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- balerhgae, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23They're gonna have a helluva time catching up to GameFAQs. On that note, I wish them the best.
- Ray_Justice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20StrategyWiki better get a few more servers if they plan on competing with any other popular gaming site.
- AhrenBa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Agreed. GameFAQs has sooo many guides available. However, the thing I like about Strategy Wiki is that the formatting is way better. I hate how gamefaqs are "text files" with no linkable navigation. It's extremely hard to follow.
- Ocelot13, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17yep they better. 53 diggs an theyre down
- Pr0v0st, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@negativefx
Ctrl+F opens the find box in Firefox and IE. - BlueCyclone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I don't quite get what would be in a Guitar Hero walkthrough.
"When the node gets to the bottom, hold it and strum! Yeah.. do that for every one..." - supremesonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Damn... I just spent ages typing something up on Strategywiki itself, hit the submit button, then lose it all because the site goes down...
Curse you, Digg! CURSE YOU! - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Yay, 100 full ones, and several million half done ones...
- jokerthief, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@AhrenBa,
A good way to navigate text files is to use ctrl f and search for keywords. I agree that gameFAQs can be a pain to navigate, much worse so with out ctrl f. - MixMastaMetal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'll digg this. Nice site, easy to get through, and user edited pages is a good way to go, I hate having to look through 10 different sites or files to see who has figured out the best way to do something. With this style it can be added to one central page. Thanks for the update.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It may not be GameFAQs, but how many times have you flipped through every guide on a GameFAQs page because they make no sense whatsoever. I hope StrategyWiki continues, its really convenient to have 1 extremely in depth guide on a game than having to use 5 different ones.
- ShBm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I agree. I hate looking through 20 to find one that makes sense. And I'm pissed at GameFAQS for banning me for absolutely no reason, so, right on.
- masterthiefster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There are two problem with this:
1. with GameFAQs the author gets all the glory, whereas on a wiki they get a mere byline on the history page.
2. with GameFAQs an author can say "this guide is mine, mine, MINE! If you put it on ANY SITE I can and WILL SUE you INTO HELL!" whereas with StrategyWiki everything is copyleft under the GFDL.
So writers who like those two factors probably won't want to make the jump. - mxcl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Writers who like those factors are morons who should get off the Internet.
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nice try explaining, but still sounds pointless.
- mxcl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What browser nowadays doesn't store the form contents in the back history?
- AhrenBa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@jokerthief
Ah, yes, this has been my only haven when working with GameFAQs. That is what I have used to find specific parts of the walk through, but I very much prefer the method that Strategy Wiki is using. Thanks for bringing that up though. :) - mxcl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I know this is somewhat idealist. But I hate the way the GameFAQ stuff is so heavily copyrighted by the authors. "No you can't make any unauthorised copies of this, dawg!". Like FFS, get with the 21st century, and the spirit of the Internet.
Wiki is perfect for a game FAQ anyway, as little corrections can be easily made. Rather than send email to GameFAQ author, wait 4 weeks, hope he still gives a *****. See correction added to guide. F3 search to find it. - ConfusedSoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I really like this site. GameFAQS annoys me with their "v 1.482.231.31" ways.
The writers of the guides on the GameFAQs should transfer them to SW imo. - masterthiefster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They're under construction. I didn't mean they were complete, I just meant that there were some walkthrough pages. If you want to see the "complete" guides check out http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Category:Guides_at_completion_stage_4 . All the ones there cover pretty much everything possible. Many are for older games (as it takes less time to write everything about a simpler game) but there is a San Andreas guide there among others.
- DrBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why not contribute? :-) You've obviously got ideas.
- techmonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What the hell are you talking about. There is just index of walkthrough for hl2...links are dead. That is NOT called a walkthrough. Call of duty 2 has only the summary for american and british missions.
- Jammie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It has videos of the songs being played and the songs have been mapped out so you see what you're going to have to play.
- techmonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good concept .... but where is half life 2, and FEAR, and Hitman and call of duty 2 ? You get the point.
- DrBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We've just done some cunning rearrangement of the hosting, and StrategyWiki is now back up! :-)
- masterthiefster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Half-Life_2 ?
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Hitman:_Blood_Money ?
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty_2 ?
No F.E.A.R. yet, but it's only a matter of time. - allholy1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if this will work and how much it caught... http://www.duggmirror.com
** edit ** It doesn't load on duggmirror, coral, google cache or wayback - techmonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very clever...but where is the walkthrough? These are just pictures with game intro. But my point was that strategywiki needs to upload a lot of games to catch up with GameFAQ or ign. It doesn't even have all the popular ones yet.
- thedonquixote, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Darn, it's still broken.
- masterthiefster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The walkthroughs are there (except in the case of Hitman). Either scroll down below the description for a full table of contents, or just click the Walkthrough or Table of Contents links in the top nav bar (just below the page title).
The #1 advantage is quality over quantity. Guides can have tons of inline screenshots (e.g. http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty_2/Russian_Campaign) to explain everything rather than saying potentially confusing things like "take the back door out to the brick building. Go upstairs and kick open the third door on the left". On GameFAQs you might have to skim through five different guides until someone's description of that part is actually helpful, and even then you've only got the author's wording to help you recognise it. - Jammie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Hmm...I think I'm gonna add my Guitar Hero 2 walkthrough to this site...when it recovers from the digg effect.
- Bloyru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Woot!
Abxy is down.
Hurray! - kevind23, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Hint: digg + slow servers = lose
- Fireinthedisco, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1They need a walkthrough on how to handle the digg effect.
- TonyTheTerrible, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1buried for broken/slow link
- kevind23, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0@masterthiefster: MyCheats, a free site that lets you create walkthroughs AND allows anyone to edit it, Wiki style, is MUCH more complete than StrategyWiki *and* their guides include screenshots plus videos (hosted for free).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1ABXY is down too!
Nice getting front page guys! - renmen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0The link is not working
- DrBob, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Competing with other gaming sites? I think the first thing to beat is the digg effect. :-P
- negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -27/+2As a Firefox user, I must ask...what's Ctrl+F? :)
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