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Judging by other games of mid-importance, low-importance and high-importance, D3 is mid-important. It is a significant sequel to a genre-defining game; it is definitely more important than low-important; and I'd consider it less important than some of the other games that are mid-important (for example Doom 3). -- 85.180.161.107 20:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Does anybody remember details about the 'In Your Face' program Interplay ran at the time? Basically, you'd register and send in your photo (or some drawing) and a nickname, and they included them on the CD. (long time before we had Xbox Live Vision or what that thing's called) Here's a link to the picture pages on the web archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20021222171535/www.interplay.com/descent3/players/pics001.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steltek ( talk • contribs) 18:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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Descent³ → Descent 3 — The superscript 3 is a stylization used for promotion and marketing. The title should be in plain English according to Wikipedia rules, without any stylizations. A move would eliminate the need for an automatic redirect when a user types "Descent 3" into the search box. — Mika1h ( talk) 22:06, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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Just want to point out for those that may be like me searching..., that the female voice/song on the Descent 3 (1999) game's intro movie (which is about 10 seconds) can also be heard on the song Prologue by Dieselboy on the album The Dungeonmaster's Guide (Disc 1) of 2004
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Sounds like a good game and at a first glance a neat article. I'll take up the review. I mainly focus on copyediting issues - I'll have a read through now and will leave some initial comments within a few hours. Thanks! ☠ Jag uar ☠ 14:49, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
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I want to say that the prose of this article is excellent - there is actually very little to be done here but for the sake of a review I have spotted some minor copy editing issues that are in the article.
This is an excellent article - nearly everything complies per the GA criteria and the prose is focused on the subject and flows nicely. The only minor problems I have found with this article were a few copyediting issues that just needs clarifying and an issue with the Expansion Pack section. Other than that the article is nearly flawless; all references are in check and are in the right place. I will put this article on hold for seven days and once those minor issues are addressed I will happy to give this article its deserved GA status! ☠ Jag uar ☠ 17:42, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for addressing those points so swiftly and well done on building this article! The whole article now definitely complies per the GA criteria and apart from those minor copyediting issues the article would have been flawless. This sounds like an interesting trilogy of games, well done for building this up to GA standard! ☠ Jag uar ☠ 21:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
In the Marketing section, I added: "A Bink Video executable trailer for the game was included on CD-ROMs for other Interplay games, such as Baldur's Gate", which was then deleted for being "fluff". Since this is the official trailer and it has a certain level of polish, I think it deserves a mention. Who's with me on this? (Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHFazkfmBE4) Serpinium ( talk) 07:15, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
OK, I disagree with some of your reverts. "the lead summarizes the article so everything that is present in the lead must also be present in the body of the article" There is truth to this, but I've looked at other sequel game articles, and it doesn't seem like standard practice to copy over info like that. For example, in the article Dead Space 2, protagonist Isaac is not introduced and reading the article on Dead Space 1 is mandatory for understanding the plot. "it's an "alien virus", see reference 10" Yeah... That doesn't mean it isn't a computer virus. In the intro to D3, the Director says it's "nanotechnology" that can "reprogram" a robot. Surely that's closer to a computer virus than a biological agent. Serpinium ( talk) 13:07, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Some bigger concerns too: we need to unify the Releases information across the three Descent pages. Descent uses a Releases section with subsections, while Descent II has a box in a Releases section and this has a single paragraph under a section labeled "Expansion Pack". -- Serpinium ( talk) 18:24, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
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Judging by other games of mid-importance, low-importance and high-importance, D3 is mid-important. It is a significant sequel to a genre-defining game; it is definitely more important than low-important; and I'd consider it less important than some of the other games that are mid-important (for example Doom 3). -- 85.180.161.107 20:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Does anybody remember details about the 'In Your Face' program Interplay ran at the time? Basically, you'd register and send in your photo (or some drawing) and a nickname, and they included them on the CD. (long time before we had Xbox Live Vision or what that thing's called) Here's a link to the picture pages on the web archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20021222171535/www.interplay.com/descent3/players/pics001.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steltek ( talk • contribs) 18:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was
Descent³ → Descent 3 — The superscript 3 is a stylization used for promotion and marketing. The title should be in plain English according to Wikipedia rules, without any stylizations. A move would eliminate the need for an automatic redirect when a user types "Descent 3" into the search box. — Mika1h ( talk) 22:06, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
*'''Support'''
or *'''Oppose'''
, then sign your comment with ~~~~
. Since
polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account
Wikipedia's naming conventions.While not directly related this move would also be consistent with the move of Alien³ to Alien 3. -- 76.71.210.164 ( talk) 01:48, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Just want to point out for those that may be like me searching..., that the female voice/song on the Descent 3 (1999) game's intro movie (which is about 10 seconds) can also be heard on the song Prologue by Dieselboy on the album The Dungeonmaster's Guide (Disc 1) of 2004
YoURANGUlarTANgent ( talk) 09:51, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Jaguar ( talk · contribs) 14:49, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Sounds like a good game and at a first glance a neat article. I'll take up the review. I mainly focus on copyediting issues - I'll have a read through now and will leave some initial comments within a few hours. Thanks! ☠ Jag uar ☠ 14:49, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
I want to say that the prose of this article is excellent - there is actually very little to be done here but for the sake of a review I have spotted some minor copy editing issues that are in the article.
This is an excellent article - nearly everything complies per the GA criteria and the prose is focused on the subject and flows nicely. The only minor problems I have found with this article were a few copyediting issues that just needs clarifying and an issue with the Expansion Pack section. Other than that the article is nearly flawless; all references are in check and are in the right place. I will put this article on hold for seven days and once those minor issues are addressed I will happy to give this article its deserved GA status! ☠ Jag uar ☠ 17:42, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for addressing those points so swiftly and well done on building this article! The whole article now definitely complies per the GA criteria and apart from those minor copyediting issues the article would have been flawless. This sounds like an interesting trilogy of games, well done for building this up to GA standard! ☠ Jag uar ☠ 21:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
In the Marketing section, I added: "A Bink Video executable trailer for the game was included on CD-ROMs for other Interplay games, such as Baldur's Gate", which was then deleted for being "fluff". Since this is the official trailer and it has a certain level of polish, I think it deserves a mention. Who's with me on this? (Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHFazkfmBE4) Serpinium ( talk) 07:15, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
OK, I disagree with some of your reverts. "the lead summarizes the article so everything that is present in the lead must also be present in the body of the article" There is truth to this, but I've looked at other sequel game articles, and it doesn't seem like standard practice to copy over info like that. For example, in the article Dead Space 2, protagonist Isaac is not introduced and reading the article on Dead Space 1 is mandatory for understanding the plot. "it's an "alien virus", see reference 10" Yeah... That doesn't mean it isn't a computer virus. In the intro to D3, the Director says it's "nanotechnology" that can "reprogram" a robot. Surely that's closer to a computer virus than a biological agent. Serpinium ( talk) 13:07, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Some bigger concerns too: we need to unify the Releases information across the three Descent pages. Descent uses a Releases section with subsections, while Descent II has a box in a Releases section and this has a single paragraph under a section labeled "Expansion Pack". -- Serpinium ( talk) 18:24, 1 June 2014 (UTC)