Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Banner Saga screenshot

The Banner Saga screenshot edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Apr 2012 at 05:37:11 (UTC)

Original – A screenshot of the combat system for the upcoming video game The Banner Saga. The characters take turns moving on the grid board and attacking (the mage is attacking in this shot). Also visible are enemy knights and Viking warriors.

Reason: Something completely different this time: a freely licensed, fairly high quality screenshot of a video game. I like the artistic style, and the EV is high as it shows us the game's combat system
Articles in which this image appears: The Banner Saga, Turn-based strategy
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: Stoic Studio

Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:37, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Not seeing it - the fact that it's turn-based is not at all evident in the screenshot, and there is little evidence of a "combat system". Also seems to be vaporware so far - who knows if this will ever be finished and distributed? For all we know, the article was written solely to justify the screenshots (presumably stuck in OTRS for three days), and to top things off, the screenshots haven't even been in the article for seven days! Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 14:50, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I have no idea what is going on in the image. JJ Harrison (talk) 03:41, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Updated description. Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:56, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. I am intrigued by the visual style and I wish this new, indie studio well—but I am reluctant to Feature content related to game software so soon after its public announcement, still several months from its anticipated release (See WP:CRYSTALBALL, Duke Nukem Forever) and potentially subject to substantial change or delay. For an illustration of a combat system, the dark knights aren't really doing very much, with their weapons held low and a lack of...engagement between the melee characters; is this likely to accurately represent the appearance of the final product, or is this an artifact of the game's early stage of development? Is the mage's spell about to do something really exciting in the next few seconds? TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:03, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Don't see the encyclopedic value... Once the game is released, there is probably going to be 1,000 videos on YouTube in the first week, and an innumerable number of screenshots online. This one is not anymore significant then any other. Dusty777 16:57, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:06, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]