Comment by PaulHoule

3 years ago

This is just one bit of the death of text.

Circa 2010 most games had highly literate walkthroughs on sites like GameFAQs. By 2020 you could find only find walkthroughs in YouTube which occasionally answer a question hard to explain in words (like that level with a jump that doesn’t look like you can make it but you can) but means seeking through 20 hours of video to find the right 15 seconds.

I remember going to a copy shop in 1999 to print out a GameFAQs walkthrough for Fallout 2.