, thinking "time for the next generation to take over GameFAQS". lol
I stopped posting around 2013 according to my account history but my account still works.
Literally me
Same, I was 13 in 99 so in both polls I'm the biggest demographic
Same
Made my account in Febuary 2000 baby. Although I haven't actually been there or posted on that site for well over a decade now, moved on to Something Awful and then Ganker.
Honestly why the site is somewhat tolerable.
I’ve been banned over 50 times there and my account still gets awards
>Look up a guide for a game
>First guide is by A I e x
guide is by A I e x
How does he do it bros?
He literally plagiarized OSGs. A lot of the top contributors would point it out and they were pretty pissed that he was allowed to get away with it because, hey, site traffic.
The inner circle shit was real and creepy as frick, especially when the forum mods would have this abnormal level of solidarity among themselves even when someone is abusive to the point of doing straight-up illegal shit with users' personal info.
I can't believe I spent a decade there in hindsight.
>even when someone is abusive to the point of doing straight-up illegal shit with users' personal info.
This was literally the only time I got into an argument with gamefaqs mods and actually won. I managed to dig up a page on cnet's main site pitching to potential investors and/or partners and they listed shit they were legally bound to regarding personal info. The reality is that mods legally couldn't even look at your info unless it was specifically relevant enforcing the TOS when moderating a post. And then they were supposed to memoryhole it, certainly not discuss it, parade it around in forums, or brag about having it backed up elsewhere offsite. When they realized I could actually contact someone higher-up than Ceej himself over their blatantly illegal doings, they immediately shut up. So cnet actually saved the day for once.
People whine about the occasional powertripping janny here, but they have no fricking idea how bad shit can get.
I occasionally shit post on it but got put into a one month ban because I made some jokes about gays and groomers. I think I’m done with that place.
Good
I like to go to the console forums and post batshit crazy off topic threads but I use the Community tag so the mods can't delete it.
they still allow that? i thought they changed their minds a few days after people went crazy
Nope. There's a thread (not mine, but I like it) discussing hamburgers on the PS5 board. The one about ghosts has been up for like 5 months. Community tag is the immunity tag. You can do whatever you want with it on.
>using gamefaqs for anything other than game guides
You're doing it wrong.
CJayC sold it to Gamespot
Former GameFAQs writer here. I made FAQs for many frickin' games back in the day. I had constant problems with frickers lifting my shit and posting it on their own website, slightly edited of course, and now people can just spinnerbot the text and make it their own original writing to circumvent copyright laws. Motherfrickin' Black person admin CJC sold that shit to GAMESPOT and I was like "NOOOOOPE frick those Black folk I want my guides GONE."
I had a ton of my FAQs legally removed which I had to legally fight over for years before they finally settled. Frick that Black person site. I became a guide making video game youtuber and I get way more frickin' views these days and get paid handsomely. It's also way easier and faster to make videos than to type out a gorillion frickin' pages of shit.
Fake & Gay but I'll believe it.
Backdated is that you?
Put your shit back on there (just take out the spoilers and shit though)
So was CJayC black after all?
When it merged with gamestop. Im pretty sure something happened before that but its so depressing remembering shit 20 years ago that i rather not.
I remember it was really funny for awhile because gamespot users were marked with a (gs) of shame after their name. It automatically let people know someone was a moron before reading the post, which created a lot of butthurt.
I remember when one of the mods lost his mind and started randomly banning everyone he didn't like on Current Events, and that was after writing up a multi-post thread talking about his sexual adventures with some girl.
There was a mod that wrote "I wish I could kill Donald Trump" then deleted it seconds after but not before I took a screenshot, posting a imgur and withing seconds my account got instantly banned.
Nothing
Gamefaqs is unironically more based than Ganker now
Shout out to my homie Sbk91 aka Neithof aka ZombieNeith
>all those RP threads on Random Insanity/Current Events I was apart of
>that RP girlfriend I had that I was seriously convinced was real and was going to last
>all those friends I made that disappeared over the years
>tfw been chasing that era for so long, despite knowing it will never be the same again
What's the difference between GameFAQs and /v?
GameFAQs isn't flooded with zoomer switch babbies
I didn't post at the time but I lurked some of the boards back in the 00s. One of the best boards was the OoT board, you had some dedicated autists documenting everything about the game back before wiki culture was a thing, you had trivia threads where you'd ask where specific npcs were located or where you could find a hidden image of a triforce in MM, you had off topic threads because everybody knew each other and it was its own community. A lot of the big games had recognizable groups, FF7 was big, SM64 of course which is where the A button challenge first started, a lot of romhacks branched out from gameFAQs boards like all of the FFT romhacks at the time, several pokemon hacks, I don't know if SMWCentral was popular at the time or if it spun off gamefaqs, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a ton of overlap in there.
But as others said, first major warning sign was selling the site off to gamespot. Then as the years passed, the old moderation team got replaced by easily offended homosexual jannies that banned all of the old userbase, completely nuked LUE, and then watched as the site died and was overtaken by wikis and youtube guides. A shame.
I was more of a Neoseeker poster.
nothing went wrong but the unfeeling, inexorable march of time. ah, to be on the sa2b chao board afain back when it was active. I still wonder occassionally how lobster's kids are doing. or WHY THE FRICK they never let hypermega's massive chao guide get put under the guides, and instead left it to rot in the forums until it got unstickied and fell into the depths.
They should have culled a lot of the boards. Combine all the same ones/franchises. Should have had a letterboxd/rym type thing to rate games