Template talk:Games
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Would it be worth rearranging some of the entries in this, whilst keeping the same categories, to something more chronological (ie: an entry's release date, the period of time a cancelled game was in development, when a leak occurred, etc.) rather than alphabetical? As this template is used to list games, I think it would make more sense to organise it from a development standpoint rather than simply by title. --Rezalon (talk) 04:40, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
- The Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and Portal sections are already in chronologically released order, and it makes sense for them from both a development and narrative standpoint. However, the rest of the game sections are such a hodgepodge that I don't see the benefit in presenting them from a development standpoint, i.e. chronological release. The majority of these games are completely unrelated to one another, from the developer to their genre to their very reason for existing (tech demos, cancelled mainline titles, etc.). While most readers could follow the listing of the Half-Life and Portal games in chronological orders (and there are fewer games in both of these series to begin with), there's very little reason for the average reader to know the relative dates of anything else. This hampers the navigation purpose of this template since, outside of the release dates, the most direct and straightforward assumption for navigating these templates is by alphabetical order. Marphy (talk) 13:12, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
- Adding on to Marphy's point, I would argue that trying to use chronological order for something with sometimes undefined or unclear dates can be far more trouble than it's worth. Say Game A starts development in 2013, ends in 2014, but only leaks or becomes public knowledge in 2017. Game B starts development in 2016, is announced in 2019, and released in 2020. Game C starts development in 2012, is cancelled in 2018, and only becomes public knowledge in 2021. How do you order those? Do you put Game A first because it was the earliest we came to know about? Or do you put Game C first because it started development earlier? Or do you put it last because we learned about it after Game B? And what about if the development time of a cancelled project simply isn't known, or is only known within an imprecise range (say, somewhere between 2011 and 2014)? Lots of potential conflicts and ambiguities can arise, which alphabetical order cleanly avoids altogether. 86.75.115.1 20:03, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
