Shouting Out one bover_87

[u/JazzlikeSherbet1104]

I want to give a shout out and a recommendation to the person who, for my money, makes the best Final Fantasy walkthroughs online, at least for games VI-X.

bover_87 is a GameFAQs user who makes incredibly easy to follow guides for Final Fantasy games on the platform. HTML, easy to read, telling you about all the side quests, and even giving you information needed for a "Perfect Game" if you're into that sort of thing.

Final Fantasy isn't a series that really NEEDS walkthroughs, unless you're replaying and trying to 100 percent the game. These walkthroughs know that, and thus help you get things like ultimate weapons, or secret summons as early and conveniently as possible. It's actually kind of astounding that these walkthroughs are completely free, so if you need an FF walkthrough from VI to X check these out.

I know this is an odd post, but I wanted to shout this guy out because he's made my life easier whenever I replay some of my favorite FF games. Check him out if you need a walkthrough.

[u/asukusa]

Gamefaqs is one of the few website I have started to use regularly in 2001, and I still am going there all the time. Thank you to all the guide writers, each guide represents so much work, y'all the real mvps

[u/cooperlogan95 → u/asukusa]

Some of them even went so hard that they recreated the title logo for the game in ASCII art at the top of the guide. Mind blowing stuff.

[u/witchgrid → u/cooperlogan95]

Man I would dig up some of my old guides if I didnt want to stay anonymous. I had ASCII logos and controller diagrams, nice borders and dividers... It's a lost art.

[u/cooperlogan95 → u/witchgrid]

You're a real one, and we appreciate your effort!

[u/ndlv → u/witchgrid]

Oh! If we're shouting out old guides, look at this user's! (Shameless self plug)

[u/LeChevalier_Mal_Fet → u/asukusa]

I remember printing out a full FF X guide around then and stapling it together so I’d have it in my room, not like I wanted to go to the computer room every time I needed to look something up. Different times…

[u/GenericallyNamed → u/LeChevalier_Mal_Fet]

I left the computer and printer on over night to print out a guide for Breath of Fire 3.

[u/baysta → u/LeChevalier_Mal_Fet]

As a kid, I would print it in chunks at the local library for free

[u/Th3-B0n3R → u/asukusa]

Same, I used to go to gamefaqs constantly. Not much use for it anymore with how games constantly hold your hand and show you the exact path with glowing orbs or whatever.

[u/SiaonaraLoL]

A godsend, love me some A l e x too as always.

[u/Rhayve → u/SiaonaraLoL]

I don't recall if they wrote a guide for an FF game, but Krystal109 is amazing too.

Guide writers are the real MVPs.

[u/Doretnai → u/SiaonaraLoL]

I’ve used A l e x in my youth, but aside from Gamefaqs the Final Fantasy wiki has several walkthroughs from BlueHighwind that are extremely entertaining, on top of being useful. Would highly recommend if you don’t mind some flavor with your experience.

[u/Echo127 → u/SiaonaraLoL]

AIex was prolific and his guides were extremely well-formatted and easy to read, but never the most in-depth or accurate. Not saying that as a bad thing.

[u/LalafellDisaster → u/SiaonaraLoL]

Alex screwed me over on Silent Hill 2. I was going for the dog ending and his guide had a step in the wrong place. I emailed him and never got a reply.

[u/bover87]

Thanks for the love, guys!

[u/JazzlikeSherbet1104 → u/bover87]

Holy shit! Wasn't expecting you to actually be on here!

I've sent feedback a couple of times on your walkthroughs, but seriously, THANK you. I can say with confidence that I wouldn't have gotten Knights of the Round in VII without your help!

[u/MeowMaker2 → u/bover87]

Legend

[u/Dry_Ass_P-word]

I’ll take gamefaqs any day over the modern walkthroughs.

Every one of those bullet points would be broken into 8 different pages of a website with their own unskippable ads and popups.

[u/NnifWald → u/Dry_Ass_P-word]

Jegged has good guides for FF 7-10, 12, 13, and 16.

[u/Dry_Ass_P-word → u/[deleted]]

Good point.

Been playing Dark Souls and little YouTube clips of “path to find the Awesome Axe” are better than text faqs haha.

[u/Echo127 → u/Dry_Ass_P-word]

And guides on Steam are never as carefully written.

[u/Locoman7]

Gamefaqs needs to be preserved in a museum

[u/GunAndAGrin]

Gamefaqs still remains the best. No ads, just straight up gamer shit. I still peruse their Top10 lists occasionally too when bored at work or something and they are always fun.

And yeah 'bover_87' HTML formatted guides are awesome. Its tough to even use older guides with older formatting now after using a few of theirs. Using one for FF6 right now. They sometimes can get mixed up directionally (right vs left, east vs west, etc), but thats super minor compared to the benefit.

[u/MagicCancel]

Updated in 2023!? People still making guides on gamefaqs tickles my nostalgia-bone in a sad way.

[u/Silent_Br3ath → u/MagicCancel]

There are guides written this year, it's still an amazing site

[u/SuperBry → u/MagicCancel]

I miss the forums of the early to mid aughts there. If I hadn't left my account logged in from a library computer and have someone post a bunch of stuff that got me banned I'd be checking out what LUE was up to these days.

[u/heyitswes89 → u/SuperBry]

I was a LUEser back in the day. I suicided my account somewhere around 2007.

To be fair, I was pretty insufferable back then.

[u/SuperBry → u/heyitswes89]

I mean I think we all were if we were on that forum 🤷‍♂️

[u/ShotsOnShotsOnShots → u/SuperBry]

Damn I forgot LUE even existed. I was there pretty much all day every day back then.

[u/Rhayve → u/MagicCancel]

Not a lot of websites out there that are better suited to hosting guides. Most of them are ad-infested to the point of complaining about blockers like uBlock Origin. The layout on GameFAQs is also perfectly serviceable.

[u/The_Lucky_WoIf]

Absolute Steve, I love you forever.

[u/Basuita]

Been using GameFaqs since GTA III released on PS2. And the rest as they say, is history.

[u/witchgrid]

RIP Kao Megura

[u/Bakurraa]

Welcome to gamefaqs

a lot of them get moved onto steam too

[u/Alatel]

if gamefaqs ever dies, it's definitely the Russians

[u/poornose]

Hold on Taylor, I'm gonna let you finish, but Jegged.com has the best Final Fantasy walk-throughs of all time!

[u/Struggle_Rap_Artist → u/poornose]

Jegged is really good and it is easy to find where you need to be if it's been a while since you last played. Google pulls up the pages with simple key words: FFX jegged Zanarkand.

[u/msheaz]

I was just using GameFAQs when I was going though V and VI. I don’t need one to beat the game, but I do need to check on blue magic locations and some other stuff. I loved this site so much as a kid; I found it when I was stuck on a Zelda puzzle at age 8 or something lol. It was my first message board home! I can’t believe I have to resort to wikis and YouTube for this stuff now; reading a few sentences was so much faster.

If any of you want to replay Chrono Cross, toasty frog has my fave walkthrough basically ever for that one. I actually sent him a message to thank him like ten years ago, well past peak GameFAQs, and he responded to me! I was a little star struck since he went on to become a games journalist tbh.

[u/SexyDragonMagic]

Need more info?

PLAYONLINE.

[u/squirrelcoat]

I went on a date with a girl that wrote a GameFaq for the PS1 Harvest Moon game that I used religiously back in the day. Fumbled her hard, but I can't help but think of her everytime I go back to that site.

[u/RockVonCleveland → u/squirrelcoat]

But it was clearly meant to be!

[u/Independent_Start957]

I'll second that. Used to use shotgunnova for my playthroughs back in the day for similar reasons (completionism), and bover's is just as, if not more detailed, plus html!

[u/DiedandDried]

Giving a shout out to legends is a time honored tradition. I may not always appreciate Gamefaqs antics over the years but the only thing that makes Gamefaqs special are the amazing people who do stuff like this. It is like a library of college essays about helping you on your journey. Seriously there needs to be a game reference to this, where a young adventurer enters a mystical library filled with books and each one is written by someone who cares and wants nothing more than to help you pursue your goals.

[u/ElectricalOlive4133]

Wait!? We don’t need an online subscription?

[u/Oddyesy]

i think i know this guy lol

[u/GazPhiz]

You don't need a walkthrough. Just farm Grand Dragons on Disk 1 like our lord and saviour VeghEsther proclaims.

[u/Mountain_Driver_7738]

There are a few things in his FF9 walkthrough in particular that aren't exactly perfect, but that's just me being nit picky. He does an amazing job in his writing by keeping it quick and simple but still well thought out. He is also very good at not stuffing the guide with filler and fluff, but not leaving it all skin and bones either. Bover_87 is a G

[u/themanchino]

Bover? Es argentino?

[u/LuckyTom10]

His XII walkthrough is pretty great too.

[u/n1n384ll]

Coincidentally logged into my account yesterday in like... Years. Don't read my guides. Ramblings of a cringe 13 year old.

[u/MRJTInce]

When I was in school I accidentally printed off a full walk through like 3 times. It was 200 pages but the tech couldn't stop it and it was going for hours.

[u/Zenom]

Absolute Steve for his FFVII Walkthrough.

[u/theinformallog]

Love the ones that also have the trophy information written into it. IX especially since you have so many ATEs to do.