Talk:Descent 3

Importance
Judging by other games of mid-importance, low-importance and high-importance, D3 is mid-important. It is a significant sequel to a genre-defining game; it is definitely more important than low-important; and I'd consider it less important than some of the other games that are mid-important (for example Doom 3). --85.180.161.107 20:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, okay, but you could put your comments underneath the infobox, you know...oh, and we use Level 2 headlines here, as in == Subject == ... -- Alt  iris   Exeunt  10:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The game is low important. It got decent reviews but other than that, it doesn't have much impact on the game industry --Mika1h (talk) 10:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Descent 3 - In Your Face
Does anybody remember details about the 'In Your Face' program Interplay ran at the time? Basically, you'd register and send in your photo (or some drawing) and a nickname, and they included them on the CD. (long time before we had Xbox Live Vision or what that thing's called) Here's a link to the picture pages on the web archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20021222171535/www.interplay.com/descent3/players/pics001.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steltek (talk • contribs) 18:50, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was

Descent³ → Descent 3 — The superscript 3 is a stylization used for promotion and marketing. The title should be in plain English according to Wikipedia rules, without any stylizations. A move would eliminate the need for an automatic redirect when a user types "Descent 3" into the search box. —Mika1h (talk) 22:06, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Survey

 * Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with  or  , then sign your comment with  . Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.


 * Support, per nom, WP:MOS, WP:ACCESS and Doom 3. – Cyrus XIII (talk) 22:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Support, MOS:TM is clear about this. — confusionball (talk) 01:29, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and the guidelines. Bill (talk 02:11, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Any additional comments:

While not directly related this move would also be consistent with the move of Alien³ to Alien 3. --76.71.210.164 (talk) 01:48, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Descent 3 Intro female voice
Just want to point out for those that may be like me searching..., that the female voice/song on the Descent 3 (1999) game's intro movie (which is about 10 seconds) can also be heard on the song Prologue by Dieselboy on the album The Dungeonmaster's Guide (Disc 1) of 2004

YoURANGUlarTANgent (talk) 09:51, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Fluff?
In the Marketing section, I added: "A Bink Video executable trailer for the game was included on CD-ROMs for other Interplay games, such as Baldur's Gate", which was then deleted for being "fluff". Since this is the official trailer and it has a certain level of polish, I think it deserves a mention. Who's with me on this? (Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHFazkfmBE4)Serpinium (talk) 07:15, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * If you can find a reliable source that supports it (not a youtube video uploaded by a random user), then I think we can add it. --Niwi3 (talk) 09:39, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I noticed that in the Plot section, all of the references simply cite a particular section of Descent 3 (e.g. "Outrage Entertainment (1999-06-17). Descent 3. Interplay Productions. Scene: Opening. Level/area: Chapter 1 - Missing Persons."). Couldn't I cite the Baldur's Gate CD-ROM itself in that way?Serpinium (talk) 09:52, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * These are primary sources and they are OK for plot sections, but not for marketing. --Niwi3 (talk) 11:11, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, I couldn't find anything on the Net, so I guess there's nothing more to do.Serpinium (talk) 11:50, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Plot summary issues with Niwi3
OK, I disagree with some of your reverts. "the lead summarizes the article so everything that is present in the lead must also be present in the body of the article" There is truth to this, but I've looked at other sequel game articles, and it doesn't seem like standard practice to copy over info like that. For example, in the article Dead Space 2, protagonist Isaac is not introduced and reading the article on Dead Space 1 is mandatory for understanding the plot. "it's an "alien virus", see reference 10" Yeah... That doesn't mean it isn't a computer virus. In the intro to D3, the Director says it's "nanotechnology" that can "reprogram" a robot. Surely that's closer to a computer virus than a biological agent.Serpinium (talk) 13:07, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * The difference between this and the Dead Space 2 article is that this one is a good article, and as a good article it must meet the good article criteria. Also, see Other stuff exists. As for the virus, it's a bit unclear whether it's a biological virus or a computer virus, so that's why I think the term "virus", which is more generic, is more appropriate. --Niwi3 (talk) 14:23, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * It only affects robots, so it can't be a biological virus. And remember, it was "deactivated" at the end of Descent 3, indicating that it can accept electronic transmissions. And although "virus" alone is nice and generic, the link is for the article on biological viruses.Serpinium (talk) 14:56, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Fixed. --Niwi3 (talk) 15:33, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, looks pretty good now. I have an issue with this line though: "clearing PTMC's robots infected by an alien virus on orders of the PTMC." Why add "on orders of the PTMC"? We already know he works for them. Unless it refers to the virus, which it shouldn't since at this point in the game the conspiracy hasn't been revealed yet. --Serpinium (talk) 18:25, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed, seems a bit redundant. --Niwi3 (talk) 18:41, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Some bigger concerns too: we need to unify the Releases information across the three Descent pages. Descent uses a Releases section with subsections, while Descent II has a box in a Releases section and this has a single paragraph under a section labeled "Expansion Pack". --Serpinium (talk) 18:24, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * The Descent 3 article is perfectly fine as is (it's a good article). The problem is the other two articles, whose list of releases should be converted to prose (see WP:PROSE). So if you want to change something, it should be in the other two articles. --Niwi3 (talk) 18:41, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, I've gone ahead and done that. They're still not perfect, so I might come back for meatier edits in some time. --Serpinium (talk) 19:08, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

PC Player sales analysis

 * https://archive.org/stream/PC-Player-German-Magazine-2000-01/PC_Player_2000_01#page/n17

Source

 * https://web.archive.org/web/20001212031100/http://www.avault.com:80/news/displaynews.asp?story=10151999-21526