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Video game manuals nowadays suck.

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  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    It lists a place where you can stand so that the Capra Demon can't hit you at all.

    Except it totally can, and if you stand there with your shield down, it can and will one-shot you.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Hmm I can see why that might a huge pain in the arse to discover.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Still, what compels people to do this for no money?

    The same thing that compels people to make fansubs, do fancovers on youtube, or release anything over the intertubes.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    "Still, what compels people to do this for no money?"

    Well I made a guide to try to be the first to get a boss guide made for Pokemon Ranger 2

    ...Apparently not having event exclusive bosses meant it was too incomplete for their standards...

    ...And then they added a guide by someone else that lacked event bosses...

    ಠ_ಠ
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss

    "Still, what compels people to do this for no money?"

    Didn't you say that you weren't writing your stories for the money?

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "Didn't you say that you weren't writing your stories for the money?"

    Writing a story is different from hyper-analyzing a possibly MASSIVE game and writing down all your observations. Some of these FAQS required hous upon days of testing to be complete.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    ^ Is it really that different? Both require you to sink massive amounts of time into it
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    ^^It's not like people don't have help. Most of the bigger guides I've seen had 2-3 other people helping the main writer.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Some people find writing more challenging than that Chagen. Not everyone's brain is wired the same way.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Yeah, GameFAQs guides are typically better than players' guides, and GF guides are free.  Though players' guides are really nice-looking printed pages that you can flip to easily.

    That said, players' guides are typically rife with typos and little inaccuracies and weird things.  Usually if it's an official guide, the quality is better, though they still have some typos.

    I own two such guides.  One for the Super Game Boy accessory that came with the cart itself, the other for Super Mario All-Stars.

    I used to own two others, for Yoshi's Island and for Pokémon Red and Blue.  They were ripped up and disposed of by my mom when I was young, because I was repeatedly reading the first one in conditions with too little lighting, and obsessively reading the second one even when I was supposed to be doing homework.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    By the way I'm trying to write up a trope page for players' guides.  Anyone wanna help?
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