Board 8 > I hate FAQs

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I much prefer walkthroughs....

I contested a moderation to SBAllen a week or so ago saying that this site was quickly being outdated because Youtube (and any number of other sites) use video walkthroughs, which are much easier to follow than text FAQs. His response? "K."

I mean, that's about what I expected, but still. FAQs, walkthroughs, whatever you want to call them, they're on the way out. This site is dying and whichever friendships we may have forged here are dying along with it.













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I assume that once this site collapses, we'll all migrate over to the comment boxes on ertyu's YouTube channel.

I support this idea.

Oh god I don't want to devolve into a youtube commenter >_>

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SMOKEDOG42O posted...
I contested a moderation to SBAllen a week or so ago saying that this site was quickly being outdated because Youtube (and any number of other sites) use video walkthroughs, which are much easier to follow than text FAQs.

Video walkthroughs are utterly inferior to text guides. I want strategy, tactics, tips and facts, not a recording of one of the possible ways to beat a part.

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great, so you can watch video walk throughs on youtube, and people who prefer FAQs can stay here

whats the problem?

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Truth be told, if I'm playing a game from a major franchise, I'm far more likely to use a specific wiki than I am to check on GameFAQs.

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First off, this title was originally meant as an easily misread joke.

Second, FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions. As in, a Q&A filled with questions that are frequently asked and nothing more.

This site HAS tons of walkthroughs. Something doesn't have to be video for it to be a walkthrough. Walkthroughs can be text too.

SMOKEDOG42O posted...
I contested a moderation to SBAllen a week or so ago saying that this site was quickly being outdated because Youtube (and any number of other sites) use video walkthroughs, which are much easier to follow than text FAQs. His response? "K."

I mean, that's about what I expected, but still. FAQs, walkthroughs, whatever you want to call them, they're on the way out. This site is dying and whichever friendships we may have forged here are dying along with it.













UNLESS YOU GO TO THE AIM CHATROOM BOARD8CHAT, WHICH IS FULL OF AWESOME DUDES WITH HILARIOUS ANECDOTES ABOUT LITERALLY ANYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF!

Those guys are SO. COOL.</blatant advertising>

Expect your X-MoC in the mail.

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It has been confirmed that we will get video embedding in FAQs very soon. This will apply to both "Collaborative FAQs" and "Formatted FAQs".

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To be honest, I've never really found any traditional FAQ or Walkthrough helpful on this website. The only ones I've liked are the real in-depth guides that focus on specific things you'd never be able to find out on your own, like the EV guides for Pokemon. But whenever I've gotten stuck in an area in a game or against a certain boss and looked at the Walkthroughs for help, they've never provided any kind of useful information. Guides on this site are just so full of "facts" rather than helpful information. If I want to find a strategy against a boss I'm stuck at, all I find is stuff like, "Okay, this boss has 1200 HP and uses these attacks. He's pretty hard, but once you get past him, go to his area..." or "This boss is normally super hard, but as long as you're using that special exploit I told you to spend hours grinding for earlier he's easy".

It really ticks me off sometimes. Even when I look in multiple Guides they barely scrape together any kind or useful help between all of them. Unless I needed some kind of easy to look up information (like an enemy's stats, or what place to go next), FAQs have always disappointed me when I wanted to find help.

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Grand Kirby posted...
To be honest, I've never really found any traditional FAQ or Walkthrough helpful on this website. The only ones I've liked are the real in-depth guides that focus on specific things you'd never be able to find out on your own, like the EV guides for Pokemon. But whenever I've gotten stuck in an area in a game or against a certain boss and looked at the Walkthroughs for help, they've never provided any kind of useful information. Guides on this site are just so full of "facts" rather than helpful information. If I want to find a strategy against a boss I'm stuck at, all I find is stuff like, "Okay, this boss has 1200 HP and uses these attacks. He's pretty hard, but once you get past him, go to his area..." or "This boss is normally super hard, but as long as you're using that special exploit I told you to spend hours grinding for earlier he's easy".

It really ticks me off sometimes. Even when I look in multiple Guides they barely scrape together any kind or useful help between all of them. Unless I needed some kind of easy to look up information (like an enemy's stats, or what place to go next), FAQs have always disappointed me when I wanted to find help.

o.0 What kind of guides are you looking for for what kind of games? I've never found FAQs like that. The worst offenders usually just have badly explicated strategies and/or tell you to reference the boss section, which may or may not be organized in a confounding manner (alphabetical? wtf) that ends up spoiling you, as well as/or providing no reference point to return to the aforementioned walkthrough section once done viewing the specific boss guide. But I've never encountered what you've noted.

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From: f_ranz1224 | #007
great, so you can watch video walk throughs on youtube, and people who prefer FAQs can stay here

whats the problem?

People who prefer FAQs can go to game-specific wikis that have tons more information than this site could every have, and in a better format

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