Thread:Suminoma/@comment-5916303-20160307174139/@comment-8695373-20160319084534

Suminoma wrote: I don't count mods as separate games at all, probably better just put them to respective game pages. What about Nightmare House 2 and Black Snow? These are Half-Life 2 mods. Should we delete these pages and create a "Half-Life 2" page with the list of the mods Mark has played?

What I'm trying to say is, the Game Guide section in the infobox is not helpful right now, and just confuses people. Look:

The "Cry of Fear" page states that the previous game is "Amnesia: Justine", which, going by your logic, should link to "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" page, which states that the next game is "Penumbra: Overture".

The Minecraft page states that the next game is "Cry of Fear: Out of It", which links to the "Cry of Fear" page, which states that the previous game is "Amnesia: Justine", which should link to "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" page, which states that the next game is "Penumbra: Overture".

So we should either remove the Game Guide section, since it is messed up, or do not count mods as separate games and just change the Run dates for their main games so they would include the mods, and delete them from the 2012 List of Games. But I vote for separate pages for mods.

You can look at Help:Bots page, but I can explain it here.
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