To give you two examples, there are some very long synopsises and some very brief ones.
I have some personal ideas on the subject, listed below, but at this site is developed as a group effort, there's no reason why I should have the final say in this matter
- First off, there's nothing set in stone about any of the synopsises, so if anything is too long or too short, it can be edited along the way.
- I prefer a placeholder text, however brief, rather than having nothing at all.
- I prefer a synopsis with a personal angle, rather than just the packaging text. We're not Wikipedia, and there's no reason to aim for complete objectivity. I'd like the synopsis to be informative and entertaining at the same time.
If a game is generally deemed to be large, difficult, ground-breaking or lots of fun, I think this information belongs in the synopsis (of course, there's no way of accurately defining "generally" here, but I hope you get the idea). This is for a number of reasons, one of which being the fact that having a personal angle shows that we actually know these games, rather than just copying their data from other sites. - Information on platform specifics, trivia, number of parts etc. belongs here, too.