Wikipedia:Peer review/Realmz/archive1

Realmz

I created this article a few days ago (I'm the only editor so far) and I've been adding quite a few things to it since. I want to get it featured soon, has anyone got any suggestions? — Wackymacs 16:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

1. A Microsoft Windows-compatible version was also developed. A sequel titled New Centurions was released. The two sentences tie together very poorly. I merged them.
2. A screenshot of the Game cover would be nice.
3. The media, system requirements, and input sections of the gamebox should all be easy to fill in.
4. A specific release date perhaps. GameFaqs say the game was released in 1993. I tend to trust GameFaqs more, so are you sure aboutt he 1994 release?
5. Gamespy say the game has a rating of Rating Pending. Perhaps that could be added?
6. In the Story section, it says In the game the player is a group of adventurers...shouldn't it be The player takes control of a group of adventurers? The former sounds very confusing.
7. I believe the Image license tages should {{Game-screenshot}}, as the game was also released for Windows, not Just Mac.

That's what comes to mind right now....«LordViD» 18:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

A game cover does not exist, this game was distributed through the Internet, magazine disks and CD-ROMs and you ordered the game directly from Fantasoft, LLC back when they sold it. I am inclined to keep the release date as 1994 as the Realmz manual is copyrighted from 1994 (and was written by the developer, Tim Philips), the game itself is also copyrighted from 1994 throughout. I've added extra info to the infobox at your request. I don't see any point in entering the Rating when it hasn't got one (maybe put 'n/a' instead?). I have retagged the images and added fair use rationales to them as well, just to be sure. I've slightly changed the wording in the 'Story' section. Thanks for your comments/suggestions. — Wackymacs 21:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Ha, I remember playing this game years ago. Um, let's see...

1. Clarify that the "Story" section only deals with one of the official scenarios. Since there are actually several available scenarios in the registered version, maybe they should all be given concise descriptions.
2. There needs to be mention of the different aspects of character creation, especially race and class, that are available in Realmz. As it stands these are only briefly mentioned in the Character editor section.

I personally think the article is far too short to be featured. Perhaps the Gameplay section should be split up into sections; for example, exploration, quests, and battle, which itself would have subsections on things like combat movement and spells.

Like I said, it's been a long, long time since I've played Realmz, but hopefully that all makes sense. Rampart 22:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

With a complete "has no idea what realmz is" view, the article needs serious beefing up. It is way too short. Other than that, pretty good. Spawn Man 03:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for all the comments, I'm going to add more details to the gameplay section and add separate 'Races' and 'Character' sections, a 'Spells' section might be due as well. — Wackymacs 07:42, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• I remember this game, and even played a couple of scenarios. It seemed to be a response to the low number of ports of the old gold box games. It was entertaining for a little while. :) — RJH 23:00, 21 December 2005 (UTC)