Why I love Gamefaqs

[DakAttack]

Everybody there is just so effing stupid.

I have no problems reading the text. If you're too stingy or poor to own HDTV, just turn on widescreen in the console and your text magically becomes readable.

These must be the most ignorant and pampered kids on the face of Earth.


I'm there looking for some guide so I can figure out what I'm doing wrong in Dead Rising. This game is terrible with a few fun moments scattered through it, yet everybody loves it. They litteraly explain nothing, and when they do the text on the screen is so small you need a magnifying glass to read it. It doesn't matter what kind of television you're using, it's just terrible.

Currently I can't complete the story because it's 6pm and I needed to get this guy his medicine by 11am, but they didn't bother telling me anything about that. They just keep calling me telling these people all over the mall need to be saved, and when I'm too busy trying to save one person, giant red text flashes on my screen alerting me that I failed to save another. Are weapons in this game Photojournalist onry? They just run around ignoring the weapons, stopping to punch zombies whenever they get too close to me, and they've got more health than me!

One of these guys was listed as "The Coward" and he was too scared to be rescued. He continuously said there's too many zombies, so I went out and thinned their numbers. I come back and he's still too scared to move. How do you get him to move? You hit him! Maybe in Japan there's some sort of hint that was lost in translation, but everything in this game is as secretive as that. I ended up figuring it out after I gave up and went at him with a chainsaw. Yes, eviscerating this man gives him the courage to run to safety.

Now there's a cult that stands in the middle of zombie groups without drawing any attention to them that like to shank and jihad me. They're wearing yellow plastic rain covers and green masks. They just appeared out of nowhere, and somehow don't need to be rescued from the zombies. They're at the mall just to kill me, because the zombies just don't pose enough of a threat.

I'm going to beat this game, and it's going to suck all the way through.

[dirtyclown]

Re: Why I love Gamefaqs

Gamefaqs needs to get raided hardcore. Those kids suck.

[Tirrock]

Re: Why I love Gamefaqs

I first heard about this game from gameFAQs. I was a forum regular on there from before beta to...well...the time frame where elitisim became rampant on there. I love people asking a question that has nothing to do with sushi and 5 people replying with "buy a peacock charm or you're gimp, meat only".

I haven't been there in at least a year and a half. I wonder if you have to have relic or you're gimp now.

I enjoyed the shoddy moderating there too. I got moderated for linking porn because I linked to a website that had a google search bar on it. At least here I can go "google!" and not get my post deleted. Among other things. I was at Tazirai's neck for a while and he didn't delete any of my posts, that really surprised me.

*cough* Anyway. Enough of me ranting in your rant topic.

I was semi-interested in that game, but the more I look into it, the less I am. If I want mindless chaos and violence, I'll pop in a grand theft auto game.

[MisterCookie]

Re: Why I love Gamefaqs

Gamefaqs is a prime example of what happens when you don't have A)Moderators who care(FFXIOnline) or B)some sort of regulatory system(Karma on alla). Everytime I dare visit that site, its just more and more flames., crap posts, or other random garbage. There are people on there still complaining about the rng patch.

[Mhurron]

Re: Why I love Gamefaqs

At least here I can go "google!" and not get my post deleted.

I've reported this post for linking to a service that can be use to help others find inappropriate content.

Seriously, they might find some of those posts saying /blm is a good sub for SMN.

[DakAttack]

Re: Why I love Gamefaqs

I don't even need to look at Gamefaqs to become enraged by my fellow man. The value of life seems to be degraded by which the way they live it! When people hate on America I can't help but wonder if they've even been to Gamefqs.

And yea, if you're thinking about picking the game up do yourself a favor and buy one sixty dollar hooker, or sixty one dollar hookers. Either way, you could end up with AIDs and you still would have spent your money more wisely.

As the game progresses the areas fill up with more and more zombies, and it seems every time you turn around the area behind you is instantly populated with zombies. I know it's possible to have them trickle in from zone lines, but no, they just appear out of sight and amble towards you. This becomes increasingly frustrating when you're trying to escort rescuees, and they're caught up in the constant respawn of zombies. They don't do the smart thing and run around them, they just run right into them. Extracating them from zombie masses will mostly likely get them killed by your own weapon, because the targeting system is extremely vague.

Weapons break so quickly that trying to fight your way through everything just isn't an option.

The action isn't really heart pounding, or pulse racing, or in any way exciting. I think they could have made it a bit darker like Resident Evil, go for more scare and creepy and have made a better game. As it is, it's just one nuisance after the other.

Ah, I don't even know why I get so opinionated and passionate about video games. It sure as hell isn't the money I spent on it, I guess it's just the way they present it.

[Thrasher]

Re: Why I love Gamefaqs

Frankly I completely believe you about Dead Rising, people will “pretend” it is a good game simply because its about the only reason to use there shiny new xbox360. Dead Rising always seemed to me like a over hyped and glorified tech demo with game play as a added bonus feature.
It is a slow month for game releases anyways and when two of the biggest xbox 360 games are Street Fighter 2 and Pac-Man you know you have issues. http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrank...ault_x360/1029

Game faqs has been going downhill for the last few years, I still go there for guides from time to time but it really feels like a shell of its former self. Also a few times I had a FULLSCREEN advertisement pop up at me sure I know bandwidth, power and employs cost money but common that kept me from going back to the site for a few months.

Gamefaq's forums always sucked but thats just my opinion. But we can think of it this way there FFXI forum helps keep the a lot of the trolls out of here, sites like gamefaqs just serve as a place for rich little wannabe Elroy Jetsons to feed there egos and engage in mortal combat over who is the (biggest loser) best player.

I miss the time when gamesages was the place to go for tested cheat codes and before IGN became a pay site that is too scared of making a publisher mad so they play kiss ass. This game is broken and horrid but lets give it a 7 based on it's realistic giggle on the female's and I like the title screen design, It is the best title screen in the LAST 10 years. IGN/GameSages came up due to it was in the same block of sites as gamefaqs's.

Well thats enough of that Mildly off topic and relatively pointless rant about nextgen, game journalism, and the after effects of the Internet boom.
............ God I am starting to sound like my dad did when the 32 bit systems came out.
But I will be playing with my Wii on day one

[dirtyclown]

Re: Why I love Gamefaqs

My roommate got this game a few days ago and it's all he's played so far. I was interested in crushing zombies with a sledgehammer, but after seeing how fast weapons break I lost interest. Also, he was taking on special forces agents and somehow keeping himself alive by drinking orange juice and eating Baguettes.

Upon questioning him on what exactly he was trying to achieve after he had beaten the game, he said he was going for all the achievements. I asked him if he was actually having fun doing that and he never really answered me, just kinda trailed off. If this continues I think I'll have to call the men in the white van.

As an aside I'd like to point something out about Achievements. Unlocking them just to earn points that increase the size of your e-penis does not make you a good gamer. It makes you an Xbox whore. So you struggled your way through Call of Duty 2, bitching and moaning the entire time so you could get a few points, but did you enjoy your time playing? I didn't think so.