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Town of Salem Meme Redirect Videogame
Can somebody redirect or change the page from Town Of Salem to Town of Salem. They've got the entry right, but they've got the naming wrong.
L.A. Noire Insane Troll Logic example Videogame
This example has been added to Insane Troll Logic:
- In L.A. Noire, Cole accuses someone of hiding the fact that their friend was raped because when Cole asked her to describe her friend she didn't mention the fact that they were raped. This is made worse by the fact that the player needs to think to do this themselves during this character's interview, something which is highly non-intuitive for more reasons then just the insane nature of the accusation.note
The example also got added to Conviction by Contradiction where I believe it definitely would qualify as an example. But I'm not so sure about Insane Troll Logic. Would this qualify or no? Just to add some context to the situation within the game where this happens, Cole is specifically investigating a car crash, and both the person he's talking to and their friend were car crash victims. Cole specifically asks her to describe the passenger who was in the car with her, and she responds by giving the normal general description you would give to a question like that (the passenger's name, what kind of person the passenger is, and how bad the crash has been on her). This is when the player is expected to make Cole accuse her of hiding the fact that the passenger was raped because she didn't mention it. IMO I think it's safe to say that it's a pretty ludicrous leap of logic, but what would it be Insane Troll Logic, specifically?
Edited by BakerGoods
Red Link to new page? Videogame
Hey chaps,
I just created a new work page for the video game Heaven's Vault, and after some time it finally showed up in the search list, but it still spawns a red link every time I try to link it on another page. I checked all the tutorial pages I could find, but if the answer is there somewhere, it continues to elude me. Hope you can help :-).
The Wiki Rule on every related Trivia page Videogame
Pinokio added this:
to literally every single Castlevania trivia subpage (that's 37 pages), often creating the subpage just to add it as the page's sole example. This seems excessive, surely just once on the main trivia subpage is enough, right?
I already Cut Listed a couple of them before I realized they were on every page, so is it alright if I remove / Cut List the remainder of them?
Unique Ally Videogame
Should there be a Unique Ally trope?
Should the VideoGame/BattleTech game page be split to its own namespace? Videogame
Right now the pages for the BattleTech game by Harebrained Schemes and Paradox Interactive share the namespace with the tabletop game. Do you think they should be split off?
TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers misuse check Videogame
Marking this as Video Game since it keeps popping up under a work I'm following (Azur Lane):
Since this is a dialogue-only trope (with its misuse mentioned in Square Peg, Round Trope), it's okay to nuke like... a fifth of the actual The Last of These Is Not Like the Others page right?
A troper is readding this trope under the justification that there's already examples interpreting the trope as a non-dialogue trope.
For example, under the Anime & Manga section, there's only one actual dialogue example (the very first one) and all the other ones seem like misuse.
The Real Life section also seems like half, or wholly, misuse, so I'd like an opinion on examples like the Hedgehog gene example and the one Advertising example at the top, where it's not explicitly dialogue, before I start deleting a bunch of examples.
Edited by Darkaros
Example altered because of speculation. Need clarification. Videogame
I recently made an edit on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate nightmare fuel page that was altered and deleted because it was quote en quote 'speculation' I specifically checked the explanation and was almost overwhelmed by the wall of text that was given. The issue lies in the fact that I say Galeem isn't dead when Dharkon attacked it and everyone assumes it is which is also speculation because there's no way to tell if it's dead or alive. We can't tell if Galeem is dead or alive, on the other hand when Galeem attacks Dharkon he's very definitely dead (Dharkon was freaking disintegrated you don't get much more dead than that!) So how is saying that Dharkon killed Galeem any more speculation than saying that it simply imprisoned Galeem?
Edited by NKgamer
The entire point of HoYay Videogame
So Alooulla deleted this entire entry and its subbullets about Chie and Yukiko from HoYay.Persona 4 (bit too long to repost in its entirety here) with the reason "Nothing beyond friendship indicated." But... Isn't that the entire point of Ho Yay? Seeing romantic relationships where there are none?
A little confused about a rule involving the Dub over the Sub Videogame
So, I've been a fan of Samurai Warriors that's about the Sengoku Period and the english translation of all the games use the First Name/Last Name to refer to the characters, but the pages about Samurai Warriors uses Last Name/First Name for the characters since that was how it is traditionally written. I got a little confused as I thought the offical english translation was supposed to take prioity over how the names were spelled on that page.
So, now I ask which way is it?
Edited by Bobonofa
Merge these Castlevania pages? Videogame
We currently have separate pages for Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and Castlevania: Dracula X, the latter of which is just a Reformulated Port of the former. It's not different enough to warrant its own page, and the tropes exclusive to it could easily fit into their own folder on Rondo of Blood's page.
We don't have pages for any other Reformulated Ports, at least none are listed on the page, so I don't see why this should be any different.
We also have a page for Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, which is just a Compilation Re-release of Rondo of Blood and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It does include a 2.5D remake of Rondo of Blood as well, but as far as I know, said remake is virtually identical to the original, so again: not worth its own page.
New Super Mario Bros. 1? Videogame
Why is New Super Mario Bros. titled like that? I don't see any other first installments being named that way, like Super Mario Galaxy or Paper Mario 64. If anything, I think it should be called "New Super Mario Bros DS" to differentiate it from the Wii version.
Edited by Loopytires55
I Might Have Accidentally an Edit War Videogame
A user did an edit on Characters.Dead By Daylight, changing a descriptor if Ash J Williams from "An alone wolf" to "a lone wolf". This happened once before with the person adding back noting that "an alone wolf" is deliberate as it's a quote/reference to the series.
I did likewise, putting the descriptor back, but realized after I might have become edit 4 in an edit war since there was already one "remove and put back" sequence.
I think this falls under correcting incorrect information, but to be on the safe side I PMed the user who did the removing (who since replied they'd forgotten that from the show), added a commented out note explaining it's deliberate to prevent future well intentioned correcting, and posting here to head off any issues I myself might have caused.
Edited by sgamer82
TierInducedScrappy Question. Videogame
Rebel Falcon removed some Tier-Induced Scrappy entrees on the Fate/Grand Order tab citing the following reason:
"Tier Induced Scrappy characters are hated due to their gameplay, but are none-theless scrappies. However, Diarmuid, Jekyll, Astolfo, Siegfried, Scathach, Hektor, and Yu are all popular characters, meaning they aren't scrappies. Boudica is more divisive, but not a scrappy. According to the new rulings, If a character has been rescued, they no longer qualify, so a good portion of these characters are cut."
My question is if this is accurate. If a character is popular but considered bad gameplay wise, does that remove them from being a Tier-Induced Scrappy? I was always under the impression the trope was for characters being disliked because their gameplay, a popular and well liked character could be a Tier-Induced Scrappy because while the character is well liked, they aren't gameplay wise.
Borderlands franchise page Videogame
Borderlands 3 was recently announced. It doesn't have a page yet (not quite enough to put there at the moment), but this makes the fifth game in the series: VideoGame.Borderlands, VideoGame.Borderlands 2, VideoGame.Borderlands The Pre Sequel, and VideoGame.Tales From The Borderlands. I know there aren't enough mediums represented to make a Franchise/ page, but would it be appropriate to turn VideoGame.Borderlands into a general page for the franchise and move the first game to VideoGame.Borderlands 1?
Work has trope from a fanwork on the original work page Videogame
On the page for Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning, the very first trope, Abusive Parents, is from a fangame rather than the game itself. I understand if whoever added it can't think of enough tropes from the fangame to give it its own page, but this feels wrong. What should we do?
Hello9876 strikes again Videogame
This one troper wants to start an edit war over the YMMV/Mortal Kombat 11 page. Apparently any edit that doesn't agree with them is "biased" or "unnecessary", even though "biased" describes most of their edits pretty well.
They insist on redoing the second entry of Internet Backdraft with vocabulary that strays away from the entry's neutrality. I reverted it once, and just a few minutes after, they reverted it back to their own. And then there's them restoring the "Boner Culture" entry on Memetic Mutation, which has many reasons to not be there.
Any input of what should be done? This is not the first time this user behaves like this.
EDIT: Since someone bumped this, here's some backstory (some of which was mentioned in the first private ATT about them)
Hello 9876 has a history of edits with Word Cruft, redundancy and political and/or personal bias against certain matters, including gratuitous jabs at whatever stance/figure they don't like. They seem fixated on YMMV pages, since it's where they can "get away" with most of this behavior. This didn't just happen in Mortal Kombat 11´s page, mind you, but in pages such as Apex Legends´, Battlefield V´s and most recently, Doom Eternal´s, all of which have been reverted by now (and fortuntately not edit-warred over). I don't even want to look at what's going on with Red Hood and the Outlaws´s YMMV page (they really seemed to "like" it, as most of their edit history happened there before shifting to Mortal Kombat 11)
Here's an example of what this troper can do when not contained by the rest of the editors, the aforementioned "Boner Culture" entry, but back when Hello 9876 first added it on February 21:
- Boner Culture [[labelnote:Explanation]] Reactionary pro-Gamer Gate website One Angry Gamer wrote an article bemoaning the costume changes for female characters (including Jade and Skarlet)
, claiming that a move away from awkward sexualized costumes to those that are more distinct and intimidating was an attack on "boner culture" made solely to appease leftists and centrists. The outrage (and implications of necrophilia) became a point of mockery for many in the gaming community, spawning numerous endless memes and parodies.
- Boner Culture [[labelnote:Explanation]] Reactionary pro-Gamer Gate website One Angry Gamer wrote an article bemoaning the costume changes for female characters (including Jade and Skarlet)
Edited by perezman
Persona 2 Foreshadowing Videogame
I'm working on the Persona 2 page which I had to create from scratch, and to be honest it's exhausting. I need some help with the editing and maybe the phrasing, as well as adding appropriate tropes where they belong. If you are familiar with the work and know examples, that's even better. WARNING: there are no spoiler tags on it.
Rude troper deleting additions Videogame
Backstory: Ash from Evil Dead is being added as DLC for a game called Dead by Daylight. Here's the announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIn-XB9QSM4
I added Ash to the character page for DBD only to find it was all deleted by a Troper named Troper Be Doper. This was his editing reason: "This could not be a more obvious April Fools joke. Look at the date* he's released for cripes sake. Deleting this."
- April 2nd
So I decided to sent a PM asking him not to delete it and that it wasn't an April Fools joke since it was officially announced (plus I heavily doubt they would waste money to get Bruce Campbell, make fully functional perks and model and have him playable at PAX East, including complete alternate cosmetics too.)
This was what I got in response: "It's not happening. This couldn't be more obviously an April Fools gag if they released him on the day. I'm deleting him come April 1st when this turns out to be a joke. Just you wait. And I'm gonna rub it in your face."
It appears that there's no report troper feature on TV Tropes so this seemed like the best place to talk about it.
I would have added screenshots of the PMs but it seems it won't allow it here. You can, however, look at the DBD character page editing history to see his edit where he removed Ash.
Edited by nombretomado
Chronic rudeness from a troper Videogame
So, I went ahead and deleted a Walking Spoiler misuse on Characters.Sekiro Main Characters, and while I admit that I should just have kept the edit reason to a bare minimum, is this kind of null edit reason necessary?
- Reason: Hi, My name is Ano Baka Desu, and I'm a huge asshole who loves to bully people. I'm also the pettiest pos ever.
And Gene 0129's own description at the moment:
- Shout out to ABD for being the biggest dickhead ever, with the worst case of "I'm better than you/Holier-Than-Thou" syndrome.
Am I the only one that feels that call of duty zombies YMMV Page needs cleanup Videogame
Link here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/CallOfDutyZombies
Ok, let's not beat around the bush: this YMMV Page is kinda messy: It has chevkov's gun in this section for some reason... It Also has a few "as noted above/as noted below" that end Up being confusing as heck. And things like this:
Scrappy Weapon: The SMR, with excellent reason. Bad power, low capacity, arduous reload speed, semi-automatic and worst of all, it has a glitch that makes aiming down the sights exactly the same as hip firing, giving it almost nonexistent accuracy. It was never even patched during the lifetime of Black Ops II. Yeah, good luck aiming down the sights across 50 feet. After an update, the SMR FINALLY started to redeem itself in its Pack-a-Punched form, which gained improved accuracy. The Springfield, a weapon so weak it can't even one-shot a zombie in the chest on round 1. That in itself is inexcusable, but even worse is that the ironsights are off, requiring you to aim slightly to the left of what you want to shoot, otherwise you'll miss. On that note, the Kar98k. The only two things it has over the Springfield are that it can be bought off the wall on most Wa W maps for 200 points, and it doesn't have misaligned ironsights. Other than that, it's just as pathetic. Go ahead, try Pack-a-Punching it. It'll totally be worthy of the name Armageddon. In general a good chunk of starter weapons become this, due to fact that they become weaker as time goes on..
Sadly, I have barely any knowledge about call of duty zombies' story or Gameplay. If someone that was familiar with this series could help... It would be appreciated. Maybe splitting the YMMV page in two could also help
Edited by RAHDRON
Video Game AI Videogame
I've launched Video Game A.I. yesterday, and have requested the custom title "Video Game A.I." for it twice — both requests seem to have been declined by the mods without any comment. Now, I personally do not care for the punctuated acronyms, but that seems to be the rule for this particular acronym ("A.I.") here, at least in the custom titles, as a brief look at the list of subtropes shows. Not just that, but the mods have approved of the custom title along the same lines for Manual Leader, A.I. Party just this weekend. As I said, I do not think "A.I." is the proper way to write it, either, but I want the custom titles to be consistent, and updating it for one new trope is easier than for nine old ones.
What should I do? How do I reach out to the mods about this?
Edited by Koveras
Metroid Link Cleanup Videogame
I'm not sure if this is the right place for it, and if it's not i'm sorry, but can we get some cleanup with links in the Metroid pages? I was skimming them for Awesome stuff and a lot of the links, particularly to Metroid Database, end up coming up with missing image errors, and it's really a shame that so much awesomeness is being subverted into 'not found' when looked into further.
Dragon Project Work Page Help Videogame
For those who don't know, Dragon Project is a Monster Hunter-like Mobile Gacha MMORPG made by Colopl (a child company of Sega). The Global version of the game is published by Go Game, but the original Japanese servers are shutting down at June-29-19. Anyways, I don't exactly know how to make a work page, as when I click on the Edit Button from this link https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NamespaceGoesHere/TitleGoesHere
, the page is under Administrative Lock. Forgive me for my appearent stupidity, as I'm pretty new on how writing pages work.