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openWeird edits? Videogame
Most of Steelheart's edits consist of removing all CamelCase to replace with url links and then switching them back on various pages. It's very odd, and I've PMed them to explain since there's no edit reason, but I'm just putting this query here in case there's no response and to see if others have any opinion.
openIs it safe to remove the example again without causing an Edit War? Videogame
So I made a query about how this example of Looks Like She Is Enjoying It is inappropriate. And then people notice how this example is misused so one of them remove it and this trope is now on TRS. But yesterday, the op who made the example re-add it without edit reason. Can I remove it without causing an edit war or it's not safe? Note: I already pm the OP and also the example is about Metroid Prime Trilogy.
Edited by Bubblepigopen Regarding several recent Arknights edits by Troper Azwulf Videogame
I’ve noticed a lot of edits by a new user known as Azwulf on the Arknights character pages, including removal of several tropes across multiple pages because they *incorrect*. Thing is, I’m not entirely sure all of them are incorrect, but I haven’t gotten far enough in the story to verify some of them. Can someone else look them over and give a second opinion?
openI’m hardsplitting Bowser’s Fury Videogame
I am currently in the process of making Bowser's Fury a separate page from Super Mario 3D World, as it is at the end of the day a separate game. Someone on Image Pickin’ suggested I do it. Progress is on Sandbox.Purple Eyed Guma. Each of the subpages will also have to be split, so Moments images that relate to Bowser’s Fury will have to be moved.
Should this go in the soft split cleanup thread?
openCreating a Timeline Page + For A Shared Universe Videogame
I've recently found out about the Timeline pages, but I can't seem to find any template or guideline pages for it. Are there any rules for it or should I just follow what the other entries are doing?
I'd like to create one for Tales of Zestiria and Tales of Berseria, its Distant Sequel. Should I do separate timelines or keep them together? I feel like the latter would be better since several details from Zestiria's story are directly linked to Berseria's.
If so, how should it be named? Can I simply call it Timeline.Tales Of Zestiria And Berseria because there isn't really a unifying canon term for their universe?
Edited by lapistieropenMentioning the details of a leak on a Trivia page (and preventing an edit war) Videogame
A few days ago, I added a Content Leak example to Trivia.Nickelodeon All Star Brawl:
- On the day the game was announced, several retailers put up pages to order the game. Many of these featured its box art for the first time, including silhouettes of several characters that were unannounced at the time.
- I'm not sure we can say exactly who these characters are at the moment, since it's technically troping leaks, but mentioning the leak in broad terms should be fine.
Two days later, Andy Mouse edited the example to mention the characters in question. I don't want to risk edit warring by removing his additions - partially because I'm not 100% sure if my interpretation of the anti-leak policy is correct - so I wanted to ask about the matter here.
openBlanking an overshadowed with controversy entry Videogame
Hi,
Not sure if this should be flagged but troper Link Mario Samus just removed unanimously the Civ VI controversies off https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=OvershadowedByControversy.VideoGames with the edit reason "I wouldn't have known about those controversies if I hadn't seen this site."
I feel like this is perhaps not the right move, especially if they only heard it here doesn't mean there isn't controversy about it. This is my first ATT though, so I could be misreading, or misunderstanding
openAbout Rescued From The Scrappy Heap gameplay examples Videogame
If a character's gameplay was not liked but was reworked later on and is better-received, when's the waiting period for it?
openEdit war over captions Videogame
Nitramy changed captions to say something else on Characters.FateGrandOrderSabersGToM, Characters.FateGrandOrderLancersGToM, and Characters.FateGrandOrderArchersNToZ, then TPPR 10 reverted them with this given edit reason on the first of the three, "Please keep things consistent with other profiles." Nitramy changed them back to the captions he set up.
openUnused video game characters Videogame
Hi. I'm wondering if there's any rules or policies against discussing cut video game characters. There are two unused characters in Hitman (2016) that are unused, but have sufficient tropes and are mentioned by other characters. I would prefer to ask before adding any further information.
resolved Pronoun Confusion Videogame
I noticed on the tropes page for Oakwood that Madison and at least one other character that I'm reasonably certain is a girl are referred to by 'they' type pronouns. I was wondering if there was any specific reason for that? I just felt I'd ask since I'm genuinely curious (though admittedly tempted to change the pronouns).
openSupercell (the mobile game company) TV Tropes page Videogame
I saw that there used to be a Page for the Finnish mobile game developer Supercell that was cut for being a stub. I think it's safe to recreate, right?
openWas it too inappropriate to describe an example on a trope page? Videogame
So I discovered an unfamiliar trope named Looks Like She Is Enjoying It (When someone screams in pain but it sounds like they enjoying it) and begin to read this page. And then I find this example from Metroid Prime Trilogy, where I find it inappropriate. Bold lines means it's highlight.
- The first two games of the Metroid Prime Trilogy have Samus gasp softly when taking damage, nothing objectionable there. Then the third game rolls around and adds a new voice clip where she lets out a loud moan that sounds like something really nice just happened between her legs.
openSubpage requirement (SMTV) Videogame
I was checking the YMMV page for Shin Megami Tensei V, and I noticed that the Memetic Mutation entry was starting to get rather long. So I wanted to know what exactly was the requirements for a subpage, or more specifically, how long does it have to be at minimum.
openTrope Namer mistake Videogame
TropeNamers.Video Games lists Fire Emblem as the Trope Namer for Secret Shop. That can't be true, can it?
openEdit war on YMMV.CookieRun Videogame
Tropers/Camwood is edit-warring over a Broken Aesop example on YMMV.Cookie Run. (I don't think the example counts, but this is a report for the edit war, not that)
openPlagiarism in Friday Night Funkin's VideoGame/TheBlueballsIncident mod page Videogame
So...I read the page of the Friday Night Funkin' mod, The Blueballs Incident, then some time later I read the mod's wiki page in the Funkipedia Mods Wiki, and...I found plagiarism in the TVT page's Foil section from the latter page, stemming from how identical the text is, with the only changes being the title of the The Blueballs Incident mod.
openAre solved games, technically, Unwinnable? Videogame
During my cleanup of Clubhouse Games, I came across the following entry:
- Unwinnable: A couple of games have been "solved". While Nine Men's Morris is solved for a draw (and is mentioned to be as such in its trivia), Hare and Hounds is solved in the Hare's favor, and it is trivial to show it as the Hare can force a looping pattern until the turn count hits 30, giving the Hare a win by default. Thankfully, the medals for Hare and Hounds don't care which side you play as.
Obviously this isn't a proper example, as Unwinnable isn't a trope but rather a disambiguation. But is "only unwinnable if both players play perfectly" worth mentioning? Is there another trope that fits it better?
Note that this only affects multiplayer mode, as the games don't have Perfect Play A.I..
The game Dice Psycho has six different characters all named "Saiko", with no last name. What would be the best way to refer to each individual character on the page? I was thinking of listing the characters as 1-Saiko, 2-Saiko, etc. based on the number that their route is associated with—would that work, or should I use a different method?
Edited by unexplainedEnemy