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y need to use wikis and FAQs and stuff all the time.
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i used faqs and guides a lot when i was a kid now i cant stand switching between a game and a faq
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Jul 31, 2015 21:43
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we had nintendo power
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Jul 31, 2015 21:48
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elf help book posted:we had nintendo power alright, fair enough, every1 loved cheats as a kid, but we were all capable of playing a game without looking up stuff on a wiki. in Games they cant even decide to buy a game without the help of 5 other people answering questions about it for them first
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Jul 31, 2015 21:52
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and whats with people on the internet having to include their goofy games journalism style measured criticisms whenever they post about a game they played . these are definitely the same guys who cant even figure out stuff on their own when it comes to actually playing the games BTW. this probably happens in Games and neogaf mostly but i bet it happesn in casual forums like this one too.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:02
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I used guides all the time when I was a kid for RPGs. GameFAQs ftw.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:18
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i've used gamefaqs since i was 6 years old.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:19
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I.N.R.I posted:and whats with people on the internet having to include their goofy games journalism style measured criticisms whenever they post about a game they played . these are definitely the same guys who cant even figure out stuff on their own when it comes to actually playing the games BTW. this probably happens in Games and neogaf mostly but i bet it happesn in casual forums like this one too. They love storygames and boring AAA crap but still need to play on easy and post about how its too hard.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:19
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as I've gotten older I've actually used gamefaqs less and less. I've matured as a person, as a poster, and heck even as a gamer
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Jul 31, 2015 22:21
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i gave my friend lisa my account info so she could log in and continue gaining karma for me while i went on a family vacation
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Jul 31, 2015 22:35
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Yeah we beat games as kids all the time without outside help, maybe from friends at school at most. Nobody had a fuckin clue about anything like game quality or design or stuff. Also a lot of times you'd end up with some lovely game but that's all you'd get for a long time, and with nothing else to do you'd just grind it down over months of play, even if it was bad or obscure or whatever. Some stuff was just too much though, when you had a particularly bad confluence of bad design elements. Fester's Quest for example. I loved that game but it was obvious even then that a lot of it was completely bullshit. This isn't even counting garbage like Silver Surfer or stuff that's outright unplayable like Dr Jekyll.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:40
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i ask friends who are playing the same games as me for hot tips and i like doing it that way instead of looking stuff up
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Jul 31, 2015 22:43
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Crimson Harvest posted:Yeah we beat games as kids all the time without outside help, maybe from friends at school at most. Nobody had a fuckin clue about anything like game quality or design or stuff. i bet they made the games hard back then so that they would take longer to beat since they all had like 5 levels
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Jul 31, 2015 22:48
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i read magazine walkthroughs all the time
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Jul 31, 2015 22:50
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:i've used gamefaqs since i was 6 years old. Same here
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Jul 31, 2015 23:01
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they definitely had game guides back then and kids definitely used them
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Jul 31, 2015 23:02
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I called the Nintendo Hotline for Goldeneye 64 cheats.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:10
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The 30 something's who post in games asking about the tiniest details about optimal play before they start a game are the same kids who used to think Pokemon were real.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:12
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I never finished games when I was young.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:12
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In Training posted:The 30 something's who post in games asking about the tiniest details about optimal play before they start a game are the same kids who used to think Pokemon were real. They are.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:13
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:i've used gamefaqs since i was 6 years old.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:20
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Pound for pound, GameFAQS is probably the most useful website on the Internet.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:20
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Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:They are.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:20
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i tend to play stuff blind if it's my first time through until i get really stuck, and then i'll ask on a forum so i don't accidentally spoil too much. ymmv, op.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:21
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Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:They are.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:25
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net cafe scandal posted:Pound for pound, GameFAQS is probably the most useful website on the Internet. This.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:27
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sector_corrector posted:i tend to play stuff blind if it's my first time through until i get really stuck, and then i'll ask on a forum so i don't accidentally spoil too much. I often have to look stuff up when playing NES games or contemporaries because there's little to no indication in most games from that era wtf you're supposed to be doing, unless it's a Mario game in which case, go right.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:34
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That loving barrel on Sonic 3.
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Jul 31, 2015 23:37
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i'm p sure I owned and paid for the Starcraft Prima guide back in the day so I think things work the opposite of how you say OP. there's just new kids now, younger ones
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Jul 31, 2015 23:46
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/930240-disgaea-2-cursed-memories/faqs/62944
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Jul 31, 2015 23:51
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In Training posted:The 30 something's who post in games asking about the tiniest details about optimal play before they start a game are the same kids who used to think Pokemon were real. those people in Games are aliens from another planet, which incidentally do exist in real life, since theyre those people.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:i'm p sure I owned and paid for the Starcraft Prima guide back in the day so I think things work the opposite of how you say OP. there's just new kids now, younger ones man nobody i knew as a kid did that stuff. not even the dimmest kid @ school. we all traded cheats we wrote down on bits of paper tho . and they definitely dont work the opposite way since basically probably 80% (scientific FACT) of people on the internet today is neogaf or Grey Forums style gamer.
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Aug 1, 2015 00:08
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In Training posted:The 30 something's who post in games asking about the tiniest details about optimal play before they start a game are the same kids who used to think Pokemon were real. that guy in the vita thread saying that dungeon diving game was bad because it had too many skills and he couldnt figure out how to min-max it from the demo
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Aug 1, 2015 00:10
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a know a guy who has to look up the perfect stat build for every game he's playing and will literally sit at the pause screen for an hour while he llooks it up
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Aug 1, 2015 00:11
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Awesome! posted:that guy in the vita thread saying that dungeon diving game was bad because it had too many skills and he couldnt figure out how to min-max it from the demo He Final Fantasy thread is extremely sad because people will be like "playing FF9 for the first time!" And multiple posters will write 3+ paragraphs about how they should play without anybody asking them. They're also insanely easy games anyway
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Aug 1, 2015 00:14
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:i've used gamefaqs since i was 6 years old. Same, I think, if it existed when I was six which it probably did.
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Aug 1, 2015 00:19
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I.N.R.I posted:man nobody i knew as a kid did that stuff. not even the dimmest kid @ school. we all traded cheats we wrote down on bits of paper tho . and they definitely dont work the opposite way since basically probably 80% (scientific FACT) of people on the internet today is neogaf or Grey Forums style gamer. We shared the glitch about how to get missingno and multiply items in pokemon red and blue with one another. But it had to come from somewhere, which was probably a guide or online.
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Aug 1, 2015 00:21
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I got one free guide a year with my Nintendo Power subscription, but would get guides for games I didn't own, since I could read about cool stuff I'd never be able to see otherwise
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lesbian baphomet posted:We shared the glitch about how to get missingno and multiply items in pokemon red and blue with one another. But it had to come from somewhere, which was probably a guide or online. yeah , i learned about it then too. but thats just fun stuff u can do in the game. anyone in the world could beat that game without a guide as a kid. as adults though ? im not so sure.
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:a know a guy who has to look up the perfect stat build for every game he's playing and will literally sit at the pause screen for an hour while he llooks it up you should put him out of his misery with a choke hold as he looks down at his smartphone
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