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:: I agree with OS25's comment above. Also I '''support''' the validity of ''Legacy'', ''Sonic Adventure'', and ''Bigger on the Inside'', along with a further discussion of ''Legacy Kids'' sometime later. [[User:Time God Eon|Time God Eon]] [[User talk:Time God Eon|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:24, 5 March 2023 (UTC) | :: I agree with OS25's comment above. Also I '''support''' the validity of ''Legacy'', ''Sonic Adventure'', and ''Bigger on the Inside'', along with a further discussion of ''Legacy Kids'' sometime later. [[User:Time God Eon|Time God Eon]] [[User talk:Time God Eon|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:24, 5 March 2023 (UTC) | ||
:::First, let me start by saying that I do ultimately want this story to become valid. However, I remember a good bit of the previous discussions about video games, and I do share Najawin's apprehensions that we're getting ahead of ourselves unless we're considering this a fresh start and disregarding video game precedent. Under what I recall to be our current policy, pretty much any degree of variability in the narrative has been ruled to make a story invalid. As an example, [[The Lonely Assassins (video game)|The Lonely Assassins]] was ruled invalid, despite having a very linear narrative, because there were dialogue options (which were entirely inconsequential to the game) which made what each character said variable. | |||
:::While the plot and dialogue of the game are fixed, which characters are present at any given point are not. You collect characters as you go in the game, with the narrative being that they are joining the TARDIS team, and any characters who have dialogue are guaranteed to join, but others are "rare drops," making whether or not they are present at any given point variable. Additionally, characters such as [[Cinder]] join in side stories, and it's unclear when those take place relative to the main story, so we can't just assume that each rare drop joins at the earliest possible time. | |||
:::There also comes a point in Chapter Three where the TARDIS team explicitly splits up. While it is clear which Doctors lead each group, it's unclear who goes with which Doctor (I don't believe there's anything in the gameplay preventing you from using the same companions with each group, despite this narrative). | |||
:::All this is to say that I do not believe this story can be considered valid under current policy of what is required for a video game to be valid. That being said, I '''really''' want that policy to be overturned and have for a long time. But, if that's what we're doing, we should do so deliberately and openly and also consider what we're changing the policy ''to''. This is not a small change and will affect a good number of other stories. [[User:Schreibenheimer|Schreibenheimer]] [[User talk:Schreibenheimer|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:16, 6 March 2023 (UTC) | |||
