Talk:Heroes Chronicles

message: I just finished playing the Heroes Chronicles, so I know the story fairly well, but i'm not good at editing wikipedia. if i write them here or in email, could someone else write the descriptions on the actual page for me?
P2005t 17:16, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Er, maybe?  Go ahead and post what you have on the talk page first if you'd rather it be vetted by an editor.  Just keep a mind for doing encyclopedic writing, so try and avoid minutiae ("And then Bob found an ax that increased his attack by 2- well, at least in my playthrough." etc.) SnowFire 23:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Seems fair enough to me.  I will warn you that some factions on Wikipedia are not huge fans of long plot summaries, but this doesn't seem too over-detailed.  I took the liberty of making a few spelling changes.  Only thing I'd add is that be careful not to take "Tarnum POV;" as in, it's probably not an objective fact that it is their "rightful land," though they may consider it so.  I'd say go ahead and add it, though you can probably be even more brief for any other plot write-ups you do. SnowFire 21:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: alright, well it will probably actually be next weekend that i will write the rest because this one is almost over.  i will try to make them more brief by leaving out the less significant details 63.152.4.122 01:33, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

text: ...and this can probably be deleted from the talk page after it is added to the article  P2005t 00:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Whether we're writing for IGN or not isn't really relevant in this situation, since you must try to bear in mind that the Heroes Chronicles are storyline, serving only to introduce new players and add to the series' lore. A section on gameplay would be completely obsolete unless you want to duplicate or link to the one from Heroes III, since the games are at their core simply standalone campaigns for that game. The article covers eight games anyway - in these circumstances there's bound to be a lengthy section on storyline regardless of the specifics. Monere (talk) 22:19, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

text: Original writer here, logged into Wikipedia for the first time in nearly a decade. I actually agree now that my summary was a bit long. There's a ton of story in the game, but Wikipedia doesn't exist to explain all of that. More importantly, I'm happy the story section was finally removed because it was sort of an uncited mess. I understand it was removed in October 2015 due to being described in a primarily in-universe style, but to me it is more important that it was removed because when I was a teenager and wrote the original draft there is the potential I got the chronology of the 8 games wrong. It was quite alarming when a year or two ago I ran into people on the Internet using my summary as an argument from authority on the proper chronology. To rectify this issue, I reached out to the developers of the games as best I could, but I never received any kind of reply. If a reliable source ever does appear that states the game chronology, then someone could make a new and improved Story section, but if no such source comes to exist we should be very careful with what we publish. --P2005t (talk) 13:37, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Storyline