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GameFAQs (Website)
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GameFAQs, with thousands upon thousands of FAQs, walkthroughs, codes, tips, information, and discussion forums on just about every video game ever made, is one of the largest such sites. Merged with GameSpot back in 2004. As of 2012, this has changed and GameFAQs is one site again.This site is home to pretty much every type of online persona known to man, and many other fan-based tropes such as Fan Dumb, and Unpleasable Fanbase. In addition to this, they also named Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action (after a meme on the Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire board).In the dark and listless times before the Internet, game designers were able to hide the Infinity +1 Sword in such a way that it took years to find. They could keep you from the end of the game in any arbitrary way they liked, or they could be just plain mean. And if you wanted to scoop all the last bits of juicy goodness out of your games, you needed the Official Guide (at the low, low price of $14.99).Thankfully, all that's changed now. Websites have sprung up where dedicated gamers can get together and pore over every screen for the smallest clues, fight every fight a thousand times, try any combination of items, discover as much Min-Maxing methods as possible, and share the resulting knowledge with the world at large. The website in particular is the definitive destination for any game help. If GameFAQs doesn't have anything on a game, the game doesn't exist.For all its importance, GameFAQs might not have the same popularity of yesteryear. The daily Main Page poll hardly gets 10,000 votes in 2018, a tenth of what they got a decade prior, and it's been observed that the average user in 2022 was born before the average user in 2007.note Though site admin SBAllen said visitors don't often go to the main page: users go straight for the boards they are regulars on, and people searching on Google get to the wanted game's page, if not the FAQ outright. Some reasons are easy to find: an increase of gamers who only play mobile or online, games becoming less obtuse and demanding and more straight-forward and forgiving; and gamers seeking info on YouTube, Reddit or dedicated wikis. Even websites like IGN and Polygon, who normally do games news, previews and reviews, have dedicated guides sections and teams, with early access for guides becoming part of the launch cycle for big games alongside reviews.The message boardsOne notable fact about the site is how basic the message boards are compared to others, although there are plugins for browsers which support them which give improved functionality. Rather than the BB code favored by many more recent forums, it still uses HTML (italics and bold text, though in 2012, the ability to quote and place spoiler tags were added), users can preview their message before posting (they have the option of spellchecking it at the same time), and there are no avatars. Most GameFAQs users prefer it that way. Topics automatically get locked if they reach 500 posts, and creating a 500 post topic is considered an achievement of some sorts; indeed, there is a "instant 500 post topic!" meme which is mentioned when a particularly controversial topic is brought up. To make up for this, every game and system announced has its own board, plus there are a ton of social boards, regional boards, topical boards, and private boards. The unused boards for relatively obscure old games are often located by "board hunters" and turned into unofficial social boards as well. Some of the more well known social boards include the following:Social boards | |
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That's What She Said (835): A private board that gained initial popularity due to an incident making over 50 people admin of the board. Mass chaos ensued. Now run by a lead moderator, with invites consisting of several other moderators, people sick of CE, and various other board users. | |
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funny (814): A board which admins randomly allow and block users from, the purpose being to keep the community on the board in flux to prevent it from going the same way as LUE. Later went through some drama, got a name change, and became a generic social board. | |
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WoT (408), invoked it originated as a forum to discuss the events of 9/11 and then the war on terror. One of the two acknowledged instances of board decay; it quickly devolved into a social board, and due to the topicality issues, the board was temporarily removed, then reinstated as a hidden board in which topicality is not enforced; this created the whole new category of "secret social board". In the process, it was officially renamed from "War on Terrorism" to WOT. Board regulars reacted to this with outrage that the "O" is capitalized. The politics discussions were then given its own board, 261. | |
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Ban on Politics | |
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Politics (261, now inaccessible): The official replacement for WoT, and where all the political discussions went due to the Ban on Politics on system and game boards. Arguably one of the most controversial boards on the website due to the subject matter, and was noted for its heated arguments which often results in shouting matches, name calling, nationalist posturing, and other forms of trolling that inevitably lead to mass moderations and suspensions. Most of the regulars lean center-left on the political spectrum, while the few conservatives were often flamed and dismissed as trolls, and God help you if you admitted to supporting Donald Trump. It was shut down by the admins in June 2023, apparently for "vulgar language". | |
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Moral Guardians | |
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Snack Attack (579987): A board for a game which was used by users to spam flags for messages its posters considered inappropriate. An infamous feud with 313 developed when users disrupted an attempt to create "GameFAQs fastest 500 topic". Snack Attack was closed back in 2006, and linking to violations was no longer allowed. | |
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There Are No Girls on the Internet | |
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Current Events (CE; 400): The largest of the social boards. Most people here have moved from RI because of the amount of Roleplaying, and just want to chat. They call themselves "CEMen", an innuendo to the boards, in that There Are No Girls on the Internet... and the gamete for males. Dakero posts his stories here. It's also home to some of the site's most infamous suicides (see below), such as the church burning suicide or the child porn/"candy" suicide. Widely considered to be a Wretched Hive by other social boards. G:Other (825): A private board that its owner won in a contest. Its name comes from a PotD meme that led to the current lack of topicality. Unlike the rest of the private boards, it has mostly open invitations, requiring only the nomination by a current user. | |
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April Fools' Day | |
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Nine (9): A board created as part of an April fools prank. Common topics include the number nine, posting the lyrics to the song Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer, posting your karma and posting whatever you happen to have in your clipboard. | |
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Roleplaying and Fanfiction (200115): The board for roleplaying of all sorts on GameFAQs. It is known for the high quality of writing often found there and for abrasive community. Notably, one of the RPs was almost published as a comic. It is also the only social board on the site where it is possible to mark someone for being off topic. | |
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