Talk:List of PC video games

Source from list of exclusives

All PC exclusives are PC titles, therefore anything posted at list of PC exclusives can be copied and pasted over here

Large source of well-publicized PC games

http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/pc?sort=desc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikinium (talk • contribs) 06:32, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Add all emulatable titles?

For platform, we could just list the original platform (N64, PSX, etc) and then add Windows, Mac, and Linux with (via emulation) in parentheses. If it's playable on PC, it's a PC title. All in favor? I can see the other side of the argument, but if it's playable on PC what does it matter? If needed, the header could be updated to mention it includes 'any title released for or playable on a PC'. This also brings me to flash/web games, should those be included? There are a handful of notable flash/web games. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.232.233.153 (talk) 02:16, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I am in favor of that, It's a list of PC titles, which can also mean games that can be played on PC, not just officially released ones. And all games up to 6th generation of consoles plus Wii from 7th can be emulated thanks to capabilities of PC, so I don't see a problem there, same goes for flash games. Just adding a nicely visible notice that the game is emulated and give a nice description that the list includes all games that can be played using a PC would suffice, I think.--Patrykq (talk) 13:26, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

If no one will agree or disagree in a few days, I'm gonna add a description saying that this is a list of titles that can be played on PC, and then probably add few games, or game franchises from the consoles and few popular flash games for the beginning.--Patrykq (talk) 16:20, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I think this would be best, especially for MetaScores. I feel like leaving all these amazing games out (although they pretty much require a controller to be played) would be lying to potential PC users. The purpose of Wikipedia is to be educational, and adding positively surprising information like emulators to a list of PC titles would not only be fitting, but very helpful to those who wouldn't have learned it elsewhere. I do think we should exclude non-emulatable titles (like PS3/XB games) as well as ones that are known to emulate badly. This shouldnt be a problem though, since only a fraction of released games have trouble on emulators. We'll also need to be careful with operating systems, since some don't have good emulators and some do. Windows is best supported, with Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, GameBoy, SNES, NES, N64, etc.Wikinium (talk) 17:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Example (pretend it's only on the PS2 and XBox):

Name	Developer	Publisher	Genre(s)	Operating System(s)	Date Released	MetaScore
A Fairy Tale	Reflexive Entertainment	Reflexive Entertainment	Matching	PS2 and XBox (natively), Windows, OS X, and Linux (via emulation)	March 2009

That's exactly how I wanted to list them.--Patrykq (talk) 18:35, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Good work on the Pokemon titles, that fits really well. Also, is there a MetaCritic score we can use instead, or can we at least make sure all of our scores are solid 2-digit rounded numbers for simplicitys sake? It would make it a lot easier for readers.Wikinium (talk) 22:03, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I truly believe emulated games are no less a PC title than a flash game. Both require a single program to reach the desired effect. That being said, we should start looking for notable flash games to add. All I can think of is the GemCraft seriesWikinium (talk) 22:28, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, and yeah, I thought about making metascores just two digit numbers too, for nice, smooth look, and about flash games, there's many awesome titles, but they don't have their own wikipedia page, so it kinda sucks, but is it okay to link up to the game's wikia page? Which I think we can, or less likely, but even to the flash game it self on New Grounds or Armor Games for example? Only if the game doesn't have any wikipedia or wikia article. I thought of GemCraft too, and Kingdom Rush, both have their wikipedia pages, and I remember two that got their wikia article: Madness: Project Nexus and Epic Battle Fantasy series.--Patrykq (talk) 22:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

http://madnesscombat.wikia.com/wiki/Madness:_Project_Nexus

http://epicbattlefantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Epic_Battle_Fantasy_Wiki

Shortening of some sections.

I've recently added Final Fantasy franchise, and in the Final Fantasy tradition, there's so many remakes of the older titles for different platforms, with different publishers and developers, and they take up so much space, so anyone got any ideas how to make them shorter without removing them? I thought about collapsible list, but to be honest, it looks kinda hard to make one, if no one have any other ideas and doesn't know how to make collapsible list, I'll try to figure out how to do one, and we'll see if it'll look good on the list.--Patrykq (talk) 09:49, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

There are several things: 1: Only include the main publishers (exclude GameBoy version developers, etc). 2: Shorten: EA. 3: Remove line breaks and allow more on a single line. Wikinium (talk) 07:30, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Remember to use DTS formatting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Dts

Wikinium (talk) 20:00, 11 September 2014 (UTC)