I barely trusted them when they were in magazines that I willingly paid for with my own money. Which meant it came from an organization that was making things I was willing to buy and thereby had some quality to it (usually walkthroughs for games I had like Brave Fencer Mushashi).
Now I know these companies don't have a damn thing worth paying for, the IGN walkthroughs are barely passable and only get used because they top every search engine, so why would their words mean anything?
That's without even getting into the political angle.
Unfortunately that is a lost art. For any game prior to 2010, absolutely. But anything more modern is going to be either hosted across 90 pages on someone's website, a video, or some other nonsense.
I barely trusted them when they were in magazines that I willingly paid for with my own money. Which meant it came from an organization that was making things I was willing to buy and thereby had some quality to it (usually walkthroughs for games I had like Brave Fencer Mushashi).
Now I know these companies don't have a damn thing worth paying for, the IGN walkthroughs are barely passable and only get used because they top every search engine, so why would their words mean anything?
That's without even getting into the political angle.
Only walkthroughs I trust are written in .rtf and have at least one piece of ascii art.
Unfortunately that is a lost art. For any game prior to 2010, absolutely. But anything more modern is going to be either hosted across 90 pages on someone's website, a video, or some other nonsense.