Talk:Episodic games

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[edit] Category:Episodic games

As part of the COTW, could we sort out which games belong to the category and which don't? - Hahnchen 12:56, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd argue for this article, we should stick to games that are sold episode to episode, with a likely final completion, similar to OAV sales for anime. Smaller bits of episodic content (like the Oblivion stuff) for games is also relevant, though those games probably still shouldn't be in the Category. My take:

IN: SiN Episodes, Telltale's Bone and Sam & Max, and probably earlier examples like Wing Commander: Secret Ops and Siege of Avalon.

OUT: Shareware games. Even though games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, etc. sold themselves by demoing out the first "episode", I would not consider the shareware model to be "episodic", as least the way we're defining it here - because the way you bought them was either all or nothing (well, the first episode being free).

Grey area: Golden Sun series, .hack games, games that actually are sold as full sequels, but storywise and sales-wise were clearly planned as a series from the start and shipped relatively quickly. I would lean towards no. --SevereTireDamage 20:56, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I pretty much agree with you there and cleared out most of the category. I've left the original hack series in, but got rid of the hack/GU. I've added in Kuma\War as well. What about the MMOs mentioned though? And a quite a few articles on episodic gaming talk about Majestic. I'd probably include Majestic, but aren't that sure about the MMORPGs.- Hahnchen 23:58, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

Whose opinion or research is being reflected in the advantages and disadvantages sections? This looks like POV to me, and I was about to delete it, but I thought I'd give a chance to find references first. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 01:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't think there are any sources per se: it's all just logic. Surely that's permissible. --Tom Edwards 08:39, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

It's original research. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 08:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, looks like it is. I vote we leave it until someone makes a serious complaint, though. Looking at it pragmatically, this stuff isn't exactly rocket science and shouldn't cause any problems. --Tom Edwards 09:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)