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resolved An Unorthodox Name Videogame
The work in question is made of two words, the first one is lowercase, the second is uppercase, and they are joined by a ❖ symbol. How would I go about naming this? The name in question is neon❖Knights
Edited by AwkbutTVTresolved Should an entry in a Subtext page be updated/removed if Word Of God confirms it's just 'text'? Videogame
Ok, SPECIFICALLY, this is regarding the Resident Evil: Code Veronica entry in Incest Subtext, cos of the Ashford twins (obviously). The subtext from Alfred's obsession with Alexia is the entire basis of his creepiness, and also Alexia to Alfred in her awakening FMV cutscene. But in the same year that Code Veronica was released, Shinji Mikami confirmed in a Famitsu interview that the Ashford twins had kissed just as their FMV intro with the dragonfly torture cuts off. So like, is the incest still subtext? If the producer/creator was telling the story from their perspective that the twins are behaving as twins in an incestuous relationship, is that still just subtext?
My general question is whether Word of God is enough to propel something that SEEMS heavily implied, to actually being told straight to the audience but the audience didn't realize it because the confirmation was deliberately kept off-screen?
Edited by Elementroarresolved LEGO DC Super-Villains (Headscratchers) Videogame
I do not know if I am doing this in the right section of the site, but there is something that has puzzled me only recently. According to the plot of the game, the Rookie got the abilities of Amazo, an android that is able to copy superpowers. I know it's a game, but still, how? How could the Rookie get Amazo's abilities, given the fact that Amazo is an android, and the Rookie is an ordinary person.
resolved Excessively Long Quotes Videogame
I originally brought up my concerns with Quotes.Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers in General Page Quote Discussion, but quickly figured that might not have been the right thread for it. Hence I'm taking it to ATT instead since I don't recall a thread specifically for Quotes pages.
The issue is that the Story Quotes folder has quotes that are excessively long. The very first quote is pretty much the entire transcript for the scene where the Hero disappears. The other three are huge paragraphs, each one a borderline Wall of Text.
Surely quotes of that length are overwhelming to the reader? To what extend should they be condensed? Or should they be cut and replaced with more succinct quotes?
resolved Aigis from Persona 3 got Character-Specific Page too soon. Videogame
I was checking the character sheets for Persona 3 and I noticed that someone had given Aigis her own character-specific page when her character folder is still below 40,000 characters (it's around 30,000 characters at the time I'm writing this).
I know that character-specific pages are allowed if the character count is just below 40,000 or if there's nowhere else to put them or if it covers multiple incarnations of a character. None of these apply to Aigis. She didn't get her own sandbox page before getting a character-specific page.
Can someone help me?
Here's a link to the page. You can verify the byte count if you want.
resolved Does being a HighTierScrappy disqualify a character from being RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap Videogame
Just now, the user, jnv11, removed a Rescued from the Scrappy Heap entry from the Street Fighter 6 YMMV page regarding the game's protagonist, Luke, claiming that he's "universally hated" and that him being a High-Tier Scrappy disqualifies him from the trope.
While I've seen some hate for Luke, I've also seen a lot of people say that either like him or used to hate him but now like him, so I wouldn't exactly call Luke "universally hated", especially when he's currently one of the most used characters across the board, which, if anything, indicates that he's very popular.
Even his High-Tier Scrappy entry doesn't talk about him in a negative manner, and his now deleted RFTSH entry stated that he was only hated for coming off as The Generic Guy in the previous game, which this one rectified.
So him being a High-Tier Scrappy is the one thing that I could see invalidating him being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap, if that's how that works.
So, does being a High-Tier Scrappy disqualify a character from being Rescued from the Scrappy Heap?
Edited by CorvusIXresolved is shout out trivia or ymmv? Videogame
was trying to put shout out on the ts underswap page but i can't remember if it's trivia or ymmv. can someone tell me?
resolved Removal of YMMV on Stardew Valley Videogame
DialgaX removed the entry for Come for the Game, Stay for the Mods on YMMV.Stardew Valley without an edit reason. I've sent them a notifier for removal of YMMV. As far as I know, the trope is YMMV and mods, being akin to fan fiction, can be referenced in the YMMV page of a work. Should this be restored?
resolved Unilateral character page change Videogame
Jack Carlin ([1]) seems to have unilaterally moved an entire character profile from Characters.Super Mario Bros Allies to Characters.Super Mario Bros The Princesses. Can i get a consensus if their changes can stay or if they should be reverted?
resolved can i use the eye scream trope for a page? Videogame
so, the game, my singing monsters, has very little tropes for its characters and, since it's a musical game, there are bound to be unique ways of a character playing its sound. one of the characters, knurv, pulls out its eyes to make its sound. now, i want to add the eye scream trope to its page, but it's not exactly harming the character. do i add it?
resolved Uploaded cover-art for the wrong X-Over. Videogame
Newbie editor here. I recently uploaded cover-art for an Arknights/Code Geass fanfic onto here and well... it was actually for another one. Whoops. The page's original author undid my edit, but we still have that image lying around. What do we do with it? Delete it, or leave it up until someone makes a page for it?
resolved Transparent images - ''Tekken 8'' Videogame
Hi all,
I noticed that the official site has high quality transparent images of the cast of 8, and as transparent images are a site preference, I thought this could be a good plan (see in-situ grab below - I have tested the images, but haven't changed anything yet). I'm very active in the Fighting Game pages, but as Tekken is a series I'm less close to, I wanted to get some sort of consensus before actioning anything out of courtesy. Let me know!
(EDIT - sorry for the double post! hit post twice :/) Lex.
Edited by lexiiresolved Re-adding a pothole Videogame
On Characters.Fire Emblem Fates Corrin, troper rmctagg09 removed a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome pothole since it was "not particularly surprising". However user Lord Twibill added it back with a (imo) rude edit reason. Tagg already reported it here but I feel like this is concerning enough to warrant an ATT report.
Edit: Turns out that this is edit-warring:
Edited by Ayumi-chanresolved How do you add an Apostrophe to a work title? Videogame
I recently made a page for the vr game Asgard's Wrath, and I don't know how you get it to show the, 's in the title, so it looks proper. Some help would be appreciated.
Edited by Avenger09resolved Is this trope misuse? Videogame
I wanted to ask something about With Catlike Tread in case I'm just misunderstanding it. My understanding of it is "Exceptionally noisy/noticable attempts at stealth". But the examples listed from videogames seem to count "noticable to the player in real life" as "exceptionally noisy/noticable" even though it's not portrayed as such in-universe. Here are some examples of this.
- In Xenoblade Chronicles 1, Riki is prone to screaming "Riki sneaky!" when activating his "Sneaky" skill, a special attack that deals more damage when hitting enemies from behind. This doesn't actually affect enemies' perception of him, though.
- A major design element of Overwatch is that every hero (except Zenyatta, who floats) can be heard through walls; it can be very easy to hear Reaper (who wears big heavy boots) or Winston (a giant gorilla) attempting to sneak around you.
- Somehow, The Legend of Zelda's Link can always stay unnoticed as long as he's out of sight no matter how loudly he grunts and screams.
So my question is, are these misuse? Or am i misunderstanding the trope somehow?
The thing that prompted me to ask this is that I removed the entry for this trope from the Patapon page thinking it was misuse and Reginald Ogron 5 added it back with the edit reason saying that it is indeed the correct meaning, despite it being obvious only to the real life player and not anyone in-universe.
resolved Redirect or just cut? Videogame
I see that a page for VideoGame.Yakuza Kiwami 2 was previously made back in 2020, but doesn't have any tropes listed and is basically a stub. The only other edit made was about a year ago. Kiwami 2 is a remake of Yakuza 2, and the VideoGame.Yakuza 2 page already contains a folder about tropes that are exclusive to the Kiwami 2 remake.
Should the Kiwami 2 page just be a redirect to Yakuza 2 in that case? In the same vein, I was thinking of making VideoGame.Yakuza Kiwami (a remake of the first Yakuza game) a redirect to VideoGame.Yakuza 1. Or is it a case where it should just be cut since the thing in question isn't crosswicked that much (6 wicks for Yakuza Kiwami 2, 1 wick for Yakuza Kiwami)? I apologize if this isn't the right area to ask this question.
Edited by taotruthsresolved Potentially suspect forum activity Videogame
Troper memers has made a lot of suspect posts on the Trails game forums that feel wrong.
For context, we were discussing a character who, in a victory quote, really likes young girls (..yeah). Here is the quote in question (11:58 mark).
But memers have been trying to downplay the entire thing such as here,here and here. I don't feel comfortable with these posts but I want to know what other people think about this.
Edited by Ayumi-chan
The one-month-old account TNO Enjoyer has been displaying a pattern of bizarre behaviour. I don't have the time to catalogue it all in detail, but it includes and is not limited to:
I know absolutely nothing about Hearts of Iron and its clearly extensive fan-work community, but there are no results for "Elementa Chronicles" on Google whosoever, unless you count misspellings of a Minecraft fanwork series named the Elementia Chronicles. I can't tell if this Troper is a troll or vandal, or simply trying to trope their own unpublished mod, in which case it should be on Darth Wiki. In any case, they've made an awful lot of stubs.
Update: I have sent Characters.Chroniclesof Elementa, Characters.Revolutionaries, Revolutionaries.Characters, and Analysis.TNO Legacy Denmark to the Cut List, the former three for being stubs, the latter for namespace misuse. Edited by Azorius24