GameFAQs

Site is great when it comes to knowing something helpful for a game that you're playing. When I search for an FAQ or a game guide, I rarely see a game that has no game guide entries or anything. Unless it's something for a very old, obscure game, they have guides for most games.

However, the boards can be a bit scary at sometimes. There are some know-it-all elitists that are arrogant, mostly taking jabs at new users who "do not know how to search" like it's the next big thing. The mods are mostly siding with them. And you could either get modded for something very ridiculous and the reason for the moderation will be mostly "disruptive". That's actually a shame, since the boards are fun sometimes. I see some users get modded for no reason. Luckily, I haven't got modded yet. If you want to post on the boards, just don't post often and don't get too much hyped.

Keep your kids away from this site it us run by pedophiles and sexual deviants. This site main admin Allen Tyner has sexually assaulted dozens of kids inculding sone if the users he's met on the site their parent company cnet/cbs has turned a blind eye to this sexual predator even tho he has groomed many teens to become mods for nude pics and services. Cbs and cnet continue to ignore the perversions of this pedo run site. Despite allegations

Worst run forums on the internet. Staff is a social club where several of them don't even log-in on a regular basis. As a result, most forums are over run with spam, sexualized messages, and stuff you wouldn't want your child engaging in. If you have a question about a game then go to Reddit or YouTube like a normal person.

This site main admin Allen Tyner has sexually assaulted dozens of kids inculding sone if the users he's met on the site their parent company cnet/cbs has turned a blind eye to this sexual predator even tho e has groomed many teens to become mods for nude pics and services. Cbs and cnet continue to ignore the perversions of this pedo run site. Despite allegations.

This site is literally run by pedophiles that like molesting kids the admin on the site Allen Tyner has been accused multiple times of sexting underage users, molesting their kids, asking for nudes in exchange for getting their account unbanned one of the users committed suicide shortly after having a relationship with Allen Tyner

Raptors a lot of the same is about him. This site is run by pedophiles keep your kid off it.

If you play video games of any type, you probably heard of this site. It's great if you need a walkthrough for the whole game or just need a little hint. Only bad thing I noticed so far is quality of the guides varies since everything is contributed so it's pretty much up to the author on quality. But it's free and if you're a little patient on reading then it's perfect.^^b

This forum is ran by a bunch of left wing power hungry moderators who will literally suspend you for having a different opinion.

Absolute cesspool of a website. I was actually threatened with violence by one of their moderators. For posting my opinions. Hard to imagine a "gaming" website that allows their admins to threaten people.

Gamesfaqs censors and does not allow free speech. They filter and manipulate traffic and ads to create profits.

Got reported by them last night cause I said the truth about a video game company known as Netherrealm Studios to another member when we were complaining about a game feature. We were stating true facts about the company like how they are inept, money hungry & very disrespectful to the players with their ideas as well as they content they created. They said I was trolling & offensive which made me pat myself on the back. Its hysterical that they got offended by the TRUTH but its funny when anyone gets offended. Remember when people get offended by the truth or dumb crap, you know they are woke domestic terrorists. So I'm proud to be an American fighting for freedom of speech. Can't wait to see what they write to try to defend themselves for being wrong, whatever it is will make me laugh hysterically

This is a site masquerading as a gaming website in order to further there jaded agenda. They claim to be a gaming community, and while there are gaming topics, they are bombarded with inserted socialist agenda. Anyone opposing their agenda, they censor and ban.
Game websites should NOT have this kind of content. Children visit them. When I reached out for an explanation, I was banned rather then answered.
Absolutely horrid, cesspool of a website.

I forget why GameFAQs becomes so appealing, and only know how it likes to appear so often on search engines due to a lack of a good competing alternative, one that would be needed amidst the glorified elitism of the moderators. The moderators have recently deleted evidence against a group of rape apologists in a discriminatory attempt to silence the person who provided said evidence. Evidence can be found on the petition "GameFAQs needs to stop supporting rape and discrimination" for anybody interested, but long story short, they are willing to keep enabling not only the YouTube user named "Mangs", an unrepentant rapist who has over 100K subscribers on YouTube despite the fact, but already shady characters in their own right who also claim to be against the rapist but at best refuse to directly submit more active proof of their actions which sabotages the credibility of anybody else attempting to go up against Mangs for additionally OTHER nasty behaviors, ones that don't even have anything to do with women.

The fact that the deleted posts were preemptively Archived also make it clear that the moderators' conduct is not new. In fact, there is an entire blog that posts VARIOUS actions by the GameFAQs moderators, the latest one of which (as of writing) implicates a proven doxxer known as "Flintlock Staff" who was made moderator. Worth noting is that "Flintlock Staff" would come from Kid Icarus Uprising, where the board involves the submitter of evidence having had his topic providing a Christmas gift basically celebrating a sort of character family choice met with unblockable bullying by "Flintlock Staff."

It is quite possible that "Flintlock Staff" was behind the false moderations, but there is no way to prove as much OR call as much to attention on the forums themselves even if you don't get arbitrarily suspended. Why? Because the punishment system is completely biased in favor of the moderators' whims; it is impossible to tell which moderator is responsible for an individual post's deletion without them giving a signature point in the first place, and even if you can dispute the moderation, they can Uphold without giving ANY reason and prevent any further attempt to dispute it. There is no calling this out in public either, because the "Ask the Mods" forum disallows talk of individual moderations, and the "Site Suggestions" forum bans calling out site policy. The admins don't even care either, only siding with the mods whenever something, ANYTHING, comes up.

This isn't even going into the brand of material that is allowed to run around. That second image was admittedly dug up via searching a line I remembered, no matter how stupid I am for remembering it, but believe me, that sort of content is TAME as far as what you can expect to find on GameFAQs without the mods caring to put a lid on as much. Reporting these messages is useless as well because the moderators are too busy picking on whoever they want to, assuming they aren't in direct support of the inappropriate material in the first place. Again, there is a blog that indicates how the moderators will themselves post less than welcome material, not all of which even involving objectifying women in the first place.

The clincher is when, like with TVTropes.org, GameFAQs will claim to be about democracy. They're a different form of the corruption of democracy: where TVTropes.org shut out necessary voices for healthier organization in a hypocritical zeal, GameFAQs runs on mob rule, which definitely makes it even worse particularly when it's still a bigger site. Red Ventures and C-Net, both allegedly in support of diversity, also warrant some of the blame for letting all of these problems run around unchecked.

It's also worth noting that the intended key appeal for the site, the guides themselves, have become increasingly more mediocre. This does NOTHING to offset the abuse of power in the social aspect that has become predominant in the usage of GameFAQs, and thus they deserve this BARE mention.

At the end of the day, if you can avoid GameFAQs, do it. Dealing with it unnecessarily at all is not worth the hassle of this mess. It's a testament to how much the internet needs to morally improve that dealing with it becomes too constant a necessary evil.

I have been going to the site since 2003, an account since 2008, and it's just been a train wreck. The boards are practically unusable, you will get slammed by their mod staff for anything. They have their own little clique and some of the worst people are in there, including folks who stole accounts and hacked with the site, but they're a mod's friend so that's okay. Some of them even followed me offsite to issue death threats or say they were going to doxx/SWAT me. If they decide they don't like you, you're in for a constant barrage of "warnings" or "suspensions" while people who suck up to the mod staff post topics where they go around in circles shaming the user like it was a communist show trial.

They used to allow you to dispute but they dropped the appeal levels and ended responses entirely. They don't even tell you the reason for the moderation. I had a 12-year account banned a few months ago because I said "I am an antiracist" on their current events board. How is that problematic? It took 4 months and several messages just to get an answer from their admin SBAllen - and he said it was for a rule that THEIR OWN LEAD MODS said that same month wasn't a rule (they frequently do these unannounced rule changes to the point of absurdity - it was once considered "plagiarism" to link to a news article - WTF?). Then Allen said that it was somehow "causing trouble" to say this. What? Many of their mods like Admiral and Baseman have been caught for open racism in the past, and the admin is MIA or worse, silently enables it. He gave up on the message boards years ago, it was also clearly not a priority for CBS, but I heard Red Ventures just bought them out so I hope some of these issues will be fixed moving forward...

The boards are therefore a trash fire, there are no real rules there except "if you slightly annoy a mod we will come after you and delete anything you say." Many users have actually joked that they would get moderated for saying they like Pepsi if a mod likes Coke because the post would be "offensive" to people who like Coke. That's their mindset, they have nothing else to do all day apparently. It's killed their boards and traffic is way down because they over-moderate everything. I gave it 2 stars solely for the content of the guides, reviews and so on. Anything like the message boards that the mods can touch, stay far away from.

-Tails82

Avoid the message boards at your peril. They are literally infested with trolls. Don't report them either, the "moderators" will punish you for that. They don't like "innocent" comments like abuse, harrassment and insults to be reported.

The FAQ part is OK though.

Game guides, nuff said.

I came here to get walkthroughs in case if I'm stuck in a level, but the message boards are terrible. The moderators are too strict for a "private business" even though it's not. If you have free speech, these guys from San Francisco (C|net is an CBS-owned corporation) won't let you have it there; not even with the post you create and they think it's offensive. They believe in some left-wing fascism or something. Now trolls are all over the place like they think it's a fun place over there. Under-21ers here and there, you know? Either way, right now I believe YouTube is the only way to get walkthroughs. God forbid, I have insulted their moderators and called them East Coast BSers. I'll leave the mods in their hands and have myself stay away from this crap.

Best gaming site ever. If you need help on a game and can't find a player's guide, GameFAQs is your place. People on the message boards are helpful and friendly, even though I don't go on them. That's about it.

This is a good place to find a great deal of walkthroughs, reviews, FAQs and help on the games you are playing. Contrary to popular belief, the forums are actually pretty tame and civil compared to most other forums, and should be safe enough for a 13-year old to frequent, due to the generally tight moderation system.

My only gripe with GameFAQs is that the moderation system is way too strict at times, and the rules given are often way too oversimplified. This can lead to you being modded with you not knowing what you did wrong, even if you have read the terms. However, there is now an Ask The Mods section where you can clarify things with them. Moderators may reject your works with no reason given.

Otherwise, this is one of my favourite sites, and I have been using it since I was a kid.

I love this site. Some of the people are a bit tough to handle but you get used to it. I mainly use it for the walkthroughs but when i have to ask a question it usually gets answered pretty quick. The walkthroughs are very well done too. Its a good site for gamers.