HRWiki talk:Projects/SBCG4AP Cleanup

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I figure at some point I'll play through these games again and wanted to collect things that I can take screencaps of or transcribe when I do so for the good of the wiki. I haven't done a full audit of our dozens of articles and (hundreds of?) images relating to SBCG4AP but figured I'd get the ball rolling. Some wiki elements to further audit/investigate for the list, or to discuss to see if we even need to list them:

• Additional screencaps — I get the sense in 2025 if someone wants to know what the games are like (and can't/won't get a playable version) they'll just go to YouTube rather than look at screencaps while they read wiki transcripts, so I don't think we need that many new ones. Still, if something like a character or location lacks a descriptive screencap, it should be noted.
  • Title and menu screens — At the moment we only have one each, for Baddest of the Bands and Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective (respectively). Capturing the rest is easy, but do we need all ten?
• Screencaps that can be replaced with texture rips — I've done some of this already with things like album covers, but always something to keep an eye out for.
• Auditing transcripts — Turn on subtitles and click on everyone and everything to make sure we've got it right. Would be a lot of work and might be overkill but what is the wiki if not unnecessarily detailed, eh?

I have the games on Steam and can capture images at 4k. Of course any other gamers are welcome to contribute their imageries. Bleu Ninja 17:36, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

I've expanded the responses section a little just to make sure nothing has been missed with responses not listed. I haven't kept track of progress so I'm not sure what is complete or not. If this ends up being redundant, my apologies, I'd just like to make sure this is tracked. --Stux 21:53, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Has it really been seven years since I wrote that notice? SBCG4AP games aren't very long by themselves, but do you know how much patience it takes to play a slow-run? Deliberately not picking up plot-important objects, delaying plot-critical moves, rubbing every inventory item in the game against every object in the game, performing futile actions multiple times, and playing the events in different orders? And I can't always be sure if I've triggered everything because some responses require actions most sane players wouldn't think to do normally. I guess only a really attractive person like myself has the endurance to play Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People as atrociously as I do for the sake of completeness. -- 68.37.37.196 00:23, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

I don't think I'm on the same page, but one thing I've always noticed about the transcript pages is that they aren't necessarily written in any kind of order. While exact order is obviously impossible given the nature of the game and therefore not part of the goal: some things do have to happen in a certain order, and it seems like the pages should stick to keeping such things in at least some flow. At the very least, for example, the epilogue of the games and the extended play should be at the end of the pages, but right now, it's not uncommon to see extended play transcripts in the middle of the articles. The Knights Who Say Ni 02:35, 29 June 2025 (UTC)