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openMultiple Violations of Quote Potholing Videogame
The page quote for The Roottrees are Dead has been potholed to Title Drop three times by three
different
editors
, despite the initial deletion
referencing What to Put at the Top of a Page. I sent the second editor the notifier and they removed their re-potholing attempt by themself, but the third editor added it back in. Does this warrant a reversion and a commented-out warning?
openEdit skirmish on Fear Effect Videogame
Yesterday
, I deleted the following example from Fear Effect on the grounds that it's incorrect (and Two Decades Behind has been renamed to Writer Behind the Times due to extensive misuse):
- Two Decades Behind: On the far right side of the second floor of the Wing Chun Tower is a group of people doing the Macarena. Keep in mind this game takes place about 50 years after it was released.
Approximately 2½ hours later
, ~amongsus reädded it without explanation.
I don't wish to start an edit war. It it OK to remove it again?
resolved Troper needing help with grammar, formatting, and zero context Videogame
stefanoiulli1999 has made multiple edits on AwesomeArt.Video Games recently. Most of the examples they added contain grammar errors such as nearly every word being capitalized. There are also some formatting errors such as work titles not being italicized, and also some zero context examples.
Their newest entry is a prime example of the grammar issues:
I don't want to judge them if they're struggling with English, but I thought you should be aware of this. I'll correct as many of their examples as I can, but I don't know what the right thing to say to them is.
Edited by DrNoPumaopenTroping they/them characters Videogame
Characters.Tekken 6 had an edit recently by Longing Snakelet 275 that renamed the Nice Guy trope to "Nice Person". The reason being that the character in question is of Ambiguous Gender, if not outright non-binary, and is referred to by they/them. Lexi reverted it because doing that tropes is technically not allowed, but I'm wondering if the first edit is allowed at all as an exception.
resolved Add images to TLPs Videogame
Please explain to me how to upload an image to T Vtropes server so I can use it in a TLP draft... It's so confusing, I already searched everywhere to figure this out
resolved Complaining/Misuse edits on ''Assassin's Creed: Shadows'' pages Videogame
For the past couple of months, it appears that Natsirtthe Man has been consistently misusing tropes on the YMMV page for Assassin's Creed: Shadows, seemingly to complain about and bash the game.
- On February 21th, 2025
: They edited the YMMV page to add an example of Memetic Mutation to promote a AI-generated
parody game
that is being released on Steam the same day as Shadows, then edited it
to be an example of Fandom Rivalry in spite of lacking any evidence to suggest that there is a mutual conflict between the followers of each respective work. I did delete the edit for misuse, but they would go onto copy and paste it
onto its trivia page instead under Dueling Works despite clearly being a Shovelware asset flip that has nothing mechanically in common with Shadows outside of being an (and I'm using this term loosely) "open world sandbox" where you can play as Yasuke.
- On Jan 15th, 2025
: They edited the YMMV page to add an Americans Hate Tingle example without showing any disparity between audience reactions involving a region criticizing a work and the work's region of origin which praises it. Instead, they used the trope to solely parrot criticisms involving historical inaccuracies, cherrypicked gameplay footage, and falsely stating that the game doesn't have a native Japanese protagonist
(who does exist via Naoe Fujibayashi) while also stating that "all the previous games in the franchise had you play as a native in the country of setting" (which is fictitious since Revelations, Black Flag, and Valhalla are all mainline Assassin's Creed titles that puts you in the shoes of a foreigner protagonist).
- Nov 21st, 2025
: Edited the YMMV page to add an All Animation Is Disney entry that references "Sweet Baby Inc." Deleted by another user due to violating ROCEJ.
- Sep 25th, 2024
: Edited the YMMV page to add a controversy surrounding a third party figurine to Tainted by the Preview even though it had no connection to the game's preview footage or physical editions.
I've also noticed that on the main page for Shadows, Natsirtthe Man has made several hidden additions under Artistic License – History without citations. The most recent
involving a recruitable NPC who they claim is historically inaccurate for being a female sumo wrestler. This example was deleted by another user due to the fact that the game isn't out yet, so the NPC's identity remains unconfirmed/speculative, and Women's sumo
did exist as early as 400 AD, albeit not in an professional capacity. But Natsirtthe Man would go onto add the example again
, with a longer description and still no citation.
resolved Sentient Equipment Characters Videogame
So I made a folder for the RuneScape character page dedicated to some of the sentient equipment that the player may use. I asked on the discussion board to see if it can be added about a month ago. I've taken the month of silence to add more to it, but now I'm kind of tired of waiting and would like to clear it from my sandbox for future projects. So now I'm bring my question here.
Is the folder for sentient equipment ready? If not what needs to be changed? You can find the folder here at the bottom of the page.
Edited by RonnieR15resolved Bloated example in CheeseStrategy Videogame
The Starcraft II example in Cheese Strategy is, at 3.6k words, longer than some essays I graded as a TA back in the day. It is meandering and overly detailed but not quite Walkthrough Mode. Is there a thread for improving such examples, or is consensus from here enough to trim/comment out/cut the example?
openHow to handle spoilers on a new work page? Videogame
I've just created a page for Ancient Dungeon after having it as a draft in my troper sandbox for a while, and as I begin to crosswick, I'm running into issues with what to spoiler-tag. At first on the main page, I only had details about the game's lore and certain mechanics only unlocked after a lot of progression had occurred, but I've now broadened this to also spoilering details about the final floor of each of run and the final boss.
As I start crosswicking, I notice that I find it more useful to spoiler-tag more things when the work is used as an example on a trope page, but leave them untagged on the work page due to the risk of the entire page becoming one big spoiler tag. Due to the game's nature as a roguelike, you'll be seeing the same bosses over and over again, but it also might take a while for a player to get good enough as to reach further places and bosses, so I'm conflicted. I also tried tagging details about the enemies in unlockable floors (Noxious Sewers and Luminous Depths), but it got pretty messy in practice.
The solutions I'm thinking of are to start spoilering details beginning at the third floor of the run (out of five floors), or to leave only the final boss and aforementioned lore details spoilered. I'm thinking of a disclaimer like Video Game/OMORI has about the details about its First-Episode Twist being untagged, stating what the Ancient Dungeon page would have untagged, but I'm not sure if I'd be allowed to do that.
Edited by YChan620openEditing Bias Videogame
Big Shot 1997 has done several edits on Deltarune pages (YYMV; Lightners; Three Heroes) that are questionable. They are clearly biased with Shipping Goggles, either removing or downplaying moments between the canonical pairing while pushing forward one that's implied at best; they tend to reference NSFW fan content, which is not only unnecessary but just gross since the characters in question are implied to be underage; and delete several tropes without explanation, such as Trans Audience Interpretation, LGBT+ Periphery Demographic or Lipstick Lesbian
resolved Not even including the spoilers? Videogame
The game Rain World has a secret character campaign, you need to enter a special code for it. For some reason, none of the pages related to Rain World actually tropes this campaign. They mention it's hard and the ending is a dating sim, but for some reason nothing else about it. There are several tropes that could apply to this campaign on top of my head, so I'm baffled that apparently every editor in those pages decided to avoid even mentioning it. Said campaign is two years old already.
Should I just go ahead and trope it?
open Is there a trope for.... Videogame
Is there a trope for video games where developers seem to anticipate a player will try a certain strategy, and design the level to make that strategy more difficult to implement than it seems? Or if they design the level to punish a certain kind of play, even if it's just the player being careless and not anticipating the consequences of their actions? Kaizo Trap seems close, but it's specifically about victory or completion, I'm thinking more in the general course of gameplay. Batman Gambit works but is very broad as a trope, and it may or may not be Developer's Foresight depending on the exact example.
As two examples that would fit what I'm thinking of:
- In Hitman, the water tower on Colorado seems like the perfect spot to snipe targets from. But if you try it you'll find yourself trapped, as the AI will instantly surround the water tower and pin you down there with no hope for escape.
- In Dissidia Final Fantasy, the last level of an optional dungeon lets you challenge your Assist character to access two chests behind them. But if you do that, you'll have no Assist when fighting the boss Gabranth, and he has a very potent EX Mode build (Assists as a mechanic hard-counter EX Mode, but you just killed your Assist).
openRecreating Characters/CookieRunEpicCookiesPartTwo Videogame
I'm thinking of bringing back this page again and then making the current Characters.Cookie Run Epic Cookies Season Five Onward page as a redirect to this page to make it consistent with the naming format for the CookieRun: Kingdom characters pages. Would this be OK?
Edited by PeppermintSodaopenWMG Editing Videogame
There's been discussion over on WMG.Marvel Rivals that's called attention to some issues people have with the page, myself included. Being a hero shooter full of marvel characters, there's a big section on the page where ppl can speculate on who the next heroes are gonna be, with some making guesses about gameplay, character interactions and what role the devs will give them. The vast majority of it, however, has just been people throwing a bunch of marvel characters' names onto the list with no further elaboration or WMG regarding the game itself. And as a result it's just created this very bloated list with zero substance to the majority of it. It elicits the same feelings for me as a regular tropes page having a ton of ZCE entries. But I don't know if mods or other editors are approaching WMG with the same scrutiny as a tropes page, so idk how to further proceed with this issue. And it's not like it's an issue unique to this one page.
Edited by IkeaHanresolved Should we split off the Fire Emblem section of Sliding Scale Of Gameplay And Story Integration? Videogame
I ask this because I just noticed the Fire Emblem entries in Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration take up a really huge chunk of the Video Games folder, and it might just be better to give it its own page for lack of clutter.
openIgnored notifiers Videogame
Yesterday, bf2234 added an empty folder to GameBreaker.Destiny 2, which I then removed. Normally, this would only prompt a notifier, but they have been reported in the past for repeatedly doing this while also edit warring and ignoring page comments in the process
. As they have received multiple notifiers and pings before, I feel an escalation to a tap on the shoulder is necessary.
resolved Changing the media that a page is. Videogame
Hello, TV Tropers. This is the first time I’ve ever asked something, so apologies if this first time isn’t a good first impression.
I’ve just created the page for the Roblox horror game, Color or Die, but I accidentally set the media type to “Video Games” instead of just “Video Game”. So, “Color Or Die” instead of “Color Or Die”. Is there any way I can fix this and change it to the correct version?
resolved Are we sure ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is that much of a CrapsackWorld? Videogame
Something I noticed on Video Games is that the entry for Fire Emblem: Three Houses seems to hype up its darkness a lot. In my view, it's no more or less crapsack than your more cynical FE installments or even medieval times, like Archanea, Tellius and Valencia. Yes, the Church of Seiros was oppressive as hell and there was a lot of suffering from various faction, but the world isn't fundamentally broken even in the mutably crapsack sense, and in all four endings all start veering towards an improvement/recovering once the war is over. So it doesn't seem like that much darker than Fire Emblem Fates, which didn't qualify, and seems to be confusing Grey-and-Gray Morality for Crapsack World.

I've had to send ~Thecommander236 ten notifiers over the past six days or so (five for crosswicking and one each for indentation, spoiler policy, sinkholes, grammar EDIT: and ZCE). As far as I can tell, they've ignored the notifiers and continued to make rulebreaking edits to the various Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon pages.
Edited by desdendelle