GameFAQs
Game guide website in Games & consoles
People recommend GameFAQs for its plain-text walkthroughs and guides, and for a late-1990s site design that has barely changed. No recurring criticism appears in the quotes.
9 people recommended GameFAQs in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 9 comments.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- mixed feelings
- 1
- warn against or regret it
- 0
The record
Recommended in 6 of 12 months
In 7 different threads.
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 7 threadsNeeds 5 or more, met.
- The biggest thread supplies 22% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 9 of the 10 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Plain-text walkthroughs and guides
“I'd take 1000 GameFAQs .txt only pages over whatever slop Fandom wikis push.”
Comment from 21 Sep 2026 in “Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%” “GameFAQs and newsgroups got pretty far with plain text”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “How Markdown Took over the World” “Man, Gamefaqs always had such amazing guides.”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “3D Pinball for Windows (1995)” - Comment from 21 Sep 2026 in “Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%”
Unchanged late-90s internet feel
“the gamefaqs subdomain has remained nearly identical to how it was in the late 90s early 2000s”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Video Game Websites in the early 00s” “they encapsulate the best of what I like about the internet”
Comment from 11 Oct 2026 in “Cartographers of North Korea (2019)”
What people said
9 of the 10 opinions about it, picked in proportion to the three counts, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I found myself nodding along with every last one of those.”
“they encapsulate the best of what I like about the internet”
“I'd take 1000 GameFAQs .txt only pages over whatever slop Fandom wikis push.”
“Next time, try a walkthrough from GameFAQs.”
“I sure miss Ctrl+F on GameFAQs.”
“Man, Gamefaqs always had such amazing guides.”
“Kids should start gamefaqs again!”
“GameFAQs and newsgroups got pretty far with plain text”
“the gamefaqs subdomain has remained nearly identical to how it was in the late 90s early 2000s”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.