Talk:Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved

message: Nandesuka: please justify why you have deleted my paragraph about this controversy, i had rewritten it in neutral tone, and this controversy is a fact you can't deny, see that digg thread. 90.14.48.122 01:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is a tertiary-source encyclopedia.  Deciding whether something is "a controversy" based on (for example) comments on an internet forum violates our content policies.  If you can find an article about the controversy in a reliable third-party source (for example, gamespot), that might be appropriate for inclusion. Nandesuka 12:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vista-only Controversy 

message: The Windmill IS atracted to you, try it out if you want. Gonna correct it--SalomonMuriel 03:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're correct; I'll remove the image. Xihr (talk) 21:34, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

text: When I run that clone, after exiting it, the music continues to play.  In order to stop it, I am forced to terminate the process through Task Manager.  Does anybody else have the same problem? BirdValiant 22:59, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I only get that problem if I exit via Alt-F4. Are you exiting through the ESC menu? 24.220.195.154 02:31, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes, I exit through the ESC menu.  My entire desktop remains black, but I can reveal the icons by rolling my mouse over them, and fully by maximizing a window of some sort. BirdValiant 03:16, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrections 

message: Now that the game was pulled because Bizarre asked the developer to, Grid Wars has recieved wide media coverage, and I believe notable enough for its own article. I created the article and listed several sources. --SevereTireDamage 11:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Grid Wars]] article

message: Is it comparable to Tempest rather than spaces invaders ? Rich   Farmbrough 13:17 14  March 2006 (UTC).
I'd imagine that the reference is to graphical style - certainly the original Geometry Wars owes a debt to Tempest, and Retro Evolved's neon is reminiscent of Jeff Minter's Tempest 2000 and 3000. --130.119.248.11 12:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems more like Space Duel to me...
--72.91.214.104 (Contribs|talk) 14:57, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Tempest

message: This link would seem to justify inclusion of a mention of the similarity between the two games, yes? There are probably others, but the signal-to-noise on my google search was pretty high, since I don't play either game console. -- nae'blis 01:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: About the only reasons I can think of why flOw and Geometry Wars would have any similarity to one another are that there's some passing resemblance between the player's "character" in both games, and that each game is widely considered the "download of choice" for its respective console.  Otherwise, the games are not very similar at all. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 15:24, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[flOw]] 

message: OK, there are 2 versions of this game:
# Geometry Wars- in project gotham racing and I think XBOX live arcade maybe
# Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved- in XBOX 360 arcade, Steam, and MSN games
There is no "Geometry Wars: Retro" version before Retro Evolved. --⁪ffroth 05:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Versions 

message: The game plays a lot like Asteroids. 76.126.35.84 (talk) 01:27, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Asteroids

message: Since I didn't see a topic on this page for discussing splitting Geometry Wars: Galaxies into its own article, I'll start it.  I support this move, since Galaxies is a superset of Retro Evolved and introduces many new gameplay features not found in the original Geometry Wars.  Basic gameplay is the same, but there are enough notable differences between the two games to warrant making a new article for this release. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 00:22, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I came here to read an article specifically for Geometry Wars Galaxies, which doesn't exist at this time, so I support your move.  I'll be glad to help with the article once you get it started. Modul8r (talk) 16:41, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  Since this discussion has been open for 10 days and only received one comment, I'm going to go ahead and perform the split. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:05, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for taking action on that. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 21:04, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I somehow missed this thread, but for what it's worth I endorse with the split.  In the final analysis, they're different games, after all. Xihr (talk) 05:12, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split discussion: Galaxies 

message: are these really considered "enemies" ? xenocidic (talk) 14:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Galaxies manual, they are.  They can kill you, they move toward you (albeit slowly), and they release smaller and much faster enemies if they get too large.  Sounds like the definition of an enemy to me. :) — KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:02, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  red circles (black holes) = enemies? 

message: The article is kind of confusing.  The article seems to mix information on GW and GW:RE.
Perhaps a Geometry Wars Series article is in order?
Wageslave (talk) 02:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They were originally separate and were merged together, hence the mish-mash.  Here we go in circles again ... Xihr (talk) 19:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two articles for between Geometry Wars and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved? 

message: "A new version, Geometry Wars: Evolved, has been produced for mobile phones,[2] and a version has also been released for Windows Vista, as well as a reduced-price Windows XP release on the Steam content delivery network." - that is misleading as it suggests the PC game as called "Geometry Wars: Evolved" when actually it is a port of "Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved", which is identical to the PC version except it doesn't have achievements.  Note, also, that the steam version IS compatible with Vista, even though the game's site recommends the msn version for Vista users. Skip1337 (talk) 11:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, we probably just need better wording for that section.  The whole thing is a mess, though - see the split discussion just above here for a proposal on how to improve the overall article. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 15:52, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading info on the PC games 

message: I tried to find the MSN Games version of Geometry Wars, but for some reason, it seems like the game was removed from their website. Can anyone confirm this? General Heed (talk) 04:48, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  MSN version gone? 

message: Apparently some features were removed for the PC release, this needs to be added to the article.--Craigboy (talk) 05:51, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:    Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved - PC differences