Talk:Car (obstacle)
Merge Car (obstacle), Truck, and Bus to "Vehicle (obstacle)"
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Current time: Saturday, November 9, 2024, 20:03 GMT
This page, truck, and bus are all about a similar generic type of obstacle that is almost always encountered together, in "street" themed stages, and function exactly the same other than the dimensions of their hitboxes. It would be more efficient to cover them all in one page and list the types that appear under each game all at once than split it into three (particularly since the "truck" page covers both tractor-trailer semi trucks and small pickup trucks already); most of the game pages only list them as "vehicles" anyway. Note that this proposal does not cover the Wiggler Wagon, Bob-omb Car, or the Mii drivers from Coconut Mall, as the former two have a specialized Mario-themed design and function while the latter is generally treated as a separate type of obstacle. I want to have the identifier there since while we don't specifically have a "vehicle" page, it can refer to other things, such as playable karts/bikes/etc and the Diddy Kong Racing rides.
Proposer: Doc von Schmeltwick (talk)
Deadline: September 6, 2024, 23:59 GMT
Support
- Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) - Per
- Super Mario RPG (talk) - The vehicles are the same types of obstacles, with complete cosmetic and minor functional alterations, derived from their generic counterparts.
Oppose
- Ray Trace (talk) The separate names (rather than being lumped as "Traffic"), audio, and visual differences between the obstacles are enough to warrant separate pages (we cover subjects like Keese, Raving Piranha Plant, Deku Baba into their own articles despite acting very similar to their base counterparts). In Mario Kart Wii, trucks have different properties aside from hitbox than cars (they block Mega characters). In Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 64, buses, trucks, and cars have varying hitboxes that are more than sufficient enough information to be designated as entirely separate objects.
Comments
@Ray Those alternates don't appear in the same stages as each other, though, nor are they generic subjects. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 17:10, August 23, 2024 (EDT)
