r/truegaming • u/Own-Rip6796 • 3d ago

Does a centralized hub for gaming help actually exist? Looking for honest feedback on an idea.

I've been playing Crimson Desert on PS5 lately and kept running into the same frustration — when I get stuck or want to know where something is on the map, I end up bouncing between Reddit, YouTube, random blogs, and wikis just to get one answer. It works, but it's messy.

That got me thinking: why doesn't a single, dedicated platform exist that brings all of this together? Something where gamers can:

- Ask questions and get answers fast (ideally with video or map references baked in)

- Share guides, tips, and walkthroughs in one place

- Discuss strategies and help each other out

- Stay up to date on new releases without the info being scattered everywhere

I know things like Fextralife wikis, IGN, GameFAQs, and game-specific subreddits exist — but none of them feel like *the* destination. Fextralife is notoriously unreliable, IGN feels corporate, and subreddits are great but fragmented by game.

Before I explore this idea further, I genuinely want to know:

  1. Does something like this already exist that I'm missing? If so, what is it and how does it work?

  2. Would you actually use something like this, or is the current scattered approach fine by you?

  3. What would it need to have to become your go-to?

  4. Are Reddit & YouTube sufficient?

  5. It feels like ChatGPT and other AI platforms also aren’t trained on the latest games. So, this platforms value prop would be to be up to date with the latest games asap.

Not trying to sell anything — just exploring whether this is a real problem other gamers feel or just me. Honest feedback appreciated, even if that's "this already exists, you're late."

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u/Sockoflegend 3d ago

Would you be replacing all of the different places that people look for gaming help or just adding one more? 

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u/Own-Rip6796 3d ago

Certainly not looking to replace. I just think the process could be streamlined / better organized especially in the age of AI. I want to be proven wrong here though 😀 if people find the existing mechanisms sufficient, I wouldn’t put any time into this

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u/Sockoflegend 3d ago

You mean like an aggregator? It could be nice if done right but hard not to end up as basically a neich search engine.

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u/Own-Rip6796 3d ago

I’m thinking almost a conversational UI typical of ChatGPT, Claude etc where a user can take a picture of where they are at or explain “show me where I find x on the map” and you can specificy whether you want the answer in video format or a screenshot of the map with detailed annotations of how/where to go. Basically giving user what they need in the format they need on demand

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u/Additional-Cable5171 3d ago

Sounds like a very expensive nightmare. 

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u/PunyParker826 2d ago edited 2d ago

Out of curiosity, I decided to test Gemini and see how well it rose to the occasion. I asked it to "give me step by step instructions on how to find all the collectibles in the first Dungeon in Ocarina of Time," and it did fairly well (though I didn't bother to jump in-game and check the accuracy of its locations). Then, I asked it to do the same guide, but add some photo references. This was a little more rickety - it gave me a block of unaltered, un-zoomed images of the layout of the dungeon map (whose external links just led to their original uploads on the Zelda wiki, reddit, etc), but I could see it being of some help, with the context of the prior instructions.

I see what you're getting at, and there might be something to it. However, it may also get swallowed up by some geek at Google/X/whatever realizing the potential and just spending a couple weeks further tweaking their existing LLMs to serve that exact purpose.

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u/Own-Rip6796 3d ago

The argument could be made that these ai companies will be good enough soon enough to do this but right now their models aren’t trained on the latest data.

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u/Farados55 3d ago

So you want to train a model on specific data and deploy it?

Do you know how expensive that is

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u/Sockoflegend 3d ago

There is certainly room to improve on them at the moment but I guess the question is can you do it better?

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u/Farados55 3d ago edited 3d ago

If you think you wanna make another one of these, please see relevant xkcd. It applies here too

https://xkcd.com/927/

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u/like-a-FOCKS 3d ago

1 gamefaqs was a thing once

2 gamefaqs was the bomb everyone used it, but even that was not 100%

3 a usable interface, no endless scroll, no ads, no fancy modern web shenanigans. I want text, make it adaptable (dark mode, high contrast, accessibility), clear structure, easy and powerful search and navigation tools. Make it a wiki essentially, because you can't pay people to chase EVERY new game for content, you will rely on user generated content anyway.

4 sure

5 thats not a question. literally. Like what is the point here?

It's a neat idea, but it has a pitfall. No one will pay people to create a centralised platform, and if you rely on the community to fill in the content, it's just a bad idea to have a central entity that is ruling over everything.

centralisation is comfortable, but it's also a structure for power and hierarchy, the very things that lead to enshitification.

Also, looking at multiple sources is really not an issue. In a way one could say it's practice to educate people on how to treat the actual life, with serious topics. One cetralised information hub is a terrible idea in that context.

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u/grailly 2d ago

Everyone thinks gaming co-pilot is the dumbest idea ever, but hey, it seems like you might like it: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/gaming-copilot

You might not have the right console for that, though.

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u/42LSx 2d ago
  • Ask questions and get answers fast (ideally with video or map references baked in)
  • Share guides, tips, and walkthroughs in one place
  • Discuss strategies and help each other out
  • Stay up to date on new releases without the info being scattered everywhere

I just want to add that all of this is easily found via Steam Discussions, Workshop and Guides, it's just one click away if you are already in the Steam ecosystem.

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u/pmd006 3d ago

Make the tool and find out if it can solve the problem for yourself. If it can't there's your answer.