Wikipedia for gaming? Sounds excellent.

by Nick Doerr { Mar 15th 2007 at 1:30PM }

An open-source gaming specialty site from the creators of Wikipedia? Guess who's going to go in and fill in a bunch of missing plotholes, ideas, games, timelines, and interpretive analyses? ...Not me, I've got bigger fish to fry. Although I'd love to sit around and explain to people that Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Final Fantasy XII all take place in the same Ivalice across a very expansive timeline, that's the least of my worries. Although you can go in and edit anything you want, just like normal Wikipedia.

Will this site end up trumping any and all regular print magazines in distributing info and getting information posted everywhere? Or will it end up being a place where everyone links to their Final Fantasy VII fanfiction? Regardless, it's going to be an interesting way to get up-to-date (or fairly up-to-date) information about a specific game that you care about. This is the end of the article, but if you want to hear one of my favorite gaming myths I made up that seems plausible, read on.

There's one thing nobody ever explained or, to my knowledge, tried. Perhaps we could use gaming.wikia.com to see if anyone's utterly debunked this totally plausible myth: in Phantasy Star IV, the main character Chaz Ashley fights a demon on the planet Rykros (Ryucross) and has the opportunity to learn the ultimate technique: Megid. Otherwise, you fight an apparently impossible boss. Prior to this fight, you face a clone/copy of your mentor, Alys Brangwin... is it possible to defeat the demon and have a resurrected Alys if you never add that fifth character to your party prior to the final dungeon? I had a level 93 save, but the cartridge... died... before I could get to 98 (99 drops your stats significantly).

There are a few key things that are never mentioned when this myth has come up otherwise: either fighting the demon at all, or keeping that fifth character slot empty. It's probably not possible, or a programmer's trick, but... it would be cool.

Tags: gaming.wikia, Playstation 3, Playstation3, PS3, Sony