Talk:Video game walkthrough

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Goals[edit]

Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_games/Assessment#Quality_scale for the ratings and their requirements (as well as examples).

  • Reach C-class article rating  Done at 05:23, 11 May 2017‎ --TheSandDoctor (talk) 01:20, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reach B-class article rating (Made GA class)
  • Reach GA-class article rating (promoted 7 August 2017)
  • Reach FA-class ratsng

Purpose[edit]

The purpose of this article is to expand upon the one sentence that is in Strategy_guide#Online_guides regarding video walkthroughs of video games to provide further information. An article of this sort may be useful wikilink to include within other articles as well and would be potentially more relevant than 'online guides'. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 23:31, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This article now has the focus being on video game walkthroughs in general (digital and print). Please review the current article structure and talk on this talk page before making any potentially controversial changes. Thanks! --TheSandDoctor (talk) 01:16, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

All walkthroughs are videos?[edit]

When I hear "walkthroughs", I think of large ASCII text files you would find on gameFAQs. This page seems to assume all walkthroughs are videos which is incorrect. TarkusAB 03:20, 25 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Games in the 1980s and 1990s were frequently the subject of lengthy text-and-photo walkthrough essays in books and magazinesUser:Cpaaoi 05:01, 25 February 2017

I was thinking the exact same thing. Some portions of this article seem more focused on let's plays or livestreams as well. ~Mable (chat) 10:09, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Maplestrip: @TarkusAB: Very true. If you can find any information to add to help expand this article's focus, I welcome it. I just had intended this to extend the Strategy_guide#Online_guides one line mention of video walkthroughs here but could see it 'working' as a more extensive article covering more. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 15:20, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Maplestrip: @TarkusAB: Regarding the title of this section, that has been addressed now. The original focus of the article was on walkthrough videos but it has been expanded and now includes a history section talking about text based ones etc. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 19:26, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the good work, SandDoctor. I'm sure to look through it later :3 ~Mable (chat) 21:32, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Maplestrip: You are welcome. I have requested a review of the article on the talk page of WikiProject Video games and someone will be looking through it when they have the time to offer suggestions to help upgrade the article from C class. My goal/desire is to get this article to B class and then Good Article class worthy. Please do ping ({{ping|TheSandDoctor}}) me when you do look through it and respond, okay? Thanks! --TheSandDoctor (talk) 01:12, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Maplestrip: Did you manage to take a look at it? --TheSandDoctor (talk) 23:17, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for reminding me! I looked through the article now and made a few copyedits. I really like how this article approaches its subject, and I think you did a really good job. I would say the article is pretty close to B-class. I think the first line should simply say "Video game walkthroughs or playthroughs are descriptive instructions for playing through a video game." - but I'm not sure how to insert that walkthroughs originated in magazines, which is definitely lead-worthy. Also, I'm a bit worried about the example-paragraph in "Creation of walkthroughs". I understand why it's there and I honestly appreciate the examples, but they seem fairly randomly picked. It doesn't help that all three do the same thing. Reading that IGN also does both text-based and video-based walkthroughs doesn't tell you anything new about walkthroughs themselves. I'm not sure how to fix these issues, though ^_^; ~Mable (chat) 09:58, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Maplestrip: You are welcome and thank you for the compliments! I understand what you mean in regards to the lead, maybe have that as the first line and mention the "originated in magazines" part as the second sentence (then copy edit for flow)? As for that example paragraph, now that you mention it, I agree that it is out of place. Maybe it should just be commented out with an HTML comment for now or removed (with clear summary to make it easier to find later)? Not really sure how to fix it up myself either. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 14:14, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Maplestrip: --TheSandDoctor (talk) 07:06, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not really sure either, hence why I didn't dig into it much myself. I think your idea for the lead sentence sounds good, and it's basically what I had in mind, though I have no idea how to copy-edit it into something that looks good. As for the example paragraph, I really have no idea what to do with it. I haven't really dug into the sources either... Maybe it just needs another set of eyes ^_^; ~Mable (chat) 08:24, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Maplestrip: What do you think of how I added the "originated in magazines" bit to the lead? And I agree that it needs a second set of eyes, I am just not too sure who to ask. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 18:46, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly rework focus[edit]

Seeing this come up in VG's new articles, and being the principle writer at Let's Play, I think you may want to reconfigure this page - with all the sources you have - about video games and the popularity of streaming video games (which is a very significant issue for the industry and one that I can't seem to find any pre-existing articles for, only about individual topics like Twitch or Let's Plays). This would thus incorporate playthroughs as well as Let's Plays but also competitve eSports and the like. Having it at "walkthrough" ties it too closely with other topics (as some points above make). --MASEM (t) 19:59, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not really sure what kind of refocus you're suggesting. Something along the lines of video game playthrough video or video games and online video? Such a topic would be interesting, though I'd start the article from scratch for those... Video game livestreaming? That is a distinct topic from let's plays, so that could work. A lot of speedrun-related articles could link to that somewhere in prose, for example. ~Mable (chat) 20:29, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It would be more of a history of how online video and streaming have interacted with video games, and not necessarily about a singular topic, as I see it. --MASEM (t) 20:54, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Masem: That is what has more or less happened now, the article has been expanded. If you have any more suggestions, please let me know. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 15:50, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]


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