Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Archive 3

message: I've been cleaning up History of computer and video games as best I can, but have run into a conundrum with the pre-16bit consoles. The concensus I've seen so far is that the 16-bit era is the 4th generation, the 32/64bit the 5th, the so-called 128bit the 6th, and the next round of yet unreleased consoles the 7th. Assuming the first generation is made of the hardwired electronics like the Magnavox Odyssey, Coleco Telstar, and Pong home version, that leaves 2 "generations" spanning the 8-bit CPU based consoles. The obvious split would be before and after the 1983 crash, but so far the divisions seem to be along the lines of technologies, and that split would put some technologically superior machines like the Colecovision before simpler ones like the NES. Then there's articles like this  that expand the crash and the years surrounding it into an extra generation. Our own List_of_video_game_consoles groups the 2600 together with the earliest machines. So the whole thing is a bit muddled. Or you could simply bag everything not hardwired and running an 8-bit processor under one generation, pushing everything after down one number. But I'm not sure if machines before the NES and Sega Master System can really be included as part of an "8bit" group, as I think the concern over "bitness" only came into being when the two were compared to their 16bit successors. I suppose the question is whether the generational divisions are on power/technology, or time periods. --24.114.252.183 07:43, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another era/generation problem 

message: I came up against the issue of how to represent storylines for Starcraft. If you look at that article, parts of the storyline are very detalied and others...arn't. I took it upon myself to try and come up with a way to do it, but then realized this is something that should be done as a whole for all computer games (or most, at least). I have a few sample entries on User:Alasseo/Starcraft Story but here's the main idea:
For articles with seperate storyline pages, I would have it arranged:
==Campaign==
===Mission name===
Mission subtitle, base location, ect.
Breifing
This would be a summary, "Kerrigan gloated over Raynor.", not a word-for-word transcript,
"'I ownzed j00 Raynor!!!!1' Kerrigan said".
Mission Objectives
*A Bulleted
*List
For missions with changing objectives,
I don't know if they should go in the next section or this one.
In Game Story
Same as breifing, with the possiblity of having mission objectives,
and being much longer for FPS like Renegade.
Or non existant, like for Doom.
I would have a simple synopsis for each campaign if the story wasn't long enough to get its own page, or there was just one campaign, ect. However, I'm new to all this so if you want to sit back and laugh for a little while at how naive I am..go ahead. I won't mind. Really. Alasseo 09:20, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
:Detailed per-level story descriptions would be a good start for a wikibook game guide(and it looks like there's a wikibooks:Starcraft guide waiting for input), but simply too much for an encyclopedia article. In fact, quite a bit of that article would probably fit better in a guide. For a game article, keep the story bits short and to the point. It's supposed to be about the game being played and its mechanics, after all.--24.114.252.183 07:01, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Storylines 

message: :This vote has ended.  The result was unanimous (10/0) support for making "Template:Infobox VG" the project's new official infobox.
I think it's fair to at least take a vote to see if anyone disagrees with making the template our official infobox. Assuming the "vote" passes we would use the template on all future video and computer game articles as well as over time, convert the old manual infoboxes to the template. Since I haven't seen anyone really against this, this could be a waste of time, but in fairness and in part because we essentially voted on the last one, I think this should be done before proceeding. K1Bond007 18:44, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
*Example: User:Mrwojo/temp
Support:
# K1Bond007 18:44, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
# Mrwojo 18:48, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Vote (closed, 10/0)