Video Game Titles

[PhantomJedi]

I for one think that Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is a bit too long. It's bad when need an acronym for conversational purposes.

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magicka Obscura, and Temple of Elemental Evil: A Classic Greyhawk Adventure also spring to mind as overly long titles. Still, doesn't affect me.

[BattleCookiee]

No,

Anyways I always use shortings (even for a game with 6 letters " )

 

Usually I just play the game and then if I want to talk about it either

1. Use First Letter of Words

2. Or just use one of the titles, instead of both (or more);

So instead of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind: Tribunal Expension pack (just an example) I just say Tribunal...

[metadigital]

... Or how about K1 and K2 ?

 

 

As long as it is in context, I see no problem with abbreviations.

 

 

Then again, I used to work for IBM, and they are almost as fetishist about acronyms as the armed forces. (It comes from having to quickly create accurate descriptions for complex concepts; it just isn't practical to make up snappy little proper nouns for everything, and it defeats the purpose.)

 

For example, if they called K1 "Revan" and K2 "Gizka's Revenge"? Would that be better? You would then have to spend even more effort to explain that it is a sequel to a game with a totally different name. And then there would be those who would argue that it wasn't intended to be a sequel, because it was named differently.)

[GhostofAnakin]

No.

[Ekkest]

Meh. It's the same with movies. You get either one-word titles or titles with a much longer (and usually unnescessary) subtitle.

[mkreku]

I just dont understand why every game needs a 'subtitle'. Some games names do fine on their own. Boiling Point (:Road To Hell) springs to mind. And I absolutely hate when you go to some site where you can review games and you have a 200 word limit, and when you've typed the entire game title, half of those are spent already.

[SteveThaiBinh]

Sacred. One word, rubbish game.

[Musopticon?]

It's not. Rubbish, that is.

 

 

Titles, schmitles. You can just use abbreviations.

[Child of Flame]

No.

 

I long for the day when I see 'Murder Simulator Hojillion and 1: A Thousand More Hookers to Beat Up' on store shelves near you.

[Reveilled]

I agree about the subtitle thing. Is it really necessary? I mean, nobody ever felt the need to put a subtitle on Civilization II or III, so why put one on KotOR 2?

 

Not that it bothers me all that much. In fact, I hardly even think about it. "

[metadigital]

No. 

 

I long for the day when I see 'Murder Simulator Hojillion and 1:  A Thousand More Hookers to Beat Up' on store shelves near you.

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Hey

[Gabrielle]

Who cares how long the title is, just as long as it has good content in it. I buy the game for being good not the title.

[mkreku]

Uh huh. I am still wondering how much sales Divine Divinity lost just because of the name (which wasn't the game's original name, but a name thought up by marketing executives..).

[SteveThaiBinh]

Uh huh. I am still wondering how much sales Divine Divinity lost just because of the name (which wasn't the game's original name, but a name thought up by marketing executives..).

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What was the original title then?

[BattleCookiee]

Mmmm, guesses it lost more customers because of:

 

It looked horrifying

It played horrifying

And if you manage to get through that it is a Extreme Diablo Clone yet in every way Worse.

[mkreku]

What was the original title then?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Divinity: Sword of Lies

 

Not much better, perhaps, but at least not as stupid as Divine Divinity.

[SteveThaiBinh]

I'd say quite a lot better, actually. Less memorable, perhaps, but in a good way.

 

But it seems to have sold well enough, anyway. At least, I assume so, since they made a sequel.

 

I started it and played until I think about the middle. It was OK but not great, so I kept playing in the hope that it would get better, but it seemed to be getting worse and I stopped.

[Calax]

technically the title for jedi academy should be Star Wars: Dark Forces: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Academy.

 

But becasue nobody really remembers dark forces they pulled that part of the name. If you go by offical stuffy yes names are getting too long.

[Guest Fishboot]

Isn't the subtitle thing some kind of marketing religion? I think there was some study or somesuch that told the marketing zombies to append subtitles onto everything and now they're afraid to stop doing it, since they'll look stupid in front of all of the other baby-eaters if their unsubtitled game tanks.

 

And as to Divine Divinity.... it looks and feels like a Diable clone + Generic fantasy. I mean, if I see another orc in a game I'm goint to jab my eyes out with a brooch. I think if the game had been great Divine Divinity would have been a fantastic name - very unique, euphonious, memorable.

[213374U]

technically the title for jedi academy should be Star Wars: Dark Forces: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Academy.

Actually that would be Star Wars: Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy.

 

But yes, that's just silly. Even more so considering that the game was more like an add-on that a true standalone game.

[Calax]

It was basically a jedi version of battle front. Instead of wandering around a faceless trooper you tried to kill on another with lighsabers. That was the biggest difference I noticed.

[213374U]

Um, no. I meant an add-on to Star Wars: Dark Forces 3: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast. There was no substantial difference between those two.

[alanschu]

Agreed.

 

I think Jedi Academy was a bit of a reaction to fans that were a bit disappointed that they couldn't affect Kyle's decisions like they could in the first Jedi Knight game. It was still fun to go nuts with a double-bladed saber though :D

[Calax]

even though you couldn't toss the thing... that was a bit wierd