" @BeachThunder: wow. i found whispered world to be utter crap. but i can see how one would come to like the game so i'm gonna take a guess here: you didn't play the original european/german version, right? "
What did you find to be utter crap about it? What's the difference between the German and the English versions aside from voice acting? You didn't think the game was utter crap because of the voice acting did you? =/
Actually, I was just thinking that it's a shame not many people played The Whispered World. It seems like a lot of people took notice of things like Machinarium, but not of The Whispered World. =/
In terms of this website, this actually comes across as being a non-issue. A greater concern is concept pages. Concept pages are not easy to verify in any meaningful way, but there are no strict guidelines. What I'm saying is that all of this deliberation about browser games seems to be based upon the idea that someone is going to submit 50,000 non-notable browser games and then clog up the database. This is just as likely as someone submitting all sorts of other stupid spam into the database. If someone has < 5000 wikipoints, then the mods will need to approve anyway and if they have > 5000 wikipoints, then it can be assumed that that person is mature enough not to be spamming random shit into the database.
A simple set of guidelines is all that's needed (a series of hard and fast rules would just crumble). Maybe just the prompt "Any browser game should be notable in some way". I think most people get the idea of what could constitute notable; some people will be more lenient than others, but overall, who really has the motivation to add Tower Defense Game #193 or Generic-Game-That-Took-Four-Minutes-To-Develop into the database? Perhaps it should be mandatory for the person submitting the game to the database to fill out a 100-word (or whatever) explanation as to WHY it should be in the database. That should prevent some issues without having to resort to strict rules.
Also, another point that people seem to be missing - we are discussing notability here and not necessarily quality. Big Rigs was rubbish and ET ended up as rubbish, but both of those games were notable. Crappy games should always be welcome in the database.
Sigh, maybe I should check it out. I was really excited about it before it was released. Then my excitement waned and I've been avoiding this game ever since D:
I really do like making decisions in games though, real decisions, ones where there are no incorrect solutions.
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