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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 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.


Holy 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-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.


Don’t know this game, but some of the best resources about Age of Empires 2 are written in .txt files.




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