"This is why we can't have nice things!"
By thebeast 9 Comments
Do I want to spend 30 seconds loading a list of every game in history which contained a tree in one form or another? Not necessarily... and I certainly don't want to be looking under Objects when reading that great Call of Duty 4 page to see if I can use rocket launchers only to find 'Tree' or 'Grass' listed.
On the other hand, finding out about how trees have been used in games, or what technologies have been used to make really awesome trees over the years could be quite interesting - in fact, what would a gaming encylopaedia be without something like this?
This is a dilemma. If we, as a community, want to read a bunch of really fun articles on all the intricacies of games and gaming, we should be able to right here on Giant Bomb - but if we're restricted to what we can let through because it's no doubt going to be attached to every game, location and character in our database - we won't be able to do that.
I've been going through submissions a lot over the past couple of weeks and as such I see a lot of strange things - requests to link 'Rake' with 'Episodic Content' - while I understand the connection, and also understand you desperately want those points - does it actually make any sense? No. Of course it doesn't.
I implore you all, when you make a submission, think it over. Think, if I visit this page, is this the information I want to see? Does it even make sense that I'm doing this? I realise you all want your points, and we're more than happy to let you have them, but in the end, your contributions should be to make this site better, more interesting, more complete, not full of link nonsense and general irrelevance.
If you don't, who knows, we might have to chop down Giant Bomb's ever-growing forest. Could you live with that on your conscience?
P.S. The title quote is from Brad on the 5/8/08 Bombcast - Let it go down in history.