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resolved Characters/Fire Emblem Videogame
So... I just added Dragalia Lost to the Fire Emblem Characters page under crossover as FE characters were in the game as part an event. I even implemented notes for each element to indicate the characters. However, one of the notes had Marth in it just like the note for Super Smash Bros. Melee - 18 to 22, when the note next to Dragalia Lost Recruitable Adventurers Flame is clicked, the one by the smash opens up instead.
I don't know how to fix this.
resolved Thinking about putting together a recap page... Videogame
With how many events there have been for the game, Dragalia Lost, I was considering setting up a recap page to provide in-depth detail on the story and tropes used for each one. Just had a few questions before I started such a thing...
1. How should they be organized? By year or by event type (Raid, Facility, etc.)?
2. Should I put together an entirely new page or should we relocate this page to recap and add links for each event to it?
3. Should I include recap for anything else regarding the game in the page such as chapters of the main campaign or Agito Uprising?
Edited by Zerukinresolved Question regarding "Flame Bait" being used to justify readding something. Videogame
On the Franchise Original Sin World of Warcraft page, there was an entry talking about Creator's Favorite towards the Horde. The entry is long so I won't post the whole thing but the point of the entry was to point out of Blizzard has always had, on some level, favoritism towards a faction. When it was made, this was how it started:
- Blizzard having some measure of preference for the Horde (albeit not necessary in a good way) could be seen as early as Warcraft 2, where it was revealed the Horde had won the events of the first game, and were so strong that it took internal sabotage for them to lose the war against the Alliance.
Sometime in August I removed the part in parenthesis. I forgot to leave a reason why which was on me but my reasoning was because it seemed out of place and didn't make sense. The entry was talking about the idea of Blizzard favoring a faction, regardless of if the outcome is good or bad for it.
On 10/28, Monsund readded the (albeit not necessary in a good way) bit, citing Removing that bit is basically Flame Bait.
I'm not sure how that would count since the entry is supposed to be speaking broadly, and while Franchise Original Sin is YMMV and opinion based, adding that bit in seems more likely to be Flame Bait since its outright steering the point away from more neutral discussion on favoritism, into just saying "Blizzard is making bad favoritism" towards characters.
Edited by keyblade333resolved Dragalia Lost Antagonists Videogame
Recently, I moved the antagonists of the game Dragalia Lost into seperate pages for campaign, event, and void battle. However, I left Adventurer Story antagonists on the base antagonists page. After some thought, I feel like I should have moved them too when I did all that... That's where I ask... Should I create another antagonists page for adventurer story antagonists or move them over to the NPCs page? Or, alternatively, are they fine where they currently are?
Edited by Zerukinresolved Restoring The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass page Videogame
The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass had its page cut because it had one trope (which had zero context). I have more tropes to put there, and I was wondering if I could restore it.
resolved Playing the Player trope removed? Videogame
The search function shows an old trope called Playing The Player, still with an image and description, but opening it just shows a bunch of redirects (for stuff that might be subtropes). Was the trope removed?
resolved Are these examples permissible? Videogame
Long story short, I was considering an edit to the Mister Seahorse page to note that there is a subgenre amongst Otokonoko Genre visual novels that feature or revolve around crossdressing males getting pregnant. As part of this edit, I was intending to list a couple of prominent names of such visual novels as well as a single-sentence, no-explicit summary of the plot. I'm worried that this would be going against TV Tropes content policy. Can I get a ruling, please?
resolved Typo in article name Videogame
I took notice of how many entries there were in Ensemble Dark Horse for Dragalia Lost, so I decided to move them all to their own page. However, upon launching it, I noticed that I accidentally made a typo. Oops. Any way to fix this mistake I made?
resolved Misfiled a new Work Videogame
I launched a Work Page for "Tabletop Game Mouse Trap", thinking it would get filed in the Tabletop Games section. Nope, it got stuffed into the "Main" namespace, and treated as a trope. I used Edit type to reclassify it as a Work page, but it's still titled "Tabletop Game Mouse Trap". Is there a way to rename this so it gets shunted into the rightful namespace?
Edited by crazysamaritanresolved Edit War on YMMV / Total War Warhammer III Videogame
Per the page's edit history, we have an Edit War in progress.
Paging noozeelander, FudgetMuppet and cricri3007 to this thread.
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).
resolved A troper who keeps posting dubious tropes on the Final Fantasy 7 Remake Main Character section. Videogame
Someone named Frankie 3 keeps re-posting the same ill-fitting tropes on Tifa Lockhart's character page despite me and other tropers already having pointed out why he needs to stop doing it. Like for example, trying to pin the "Token Good Teammate" label to Tifa when the rest of the party aren't even evil people, at worst having some anti-heroic traits that don't even scale into particularly dark levels. And then there's him posting links to some random wiki to try and add proof of claim when it directly violates troping rule that pages are only for what is found within the work itself. What should be done about him?
Edited by 9thOutworldsManresolved Kingdom Come: Deliverance page quote Videogame
The current page quote for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a bothersomely-gushy review quote that (even putting aside my...rather complicated opinion of the individual the quote comes from) I'm not sure works as well as a quote from the game would. At first, I thought of replacing it with the first line of the opening narration, particularly since the Memetic Mutation example on the game's YMMV page seems to imply that the line is well-known among the game's audience. But I haven't yet played the game, so I'm not sure if there's a better quote. Does anyone have any ideas?
Edited by Akriloth2160resolved Evony's warnings Videogame
Evony has this warning at the top and bottom of all subpages:
Readers are encouraged to avoid this game entirely. It is a spyware program in disguise.
Should we remove it? I mean, I already get that it's spyware, and it wasn't necessarily needed.
Edited by ChillyBeanBAMresolved Checking a possible HilariousInHindsight Videogame
A little over a month ago, I wrote a creepypasta around Dragalia Lost in which I go beyond floor 50 in the Kaleidoscape. Just recently (like last night), it was announced that an upcoming update in March 23rd would add floors beyond 50.
I have to ask. Would this be addable as Hilarious in Hindsight? Wanting to know before I decide to add.
resolved Troping a cancelled videogame Videogame
Yeah, what the title says.
After I found out a page for Silent Hills and more than a dozen of cancelled videogames, it came to my mind some games that hurt me the day when I found out they were cancelled: Prey 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned, Gotham by Gaslight and Faith and a .45
So, how much material should be nedeed for a page to be created? These games have trailers that show some gameplay and a lot of words from the company and directors that could easily be Trivia, but there also some games with trailers that don't show any gameplay, like Sadness or simple teasers, like inSANE.
Edit 'cuz Im dumb.
Edited by Braylovskyresolved Is Queen Sectonia too spoilery for videos? Videogame
Can I upload videos featuring Queen Sectonia from Kirby: Triple Deluxe? In the game, she is a Hidden Villain, and her existence is treated as a spoiler. However, her mere existence isn't really a series-wide spoiler, and she makes cameos in two subsequent games, Kirby: Planet Robobot and Kirby Star Allies. (If she's in Kirby and the Forgotten Land too, I don't know yet.) Even before these two games, many people were talking about her online.
Would it be too spoilery to add videos of her from her debut game, Triple Deluxe?
Edited by DrNoPumaresolved Edit war Videogame
- On March 8, 2022, North Wind Gray added this example to Trivia.FridayNightFunkinTailsGetsTrolled.
- Crossover-Enthusiast deleted the entry on March 13, citing that trivia tropes can’t be played with.
- On March 14, North Wind Gray added the example back without citing an edit reason.
resolved ''The Spiral Scouts'', mildly NSFW game Videogame
I recently finished a game (not up to 100%, almost there) called The Spiral Scouts. I wanted to check it here on TV Tropes, but it appears it doesnt have a page. After doing a quick search I found out an old forum post asking the same as me. Im not gonna bump it without a reason, because as it says in the title, the game is mildly NSFW, so Im not sure if it is allowed here.
If you havent played it (the game is pretty much unknown), let me tell you three of the many quests the game has to offer:
- Quest 1: A boy named Mellow says that he is from the moon, and asks you to help him to return there. He gives you a map, and with it you need so solve a puzzle. After solving it, the "Lunar Owl" appears and mocks Mellow a lot for being so naive. You receive a badge for making the Lunar Owl laugh, and the quest is completed.
- Quest 2: An old man tells you that his wife passed away, and he misses her a lot. He shows you how he was building a time machine, and wants your help to finish it, so he can see her again. After the time machine is done, both you and the old man travel to the past to see her wife, but instead you see like six copies of the same old man waiting in line to "remember" their wife (dont worry, no one is nude). The man gets angry and returns to the present, and the quest is completed.
- Quest 3: A man named Meh asks you for a drink. After some walking you find a guy that makes "Butt Juice". He tells you that he gives it for free, but you must get the ingredients for him. After getting some "Butt Fruit" and sugar, the man makes the juice inside something that looks like a bathroom while making fart noises. He insists that isnt a bathroom, but his lab. After you gave the juice to Meh, he refuses to give you a badge, so you steal him using a gun.
If you ask Why would you like a page about a game like that here?, its mainly because the only place where you can find info about the game is on Steam. Any other place is just copy-paste, so I wanted to see something different. And the game is pretty fun, filled with a lot of puzzles.
I noticed that originally, someone had created a page for the Video Game, Distance, but due to the original author never doing anything about the stubbiness of it, it ended up getting canned. But now, with the Adventure Update out, I feel that it might be time to revive the page, although I think we do need to figure out what tropes to put in it.
I know for a sure that, with the first Adventure Mode, it's a Timed Mission - with there being four hours in-game (which is slightly less in playtime, given that the timer drops quicker during teleporting between sectors than it takes to load) in order to complete the game (although I do not know yet what happens if time runs out) - while the second Adventure Mode, titled "Lost to Echos", basically shows how things have been in Nitronic Rush since when players completed it quite a few years ago (of which Distance is a Spiritual Successor of)
I just am not sure what else to add to the page to make it fleshed out enough for the Wiki Magic to be applied right now, as I'm slightly burned out from what I was doing.
Edited by auroVee