Game descriptions need fixing (v2.0)

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Plok (236544) on 6/2/2019 1:12 PM · Permalink · Report

The old thread got locked due to inactivity.

Same as the last time: use this thread to link to games which need their descriptions changed but you don't have enough time or knowledge about the games to do so yourself.

Flapco (46049) on 6/2/2019 6:43 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

Cabela's Outdoor Adventures (2005) has the add-blurb of the back cover as description. The cover can be seen at the 2009 version. See

https://www.mobygames.com/game/ps2/cabelas-outdoor-adventures

(A correction to move these covers to the 2005 entry has been submitted January this year, for some reason it is still pending)

See https://www.mobygames.com/game/ps2/cabelas-outdoor-adventures_ for the 2005 version

Kennyannydenny (128104) on 6/3/2019 6:30 AM · Permalink · Report

Correct link for the 2009 version: https://www.mobygames.com/game/cabelas-outdoor-adventures

MAT (241251) on 6/3/2019 6:20 AM · Permalink · Report

This is just a reminder to myself to write a description for this game I've recently finished.

BTW, made the thread sticky.

MAT (241251) on 6/7/2019 2:28 AM · Permalink · Report

Okay, just submitted the description so that is done.

Adam Wons on 7/9/2019 8:08 AM · Permalink · Report

[Q --start Plokite_Wolf wrote--]The ol d thread got locked due to inactivity.

Same as the last time: use this thread to link to games which need their descriptions changed but you don't have enough time or knowledge about the games to do so yourself. [/Q --end Plokite_Wolf wrote--]

What about Streets of SimCity

MAT (241251) on 7/10/2019 10:00 AM · Permalink · Report

That looks like an ad blurb, seeing how Google search engine found other pages with same description, including ebay :p

Pseudo_Intellectual (66801) on 7/10/2019 3:45 PM · Permalink · Report

But any earlier than ours? Plenty of sites (including eg. the Internet Archive) bite Moby descriptions.

Plok (236544) on 11/19/2019 8:19 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

Fallout 76 has a beta-specific description for some reason.

Kam1Kaz3NL77 (586714) on 4/26/2020 1:26 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

[Q --start Plokite_Wolf wrote--]Fallout 76 has a beta-specific description for some reason. [/Q --end Plokite_Wolf wrote--]

Yeah, at the time Beta was released earlier and approved, but the actual version attached. So needs some fixing (just like the game itself :P ). FIXED. Moved former description to trivia and added Steam-blurb

Hipolito Pichardo (44174) on 12/10/2019 1:40 PM · Permalink · Report

The description for The Wild Thornberrys Animal Adventures at https://www.mobygames.com/game/wild-thornberrys-animal-adventures is lifted directly from the game's marketing (the blurb on the back cover). It needs an original description to be written.

Rwolf (23529) on 12/10/2019 2:33 PM · Permalink · Report

It does not exactly follow the text on the back cover we currently have on file. If you have another cover, could you please add it (or link to it) and possibly write a new description if you know the game?

Alaka (107782) on 12/18/2019 3:56 AM · Permalink · Report

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Cantillon (81550) on 2/27/2020 3:18 PM · Permalink · Report

https://www.mobygames.com/game/michael-schumacher-racing-world-kart-2002

Patrick Bregger (305122) on 4/25/2020 9:05 PM · Permalink · Report

Way of the Samurai 4: describes only one of the aspect of the game subjectively.

MAT (241251) on 5/1/2020 9:36 AM · Permalink · Report

Back then we were forced to write the descriptions and I wrote one before I actually played and finished it. Later I never re-wrote it. Yeah, there's much more to this game. Someone willing and more familiar should rewrite it.

Glenn Hernandez on 4/30/2020 6:31 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

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Lain Crowley (6629) on 5/19/2020 11:03 PM · Permalink · Report

https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/fire-fight

Lain Crowley (6629) on 6/6/2020 7:46 PM · Permalink · Report

https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/fog-seek-the-hidden-truth

Plok (236544) on 9/14/2020 2:49 PM · Permalink · Report

Battlezone II: Combat Commander has a pretty poor description.

GTramp (81959) on 12/22/2020 4:45 PM · Permalink · Report

Ad blurb here is broken: https://www.mobygames.com/game/hiking-simulator-2017

Rwolf (23529) on 12/22/2020 9:42 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

It looks to broken on its Steam page, from where it came.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/668890/Hiking_Simulator_2017/

(as well as the game, according to the reviewers, maybe use one of those as a description, they are hilarious the most positive was 'it has a nice soundtrack')