You guys are missing the point... although I do agree this isn't really a concept so maybe a different category like consoles maybe?
That way we can have stuff like overheating, gimmick, sixaxis, dualshockless and stuff like that to console problems or features or whatever. But until that happens, KEEP IT... it's part of gaming culture just like cake, so it should stay. Just re-categorize it or something, but yeah this site is like a Wiki of all gaming stuff!
keep? what for? you can basically add any 360 title to this category. it doesn't makes sense etc. i think it should be deleted. and for things like overheating and stuff they should just create one page per console about it, and you could write those thing there.
Wow the user who sent this in must have been pretty confused. Maybe he should create a custom list with what games made his 360 RRoD.
Like some other users in this topic, I think it still has some value as a concept but with the lone focus being on the RRoD.
A better concept for this could something like "Hardware Defects" or "Hardware Failures" (although this one could be mistaken for failure in sales so it would problematic). Something that would go through all the notorious hardware defects that have plagued the consoles (NES games read problems, early PS2 DVD Drive Problems, original Xbox Thompson Dirty Disc Errors, Xbox 360 RRoD, etc.) and other platforms in the history of the gaming industry. What do you guys think?
Silly pages are part of what Giant Bomb is about... Otherwise we wouldn't have pages like the Hamburger page. I say keep it, or create a larger "Hardware Defect" page like an above poster mentioned.
Agree on deletion. The concept pages shouldn't be a battleground for the console wars memes. Today: RROD. Tomorrow: 23 entries for RIDGE RACER, each with a different number of Is.
I vote to keep all silly pages. If you dont want to look at it, you dont have to. How can it not be a concept. The term concept is overwhelmingly broad. Something is a concept if it doesnt fall into the other categories.
"Case in point: http://www.giantbomb.com/giant-enemy-crab/92-747/ "
Although i do think if it doesnt exist in the videogame world it shouldnt be a page. This is not a website that caters to people who make stuff up. If the giant enemy crab is a ligit enemy somehwere (which i doubt) it shouldnt be here
Decision: Let's keep it for now. It's fun, obviously generates some fun discussion, and, as of now has no games attached and thus causes no harm. It's easy to delete a page, a whole other thing to make it yet again.
Log in to comment