![]() ![]() ![]() Outside of the more popular games, there were boards that were notorious for trolling, off-topic discussion, and general unpleasantness, from Current Events to the infamous Life, the Universe, and Everything (better-known as LUE). ![]() While these boards might seem laughably basic in this age of social media-Sony, for example, shut down the official PlayStation forums at the end of February-they were one of the major conduits of gaming culture in their day. Outside of these FAQs themselves-frequently asked questions, for the uninitiated-there are also message boards for each game, repositories of bizarre tangents, rampant fanboyism, and, very occasionally, legitimate discussion of the game itself. In that pre-YouTube era, unless you had hundreds of dollars to burn on subscriptions to all of your favorite gaming magazines, you would probably end up Ctrl+F-ing your way through one of that site’s surprisingly thorough text guides in order to surmount a particularly tough part of any game. If you were really struggling with an unfair boss fight or a devious puzzle in your favorite game in the mid-2000s, there was only one destination to assuage your woes: GameFAQs.
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