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openWould this be Unwinnable By Mistake or Unwinnable By Insanity? Videogame
"Most RPGs with a party system that doesn't feature Leaked Experience has the danger of hitting this trope. Found a combination of characters you like using, or there's simply a character you just don't like fighting as? You better keep them leveled anyways as otherwise, you run the risk of being forced to control that character for a segment in which they'll likely be too weak to deal with the enemies they will have to face. More than a few Final Fantasy games are guilty of this."
I can see this going a either way. On one hand, the dev team is guilty for not thinking that players wouldn't want to level up/use certain characters while on the other hand, it's also partially the player's fault for not thinking to keep the entire party leveled incase of a scenario like this.
openEdit war Videogame
Noblejosher keeps readding a deleted expy entry at Persona 5: The Phantom Thieves of Hearts - First Half and presumably sarcastically pretending that he's 'correcting' a mistaken deletion. There's even a note at the top of the page saying not to do exactly what he's doing now.
openHunt Down The Freeman warning? Videogame
Recently a warning has been added to the page of Hunt Down the Freeman that advises the reader against buying the game. I couldn't help but wonder if this is an okay thing to do...
openWeird deletion for Kirby Star Allies Videogame
On the Kirby - Bosses and Villains page about Hyness, this was deleted
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: His abusiveness towards his own followers is bad enough, but wanting to see the entire universe destroyed by resurrecting a God of Evil? Yeah, the Kirby series being a generally happy, idealistic, and cute franchise full of Affably Evil characters, Tragic Villains with sympathetic backstories, and Generic Doomsday Villains makes him really stand out and hold the dubious honor of being the darkest most evil villain in the franchise itself, with none of the redeeming traits that flesh out most of the villains in the games.
Pretty sure the trope fits, but someone did a big revert edit that deleted most of the added tropes when there was no reason to. The name of the user is King Ghost.
May I add this back?
Edited by ReynTime250openServer Pi Clusters Videogame
TV Tropes doesn’t have any “tropes” on DIY Server Clusters or single-board computers used for videogaming and basic programming, can one be created?
openHORRIFYINGLY misleading information on Leonard from Drakengard 1...? Videogame
On Drakengard 1 "All There in the Manual: Among other things, it's revealed that Leonard was absent from the massacre that killed his companions because he was off in the woods having sex with a young boy." May I, please, have some kind of evidence? Because in character trope of Leonard it's written he was alone in the forest, and japanese sites also confirm he was alone in the forest. So, uhm, is this a foundless accusation of actually a terrible crime...? I know he's a fictional character, but that's just terrible to accuse a person of something like that without any kind of evidence???
Edited by DetectiveUselessopenElder Scrolls Lore Videogame
I wasn't sure if this was the best place to ask this; I asked this on the discussion page for Elder Scrolls as well, but that page is not highly frequented.
Should there be a new page created specifically for dealing with the deep lore; especially relating to C0da, Obscure Texts, Landfall, and other out of game lore treated as "canon" by the community (bear in mind that canon as found in other works doesn't really exist in the Elder Scrolls)? We have a page for ingame books, but what about out of game lore?
openMigrating tropes from a franchise to a single game Videogame
When creating a page for a video game separate from its parent franchise (which was, up until the former's page creation, covering all previous games in one article), if we migrate tropes to that new page, do we delete their entries on the franchise's page?
This is actually a general question, but since my focus is on a particular video game, I tacked this flair instead.
openUsage of TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter for bonus characters? Videogame
We're having a discussion in Fire Emblem Warriors about the inclusion of two characters who are Advertised Extras, but not available in the game until after clearing the main story. Much like That One Level or That One Boss, is They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character even allowed for characters introduced outside of the main story?
openNamespace Question Videogame
Why is Robot Unicorn Attack in the Sugar Wiki? Same with its spinoff in the Dark Wiki. Shouldn't they be under Video Games?
openQuestionable edit Videogame
Dere made this edit to Main.Ret Canon a week or so ago that seems bashy, with a link to Critical Research Failure, and I'm unsure how accurate it is since some Sonic games' stories were written in Japan and changes were made in localization.
Original: ** Sonic Unleashed and later games seem to borrow a bit from the American cartoons. Namely their more westernized tone and style, as well as Sonic and Eggman's characterizations, such as the former having a hyper personality. Before that, he was usually depicted with a more calm and cool personality.
Edited: ** Sonic Colors and later games seem to borrow quite a bit from the American cartoons. Namely their more westernized tone and style, as well as Sonic and Eggman's characterizations, such as the former having a hyper personality and cracking jokes all the time. Before that, he was usually depicted with a more calm and cool personality.note This shift in tone and characterizations can be attributed to these games' scripts being written by an American writer who is unfamiliar with the franchise[1]
, by contrast with previous games, which were written by Japanese Sonic Team members.
openWikiWord with different punctuation but for only a single namespace Videogame
I know that the Wiki Word has changed to fit multiple namespaces, but what if a work with similar names (and thus sharing all namespaces with them) has different punctuation in its titles? For example, Bug (disambiguation page), Bug and Bug! - the last has an exclamation point in its name, but trying to change the wikiword would also change the former two. Is there a way to make Bug! display "Bug!" as its Wiki Word without the others changing?
Edited by ironcommandoopenAdding content for early access games Videogame
So, I've been maintaining the pages for TinkerQuarry, a game on Steam that's still in Early Access Mode, but constantly being updated until the game is completed, whenever that will happen.
The game has an official Discord server where the creator reveals tons of supplemental info.
I try to limit my additions to the TV Tropes pages to info that is already in the current version of the game. However, the creator reveals so much interesting info on Discord that I want to add some of it too, but it's hard to tell if some of this info will be added to the game eventually, or just remain All There in the Manual.
It doesn't help that I've spent much more time following the Discord channel than actually playing the game, so most of the additional info is practically common knowledge to me. :P
So, how should I go about this? Is there a limit to what information I can or can't add?
Edited by DrNoPumaopenWhat is the origin of the gaming term "time-to-kill"? Videogame
As in the title. Does anyone know where it was first introduced?
openWanting to add a DethroningMoment about an AllThereInTheManual entry Videogame
I want to add to the Dethroning Moment Of Suck page an entry about Overwatch, but considering it's not in the game proper, where should it go?
- So, when Overwatch revealed its newest hero (28 feb 2018), her official bio was put on the site, except the age she's given doesn't make any sense (she's supposed to be 28, but according to a letter released, Mercy is supposed to have been there a few days after she was born, meaning that Mercy would have been 9 when that happened). Compounded by the lead writer's reaction on Twitter when releasing her, which was a simple "some things are wrong with her backstory". He didn't proofread himself, he didn't check if the information he gave to the team uploading the site was coherent with what he wrote, and he didn't apologize for it, his reaction could be summarized as "meh, i made a mistake, no big deal". It's at this point that I gave up any hope I had left for some form of coherence/continuity with this universe or for Michael Chu to have any credibility as a writer.
openUndo a large edit. Videogame
Troper Leid did a big overhaul of the Fate/EXTRA character page by moving all the tropes for the Fate/Extra Last Encore verisons of the character to a new section on the page. Their reasoning was to "avoid cluttering the page", but in doing so, has made the page huge and ironically made the page cluttered. Can I request an undo of it since going in and manually moving things back would take a good chunk of time? If not I'll fix it, but its far easier to request. Also theres no reason to separate the page that way since its an adaptation, if we did this, we'd have to do the same for all adaptions now.
openFE Fates YMMV Misuse? Videogame
Troper Gregster 101 added this to the Fire Emblem Fates YMMV page.
- It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: Similar to Fire Emblem: Awakening, many veteran fans are unhappy with the title overshadowing the rest of the series. Things got even worse with Fire Emblem Warriors, since the game disproportionately favors the newer games to the detriment of the older ones, and fans accuse both Fates and Awakening as the main culprits for being the games that brought the series into the mainstream.
I went ahead and removed it since this is just using one games YMMV to take a dig at another game, and that's not kosher. Wanted to see anyone else's thoughts just in case it escalates.
openQuestionable Hilarious In Hindsight entries Videogame
I know Hilarious in Hindsight is subjective, but some of the entries on BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle seem like big stretches. More specifically, those involving Game Mods and fan-made music videos. Is it really worth mentioning that someone put Persona 4 music over a RWBY fight scene once?

StoneBasilisk deleted this entry off of Defunct Online Video Games:
The reason: Avatar High does not provide any date of release or closure, and little to no information on the game can be found besides.
Can the entry be added back? When I made the TLP I figured that having dates would be helpful, but they're not exactly mandatory. With some games, especially web games, it's near impossible to find the dates they were added and the dates they were deleted.