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I was a heavy user of gamefaqs for many years but had almost forgot they existed. The YouTube let’s play completely replaced it for me and I’m guessing for most of their userbase as well.
Some of the content was beyond excellent, though. Like, a text file with a guide to the entirety of Baldur's Gate 2 with location co-ordinates to every single item and interactable object.
I would have never soloed BG2 with a Sorcerer if not for a very detailed and funny guide on GameFAQs. I didn't quite believe it's possible, but decided to check it out. Oh boy, one-shotting (almost, ie. in a single turn) dragons and eventual Wish-spamming, that was really nice. Another guide allowed me to finish "Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader" with pure-mage, again, I wouldn't have believed it's possible but the author did all the math, compared almost all possible builds, and arrived at the most min-maxed one: fire-based mage. It was really nice to wade through hordes of enemies without caring about sneaking, aggroing just a few at once, and escaping all the time. However, one advice there was priceless, it said: "grab a book. No really, grab a book." I've read I think two before finishing the game. (If you're curious: the carnage cost mana, and the game was not designed for pure-anyone, so the supply of mana potions was insufficient (to say the least). Given that the build had like 5-6 times as much mana as normal character, the natural mana regen took like 40 minutes (IIRC) by the end of the game...)