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As someone who has been dealing with a bit of that this week (via Steam guides), it is bewildering how often "poo poo at giving directions" and "really wants to make a guide" overlap.
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John Murdoch posted:As someone who has been dealing with a bit of that this week (via Steam guides), it is bewildering how often "poo poo at giving directions" and "really wants to make a guide" overlap.
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Aug 15, 2022 18:18
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Lib and let die posted:the overlap section is labeled "path of exile streamers" The amount of knowledge they accrued since the times of diablo is inverse to their ability to explain a speedrun.
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John Murdoch posted:As someone who has been dealing with a bit of that this week (via Steam guides), it is bewildering how often "poo poo at giving directions" and "really wants to make a guide" overlap. What's worse, that or a 15 minute video guide on where a single collectible is located with a dumb nerd performativity grinning as hard as he can in the video thumbnail and a 5 minute preamble where he mugs for his subscribers?
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Aug 16, 2022 02:05
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Roguelike car-combat roadtripper Death Skid Marks will become free forever next Monday (August 22). The Showdown Effect, a 2.5D multiplayer shooter that got was delisted from Steam a long time ago, is receiving a free, publisher-approved, fan-patched re-release on Saturday, with an early release already available.
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Aug 16, 2022 04:39
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The Kins posted:Roguelike car-combat roadtripper Death Skid Marks will become free forever next Monday (August 22). gently caress those guys I'm gonna buy their game before they make it free
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Aug 16, 2022 04:45
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Breetai posted:What's worse, that or a 15 minute video guide on where a single collectible is located with a dumb nerd performativity grinning as hard as he can in the video thumbnail and a 5 minute preamble where he mugs for his subscribers? At least you can usually just skip past dumb stuff in a video. Bad written directions, especially ones that are just the right amount of wrong to maximally waste your time, definitely worse imo.
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Aug 16, 2022 04:48
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John Murdoch posted:At least you can usually just skip past dumb stuff in a video. Bad written directions, especially ones that are just the right amount of wrong to maximally waste your time, definitely worse imo. Strange, to me it's the exact opposite. I can search for keywords and skim the text; video demands much better attention.
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Aug 16, 2022 09:02
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John Murdoch posted:As someone who has been dealing with a bit of that this week (via Steam guides), it is bewildering how often "poo poo at giving directions" and "really wants to make a guide" overlap.
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Aug 16, 2022 09:55
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For more tips on beating the boss, make sure to check out PlayOnline.
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Aug 16, 2022 11:47
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Cat Machine posted:Played through Kingdom Hearts for the first time this month and it's amusing how often the top-rated guide on GameFAQs gave a boss strategy along the lines of "time to give this fool a beatdown by repeatedly attacking him" Towards the end of MG:S V I was spooked by a giant bipedal tank of some kind. Never fought one but I thought, hey this AAA truck would be a good mobile platform to slam the dude. But just to be sure I popped out real quick to check with a "reputable" site on technique. Turns out the best way is to hit it with RPGs over and over again calling in reloads from the air as you run around on foot. 
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sebmojo posted:gently caress those guys I'm gonna buy their game before they make it free Bought a copy for a buddy a month ago and I'm not even mad (do kiiinda wish they'd revisit it to remove stuff like "just another r****d" in the descriptions, but I just tell myself it's going for a particular aesthetic).
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"keep hitting them with everything you've got and eventually they'll go down" is common enough in FAQs to warrant being a meme imo oh you think i should use all my strongest stuff and the enemy hitpoints will decrease? great tactics, guide
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The 7th Guest posted:"keep hitting them with everything you've got and eventually they'll go down" is common enough in FAQs to warrant being a meme imo PROTIP: It already was a meme.
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 But really there is some value in an faq saying "there is no special strategy or technique needed for this boss" so you know if you're losing that you just need to gitgud or grind more levels and you're not missing some gimmick mechanic
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Aug 16, 2022 18:51
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yeah it doesn't happen too often these days but i've definitely gone 'okay i must be missing something, let me look up to see what the trick is' and found out that either there is no trick to it or nobody else has found it either
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Aug 16, 2022 18:58
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I feel comfort when reading a gamefaq and realizing the author mixed up left and right
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Aug 16, 2022 19:02
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elf help book posted:I feel comfort when reading a gamefaq and realizing the author mixed up left and right yeah but the ascii art is on point
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elf help book posted:I feel comfort when reading a gamefaq and realizing the author mixed up left and right STAGE left!
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flatluigi posted:yeah it doesn't happen too often these days but i've definitely gone 'okay i must be missing something, let me look up to see what the trick is' and found out that either there is no trick to it or nobody else has found it either I remember fighting the Skulls in MGSV and thinking "I must be missing something, they seem to be just sacks of hit points that aren't weak against anything" and going online to look for pro strats and all I found was people complaining that the Skulls are just sacks of hit points that aren't weak against anything
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They're actually weak to a few things! Armor piercing guns, getting CQC countered, and the water pistol which locks them in a stupid animation. But very much your first reaction is meant to be "oh gently caress this I'm out"
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Captain Monkey posted:STAGE left! Oh my god you've made me realize that there was almost certainly a theater kid gamer nerd in the 90's who wrote GameFAQs guides and used that conveyance in their walkthroughs. There's just no way this didn't happen at least once; it's the perfect intersection of smarminess and cringe that those guides were rife with
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Breetai posted:What's worse, that or a 15 minute video guide on where a single collectible is located with a dumb nerd performativity grinning as hard as he can in the video thumbnail and a 5 minute preamble where he mugs for his subscribers? Videos also have the problem that they only exist for ad revenue, so they're designed to waste your time as long as possible. The only thing you get out of Steam guides are donated steam funbucks you can spend on avatar borders and other cosmetics. What sucks is when you're looking for a steam guide and the rear end in a top hat just embedded his youtube video. One sentence answer hidden somewhere in a 10 minute video with a 3-minute preamble. YO THIS IS THE BUTTMUNCH GAMER BRINGING YOU A VIDEO, LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE. Zesty fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Aug 17, 2022 |
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I can't stand the videofication of the internet.
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elf help book posted:I feel comfort when reading a gamefaq and realizing the author mixed up left and right The lovely fandom and fextra wikis are awful for this. That and vague descriptions of things to use for navigation. "The third large rock" doesn't help when you're on a gravel beach
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LividLiquid posted:I can't stand the videofication of the internet. Would you say that video killed the FAQ stars?
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https://twitter.com/EpicGames/status/1560235171508535296?t=yPDx7ssReORKIbJ3L_2Ldw&s=19 Doom 64 on EGS today
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/EpicGames/status/1560235171508535296?t=yPDx7ssReORKIbJ3L_2Ldw&s=19 Tweet's deleted, do you have another source on this? I know I shouldn't be as surprised as I am but I can't recall a game with a 64 in the title ever being available on a non-Nintendo platform  e: found something on Twitter, dunno this person but https://twitter.com/yeetusgafetus/status/1560245648758284288
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timp posted:Tweet's deleted, do you have another source on this? Doom 64 has been on Steam for a while, it's on sale for $1.25 right now.
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Twerk from Home posted:Doom 64 has been on Steam for a while, it's on sale for $1.25 right now. It's also a really a good classic Doom game that you should buy so you can actually play it.
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Twerk from Home posted:Doom 64 has been on Steam for a while, it's on sale for $1.25 right now. It was in limbo for a long time though, it took until 2020 for it to be officially released on anything besides the N64
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timp posted:Tweet's deleted, do you have another source on this?
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John Murdoch posted:It should be extremely illegal to auto-play loving Twitch streams that are embedded into every possible page of a wiki. Not sure if it helps but on Firefox I've been using this for years to stop autoplaying videos, which lets you specify sites to disable-disable-autoplay on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/ There does seem to be a similar Chrome extension but I've not used it myself so can't vouch https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay-re/cafckninonjkogajnihihlnnimmkndgf?hl=en
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Doom 64 is also on game pass if you can't wait.
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Saoshyant posted:It's also a really a good classic Doom game that you should buy so you can actually play it. Hmm yeah. Fingers crossed for Starcraft 64 as well.
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It's up: Doom 64 free on EGS. Also a Rumbleverse costume, if that's something you care about. Next week's free game is Ring of Pain.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Hmm yeah. Fingers crossed for Starcraft 64 as well. Starcraft 64 is just the PC version of Starcraft but modified for the N64 isn't it? While Doom 64 despite the name, is actually a completely different game from the original Doom and more or less acts as the real Doom 3 according to Doom Eternal's lore.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Hmm yeah. Fingers crossed for Starcraft 64 as well. Doom 64 has a wholly original level set that people have been porting out to play on pc for years before this was sold around on other platforms.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:Starcraft 64 is just the PC version of Starcraft but modified for the N64 isn't it? While Doom 64 despite the name, is actually a completely different game from the original Doom and more or less acts as the real Doom 3 according to Doom Eternal's lore. Doom 64 is an entirely new game with all new levels, sounds and graphics wrapped around the traditional Doom gameplay, and it has an extra set of ten new levels included as an unlockable bonus in this remaster.
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The Kins posted:Starcraft 64 had like one extra bonus level IIRC. I'll get the free game but I'm not going to play it. 
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