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Latest comment: 6 days ago by Masem in topic Differentiate between gameplay genre and story genre
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Purchase/Download
editThere should be a column to redirect to official purchase/download page. I respect that this wouldn't be added due to large pirate communities. Xaelor (talk) 15:02, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- We don't link to storefronts, since for some platforms there are multiple places to buy a game. Masem (t) 15:18, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- And of course for every platform at least one. IceWelder [✉] 18:47, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Not only that, but it would violate WP:NOTPROMO. External links also work for games that are officially available online for free. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 23:46, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- And of course for every platform at least one. IceWelder [✉] 18:47, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Differentiate between gameplay genre and story genre
editThere should be separate sections for a game's gameplay genre and story genre.
For example, the gameplay genre of the Mario & Luigi series is RPG, but the story genre is action comedy. Benpiano800 (talk) 04:19, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Though I do suppose this would be redundant with genres like action-adventure. Benpiano800 (talk) 04:30, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Video games are routinely not characterized by their narrative genre, outside of horror game which intermixes the narrative and gameplay genre. So we avoid trying to use narrative genres. Also, knowing the mess these tend to cause for films and other works, that also draws a lot of original research and excessive flooding of genre descriptors, so its probably better we have avoided that. Masem (t) 12:38, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
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