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Look, just like your four images, these images serve a purpose on GTW: The sniper rifle one represents the "one simple button press" that pushes the player into cover, away from gunfire. It also shows the ability to use the sniper rifle while inb cover. The "GTAIV-Cover" one shows the cover system in progress to viewers as soon as they access the page and the "Auto Eroticar" picture shows the ability of the player to move along cover. As with the "Third View" image, I don't know why I added it, you can remove it if you wish. But for the others, I put them there for a purpose and I believe they should stay to illustrate that purpose.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance|talk]]) 10:18, 26 October 2011 (BST) | Look, just like your four images, these images serve a purpose on GTW: The sniper rifle one represents the "one simple button press" that pushes the player into cover, away from gunfire. It also shows the ability to use the sniper rifle while inb cover. The "GTAIV-Cover" one shows the cover system in progress to viewers as soon as they access the page and the "Auto Eroticar" picture shows the ability of the player to move along cover. As with the "Third View" image, I don't know why I added it, you can remove it if you wish. But for the others, I put them there for a purpose and I believe they should stay to illustrate that purpose.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance|talk]]) 10:18, 26 October 2011 (BST) | ||
:Let's break down the discussion image by image: | |||
:# [[:Image:Sniper Rifle.jpg]]: I don't see the player actually moving into cover. It's just the player peering out the corner while covering. Using a sniper rifle while in cover is also very unconventional, especially if players find it necessary use weapons with more rapid firing rates in closer combat. Plus it can simply be explained in the main body of text that the player can fire any firearm while in cover; neither are these screenshots illustrating the player actually blind firing the weapons while in cover, which would be far more interesting. | |||
:# [[:Image:GTAIV-Cover.jpg]]: The starting length of the article is too short to support more than two images in both the intro and the succeeding section. When that image was added, [[:Image:CoverSystem-GTAVC-inuse.jpg]] was already present on top of the article, acting as both a lead image and the corresponding image to the [[Cover System#Pre-GTA IV|"Pre-GTA IV" section]]; it also suites the chronological order of illustrating the feature in an earlier game rather than displaying bias towards newer games, because it establishes that the feature goes further back before GTA IV. But by adding GTAIV-Cover.jpg, the images are now stacked unsightly, with both thumbnails bleeding into unrelated sections and pushing CoverSystem-GTAVC-inuse.jpg beyond the start of the "Pre-GTA IV" section. This is exactly the reason I avoid image stacking if they are not sufficiently related (like similarly sized exterior and interior shots) or are unavoidable. | |||
:# [[:Image:AutoEroticar.jpg]]: Strafing while in cover is already explained in the text; while I emphasize visual aids, they're meant to complement the text that they accompany; too much reliance on images will completely distract readers from actually reading the written parts of the page. Nevertheless, strafing can be illustrated, but as an additional image in [[:Image:Cover-GTA4-basics.jpg]], which I'll try to screencap soon. And I'm more for displaying the feature while in actual gameplay rather than simply resorting to pre-release screenshots. - [[User:ZS|ZS]] ([[User talk:ZS|talk]]) 11:03, 26 October 2011 (BST) | |||