Forum:What release articles should cover

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• Intro
• [Story]
  • See also link to timeline if it (A) has one or (B) is part of a greater series and thus has one.

• Setting
  • Link to list of locations and world articles.

• [Characters]
  • Link to List

if(Game) {

• [Gameplay]
  • Discussion of basic gameplay, more to say if it's not a jRPG.
  • [Field] (if)
    • Talking to characters, interacting with objects, changing locations, types of location (Dungeon, Town, et al).
  • [World Map] (if)
    • Not the world or the map, the overworld outside of field locations. Terrain, entering locations, vehicles, anything else to be done on the World Map.
  • [Menu] (if)
    • Character customisation and stuff.
  • [Battle] (if)
    • Mains a large article
  • [] Relevant fields, e.g. Tracks for racing games, maybe headers for large mechanics like Junction (though they may be covered in the Battle article).

}

• [Development]
  • [Process(?)]
    • Dev process and then further sections for different releases
    • Fit concept art link in here somewhere?
  • [Demo] (if)
  • [Releases]
    • Version history main link if it meets a criteria (Translations link goes here, will probably also be on Version Differences article).
    • Different versions
• [Music]
  • Comments about music
  • [Soundtrack]
  • [Related releases or something]
• Guides
  • BradyGames, Piggyback, Ultimania. Could be their own H3s, with main links, or just a paragraph each with a wikilink.
• ?[Legacy]
  • [Sequels and shit]
  • [Other Appearances]
    • Subheaders of explicit appearances of release's characters, locations, and things. Not references, actual appearances.
• [Allusions] ?sort of related to legacy, well the allusions in other games to this game
  • Main link to article if it meets ACP
• [Credits]
• [Packaging]
• [Gallery]
• [Trivia]
• [See Also]
  • Link to dumb Wallpaper article.

What am I forgetting?

Discuss what should/should not be here, and how things should be re-organised. JBed (talk) 16:42, May 4, 2014 (UTC)

That's JBed's offer. Mine is:

{{Infobox}}

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a game in the <!--[SERIES]--> series. <!--Info goes here-->

==Sypnosis==
===Background===
===Setting===
===Characters===
===Anything else relevant===

==Gameplay==
===Battle system===
===Abilities===
===Anything else===

==Plot==
{{spoiler}}
{{/Timeline}}

Info here.

{{endspoiler}}

==Development==
===History===
===Credits===
===Soundtrack===
===Translations===
===Versions===

==Notes==
===Allusions===
===Trivia===
===Gallery===
===Videos===

{{<!--GAME NAVBOX-->}}
{{Final Fantasy series}}
<!--Any other relevant navboxes-->

Idea is; Sypnosis gives an overview of the plot and the world without actually going in depth, the Plot section does go in depth. Gameplay obviously only goes if it is a game, and I guess that applies to Development as well. Not sure about listing Guides? Legacy I don't feel is important. The list of sequels can go in the first paragraph and the navbox. It feels like things such as critical reception are irrelevant to this wiki, it's not Wikipedia.-- Technobliterator ^T_C 16:52, May 4, 2014 (UTC)

I think stuff about the release is good to mention though. General how many units sold and how well received if available (getting accurate figures for this seems tricky though). Also these days they like to do some promo stuff that could be mentioned in this section. Like that for FFX/X-2 HD they had a charity fund raise gallery showing of FFX art (where you could also get the game couple days before official release).Keltainentoukokuu (talk) 19:21, May 4, 2014 (UTC)