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== Bionic Commando ==

[https://strategywiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Bionic_Commando&curid=98523&diff=803916&oldid=803861 This] seems to suggest that this should be split into two different series: {{t|Wolf of the Battlefield}} and {{t|Bionic Commando}}. What do you think? -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 21:23, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

: The gameplay of ''"Commando/Wolf of the Battlefield"'' (and its sequels) is fully incorporated in the ''"Bionic Commando"'' games, as a mini-game or special bonus stages. It is the same as when [[Mario Bros.]] was incorporated into [[Super Mario Bros. 3]] (and in a different way in [[Super Mario All-Stars]]). Since ''Mario Bros.'' and ''Super Mario Bros.'' are in the same series, then I would also keep ''Commando'' together with ''Bionic Commando''. ---[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 11:51, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

: Simply put, whenever I select "https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Mega_Man_III" in the address bar, my browser changes it to "https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Mega_Man_III/", and I get to an error page, therefore I created the redirect back to the actual page. It does it with plenty of Strategywiki pages. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 17:50, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

::This sounds like an issue with your browser, since the trailing / is considered a different address than without, and as such has different content. This should _definitely_ not be in the Mega Man category. Although I like having redirects for possible misspellings of names, I'd rather this issue be fixed globally rather than relying on redirects. -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 17:58, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Just before reading your answer, I thought that maybe it could be fixed globally. I wonder why it came to my mind only now. Therefore, I will look for all the similar redirect pages I created, and delete them all. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 18:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

:Which browser/version are you using? And any extensions? -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 18:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

:: The latest Mozilla Firefox, without any extension. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 22:40, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

:::That's strange.  I've been using the same for years and never seen that happen. -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 02:52, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

:::: Well then, I will use more patience: if I have to delete the trailing slash twice or more times, I will do it. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 12:32, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

:::::If you're seeing it, there may be others having the same issue.  Can you try starting firefox in [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode safe mode] and see if you can reproduce the issue? -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 19:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

== Mega Man Bosses ==

One of the discussions we had a while ago was to not put the bosses in weakness order, but to try and follow the display order.  Weaknesses would be considered a spoiler so it shouldn't be displayed in the ToC. -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 14:45, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

: Yeah, I agree with this.  The information should be contained in the guide, but presented in such a way that readers only discover it if they actively choose to find out what the weaknesses are, not simply by looking at the table of contents.  Spoiler-free is difficult to do, and takes a greater deal of planning and organizing, but it gives each guide a higher level of quality in the end. '''[[User:Procyon|<span style="color:red">Pro</span>]][[User talk:Procyon|<span style="color:grey">cyon</span>]]''' 14:52, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

:: I see. I am fine with that. If I knew it, I would have respected it. I can fix it. How about sorted by serial number, i.e. as they are presented during the ending credits? --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 23:26, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

 

 

 

 

 

* ''Eye of the Beholder'' is sort of a '''crossover''': it is a clone of Dungeon Master (same identical gameplay) with the setting of AD&D Forgotten Realms. Players who loved the ''Dungeon Master'' series will love its clone, too; players who loved other Forgotten Realms games might or might not love ''Eye of the Beholder'' (in particular, I like open-world role-playing games, but dungeon crawls are boring to me).

 

Wow! You listed more options for the gallery that I could imagine. Thank you! --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 13:36, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

:I saw you join discord for a few minutes the other day, but you disconnected before I had a chance to message you. I've set up a page in the [[StrategyWiki:Guide/Discord|guide]] about it. -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 00:26, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

 

: It is interesting, indeed, and I will keep it in mind. On the other hand, all the links I make between [[Ultima 4]] and its [[Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (NES)|NES remake]] are to allow readers/player to make a comparison between them. They add no information on the topic. <br>I started by making a single walkthrough (as I could do for [[Ultima 3]]), but then I realized that every single section had a subsection starting with "In the NES port, instead,..." I reached the conclusion that the NES version is different enough to be considered a remake. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 16:41, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

 

I know, but in this case the sidebars would be almost as big as the original sections. In fact, in the NES remake, many clues are learned in different towns, many items are found in different locations, some dungeon floors are different, some sub-quests were removed and new ones were introduced. I purposedly made the two tables of contents identical, and the two guides do share all the appendices. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 03:44, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

# The second Mystery Dungeon game is a ''Shiren the Wanderer'' game, that is an original character exclusive to the '''Mystery Dungeon''' series, but completely unrelated to ''Dragon Quest''.

 

 

:: It is just a different romanization. I always see the Japanese preposition "no" (Eng: "of") romanized as a separate word, but in this case the official localized title leaves it attached to the word as a suffix. Remembering Procyon's statement, I created a redirect. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 14:25, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

 

 

 

: I usually choose to organize by <u>genre</u> (e.g. [[:Template:Mega Man]]). If a series includes games belonging to different genres, I think a player is more likely to play only those whose genre he/she likes. If you loved ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'', you are willing for more of the same; the old template showed it next to ''[[Castlevania: Rondo of Blood]]'', but it has completely different gameplay: if you were looking for another ''Symphony'', you would be sorely disappointed. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 15:57, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Ok. It was an experiment. Can I keep a presentation by genre in the category page? (I wrote it already, I will publish it, if you disagree, it can be easily undone). It could serve as a basis for a "similar games" section that can be added in the "getting started" page of the individual guides. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 07:40, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

:The series category pages are pretty open to interpretation. I think the genre content is pretty interesting. -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 13:00, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

 

 

Hi Abacos.  Just wanted to let you know that I renamed the Willow guides.  Your naming wasn't really inline with our [[StrategyWiki:Guide/Main_game_page|naming conventions]].  Typically, the first game to go by a title gets the guide.  So in this case, the mini-game version (1988) came out before the other two (1989), so it gets the name "Willow" with some disambiguation information posted at the top.  The other two are then named with some other identifier.  In this case since they were exclusive to one platform (NES and Arcade), that's what I used.  If, say, the NES one came out the same year on another system, I might have used the year instead, but since that wasn't the case, this was a pretty easy choice.  I moved the guides and their subpages around, but I didn't bother moving either image category for now cuz that's kind of a pain.  Let me know if you have any questions.  '''[[User:Procyon|<span style="color:red">Pro</span>]][[User talk:Procyon|<span style="color:grey">cyon</span>]]''' 03:17, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

 

 

Hello, Abacos -- what's your source for crediting [[Tower of Doom]] to Tom Loughry? The old Blue Sky Rangers pages credit the game to Dan Bass and John Tomlinson: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160406231105/http://intellivisiongames.com/bluesky/games/credits/1984.html#tower] [[User:Silverspell|Silverspell]] ([[User talk:Silverspell|talk]]) 02:04, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

::<br />Hmmm, but that source seems to contradict the idea that Tom Loughry had anything to do with Tower of Doom, doesn't it? From the CRPG Addict's review, we have:<br /><br />"[Loughry] planned to offer such features in a third Advanced Dungeons & Dragons title, but the project died during development. (He says it would have been "kind of like Zelda.") Later, '''other Mattel developers''' began working on a third AD&D game, but they lost the license in the meantime, so the game was ultimately published as Tower of Doom (1987) without the AD&D connection."<br /><br />(Emphasis mine.) To me, that certainly indicates that Loughry didn't work on Tower of Doom (which isn't anything like Zelda), in accordance with the Blue Sky Rangers pages that attribute it to Bass and Tomlinson.[[User:Silverspell|Silverspell]] ([[User talk:Silverspell|talk]]) 20:55, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

 

 

 

Hi Abacos.  I would support the nomination of U4 for featured status.  Our featuring system sort of relies a bit on large group participation to support or disagree with the nominations, but we don't really have that level of activity these days.  Nevertheless, I would say let's go for it, and if it just sits there and doesn't move, we'll go ahead and promote it.  '''[[User:Procyon|<span style="color:red">Pro</span>]][[User talk:Procyon|<span style="color:grey">cyon</span>]]''' 18:21, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

 

:Although I haven't been active much these last few years, I still trust your content creation skills! You have my vote. --{{User:Notmyhandle/Sig}} 01:36, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* [https://strategywiki.org/w/index.php?title=The_Legend_of_Zelda%3A_Oracle_of_Ages%2FBlack_Tower&type=revision&diff=908286&oldid=805476]

All these plot flaws bothered me since the first time I played the games. I know that there are other players who were bothered the same way, but our opinion is constantly rejected by other players. It would be nice if, instead of deleting annotations, [[User:HitoJamal]] had read the page about the plot flaws: [[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Continuity forks]]. --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 09:26, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

 

 

 

 

Congrats, I guess you haven't slept in a year. Enjoy this new adventure, and I hope we see you again in the future! -- [[User:Prod|Prod]] ([[User talk:Prod|talk]]) 15:52, 5 April 2022 (UTC)