Talk:Tales (video game series)

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What about the Narikiri Dungeon games for "Tales of the World"? The first was a GB game.. it was kinda weak, IMO. But ND2 (for the GBA) had most of the party characters from ToP/ToE and I think ToD (haven't played this, so I'm not sure) making cameo appearances... I think it was somewhere about 20 or 25 different characters in total.

Since the game was based on collecting different suits to turn into different characters (think transformation masks in LoZ:Majora's Mask.. there were approx 200 suits, "gotta catch 'em all"-style), and you could earn the suits of all the cameos and play as them (the battle music even changed to the same as from the game the character came form, and you got to use their trademark moves).

Those games should be added to this list, but I don't really know their release dates or much about them (I had to play only a partially-translated ND2, but it still quite fun; recommended). alexpenev 13:49, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, I've added those games, but they go in the Spin off group. As I don't have much information about these games, I can't really add anything more than the titles and dates. Its unlikely that English wikipedia pages for all the games would be created or have enough information in them to justify creating them. I was wondering though about the italics. Why was that added? I'm sure its some thing that you do in writing, but I just don't know. (Edit 2: found out why it's done - hurrah)

Sometime, I'll be adding more information about the series in general and hopefully to get big enough for an automatic Table of Contents and to justify removing the stub :) (Edit: Sorry for not signing this.. just found out now how to :P) PKFC

So I put in tables because I don't know how to indent... With Wiki code, I don't think tables are that complicated or bloated in the entry's text. I figure <nowiki>s and &nbsp;s are more complicated than the tables... But I'm a bad person for not knowing how to indent. If you feel up to the task of improving the page, go for it. :P PKFC 12:31, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

So March 3 is the release date for the Eternia PSP port and Tales of Legendia IS Tales of Melfes. First dawned on me when reading magic-box's summary talking about an ancient race in Legendia called Melfes and confirmed it elsewhere. The PSP preorder disc that came with Rebirth was just an ad for a PS2 game, not for a PSP game :P PKFC 00:36, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Symphonia is missing from the "Tales series" navigation menu at the bottom of this page and all of the individual games' pages.

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I'm new at this editing thing, and I just wanted to update the dates of the Tales of Symphonia: OVA releases, and put it in the Spin-off section, since it technically is out. But I kinda screwed the page up, so could someone fix it, I'm a noob, and I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to.

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Title?

lmao the picture literally says "Tales Of" series, but the article title is "Tales." Shouldn't the article title match? - 2601:601:600:8810:18FA:EDB8:C54A:C6AD (talk) 02:30, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Historically, I believe it's been referred to as "Tales of" in Japan but just "Tales" in English regions. Sergecross73 msg me 02:50, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

All my work undone

I spent a solid week rewriting the Spin-off section, sourcing multiple websites and videos, so why the fuck has it all been undone? The section was shitty and unreadable wall of text with no value, listing names with no information. I spaced this information out into readable bullet points, researched their genres, release dates, and sourced my findings, not to mention the timeline that took days alone to create. It was objectively better than the garbage it has been reverted to, so why the fuck did you shit on all the effort I made? Mokushiroku no Yami (talk) 12:05, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

The article was already a WP:GA, and your work was riddled with errors. Very basic errors, like that you can't use other wikis as sources, as they violate WP:USERG. You should slow down and learn how the website works before sinking so much time into misguided efforts. And make changes across many edits, so it's easier to undo some of the errors rather than everything. Sergecross73 msg me 12:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

I only referenced a wiki when it was the only surviving source of official releases, containing screenshots and quotes from dead sources. They were not opinion pieces, and the original release was gone. You are destroying preservation over guidelines designed for historical events, not lost digital media. And you were more than capable of editing the page and changing what you didn't like, rather that mass deleting everything I worked on. I could not not submitting my work in smaller pieces because it was all one thing: one god-awful chunk of writing turned into one list, and an accompanying timeline. I changed a hideous and unparsable block of text (with already bad citations, by the way, as generic statements link to game reviews) into something informative and readable. If you didn't like parts, iterate on it like the collaborative project this is, don't gatekeep and undo my contributions.

If this is how wikipedia is, I'm deleting my account. I have wasted far too much of my time having my good faith work undone by ego-driven moderators. Mokushiroku no Yami (talk) 12:50, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

You're not seeing the big picture here. Many other editors went through a ton of effort to get the article to its current status. We can't throw out all of their hard work for a misguided and deeply flawed effort, even if you spent a ton of time with it. My recommendation would be to learn how the website works, and start small. Don't jump straight into a well-developed, high-visibility article without knowing what you're doing. Sergecross73 msg me 13:09, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

The current status of the article is ugly and unparsable. Their "hard work" is a stream of consciousness written as though a sentence is added when a new game is released without any consideration for the rest of the article. Is it an article that no one will want to read and has no value beyond being a list in a solid paragraph of text.

But hey, you're the big important man, you win. You've ruined my week and I will never edit wikipedia again, despite how blatantly shit your precious guidelines are, you gatekeeping prick. Mokushiroku no Yami (talk) 14:12, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

What you're attempting to do is simply incompatible with Wikipedia. We don't use many of the sources you've proposed using, and writing in paragraph form is generally preferred over bullet points. Maybe a fan wikia or fansite can use your work or something? But it doesn't make sense here. Even if I hadn't, someone else would have undone your work all the same. (In fact, I wasn't even the only editor who undid your work, I'm just the only one who has responded so far.) Sergecross73 msg me 15:14, 19 February 2024 (UTC)