GBFR is fantastic! My Rant is on 25,000 online guides....

[These Games SUCK]

EDIT: For everyone saying GBFR requires no braincells to play. I'll take that as an insult towards the playerbase and further more towards the developers who spent 8 years of hardwork into this game. You may as well just say GBFR is a dumb game made by dumb people for dumb people.

Thanks to those who were civil. I will no longer engage with the western 7 year old NPC gaijin mental drivel.

My avatar is of you and your big noses, big mouth not included, not enough room.

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Yes... GBFR is fantastic. Growing up gaming from 1980's until now I've seen the gaming subculture reach some rotted dead ends unlike we've never seen from my generation. If an NES or SNES old console game was trash back in the days, we'd more than likely blow it up with firecrackers, use it for target practice or smash it on the concrete outside or destroy it in some creative fun manner. Whatever. No big deal.

I've never in my life seen people go full on berserk as they do now over games. It's as if nothing is good enough and people are insatiable with EVERYTHING that is released. I'm going to skip going on about it.

We are lucky to have games like Granblue Fantasy Relink. If you didn't grow up with an Atari moving a rectangle up and down on black and white screen to bounce a white dot to the other side of the screen in virtual ping pong.

This is to you complainers, don't EVER complain about Granblue Fantasy Relink! I'm 45 years old, you spoiled brats have no clue of the privilege you have to play some of these awesome games and I can't for the life of me figure out why people would go on a virtual tirade.

These people need to be cutoff and forced to play Atari and NES for decades, then maybe they'd learn to respect what we have access to now at the click of a few buttons online. Us gen X had to go out physically and search for games back before everything hit the net.

Anyway, there's only one problem I have with games and developers these days. It has been my complaint for a long time about gaming. These devs need to get their ♥♥♥♥ together.... They used to publish game guides that explained everything. Now we're clicking video after video and digging through websites looking for answers for every game. It's like playing russian roulette these days looking for the correct information. I'm tired of wasting my time watching 25,000 20 minute - 2hr long videos for one game.

We had published strategy guides available for purchase for RPGS back in my day, indexed, table of contents, etc. It was faster, way faster and concise because the old ways were better. Now it's all a wild goose chase for anything. "Get back to the basics, your menu is ♥♥♥♥." like Gordon Ramsey said....

My complaint is about how I spend my time and I'm tired of hearing this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ "Just google it, are you stupid?". No, this is not the age of information. No one can turn the news on r anything and tell me we're in an age of information.... we're in the age of misinformation and the results of it are blatant especially when you know the truth.

Off of my tirade, PDF? Paperback Guides? I tire of going through the middle man I'm not the only one. I read lots of comments like this "Thank you for uploading this, it was driving me crazy!" "I spent days looking online for a video with the correct information on this, thank you!"

In the name of 1990, I disavow the virtual game guide realm of wasted bandwidth.
This isn't a problem of a lazy playerbase or crybabies, this is a developers negligence.
Yet, I give praise to the random people who take their time in making proper no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ guides, who can deliver the knowledge in a concise literal indexed manner like the developers used to do with their published guides.


P.S. your game guide channels suck 90%.

Comments open to take the piss out of me and I love this game.

[CHAO$$$]

Your rant is neither wrong nor productive.

The internet has gone downhill due to the introduction of money (like most things do when they become more about making money than the actual thing). The wild west of the internet were the golden times, when mainstream still thought the internet wouldnt be here to stay and people uploaded silly stuff on youtube because they wanted to share the silly stuff they were doing first and foremost.

Nobody cares about how good their content is anymore, the only thing that matters is how well you optimize your money making algorithm for discoverability via google youtube etc.

I dont think guides are fun to begin with, I think half the fun of any game is figuring stuff out yourself but the stuff you find searching for things online the moment you leave google scholar is 90% garbage made with as little effort as possible and optimized for clicks.

[Snivel]

Get over yourself.

[L:D]

I'm consider myself a little bit knowledgeable about video game history, and i'm almost sure what you saying, for the most part, is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but whatever.

It's already very difficult to believe that an 45 years old man is wasting his time on steam forum talking about how new games are better to just later contradict itself saying the old ways were better. Instead of, you know, play the game you like and not caring about other people opinions.
I always envisioned older people with more confidence on what they do and what they like, you just broke that for me.

[Demiurge]

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[Kana]

This seems AI generated

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Kana:

This seems AI generated

we had that with the other one that got banned who was picking certain political topics to get strong reactions out of people

wouldn't surprise me if there's more than one AI being trained on steam forums

[Ryvaku]

Back in my day. Age shows.
You don't need a guide if you have functioning braincells.
Most build guides I seen were pretty bad and not optimized.
I don't think this game really needs meta gaming guides considering the content isn't difficult.

[Hoshi]

Tbh, I agree with OP in that if you google for information on any new game whatsoever, even ones that haven't released yet, you get like, thirty or forty copy pasted clickbait articles that tell you nothing.

My favorite is like, when you google a feature that doesn't exist in a game, like respecs, and then you get articles like, "How do you respec in (whatever game)?" and then it's like six paragraphs of fluff followed by, "You can't respec, unfortunately."

The internet is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awful. Do bots write these articles?

Anyhow, OP, like, usually that information is buried inside of games these days, but I get what you mean; I remember some of those PS1 Final Fantasy strategy guides in particular having some utterly obscure information that's still referenced today.

I haven't thought about strategy guides for ages, they sort of went obsolete with the advent of GameFAQs and player-written walkthroughs and guides and I just never questioned it. Typically I prefer figuring things out for myself.

[tap and die]

This is why I dont use guides for primarily single player games these days. Too much garbage, too much clickbait.

[Ratto The Man-Thing]

Ok boomer.

[Artos]

git gud ?? No ? Like, yeah you can min/max everything with guides, but where is the fun ? Why go to google if you gonna complain about guides existing ? Its not a new concept. Game is still fresh and some articles will be click baits, some will have genuinely original builds/strategies and some will repeat the meta that will eventually shape itself. Like in any other game.
No matter the genre. Whether its an mmo, card game or shooter, there always will be meta and meta needs guides and every content creator needs easy content to publish. Is it awful ? Nah, you just boomer. Its been like this for years. Kinda weird you woke up and decided to ♥♥♥♥ on cute girl anime game and not league or Warcraft 3 or even Starcraft 1. Tibia ?

[These Games SUCK]

Originally posted by Wretched Knight:

Ok boomer.

Dear frens, I was created in 1978, a Gen X millennial cusp.
Why can't you people just google everything? There's only about 8,600,000 results pertaining to the keyword 'generations' but I only needed one answer for my search query.

Get it?

The Greatest Generation: born 1901 to 1927
The Silent Generation: born 1928 to 1945
Baby Boomers: born 1946 to 1964
Generation X: born 1965 to 1980
Millennials: born 1981 to 1996
Generation Z: born 1997 to 2010
Generation Alpha: born after 2000

[Artos]

Originally posted by Dummy:

Originally posted by Wretched Knight:

Ok boomer.

Dear frens, I was created in 1978, a Gen X millennial cusp.
Why can't you people just google everything? There's only about 8,600,000 results pertaining to the keyword 'generations' but I only needed one answer for my search query.

Get it?

The Greatest Generation: born 1901 to 1927
The Silent Generation: born 1928 to 1945
Baby Boomers: born 1946 to 1964
Generation X: born 1965 to 1980
Millennials: born 1981 to 1996
Generation Z: born 1997 to 2010
Generation Alpha: born after 2000

Nah the way you talk and act, makes you a boomer. Doesn't matter which year you were born. If you act like them, you are one of them lmao. Time to rest grandpa.

[These Games SUCK]

Originally posted by Artos:

Nah, you just boomer. Its been like this for years. Kinda weird you woke up and decided to ♥♥♥♥ on cute girl anime game and not league or Warcraft 3 or even Starcraft 1. Tibia ?

Please reread the title and learn how to discern contextual literature without putting words in my mouth that didn't come out. Nowhere did I denigrate this game or anime.

Generation X: born 1965 to 1980. Learn how to criticize the generations within their age bracket.

Also, Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, your avatar is a boomer.
Have some respect for your hero. Google it and memorize it so that your personal attacks and false accusations are at least somewhat accurate. I'm Gen X. Your attack is negated.

To the previous statement, been there done that, you're not telling me anything I haven't already done and again, the paperback guides are still better than 296,000 useless search results. We only need one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ guide, not quantity over quality. It's so wasteful.

[These Games SUCK]

Originally posted by CHAO$$$:

Your rant is neither wrong nor productive.

The internet has gone downhill due to the introduction of money (like most things do when they become more about making money than the actual thing). The wild west of the internet were the golden times, when mainstream still thought the internet wouldnt be here to stay and people uploaded silly stuff on youtube because they wanted to share the silly stuff they were doing first and foremost.

Nobody cares about how good their content is anymore, the only thing that matters is how well you optimize your money making algorithm for discoverability via google youtube etc.

I dont think guides are fun to begin with, I think half the fun of any game is figuring stuff out yourself but the stuff you find searching for things online the moment you leave google scholar is 90% garbage made with as little effort as possible and optimized for clicks.

Yes, my rant is never productive, much like anything online as you've clarified quite well.
I did forget to mention, it's not fair for the playerbase to feel obligated to make a guide where the devs won't. I can never get my rant to be received how I intend, no matter how long I go on. The last time I looked up the Bayonetta paperback guide price in 2014, I saw one for sale at an estimate of $460.00 on Ebay and there's a reason for it that these matrix babies don't understand.

It's not about just having the guide for 'fun'. People have their online guides, why are the paperback guides demonize along with the fan who would buy them? It's hypocrisy.
People buy comicbooks, people buy art, it's the same principle. The illustrated guides have art, posters in them, cards and so on.

These bums want everything for free, views, like and praise. Nothing wrong with the views, likes and praise until someone brings up buying a paperback guide.

"IT'S FORBIDDEN!" is the response. 1984. These people are nuts and the results of it in 2024 Chaos AD is evident but ya, I'd buy a Granblue physical book not just for the short cut through 296,000 useless search results on the topic. If any game community came together and started printing them as a third party affiliate of the franchise I'm interested in, I'd pay. They already cry about buying these games, they want everything for free and will never be satisfied.

More problems are coming, it's only going to get worse. Gen Alpha at 7th grade is performing on the 4th grade level but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me to hell for reminiscing about how cool and efficient my paperback guides were for iconic games that have shaped and pioneered the entire subculture, what's left of it.

I appreciate the healthy discourse. Salute o7