Eh, it's a lateral change for me except that the current is Night-Vision Friendly for being transparent. I don't think we need to keep updating it when new games come out, it doesn't diminish that the current is just as illustrative.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI think when your game series reaches the 16th installment, that's enough to show that it's a a Long Runner.
Keep current.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Aug 8th 2023 at 8:18:13 PM
My only issue with Doctor Who is that it's slightly misleading given the years-long cancellation until it was eventually revived, so it wasn't a straight 60 years of Doctor Who content.
I don't think that diminishes the image though, so realistically I don't have an issue.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallMy main argument for changing it isn't just that it's the latest installment, but that there was a sizable gap between XV (November 2016) and XVI (June 2023).
One game released 29 years after the first game, the other got released 36 years after.
Edited by TimeLordVictorious on Aug 8th 2023 at 9:05:03 AM
"Shout, shout, let it all out These are the things I can do without, come on I'm talking to you, come on!" -Tears For FearsSo I think the best way to demonstrate this would have to include text, but beyond that, if the work stretched through enough eras to have clear technological improvement, that's even better.
Best I could come up with were some posters from Sonic's 30th anniversary, but had trouble getting them to look good at wikisize. Here's a link and my personal pick (taking TC at their word that this is official):
https://tailschannel.com/sonic-the-hedgehog/30th/rumoured-posters-discovered-online/
Full Sized, deliberately not shown to keep comment size reasonable: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soniclr2.png
I'm going to say
to any example that's just a highly-numbered installment (like Current or OP). Long-Runners is supposed to be about length of the franchise's lifespan not number of installments. A franchise that comes out with fifteen entries in five years is not a Long Runner. I know from outside context that Final Fantasy is a Long Runner, but not from a standalone shot of the most recent game's logo.
The joke about Final Fantasy XV/XVI being far from the final game in the series adds nothing and it's an Urban Legend of Zelda (which is to say, it's completely untrue) that Square thought Final Fantasy I would be their last game anyway.
to any example that's an anniversary poster. That is what this trope is about.
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Long Runners

With Final Fantasy XVI now released, I'm proposing to update the page image of Long-Runners from the logo from Final Fantasy XV to the logo of XVI.
"Shout, shout, let it all out These are the things I can do without, come on I'm talking to you, come on!" -Tears For Fears