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Platform Images in the API It would be very nice to have the images of the platform work in the API. I don't mean the logos, I mean the wide image that displays the console in its entirety. Maybe add it as Platform Images or something like that.
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Adding Arcade Platforms There is a variety of arcade games on IGDB, but there is no differentiation between the different arcade hardware. For example, Chunithm and maimai Finale are both on IGDB under the platform of simply "Arcade", despite Chunithm running on the Sega Nu 1.1 board, while maimai Finale runs on the Sega RingEdge 2.
While there are a lot of platforms that would have to be added should this change be made, I do believe that this change follows the mission of IGDB, as the website strives to be a collection of all relevant information for a game, and there are…
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Watara Supervision Platform The Watara Supervision is a fourth generation handheld platform released to compete with the Game Boy. It isn't a very popular console, but got recently added to the RetroAchievements service.
Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watara_Supervision
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Nintendo 64 DD Platform The Nintendo 64DD is a very known japanese Nintendo 64 add-on with some exclusive games. It is like the Famicom Disk System is for the Famicom and the Super Disc (Nintendo PlayStation) is for the SNES.
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false release date https://www.igdb.com/games/far-cry-6/countdown far cry 6 has not been released on google stadia, but it shows that it is. please change this immediately.
1 voteHey! thanks for pointing it out. It seems to be due to a bug rather than a false release mind you. We’re taking a look!
As a note, if you do spot some incorrect data you are able to edit and submit an update in case :)
Thanks!
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Moving "Related Content" section for better visibility (Remake/Port/Bundles/etc) It seems rather common that users want to post the release dates and other info into the original releases of titles, such as Ports, Bundles, Remakes and Remasters, when these points have already been documented in the respective entries.
While you will almost certainly never fully eliminate this, I feel a large portion of it has to do with people not realizing the entries exist, and often need to scroll down to areas they may not frequent as often to notice the options exist.
I would suggest possibly moving these sections for Ports, Remakes, Bundles, etc. into the same area…
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Add "Character Trailer" as a video type These types of trailers are common for fighting games and even games like Overwatch had them back in the day.
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Preview Page for Entry Submissions Maybe this is just me, but I almost always miss something when I edit, update or submit a New Game, and never see it until I see the full list of changes on the Pending Submission page.
It might help to have an "Are you sure?" page between Previewing all Changes and Submit/Update.
1 voteThere’s a good suggestion here, although it could also add some friction. In particular for users doing a lot of edits in a row.
Adding a page between would add extra pages and clicks, making the contribution flow slower.
I would picture more like having a recap visible at all times through in the sidebar maybe, somewhat like an online store shopping cart (-Cover, Keywords X2, Genre, Screenshots X5 etc..).
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A doubt on merging two games Hi,
recently a super-admin had to merge two games wich actually was the same game, which just changed name and modality meantime.In the fact I'm talking about Pagan Online (Action-RPG MMO) which became Pagan Absent Gods (Action-RPG Single Player).
While before they were registered as two different games, with two different pages, now they got merged as single page on Pagan Online's page (renaming the game), marking Pagan Absent Gods' old page as dupicate.
The consequences of the merging, anyway, are doubtful, because:
In IGDB website: if you search both for Pagan Online or for Pagan: Absent Gods, you…
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Hey!
Yes good suggestion! We do have plans for revisiting our Lust feature, including the default lists. We can definitely take this in consideration once we return to this.Thanks!
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API does not return tags for some games For some games the API does not return any tags, despite having themes/genres.
Examples:
- https://www.igdb.com/games/killer-instinct-definitive-edition
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Video-only Critic Reviews This might be alittle complicated without some way for Users to manually submit Critic Review links, but there are a large number of high profile journalists and game reviewers that have stepped away from writing full articles on a game that an AI bot can web-crawl, and have switched to primarily YouTube video reviews. Many of these are now on Metacritic as well.
- EasyAllies
- Cinemassacre
- Gameranx (Before You Buy)
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Removing/Renaming "Legacy" Mobile Platform There are times some users confuse the general name of "Mobile" to include iOS, Android and other modern mobile platforms.
It might be prudent to rename this to Legacy Mobile, JAVA, WAP, or other name to help differentiate it form those common names.
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Historic Data A historic data such as followers/viewers would be very nice.
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Update Press kit inspiration link On the Press Kit pages, such as https://www.igdb.com/games/outriders/presskit there is a note on the inspiration of the press kit: Inspired by presskit() by Rami Ismail(Vlambeer)
While the Vlambeer twitter that is linked to still exists, the company ended in 2020, so my suggestion is to change the Vlambeer link to that of Rami Ismail's own twitter https://twitter.com/tha_rami
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Gamescore on public profile https://xboxgamertag.com/search/cuddlyfriction
basically pull the information like this into my public profile
just generally more information on a persons gaming history
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Add chapters of games Many games have chapters, which could be listed here potentially alongside a time to beat for each chapter since games can have 30 minute chapters or 2 hour chapters. This would help people get general ideas of where they are in the game, or simply compare playtime by chapter.
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Replace Green Backdrop for Missing Screenshots with a Default Placeholder Image Currently, when titles do not have an included Screenshot, the highlighted backdrop of the page displays a green background color. While I'm sure this is intentional in order to entice users to always be sure to add one, there isn't really anything that communicates this is what caused the green background. Further from an aesthetic point of view, it highly clashes with the purple "theme" of Twitch/IGDB.
As a suggestion, Twitch channels that don't include a background image will display a repeating pattern of the user's name. Or, an icon to signify a broken image to tell users to add…
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Broken review links can affect Critic Review Scores. As some reviews age, some sites can go out of business or just shut down. However there doesn't appear to be an automatic way the database removes or reports broken links or updates scores as they go away. Additionally, some of these will push scores averages down if they continue to inaccurately are placed as Review Scores, yet hold broken links.
Steel Battalion
https://www.igdb.com/games/steel-battalion
- 404 Review Links (Gaming Trend)Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
https://www.igdb.com/games/fatal-frame-ii-crimson-butterfly
- Inaccurate count of 3 reviews on Game Page, but 2 reviews listed on Critic Reviews breakdown page.Disgaea 2 Dark Hero Days
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Live Streaming links for games It would be great if your database had a link to live stream channels for the game.
For example GTA V could point you to these links.
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Grand%20Theft%20Auto%20V
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOquqcRMJmURiGfEnaitptg
https://www.facebook.com/gaming/game/grandtheftautov
Not sure if there are other similar sites... But also if you add this please open it up to the API as well!
Thanks!
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