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What's this wiki's policy regarding titles with Arabic numerals that aren't WikiWords? For example, the creator of the Battlefield 3 page specifically made it "three" and not "3" just to make it a Wiki Word and to avoid curly brackets, despite absolutely no one calling it Battlefield "Three". It just seems really arbitrary, especially when games like Persona 4 avoided this treatment.
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I've seen Earl of Sandvich move the entire Half Life series' page to the VideoGame/HalfLife namespace, while VideoGame/HalfLife1 was created for the original game. However, I haven't seen this being done to any other game pages at all, and as far as I know, the VideoGame/ namespace can only be used for a single game, plus I've never seen a VideoGame/Game1 if the number doesn't appear explicitly on the title. I tried PM'ing him, but received no answer.
Is it a new system or is it incorrect and should be undone?
UPDATE: Not only video games, all media.
Edited by REV6PilotopenNo Title Videogame
Trying to create a headscratcher page for the Kingdoms of amalur reckoning page. I cant figuire out how. I checked the headscratcher main page, but typing
Kingdomsof Amalur Reckoning?action=edit
doesnt do anything. Also, while I'm at it, I've never really understood how to index a page. (and yes I've looked at the editing guide for that too)
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The Survival Horror index is all messed up now, since one person thinks some games aren't survival horror and decided to segregate them to their own section in the back called Action Horror. Is this kosher? If so, maybe we need a new index called Action Horror.
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Okay, stupid question - why is Walkthrough Mode so loathed?
Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with adding - under a different bullet, of course - a reply (not one written in first person, that is) under That One Boss, That One Level or That One Whatever. On the contrary, it would be helpful, and not "boring" as the Walkthrough Mode article makes it out to be ("and you're already asleep").
Those articles, with this rule, basically boil down to "This boss is hard and this is why, but please DON'T EXPLAIN HOW TO BEAT HIM". Okay, what? Being helpful isn't a bad thing, and surely that wouldn't mean we're suddenly the new Game FAQS. GF is one thing, listing difficult stuff and occasionally mentioning how to get past it is another.
But that may be just me, of course - that's why I'm asking this: to find out the reason behind the "need" to avoid being like Gamefaqs.
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I'd like a little consensus on a trope I'm trying to add.
The ending for Mass Effect 3 has Shepard essentially doing the work of the Reapers, after telling them to go screw themselves throughout the series. I explained this as Character Derailment on the character page but since it's a YMMV trope it was removed. I see, so I then listed it under the YMMV page but Character Derailment is not to be used, ever. Okay, so I tried listing it under Character Derailment itself and it was again removed.
Am I misusing the trope? Is there something I'm missing here? As I understand it Character Derailment is when a character does something that is really out of character for them. Shepard's actions at the end of the third game seem very much out of character, being established to stop the Reapers.
Edited by tsstevensopenNo Title Videogame
Can we get some moderation over at the Mass Effect Heartwarming Moment page? There's an edit war ongoing and I don't want to keep pushing it, but the short version is that there's one editor who keeps pulling a specific entry because he doesn't like it. I think he's being overreactive and disrespectful of both others' opinions and the YMMV nature of the page, but I don't want to keep pushing in a direction where I'm not 100% sure how the YMMV rules apply.
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I wanted to ask something about a YMMV trope in Mass Effect 3.
Player Punch is listed as a trope. However much of the game is this so I thought to rename it Player No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. It was deleted twice and suggested I ask about it here. So would it be a fitting way to label the trope or is there some reason why it's wrong to do so?
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Originally, I was going to make the page "Pokemon Conquest" just a redirect to Pokemon Plus Nobunagas Ambition, but since the pages for a lot of other Pokemon games are titled after the English name (for example, Pokemon Rumble instead of Melee! Pokémon Scramble), I was wondering how to change the heading of the Pokemon Plus Nobunagas Ambition page to read as "Pokémon Conquest" instead, since a U.S. localization for the game has been confirmed. Thanks in advance for assistance.
I was unsure if this issue was supposed to be brought up in on this "rename" page, as that page seems to concern trope names rather than the names of works...
Edited by fenyx4openNo Title Videogame
Some of FallenArcanora1's edits (mostly their Resident Evil ones) are Nattery, not well-written and a lot of the time in the wrong place (Non-YMMV and High Octane Nightmare Fuel entries in the YMMV page, especially since in the latter case the work in question already had a HONF subpage).
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Anybody knows a trope for when the player is given unlimited power while being invincible (often by the end of the game)? You know, these epic badass moments when you know you can't lose anymore and can slaughter mooks and bosses alike, but it's still fun because you feel that you earned this right?
Note: it needs to be plot-related, not given through the normal level-up course of the game. Examples are often spoilers so here goes:
Example in the Legacy of Kain series: Soul Reaver 2 has such an ending, when Raziel goes on a spree, continuously overpowered by the Soul Reaver... which allows him to slaughter the Sarafan as though they were mere mooks, despite them being described as competent warriors sooner in the game
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The character list for Final Fantasy IV has a controversial example. Drake Clawfang asserts (as per this page that the currency in Final Fantasy games is named "gil" after a character in FF4 and cites Continuity Nod on the appropriate part of the character page. I'm disputing this, because the original Japanese versions of the first three games used "gil" for the currency (the fourth game uses the character to justify why it's called that, but the term predates the game).
This isn't an Edit War, but I figured I'd take my case here before it became one. Should the example stay?
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So, I guess Saya No Uta is a casualty of the recent racy media cleanup? Does anyone know when and/or if it'll be back? A concerned Cosmic Horror Story fan would like to know.
It has been noted that Microsoft and Microsoft Windows has been cut. My question is, what does it mean for all the other articles listed on How Video Game Specs Work here? In particular, we still have UNIX and Mac OS. Wouldn't it be a Double Standard to have them and not have Windows?