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Same with the Chrono Cross remaster this weekend: I'm already inundated with content farms spewing (bad) rehashes of tutorials from 20 years ago. We've come a l
by drusepth 5y ago
Same with the Chrono Cross remaster this weekend: I'm already inundated with content farms spewing (bad) rehashes of tutorials from 20 years ago. We've come a long way from text-only 200-page gameFAQ .txt tutorials to more-ads-on-the-page-than-text listicles that split paragraphs of content over a slideshow of multiple pages in order to run even more ads.
- orlp 5y agoHoly shit this comment resonates so much with me. It used to be that you could Google something about your game and find a 150KiB text file article (no ads, no useless pagination/SEO filler) which is a treasure trove of useful information, e.g. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gba/921905-pokemon-emerald-version/faqs/22554 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gba/921905-pokemon-emerald-ver... . Nowadays I'm almost happy if I find at least one sentence of useful information in an entire "article" recommended by Google. I think the above game example is an example of erosion of both sides: articles have gone to shit, and the amount of care, attention and depth to most games have gone down a lot.
- charlieyu1 5y agoDon’t know this game, but some of the best resources about Age of Empires 2 are written in .txt files.