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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:33, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game

 * ... that the video game Call of Cthulhu will be based on a 1981 pen and paper RPG instead of H. P. Lovecraft's original short story?
 * ALT1:... that the original developers of Call of Cthulhu said that the game would be inspired by Sherlock Holmes?
 * ALT2:... that some worried Call of Cthulhu had been cancelled, before it was revived by a different developer over two years after its original announcement?
 * ALT3:... that the Great Old One Cthulhu was resurrected after two years of slumber amongst the eldritch frog-like beings?
 * ALT4:... that the Great Old One Cthulhu was resurrected after two years of slumber amongst the eldritch frog-like beings to poison the world once more?
 * Reviewed: Julian Radcliffe

Created by G S Palmer (talk). Self-nominated at 21:58, 8 February 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg New enough (created by G S Palmer on February 3, 2017), long enough (2,163 characters "readable prose size"), fully referenced. QPQ required.
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Main hook: sources do not support the claim that the RPG was from 1981
 * Corrected. Hook now fine. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:17, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg ALT1: Not supported by the source - it says by the same studio, but not inspired by it
 * Symbol confirmed.svg ALT2, ALT3, ALT4: Source says one year, not two
 * Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:37, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Main hook: I didn't think it was strictly necessary, since it was stated quite clearly in the linked article, but I've added a source showing that it came out in 1981.
 * ALT1: the article says "We're going to bring our experience with making Sherlock Holmes games - particularly the investigation side," - I'm not sure what else to take out of that. I could change it to "inspired by their work on the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
 * ALT2/3/4: perhaps it was confusing because of the way I had organized the sources (which I have now fixed), but the source for the statement was this one.
 * And mine is this one, which says (in March 2016) that they "announced last year that they were working on a game based on HP Lovecraft’s classic story Call of Cthulhu." That was in 2015. So only one year. Why not just drop the "two teats of" from the hooks?
 * If you read the article, you'll see that the game was announced in January 2014. It was revived in February 2016.  That's two years and a month.  Your source did the math wrong.  G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 17:19, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, passing the three ALT hooks, which are preferred. Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:43, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * As for the QPQ, I've been rather busy lately but should be able to do one within a day or two.
 * G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 08:17, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Since a QPQ has not yet been supplied, adding icon to prevent promotion until it has been. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:32, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * QPQ is now completed. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 02:23, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:30, 27 February 2017 (UTC)