Talk:The Runaway (video game)

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Hey. If some of you has access to any means of playing this VR game, could they please provide some more info on the page; specifically the plot and references to anyone or anything? Thanks. :) --DCLM ☎  17:05, May 20, 2019 (UTC)
 * Never mind. I found a YouTube video from "savage hamzter" called "Doctor Who: The Runaway VR experience", which shows the entire playthrough including the end credits. --DCLM ☎  17:24, May 20, 2019 (UTC)

Invalidity Rationale?
So I've got some idea, but for the record, we're calling this invalid because…? There doesn't seem to be much of a branching story, unless you want to count the order in which one picks up the toys meant to quiet down Volta. It may be VR, but storywise, it's less interactive than Attack of the Graske was.

If the Invalid tag wasn't simply slapped on before much info surface as a reasonable assumption for a VR game, I suppose one might justify it with the fact that the new companion of the Thirteenth Doctor is offscreen and seen in first-person, implying the companion is the player, implying a fourth-wall break. Was this the idea?

Mind you, in my opinion, that's a lot of implication and not a lot of actual problem. Given that, again, the player doesn't really get to decide the companion's actions (being merely asked to perform them by the Doctor), there would be no trouble in creating a Companion (The Runaway) page that would simply lack a picture, but otherwise be little different from any page about a minor character. The fact that the unseen companion apparently entered the TARDIS following a spaceship crash seems to point away from the fourth-wall-break of the player literally being the companion, too.

If it does turn out that this was the reasoning we may have to hold a proper inclusion debate, but for now, just a query. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  20:11, May 21, 2019 (UTC)
 * There is precedent, but I've been searching off and on for a few days and haven't found it yet. I will keep searching later tonight and post the info here when I find it. Shambala108 ☎  20:45, May 21, 2019 (UTC)


 * Ok, I found it (seriously my life would be easier if I had a better memory). It's located at Forum:Doctor Who: Worlds in Time. Completely off-topic, but the current color scheme on this wiki has to go. It's hard enough to read white on blue, much less white on very-light-gray. Shambala108 ☎  22:52, May 21, 2019 (UTC)


 * So I got round to watching it and was wondering what everyone felt surrounding validity? I agree with the original statement, there really isn't anything that would make it not valid. It follows rule 1, for it has a story and 2, 3 and 4 are also all followed. StevieGLiverpool ☎  17:10, July 3, 2019 (UTC)
 * If there's nothing to call it invalid, then I don't see why it couldn't be a story of equal validity to fx Series 11. This would then bring me to a question... should the game be given a "Previous Story"/"Next Story" section like the TV stories? --DCLM ☎  21:13, July 3, 2019 (UTC)

Scroll up to see the forum decision that also applies here. Shambala108 ☎  22:50, July 3, 2019 (UTC)