Originally Posted by
theaveng
It's not necessary to put Spoiler Warnings on a game that's 5 years old.
This is a
Classic Gaming Board, meaning that the majority of people here will have some interest in classic games and will be playing through many of those which they never got to play the first time around, often under the reccomendation of others on the board, thus the game is new to that person and the ending is just as important to them as the ending of any new game, irrespective of the age of the game.
Originally Posted by
theaveng
I can understand putting spoiler warnings on new games like FF10, but not everything.
Why?!, what makes FF10's story more important than one of the older FF games, it can't be age because that certainly doesn't dictate the quality of a game's storyline. To a person who hasn't played the older game and the newer game but who wishes to, other than personal preference there is nothing to place a higher value on either of the games ending and thus unmarked spoilers on either would be equally damaging, thus spoilers regarding key storyline elements or game endings should
always be marked.
Ruining the ending of a old game / movie for someone who hasn't played it is exactly the same as ruining the ending of a new game / Movie.
Originally Posted by
theaveng
The rule in TV newsgroups is that anything older than a year does not require a warning. The same rule should apply here for games.
This is not a TV Newsgroup, this is a
Classic Gaming Board, you don't make the rules and you should be mature enough to respect the rights of others to choose whether or not they want to read spoilers.