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TimeLordVictorious Never Ask Me For Anything Ever Again from the Devil May Cry series Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Never Ask Me For Anything Ever Again
#1: Aug 8th 2023 at 1:18:06 AM

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.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ff16_2.png

"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
GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#2: Aug 8th 2023 at 1:19:40 AM

[tup] though the thread link is broken (the one in the OP works though)

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#3: Aug 8th 2023 at 1:23:08 AM

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.

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StalkerGamer That's All, Folks! Since: Dec, 2021 Relationship Status: Love is an open door
#4: Aug 8th 2023 at 3:45:09 AM

Keep current, is unnecessary to updating

Inky100 Ragdoll used for creepy stuff from The virtual horror factory Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Ragdoll used for creepy stuff
#5: Aug 8th 2023 at 3:45:24 AM

[up]

Waiting to have my head disfigured and mounted on a wall.
AudioSpeaks2 Since: Apr, 2022
#6: Aug 8th 2023 at 5:17:42 AM

I 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

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#7: Aug 8th 2023 at 7:03:06 AM

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TheLibrarian1701 Since: Dec, 2022
#8: Aug 8th 2023 at 7:15:37 AM

Honestly, I think something longer running would drive the point home better.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mv5bztq5ota1mwqtowjims00mmzjlwi4mjmtnzcwzjcxntjizty5xkeyxkfqcgdeqxvymziymtayntq_v1.jpg

Edit:

And that's ten years old. Anyone know if there's official material for the 60th anniversary special, yet?

Edited by TheLibrarian1701 on Aug 8th 2023 at 9:19:47 AM

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#9: Aug 8th 2023 at 1:14:04 PM

We definitely don't need to swap the current to the latest not-final fantasy for the sake of it. Doctor Who's not a bad idea, but I'm not finding anything official that has the "1963-2023" year range which I think would really hammer it home.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dw60.png

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#10: Aug 8th 2023 at 1:17:08 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.

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GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#11: Aug 8th 2023 at 1:17:57 PM

I think the joke of using Final Fantasy is the irony of there being a 15th edition of a game series called Final Fantasy

TimeLordVictorious Never Ask Me For Anything Ever Again from the Devil May Cry series Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Never Ask Me For Anything Ever Again
#13: Aug 8th 2023 at 9:04:55 PM

My 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

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TheLibrarian1701 Since: Dec, 2022
#14: Aug 9th 2023 at 7:21:24 AM

It's true that Doctor Who had a big gap, but as I understand it, they had the Big Finish audio productions during that time which were later referenced during Paul McGann's return in "Night of the Doctor", thus canonizing them. So, you could say it never completely went away.

HoloMew151 Space Gal from From Deep, Deep Space Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
Space Gal
#15: Aug 9th 2023 at 10:15:56 AM

[up] Plus, there was a series of novels during that time which kept the franchise alive.

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#16: Aug 9th 2023 at 11:31:44 AM

That's true.

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ANonagon9 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#18: Aug 9th 2023 at 7:01:38 PM

So 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/

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soniclr.png

Full Sized, deliberately not shown to keep comment size reasonable: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soniclr2.png

TheLibrarian1701 Since: Dec, 2022
#19: Aug 9th 2023 at 9:34:48 PM

[up] It just looks like a bunch of images of Sonic with nothing really highlighting how he's changed and evolved over the years. There's no oomph. No dynamism. Official it may be, but it feels flat, like they did it as an afterthought.

GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#20: Aug 10th 2023 at 2:50:55 AM

I still like sticking with Final Fantasy for the joke/irony

ANonagon9 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#21: Aug 10th 2023 at 4:00:15 AM

Are either of these any better?

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soniclr3.png https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soniclr4.png

GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#22: Aug 10th 2023 at 4:15:41 AM

Final Fantasy suggestions:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/niconico_final_fantasy_35th_anniversary_broadcast_notice_02.jpg

(The text at the bottom is a live stream broadcast notice which I can remove later)

This one is from a promo with a department store I think:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ff35.png

StarManatee Peter Igloo killed Ben Quadinaros? from The house in the ocean Since: Jun, 2023 Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
Peter Igloo killed Ben Quadinaros?
#23: Aug 10th 2023 at 4:27:41 AM

Keep current

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TheLibrarian1701 Since: Dec, 2022
#24: Aug 10th 2023 at 6:44:08 AM

We're going to need a crowner at this point.

MissConduct (Septatroper)
#25: Aug 10th 2023 at 12:31:47 PM

I'm going to say [tdown] 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.

[tup] to any example that's an anniversary poster. That is what this trope is about.

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