I've just been replaying Freelancer (2002) for the first time since then, and it's SO refreshing to find comprehensive guides on GaneFAQs which are just plain written text, not even any images.
If you want to find tips on a modern game you basically have to scan through a bunch of YouTube playthroughs, unless the game is popular enough to have a fleshed-out wiki (versus a placeholder wiki on fandom where basically every page is just enough of a stub to come up in search engine results despite having no actual useful content)
Still is here. RetroArch and a few torrents makes it trivially easy to play everything I didn't get to as a kid on systems I didn't have. But I'm not gonna grind.
When I was a kid, we would just go to the local library and rent out the books and make copies at my leisure. If they didn't have the book, the request for it was pretty simple and fairly quick.
I found out after many years, from my younger brother, that GTA: SA had a campaign. I thought that you only put cheat codes, steal cars, destroy stuff and fuck the police. Oh and make your hair, it had the best barbershops.
MTX kills my enjoyment in games very fast. Played a game with them before and just gave myself like £50k worth of premium money because it was easy. But the game wasn't fun after a few minutes of that.
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pennomi@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 296d
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 38 pts · 296d
Make sure you add big head mode.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 296d
Like for real? Because I'll buy.
pennomi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 296d
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 296d
Sounds beautiful, I'm in.
marighost@piefed.social · 30 pts · 296d
I used to feel pretty clever copying the codes from those "1001 Cheat Code" books and taking the codes home without buying the books.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 296d
GameFaqs.com was one of the most used websites in my home for a while...
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 296d
GameFAQ, ctrl+f, information found in seconds.
Now you have to sit through someone shouting like and subscribe until they tell you.
TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 296d
Until they maybe tell you
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 296d
Absolutely loved GameFAQs in the day.
I've just been replaying Freelancer (2002) for the first time since then, and it's SO refreshing to find comprehensive guides on GaneFAQs which are just plain written text, not even any images.
If you want to find tips on a modern game you basically have to scan through a bunch of YouTube playthroughs, unless the game is popular enough to have a fleshed-out wiki (versus a placeholder wiki on fandom where basically every page is just enough of a stub to come up in search engine results despite having no actual useful content)
nixus@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 296d
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/02/26/the-hitting
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Still is here. RetroArch and a few torrents makes it trivially easy to play everything I didn't get to as a kid on systems I didn't have. But I'm not gonna grind.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 296d
When I was a kid, we would just go to the local library and rent out the books and make copies at my leisure. If they didn't have the book, the request for it was pretty simple and fairly quick.
Support your local library !!
Aneb@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 296d
This is my cheat code 🏴☠️
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 296d
L1, L2, R1, R2, L, D, R, U, L, D ,R ,U, X
Health, Armor, $10000, in GTA:SA
Couldn't tell you any of the others without looking them up, but that ones permanently burned into my memory...
Pyro@programming.dev · 1 pts · 296d
HESOYAM is burned into mine
kubica@fedia.io · 11 pts · 297d
Too much realism.
waz@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 296d
IDKFA
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 296d
IDDQD
nevetsg@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 296d
IDSPISPOPD
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 296d
every little thing she does
nuko147@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 296d
I found out after many years, from my younger brother, that GTA: SA had a campaign. I thought that you only put cheat codes, steal cars, destroy stuff and fuck the police. Oh and make your hair, it had the best barbershops.
Illecors@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 296d
panzerpanzerpanzertomiant@piefed.social · 5 pts · 296d
Sensible Chuckle Magazine
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 296d
Fuck i forgot my gta vice city cheat codes.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 296d
I wonder where those sheets are now, that we all had written down inserted into the case in front of the instruction manual.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Only one I remember anymore is rosebud, lmao.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
Marco Polo
Mvlad88@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d
How do you turn this on
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 296d
MTX kills my enjoyment in games very fast. Played a game with them before and just gave myself like £50k worth of premium money because it was easy. But the game wasn't fun after a few minutes of that.
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social · 2 pts · 296d
⬆️ ⬆️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬅️ ➡️ ⬅️ ➡️ B A START
Never forget Contra, though I have forgotten the Mike Tyson code. 😭
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 296d
R1 r2 l1 l2 up down left right up down left right.
R1 r2 l1 l2 X up down left right up down left right.
IYKYK 😂
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 296d
I download my cheats for free if the game's on PC.