Order of the Games

[TurtwigAndSquirtle]

Hi, I'm new to the forums, but I've been using the site for some time and there's something that really annoys me.
I think that the games should be ordered from newest to oldest (or vice versa), instead of however it's order now.
For example, in the Pokemon section, the Pokemon XY music (or Red Blue Yellow) should be first, then the gen 5 games, and so on.

[SlowPokemon]

It's funny because this was literally just discussed. I too am in favor of chronological order listing, but it doesn't make sense to have newest first--in my opinion, it should be oldest at the top and newest at the bottom.

[blueflower999]

I agree with Slow, the oldest should probably go first. But chronological ordering would be very nice.

[mikey]

Although I don't think any organization style is optimal for so many sheets, I'm starting to come around to the idea of chronological order.  Alphabetical just isn't working, partly because it's not done right, but yeah.

[Olimar12345]

I think chronologic order would be great, but the ability to choose between it and reverse chronologic order would be better. Give everyone what they want.

[SlowPokemon]

Huh if that's a possible thing, why not allow chronological, reverse chronological, AND alphabetical?

By the way, we'd need to come up with a system for release dates, since some games were released out of development order internationally--for example, in Japan, Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney was released before Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy, while internationally it was the other way around. Pretty sure we'd default to the game's earliest release date, but it's still something to think about.

[Maelstrom]

^How about earliest release outside of Japan?

[SlowPokemon]

No, I think the earliest release date should be used. If anything, we would use the Japanese release date over everything else, but I think it makes more sense to go with the earliest release date.

[The Deku Trombonist]

Once chronological is added as an option, reverse/normal order for both chronological and alphabetical is literally the easiest thing to do.

[Winter]

We'd have to manually specify the release dates of each individual game, but beyond that, it should be no more trouble than adding a column in the SQL table and referencing that column's order rather than the "name" column. Although, I'm not familiar with our database layout personally.

Chronological orger is like having a rank by nostalgia button. Awesome!

[ThatGamer]

This sounds like a good idea!

[Yugi]

We should probably make it alphabetical in the "other" section, though, so that it doesn't end up a mess.

[mikey]

We should probably make it alphabetical in the "other" section, though, so that it doesn't end up a mess.

But mlf worked his butt off getting all those dates

[Sebastian]

But mlf worked his butt off getting all those dates

True

[braix]

It doesn't really make a difference to me. I mean, I can just Ctrl+F.