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List of Square Enix companion books

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Nominator(s): PresN 19:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Back again, but instead of with another sci-fi/fantasy award list, it's with my other FLC favorite: increasingly obscure video game-related lists! Here we have a list of Square Enix companion books- covering the holy grails of artwork and article-development-section-source books, the Ultimania series (and it's predecessor, the Perfect Works series). Knew that there was a book for Final Fantasy XII, but not what other games had an Ultimania or three? Now you know, in one big, sortable table. --PresN 19:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: Congrats, PresN, for cleaning up that mess of a table I left you back in July 2010. I haven't had a chance to look at it in-depth just yet so a few quick questions first. What happened to The Bouncer Perfect Works? Is it not a real thing? Also, are you not interested in including the older guide books? If not, that's fine, just curious about your reasoning. Finally, why do you use third-level headings instead of second-level headings for the sections? Axem Titanium (talk) 21:34, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Bouncer book wasn't real- some editor added it to the DigiCube article back in 2008 and it never went away, and there's no source of any sort that proves it ever existed. I took out the game guide books because frankly, every game ever has them- they're not notable, they're not special, and I didn't feel that a big table of hundreds of them belonged in a list that was trying to focus on a unique set of books that have hundreds of pages of artwork and background information. It's hard to draw the line between game guides with a bit of development info and reference books with some game guide information, but it's easy and non-subjective to just limit it to Ultimanias and Perfect Works. Finally, level-3 headers are there because I forgot to change them back. Now done! --PresN 21:44, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Haha figures. That's how rumors start. It's a shame about the earlier books; some of them look interesting (e.g. FF7 True Script Dissection and FF Complete Works). I guess there's no good way to slice those out with a set of consistent criteria. I'll try to look into just how much dev info/artwork/etc. was in those books, but it's not critical to this FLC. I get the sense that they were at least a bit more notable than any old game guide since they were first-party published. Oh well. Axem Titanium (talk) 22:34, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 19:56, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Lead image caption shouldn't have a full stop.
  • "The Ultimania series has generated over 10 million in sales by July 2007." had rather than has. Is there an update available considering it's April 2013?
  • Sorting by title, I think I'd expect the FInal Fantasy to sort in their numerical order, not just alphabetically, i.e. VII, VIII, IX, not IX, VII, VIII, X...
  • What makes "bent stuff" a reliable source?

The Rambling Man (talk) 17:50, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done; done, and there hasn't been an announcement since then unfortunately; done; Studio BentStuff is the company that is the author of the Ultimania books (Square Enix is the publisher). --PresN 19:52, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

  • "written and published by the Square subsidiary DigiCube. DigiCube...". Try not to have this kind of repetition from the end of one sentence to the start of another.
  • The lead image could use alt text.
  • All caps in ref 10 need removal. Giants2008 (Talk) 14:21, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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