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[Invisible Crane]

Out of all the forum sections on GameFAQs this one has to be the most retarded of them all. I mean you are most likely to find topics on how AAA games are defined by their review scores, tool/drone/bot namecalling, etc.

Who here agrees on this

[Johnny]

GameFAQS is, 99% of the time, a complete waste of time. Those 360/Wii/PS3 general forums especially are a joke as roughly 90% of the "discussion" is trolling, useless information about how one company is doomed this week and flame wars. Go into the forum for pretty much any new 360 or PS3 game and you'll find endless comments about how the game has a better version or better rival on the other console. Go to most new Wii game forums and it's just people bitching about graphics or how they hate the Wii controls.

There are some decent people there though (not that I browse it regularly) and it can come in very useful for translations, walkthroughs and general advice but more often than not I find it a headache.

[Chacranajxy]

GameFAQS is, 99% of the time, a complete waste of time. Those 360/Wii/PS3 general forums especially are a joke as roughly 90% of the "discussion" is trolling, useless information about how one company is doomed this week and flame wars. Go into the forum for pretty much any new 360 or PS3 game and you'll find endless comments about how the game has a better version or better rival on the other console. Go to most new Wii game forums and it's just people bitching about graphics or how they hate the Wii controls.

There are some decent people there though (not that I browse it regularly) and it can come in very useful for translations, walkthroughs and general advice but more often than not I find it a headache.

Heheh, bitching about the Wii or which version of a game is better sounds exactly like me. Looks like I found a better place than AoD to post.


...no, not really.

[Invisible Crane]

Most Wii discussions I've seen there are about how every game for it is a "non-game"

[Chacranajxy]

Most Wii discussions I've seen there are about how every game for it is a "non-game"

Can't say I disagree... while they (from what I've seen) can't make an argument to save their life, I admit that I am sick of seeing mini-game collections. I honestly haven't felt any need to turn the system on since December.

[Invisible Crane]

Oh...I kinda thought the reason the games for the Wii were called non-games was because they are played with a remote and not a joypad

[Johnny]

Most Wii discussions I've seen there are about how every game for it is a "non-game"

Can't say I disagree... while they (from what I've seen) can't make an argument to save their life, I admit that I am sick of seeing mini-game collections. I honestly haven't felt any need to turn the system on since December.

That's partially true for me too. Since Bleach at the end of December up until last week since when I've been playing Kororinpa quite a bit, my Wii was used for the Virtual Console most of the time.
There's Naruto next week, Sonic, Densha de Go and Tsuri Master in March, with Paper Mario in April (not to mention Cooking Mama, whenever my copy turns up) for me personally and that's about it.

I just find it really odd that it's alright to bash the PS3 for seemingly having no games at the minute when, IMO at least, Resistance, Motorstorm, Ridge Racer 7 and Virtua Fighter 5 only really have Zelda as competition on the Wii, with everything else more or less being some sort of mini-game based title (not counting the cost issue but I really don't want to get into the pros and cons of the PS3 "debate" again).

[Suwako Moriya]

You know for a forum that's considered pure evil and responsible for ending life on Mars, Gamefaqs sure seems to be popular. I mean people talk about it often enough that I wonder if they secretly enjoy visiting it sometimes. Then again it could be that some base their hatred off what others say.

Personally I think the thing to remember is Gamefaqs is a large place with a lot of boards. It has lot of forums users. The more forums users the higher chance to find both intelligent posters and complete idiots. Of course the idiots are easier to remember because they stand out.

Although let's not kid ourselves. Most people are only going to visit select boards there. I mainly visit the two RPGs boards and boards related to games I like. Well some of them anyway. In some cases I just lurk and in other cases I post.

There is also the problem of linking. Sometimes the idiocy is more pronounced because I'll visit one forum there. A poster will link to a topic on another forum often to gripe about what he feels is a stupid topic. Thus I'm being shown the bad side of a forum I never visit at Gamefaqs.

[Lego]

I go for the FAQ's but like most places I stay the hell away from the message boards. Something about the internet, video games, fanboyism, and anonymity turn people into idiots.

[Javan]

In the past, I did visit the forums, but I did not experience any idiots there. However, I noticed that the administrators would ban more than twenty people a day, the majority for using racist or homophobic language. If this is an accurate reflection of gaming fandom, I would rather not be a fan.

As for the gaming FAQs, I mostly find them useful, but I hate the fact that some authors have a high opinion of themselves, or they contain nonsense information.

[Invisible Crane]

I just find it really odd that it's alright to bash the PS3 for seemingly having no games at the minute when, IMO at least, Resistance, Motorstorm, Ridge Racer 7 and Virtua Fighter 5 only really have Zelda as competition on the Wii, with everything else more or less being some sort of mini-game based title (not counting the cost issue but I really don't want to get into the pros and cons of the PS3 "debate" again).

As far as the people on the GameFAQs forums are concerned all those PS3 games listed are not AAA titles so to them they won't help the PS3 in anyway, except maybe Virtua Fighter 5 but didn't that flop sales wise?

[Chacranajxy]

I just find it really odd that it's alright to bash the PS3 for seemingly having no games at the minute when, IMO at least, Resistance, Motorstorm, Ridge Racer 7 and Virtua Fighter 5 only really have Zelda as competition on the Wii, with everything else more or less being some sort of mini-game based title (not counting the cost issue but I really don't want to get into the pros and cons of the PS3 "debate" again).

As far as the people on the GameFAQs forums are concerned all those PS3 games listed are not AAA titles so to them they won't help the PS3 in anyway, except maybe Virtua Fighter 5 but didn't that flop sales wise?

VF5 didn't sell as much as people expected, but it still topped the sales charts last week. And it's not really that bizarre that the game didn't sell well. People can play the game with some competition by walking maybe a mile to the nearest arcade.

[Leon_Belmont]

Gamefaqs kinda sucks. Definite big N skewage there. I think in a poll in like January more Gfaqs lurkers apparently owned Wiis than even 360s. Either way, even if you're a big N fan, you'll get a crapload of flamers in your game discussions. And if you're a Sony or MS fan?

Heaven help you. May Gamefaqs mods spare your soul.

[martod]

You know for a forum that's considered pure evil and responsible for ending life on Mars, Gamefaqs sure seems to be popular. I mean people talk about it often enough that I wonder if they secretly enjoy visiting it sometimes. Then again it could be that some base their hatred off what others say.

As a database of game hints and strategies, Gamefaqs is wonderful. Some of the individual game forums are good too. But I wouldn't be caught dead in the general forums.

[lostnomad84]

Gamefaqs brings out the worst, of the worst hardcore, teenage gamers, who fail to start or contribute to a positive discussion. Gamefaqs is a very valuable place for everything else it offers, but avoid their message boards.

Most Wii discussions I've seen there are about how every game for it is a "non-game"

Can't say I disagree... while they (from what I've seen) can't make an argument to save their life, I admit that I am sick of seeing mini-game collections. I honestly haven't felt any need to turn the system on since December.

The Wii is turning out almost exactly like the DS at the start of it's life. A majority of the games seemed to be fancy tech demos at first, but eventually more and more real games started to come out. Be patient, and developers will develop games for it. After all, a majority of developers did not start to support the Wii till it launched and became a huge success. Since the new developers didn't support it till now, the games won't start appearing till at least the end of the year. Till then, I would expect dependence on waiting for a lot of first party games and the few third-party games that are worth playing.

[Mateo_home]

Well, since this is basically a GameFAQs bash thread, may as well join in on the fun. Okay, I do visit GameFAQs quite frequently. Usually to find some info and opinions on a game in the forums which I usually lurk. One thing that annoys me though is in every Fire Emblem forum, you always get some nut who has to ask, "Are Marth and Roy in this game?". Makes me wonder if they just want negative attention or they're really stupid. Which is why I prefer velthomer.net over that. The Smash Bros. Brawl forum is screwy as well. You got people suggesting the most mediocre of characters. Hey, I want to see that game badly and we haven't had any new info for like four months. The mods are pretty nasty too. I started a topic under one forum, it got locked and the mod told me to "die". He could've at least told me what I did wrong, but well, let's just say later I came to understand. The comment really hurt and which is why i don't like to start topics.

Well enough about me. Overall, GameFAQs has it's strong points with helping you look into a new game. The users are just obnoxious. :P

[Chacranajxy]

Gamefaqs brings out the worst, of the worst hardcore, teenage gamers, who fail to start or contribute to a positive discussion. Gamefaqs is a very valuable place for everything else it offers, but avoid their message boards.

Most Wii discussions I've seen there are about how every game for it is a "non-game"

Can't say I disagree... while they (from what I've seen) can't make an argument to save their life, I admit that I am sick of seeing mini-game collections. I honestly haven't felt any need to turn the system on since December.

The Wii is turning out almost exactly like the DS at the start of it's life. A majority of the games seemed to be fancy tech demos at first, but eventually more and more real games started to come out. Be patient, and developers will develop games for it. After all, a majority of developers did not start to support the Wii till it launched and became a huge success. Since the new developers didn't support it till now, the games won't start appearing till at least the end of the year. Till then, I would expect dependence on waiting for a lot of first party games and the few third-party games that are worth playing.

I thought about that, but I realized that most of the good DS games out there don't seem to use the DS' features at all... a lot of games like MMZX, Castlevania, Final Fantasy III, etc. don't use the features at all. Unfortunately, that's not really an option with the Wii... so unlike with the DS, devs absolutely have to learn how to use the hardware since they're completely unable to make games with normal controls... and I don't really have enough faith in developers to expect that to happen within a reasonable time frame.

And I can't see the classic controller fixing that problem... since that's additional hardware that not everyone's going to have.

[FigNewton]

I thought about that, but I realized that most of the good DS games out there don't seem to use the DS' features at all... a lot of games like MMZX, Castlevania, Final Fantasy III, etc. don't use the features at all.

Umm... what? I've not played MMZX and FFIII is still being hogged by the wife, but both Castlevania games used the touchscreen. DoS used it more, but Portrait of Ruin used it as well. Most of my favorite games have made a lot of use us of the touchscreen.

Though I do agree with you that, where DS devs have a reasonable option of making little to no use of the touch screen, Wii devs do not. Even as much as I love the Wii, if it's not a game that is very well suited to the Wii controls, I'd just as soon see it on a more poweful system.

[Ender]

I used to be a regular back in the PS1/N64/DC days, but it really went downhill after the PS2 launch. I don't even remember what my username was anymore.

[HitokiriShadow]

I haven't posted at the GameFAQs forums and I don't think I've read more than a couple of threads after they were referenced in another forum. But I've heard enough to decide that I'm just fine sticking the the video game subforums here and at Animenation, which had/has its share of Console Fanboyism but it sounds miniscule compared to GameFAQs.

[SpiritualRemains]

The one thing that amuses me to no end on GameFAQs is people going to the board of a game and asking either "Should I get this game?" or "Should I get this or Game Y?"

[Suwako Moriya]

Some of the individual game forums are good too. But I wouldn't be caught dead in the general forums.

I tend to find Gamefaqs works best when you limit which forums you actually visit. Which is a major reason I only visit select boards there. Still I'll admit my posting at Gamefaqs has slowed down, but that's partially because of board burn out. I joined too many forums too easily and have started to cut back. I think part of the problem was how at the time it seemed like every other person had to have his own forum. :sd:

[GHardin]

I go to GameFAQs for anything but the forums, namely to look at the FAQs on games and maybe some cheats/easter eggs; but other than that, I steer clear. I don't know, I'm not much for using other message boards. The only other boards I use are 1UP.com (pretty much to browse only, not very much) and Cheapassgamer.com (periodically post, not much else).

[Johnny]

The one thing that amuses me to no end on GameFAQs is people going to the board of a game and asking either "Should I get this game?" or "Should I get this or Game Y?"

Don't forget "Rate my Collection!!1"

[Mateo_home]

The one thing that amuses me to no end on GameFAQs is people going to the board of a game and asking either "Should I get this game?" or "Should I get this or Game Y?"

Don't forget "Rate my Collection!!1"

In addition, all of the "vs." topics about which character ownzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *pant* *pant* zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. *faints*. :P

[Chacranajxy]

The one thing that amuses me to no end on GameFAQs is people going to the board of a game and asking either "Should I get this game?" or "Should I get this or Game Y?"

Don't forget "Rate my Collection!!1"

I hate rate my collection threads. I give other people 1's for sucking at life and people give me 5's and 6's because I don't have Madden 2007 and Halo 2. What twats.

[Johnny]

The one thing that amuses me to no end on GameFAQs is people going to the board of a game and asking either "Should I get this game?" or "Should I get this or Game Y?"

Don't forget "Rate my Collection!!1"

I hate rate my collection threads. I give other people 1's for sucking at life and people give me 5's and 6's because I don't have Madden 2007 and Halo 2. What twats.

I might try it sometime just for a laugh :D

[Chacranajxy]

The one thing that amuses me to no end on GameFAQs is people going to the board of a game and asking either "Should I get this game?" or "Should I get this or Game Y?"

Don't forget "Rate my Collection!!1"

I hate rate my collection threads. I give other people 1's for sucking at life and people give me 5's and 6's because I don't have Madden 2007 and Halo 2. What twats.

I might try it sometime just for a laugh :D

Do you actually know how many games you have though? I'm not asking to be a smartass -- I'm genuinely concerned.

[Johnny]

I might try it sometime just for a laugh :D

Do you actually know how many games you have though? I'm not asking to be a smartass -- I'm genuinely concerned.

Errr no I don't actually :sd:
I know I'm close to 200 PS2 games so as an overall total (not counting anything pre-NES as I'd have to add literally 100+ C64 games) I'd say somewhere between 500-600. Could be more though. At a quick estimate:

PSP - 48
DS - 52
PS2 - 190-something
PSX - 60-70
Saturn - 60-70
Dreamcast - 50ish
Cube - 50ish
360 - 15
Wii - 14
PS3 - 5
Megadrive - God knows. Probably 80 or so
GB/GBC/GBA/GG - 30-40

Not counting NES and SNES stuff as I can't remember (don't think it's a lot really). Plus I've no doubt missed some consoles along the way.

[Suwako Moriya]

Ah yes the VS topics. They're a complete waste of time. They're also part of the reason I refuse to have favorite games in series I like. I got so sick of random FF vs random FF topics that I decided to spite everyone. What's worse is how it has extended into people making repeated tournaments for whatever. I think part of the problem is some people want their own topic while others thing if they keep forcing new ones their game will win...

As for the "Rate my Collection" topics those are stupid because the person asking for his collection to be rated is just being an insecure baby. Look it's very simple. Do you enjoy the games in your collection? If yes then it's a fine collection. Do you desire more games to be part of it? If yes then expand your collection as best you can with games you want. Honestly sayings things like "Look I own this many games", "Look I own this auto-popular game too", "Look I also have this obscure game", etc is just pathetic.

[Azumangaman]

The one thing that amuses me to no end on GameFAQs is people going to the board of a game and asking either "Should I get this game?" or "Should I get this or Game Y?"

Don't forget "Rate my Collection!!1"

I hate rate my collection threads. I give other people 1's for sucking at life and people give me 5's and 6's because I don't have Madden 2007 and Halo 2. What twats.

You should get a 1 for not having Madden '07 in your collection :D
I kid, I kid.

[EmperorBrandon]

The one thing that amuses me to no end on GameFAQs is people going to the board of a game and asking either "Should I get this game?" or "Should I get this or Game Y?"

Geez... like they don't expect the board to be biased one way at all? :P

The game boards can be pretty useful if you need help on a game or trying to figure a particular aspect of the game out. I have come across lots of interesting discoveries from checking out the Valkyrie Profile board. I wrote two FAQ's a long while back there, and I hope they helped people out (they are in serious need of an update, but I've been lazy :sd: ).

[Suwako Moriya]

Geez... like they don't expect the board to be biased one way at all? :P

Well the main reason most visit a board is because they are fans of the games so it's not unexpected that people would recommend the game. About the only people that would not are those that came to the board for the purpose of trolling.

When it comes to recommending X or Y on board X. It's a tougher situation. Just because someone visits a board does not mean it's his favorite game ever. The person may in fact visit both board X and Y, but ultimately prefer game Y. So when a topic comes up on board X along the lines of "Should I buy X or Y?" the person is likely to recommend Y over X. Although I suppose the person may add a disclaimer along the lines of get X as well.

[Suwako Moriya]

Err I'd hate to break it to you, but the obsession with review scores has been a long before Zelda Twilight Princess was even announced or heck even the Gamecube itself. It's also nothing unique to Gamefaqs at all.

It's rather common for people to throw a fit if games they love don't get anything less than 10 and games they hate get anything more than a 1. Granted to be fair some reviews are written by morons who clearly never played the game and have no concept of target audience.

In any cast the bumping of this topic with a new post only proves my theory beyond correct. Gamefaqs is the forum that people like to gripe about, but they're secretly in love with. It's the greatest romance ever.

[Fencedude]

*blinks*

So I see this topic, haven't seen it before.

I come in, read the post I'm responding to, and then scroll up to the first post to see how he started the topic.

...and its THE SAME DAMN POST.

WTF?

[Invisible Crane]

Aw man you're right. Sorry about that I forgot I mentioned that to begin with

[Fencedude]

Aw man you're right. Sorry about that I forgot I mentioned that to begin with

...right.

At any rate, Next Gen Gaming is a cesspool, why do you even go there to begin with?