Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Archive 12

message: Do we have an article on DK: King of Swing? Whenever I try to link to that title, the wiki software assumes I'm making an interlanguage link to dk.wikipedia.org. Is there a way around this? -- BrianSmithson 15:23, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The current article is titled DK-King of Swing DS. The top of the page states there's a problem with the namespace. ~ Hibana 15:27, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, thanks. -- BrianSmithson 17:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, DK-King of Swing DS is the sequel. Check DK-King of Swing for the first game in the series.--TBCTaLk?!? 05:07, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DK: King of Swing 

message: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has been nominated for featured article removal. The concern is 2(a), quality of prose. Pagrashtak 01:11, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The FAR has closed and the article is still featured. Thanks to Deckiller, Marskell, and everyone else who helped. Pagrashtak 17:21, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Wind Waker'' on FAR(C) 

message: Having difficulty coming up with improvements for the Planescape: Torment article. Any suggestions? Chris Cunningham 16:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A gameplay section would be a good start. Nifboy 16:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planescape: Torment 

message: Do note that the majority of my contributions to this WikiProject will be limited to the following four articles:
Neopets - I have been playing Neopets since August 2001. My current account (Hildanknight) was created in July 2005. I currently have 3.4 million NP in the bank and 1.3 million NP invested in stocks. With almost 5 years of experience under my belt, and having surfed many Neopets fan sites, I have a lot of knowledge about Neopets (especially criticism). Therefore, I can contribute information to the Neopets article, and verify information in the article. I can also provide in-game screenshots when they are called for. With my writing skills, I can also help with the organization of the Neopets article and its sub-articles. My goal will be to make Neopets a Good Article, following a Peer Review. Its nomination for Featured Article, initiated by me, failed miserably, but it has considerably improved since then.
RuneScape - I have been playing RuneScape since 2004. I currently have two active accounts, one created in April 2005, and my main, Hildanknight, created in July 2005. My main account has a combat level of 55, and its highest skill is Cooking (and Fishing), at 60. My experience and knowledge of RuneScape is considerably less than that of Neopets, so I will consider myself an intermediate player. As the RuneScape article receives copious vandalism, one of my tasks for this article will be to revert vandalism, and to aim to get the article permenantly semi-protected. As an intermediate F2P player, I will contribute and verify information, and provide in-game screenshots, particularly for its sub-articles. One of my concerns with RuneScape and its sub-articles is that they read like a game guide, and I hope to use my writing skills to fix that. I also aim to make RuneScape a Good Article after a Peer Review.
AdventureQuest - I started playing in late 2004, and created my Hildanknight account in July 2005. My Hildanknight character is level 59, but in the past few months, I have not been playing due to the Guardian Only Login. I consider myself a lower-intermediate player. Artix has recently created a survey, which, if Adventurers take, will allow them to bypass the GOL for 24 hours. I am willing to take the survey to play and spend a day working on the article. As my knowledge of AdventureQuest is considerably less than my knowledge of RuneScape, my contributions will deal less with information. I will be providing more in-game screenshots for the AdventureQuest article. In addition, the article is in desperate need of a re-write and cleanup, and this is where my writing skills will come in handy. Currently, I do not see any Good Article prospects for the AdventureQuest article, though I will not comment on the future, after I've worked on the article.
Chip's Challenge - This is not an online game. I started playing it a long time before I started using the Internet - around 1999 or 2000 - I estimate. Over the years, I have developed a love-hate relationship with the game, and have at times, for various reasons, taken long breaks from playing, only to return and discover my skills have been raised a notch. Last year, I started researching this game on the Internet, and this has helped me improved my gameplay and discover more about the non-playing aspects (e.g. history, players) of this game. I have currently completed 146 of the 149 levels in the game, with a total score of 5856964 points, and consider myself a good, but not professional, Chip's Challenge player. I will work on this article to ensure it provides a thorough coverage on the gameplay (without making it read like a game guide) and the non-playing aspects of the game. Obviously, I will also provide in-game screenshots. To get an idea of the detailed coverage I can offer, read the Google Groups article. Who knows - I may be able to develop the current short article into a potential Good Article, just as I created Google Groups from scratch?
--J.L.W.S. The Special One 12:25, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 4 articles I will work on

message: I don't know if this was the right place for it, but I thought I should mention it somewhere. CCR is being released at the end of the month as an extention to the Civilization franchise. There doesn't appear to be a page for it yet, or mentions of it on the Civilization game pages or on Sid Meirer's entry. 
IGN Page on Civ City Rome IGN Page
S.Skinner 13:09, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Civ City Rome

message: Yeah, basically, if a game has different covers for each territory (Japan, North America, Europe, etc), which would be best to use in the article's infobox? Just asking for style suggestions here. -- Steel 22:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest either going with the Final Fantasy articles' way of doing it (including all of them, but having the North American one be most pronounced given the majority of our user base; see Final Fantasy X for an example) or just using the North American box. Ryu Kaze 22:31, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional game cover differences 

message: I recently finished the split between the old CRPG page and the new cRPG page:
Now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_role-playing_game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_differences_in_computer_and_console_role-playing_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_role-playing_game
I'm not really familiar with the practices of this Wikiproject, is there something that should be done to the new pages and/or altered old pages now that the split is done?  Tags or whatever?  I notice that the new console role-playing game page does not have some of the tags and miscellaneous stuff on the old CRPG page.  Same for the new comparison page.  Can you guys help me "fix things up" a bit?  Thanks.  -- Solberg 22:41, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New page split 

message: I am looking for a game I play a long time age, I was hoping you could help me out.  The game had a female main character who was a cop.  The setting was a futuristic (hover) cars.  She drove around and had to shoot mafia guys and other bad guy and try not to kill innocent cars.  The user's view was from above.  After every mission there was a cut seem with her talking to the dispatcher.  The dispatcher often tries to hit on her but she knows how to handle it.  I think that she may turn into a cyborg at some point, but I am not sure about that.  Any ideas? Jon513 23:06, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't name the game (sorry!), but it does sound pretty similar to GTA2 or other games like it. Might it be Future Cop: LAPD? RandyWang (raves/rants) 00:58, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You'll probably have much greater luck on a gaming forum. RandyWang (raves/rants) 00:59, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: thank for your help.  I asked a gaming forum.  It was Traffic Department 2192.  Jon513 20:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking for a game