Just a mention to anyone who plans on picking up Skyward Sword early, is anyone interested in helping write a walkthrough for the game? I'll be getting it opening day, so I"ll do my best to contribute. It'll be right before exams, but after the first week of December, I should be able to start tearing through the game.
I'd love to contribute. ;)
Another idea for people with high quality video cameras. Try and see if maybe you can video taping yourself playing the game through on the first run? I'd like to try and see if Desert Colossus can get a decent guide up by the end of the year.
I wrote an in-depth walkthrough for Twilight Princess just for the colossus.
Jack threw it away.
I'll never write another walk-through as long as I live :P
Why would he do something like that o:
Quote from: Tacheon Black on September 21, 2011, 12:54:27 AM
Why would he do something like that o:
No idea.
He thanked me, accepted it, and it never saw the face of the site.
It was entire walkthrough start to finish.
The reason I brought this topic up in the first place is because I'd like to see Desert Colossus rise back to the top of the Zelda fansite totem.
I think a good walkthrough for Skyward Sword would be a great way to bring in traffic.
So post here if you're getting Skyward Sword on, or close to its release date. Also post any ideas you might have to help the site.
Also ZV, have you tried submitting the walkthrough to Kamikazi?
What if we did a video walkthrough instead? Well, it would be more like a Let's Play, but they serve as awesome walkthroughs, to boot. If people want classic walkthroughs, aren't people just going to check GameFAQs for that?
A video walkthrough would be good, though I lack the camera to record myself playing.
Do you want me to tell you what I think?
I think clawing our way to the top with a walk-through is a terrible idea.
There are people out there with these things called "obsessions".
They have no job, no schooling, no girlfriend, and they live in their mothers' basements.
They'll write a 100% walk-through faster than any of us could hope to, trust me.
With bigger and better sites out there, it's an almost hopeless endeavor to outrace them, not to mention that a lot of people will go straight to the sites they trust to begin with.
No, if you're looking to promote the colossus itself to the top of the food-chain, we already have something unique. Something that you can't find anywhere else on the internet. We have something that I've searched elsewhere for, and no site has ever even come close to it. We have Hyrule Adventures. Kamakazi and the mods at HA2 have been discussing it for a very long time, and we're prepared to begin work on a revamp of the site right away. By attracting all Zelda RPG fans from all over the net, people will transitively join the colossus' main forums, and bolster the main-site as a whole.
We already have what makes us special.
We're just investing all of our time and thought-power elsewhere for some reason.
Again, this is just what I think, don't burn me at the stake.
I agree with ZV. I'm all for helping out, but I'd rather take my time to enjoy the game rather than rush through it just so I can be the first to tell everyone how to get through a certain puzzle. My line of thinking is that we sort of make the walkthrough like a Wiki-walkthrough. Only it can't be edited by just anyone. Just a selected group of trusted TDC members so if say I get to the second temple and write the walkthrough up to there, and if anyone else has gotten any further, they can contribute more to the walkthrough. That way we don't necessarily have to sacrifice homework, hanging out with friends, or taking the time to enjoy SS just to write a walkthrough. It would be less pressuring.
Quote from: Vaati on September 22, 2011, 07:59:45 PM
I agree with ZV. I'm all for helping out, but I'd rather take my time to enjoy the game rather than rush through it just so I can be the first to tell everyone how to get through a certain puzzle. My line of thinking is that we sort of make the walkthrough like a Wiki-walkthrough. Only it can't be edited by just anyone. Just a selected group of trusted TDC members so if say I get to the second temple and write the walkthrough up to there, and if anyone else has gotten any further, they can contribute more to the walkthrough. That way we don't necessarily have to sacrifice homework, hanging out with friends, or taking the time to enjoy SS just to write a walkthrough. It would be less pressuring.
A Walkthrough Wiki is a great idea! :D
I'm totally for
that one!
That way we can just write as we go, so long as we're careful to avoid spoilers (like titling a page, "After Your Bird Dies").
Darn, and I planned on naming the walkthrough:
"Damn Ganon, when did you get here?"
The thing about only letting trusted TDC members edit the wiki...Pretty much everybody left is a trusted member of TDC.
True, true. I guess what I mean to say is make something for the veteran members. That's not to say I don't trust some of our newbies here, but it would definitely be a bad thing if a troll came along and made a TDC account just so they can mess up the walkthrough. ;)
Site: http://desertcolossus.wikia.com
The basic idea is to create a page for each game, then make a list of areas, goals, locations, etc.
Use this page (http://desertcolossus.wikia.com/wiki/Ocarina_of_Time) as a template if you want.
We already have the Compendium. Do we need an external site?
/shrug
We could probably link it to the main site and eventually merge it with the compendium. People are far more familiar with the Wiki layout and honestly the Compendium is pretty outdated in terms of the way it's arranged.
Um, I don't want to be the guy to say this, but it doesn't seem like we've had a single walkthrough update since Twilight Princess...which was, what? SIX years ago? We don't even have Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks up yet!
It is my personal belief that before we start thinking about a game that hasn't been released yet, we need to get the whole thing up to date on the games that HAVE been released.
Unless we were already talking about that...whatever you guys do is fine...Just ignore me...
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EDIT: Okay, maybe we do have Phantom hourglass, but I still see no Spirit Tracks. Besides, on the front page of the website, it says "Our Twilight Princess guide keeps expanding!" We really need to do something about that.
If we really wanted a wiki-style interface for this that isn't the Compendium (which is seriously old code anyways), I could always install one on TDC itself. That isn't a big deal, like, at all. The hardest part is everyone learning the syntax. I've done it before for HA2, and that was before I could make databases.
HOWEVER, walkthroughs are silly, guys. I don't think anyone really goes to Zelda sites for walkthroughs anymore. I'm not sure anyone ever did... although I do seem to remember one of you actually showing up at TDC initially because of a walkthrough. (Was it ZV? I can't remember exactly.)
People nowadays just go to GameFAQs. I mean, sure, it'd be nice to be one of the first sites with a Skyward Sword walkthrough, but ZV is right: someone will beat us to it. That person will probably post it to GameFAQs.
I have my video recording thing set up through my Wii, which I can use to record myself playing through the game on my first run-through. But that would be more of a Let's Play than anything else, and people probably won't sit through it for walkthrough info. (I still have that file for the Wind Waker Let's Play, I just haven't split it up yet :'( )
I'm up for whatever you guys want to do, and I'll install a wiki if you want, but I don't think TDC should worry so much about walkthroughs.
I hate to admit it, but kamakazi's right. I don't know how well-known a TDC Skyward Sword walkthrough would get when the first thing that people see when they type in "such-and-such walkthrough" to Google is GameFAQs. If we really want to shoot for a Skyward Sword walkthrough and make it be seen by other people other than just the TDC regulars, we might as well make it...appealing. You know, different to what you normally see on GameFAQs (or at least what I normally see when I go on to GameFAQs). I know Zelda Dungeons takes screenshots to go along with their walkthroughs which I find very helpful and some other sites I know have video walkthroughs and I know some walkthrough writers add sassy comments in their walkthroughs which I guess can be either annoying or entertaining. For example, in a walkthrough for ShadowGate 64, this one person kept referring to the main villain as "the crazy old wizard" which made me laugh every time I read it. Just some ideas.
We could write a walkthrough specifically for GameFAQs and link to it from our site. Technically, it would still be a TDC walkthrough.
Quote from: MagmarFire on October 05, 2011, 10:56:12 PM
We could write a walkthrough specifically for GameFAQs and link to it from our site. Technically, it would still be a TDC walkthrough.
I don't think anyone would follow it.
I know I don't.