It's called Eternity right? The "Project" part is just it's development name?

[I_SERVE_THE_FLAMING_FIST]

There is no way that the actual retail game name will be "Project Eternity" correct? It will just be called Eternity?

 

Because having the word project in a game title sounds absolutely disgusting and would be a HUUUUUUUGE turnoff, an atrocity totally taking out any immersion before the game even STARTS!

[LadyCrimson]

That's just the project name. We have no idea what title the finished game will actually have. It might be Eternity. It might be something completely unrelated.

[mcmanusaur]

Wow, I didn't realize that the title of the game has an impact on player immersion... and if the title does, why not other meta-game aspects? "The price of this game is really breaking my immersion right now!"

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

If you want immersion, I suggest you jump in a pool.

[nikolokolus]

Thanks for the outrage though.  Not enough strong opinions on message boards these days.

[Messier-31]

The suggested title has too many "e" letters. As you know "e" stands for "eeew", which sounds absolutely disgusting and would be a HUUUUUUUGE turnoff!

[Kjaamor]

[Hassat Hunter]

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[Silent Winter]

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[FlintlockJazz]

As others have said, Project Eternity is just the project title, we actually don't know what the game will be called.  It could be anything, like Master Spaffington's Spaffingly Spiffy Advetnures into Spaffing on People's Faces with Spaff.  Which would be awesome.

[eimatshya]

Yeah, Project Eternity's the placeholder title. Basically, they had to announce the game before much of anything had been done on it, so they had to give it some arbitrary title to use in the pitch. Since there was no story at that time, they didn't want to commit to a permanent title and went with "Project Eternity" as a callback to the Infinity Engine that inspired it. They will presumably announce the final title eventually, like how Double Fine eventually decided to call "Double Fine Adventure" "Broken Age".

Edited September 1, 2013 by eimatshya

[Quadrone]

... an atrocity totally taking out any immersion ...

 

This is killing muh immershun, no that is killing muh immershun...

 

This word has been so abused and overused that I cannot help myself but loathe any person a tiny bit more when they try and justify their views by saying "x ruins my immersion".

[Karkarov]

Wow, I didn't realize that the title of the game has an impact on player immersion... and if the title does, why not other meta-game aspects? "The price of this game is really breaking my immersion right now!"

I agree.  If the game doesn't come packaged with a full refund of my kickstarter pledge and all the goodies I paid for my immersion will be decimated!

 

[Osvir]

I've looked at "Project Eternity" with several perspectives:

Out-of-Game perspective:

- Project Eternity the Kickstarter Project/Campaign
- Project Eternity, the Out of Game Quest (Obsidian Company Quest), Man wanting to achieve everlasting life. Fame, glory, legend. Project Eternity (the Game) might be a mark in video game history, a cult classic. Who over at Obsidian doesn't want to leave a nice footprint in the Earth?
- Project Eternity, the tribute to the Infinity Engine

Quest Related, in-game:
- Project Eternity, a God Story/Quest, God's who work towards a greater goal, "Fate" or something other superstitious to achieve a platonic "Eternity". Or an Evil God that knows that everything that has a Beginning also has an End and it's own End is coming and thus creates "Project Eternity".
- Project Eternity, the In-Game Quest/Story, man wanting to achieve everlasting life. Akilles chose (according to the mythology) to stay in Troy, even though he knew it would be death of him. But hey, everyone knows who Akilles is right?
- Animat Factories, devices to prolong the life of a Soul (in a sense), someone had to start building the machines (the ancient civilization of the World?). What would they call their project, and for what reason would they build these machines? Eternity?

With all the above said by me, I agree with what many others say in this thread. Project Eternity is thus far a "Placeholder". But I still think that "PE" has a really nice ring to it, in the same vein as the classical shorts BG, IWD, PST.

Thus, I really think that Obsidian "should" work with "PE" as a title, something that starts with a "P" for a first word and "E" for a second word.

Title-Help (Obsidian might have their own tools/ideas for how to get titles and stuff but I thought of just to share this for inspiration/influence or whatever~ also because I think it's a lil bit fun ):
Something I myself think is pretty fun to do when I try to write titles, character names and events for my own story is to go on pages like this and see if there are "synonyms" that pretty much say the same thing but with a cooler sounding word that rolls on the tongue.

Thesaurus and Merriam-Webster:

1. http://thesaurus.com/browse/project

2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/project[noun]

3. http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/project[verb]

4. http://thesaurus.com/browse/eternity

5. http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eternity

 

Acronym sites are fun too
http://acronymcreator.net/ace.py

 

roPEY - Project EternitY

Who goes by Rope Kid on Something Awful?

Finally, anagrams:
http://www.anagrammer.com/anagrammer/

Did you know that "Eternity" is an anagram of "Tiny Tree" for instance!?!?

Like I said, brilliant stuff ;D

Edited September 1, 2013 by Osvir

[Bartimaeus]

Have you considered any theories for the event "Project" is actually a verb, Osvir? 

Edited September 1, 2013 by Bartimaeus

[Osvir]

Not yet, but I like how you're thinking 

 

How does one project "eternity"? I bring up the Akilles example again, talking about the idea of how to become "immortal" (like Akilles) is one way to project an idea of how to become eternal... but it's still not quite "projecting" eternity physically, it's just a "how to" idea... but to project "Eternity" or "Immortality" in it's pure essence of meaning, physically? I'm having trouble theorizing how one would be able to do such a thing in a fantastical and imaginative sense.

But... maybe... if a God could grant someone else immortality or Godhood somehow... that would be kind of like "projecting" Eternity onto someone else?

That's in a "in-game" sense.

For an out-of-game sense.

This forum. We are projecting our ideas for what we'd like to see and what we envision PE, as a game, both could become and what we want it to become.

"Project Eternity" could be seen as "Talk about this game we want to name Eternity. What do you envision it could be? What do you want it to be? What kinds of ideas do you have to bring to the table?" etc. etc.

If "Project" is a verb, then Eternity is (I believe) no doubt the title of the game. A.k.a. in short "Envision Eternity" and the longer version "Envision what the game 'Eternity' could be like".

But I stand my ground, PE is a great "Acronym" or "Signature Initials". Simply having it as E sounds almost too short. Though, they could always go with "EY" (Ey, sup yo got flo' bro?) or "ET" (but I guess that one is kind of copyrighted) 

[rjshae]

It's Project Placeholder Here This Page Intentionally Left Blank.

[smithereen]

Not to hijack a (obviously troll) thread, but I do agree the titles are important. Used well, they appropriately manage expectations and emphasize the theme of a work, and this is important. Title's like 'Remember Me,' 'Mass Effect,' and 'Deus Ex' go a long way.

[moridin84]

It's Project Placeholder Here This Page Intentionally Left Blank.

Project Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

[eimatshya]

Not to hijack a (obviously troll) thread, but I do agree the titles are important. Used well, they appropriately manage expectations and emphasize the theme of a work, and this is important. Title's like 'Remember Me,' 'Mass Effect,' and 'Deus Ex' go a long way.

 

They definitely can help, but I don't find them to be particularly important either. I had no prior experience to the forgotten realms setting before playing Baldur's Gate, so the title was not at all evocative or informative for me. I got the game because the pictures and description on the back of the box made it sound cool (at the time I was super into Tolkien, Warcraft, and the Elder Scrolls and Fallout had got me hooked on CRPGs, so BG sounded like the perfect game for me).

[Lephys]

Honestly, if the game's solid, it could be called The Chronicles of TurdSquiggle, and I'd do little more than raise an ever-questioning eyebrow at Obsidian's game-naming judgement.

 

Now... if the main city in the game (or the realm) was called TurdSquiggle, and was mentioned through the narrative, that would probably affect my immersion. But, just the name? I would just guess someone lost a bet.

[Archmage Silver]

There is no way that the actual retail game name will be "Project Eternity" correct? It will just be called Eternity?

 

Because having the word project in a game title sounds absolutely disgusting and would be a HUUUUUUUGE turnoff, an atrocity totally taking out any immersion before the game even STARTS!

No, it's like Duke Nukem Forever. Except that's it's going to take longer to release. A lot longer.

 

It's also a lot like Snake, except that the snake is going around in an infinite loop, eating itself.

[Hormalakh]

i hope it's called Lego: Project. And i hope they change the models to look more like lego blocks. i miss my childhood.

Edited September 4, 2013 by Hormalakh

[Monte Carlo]

Do you know, I was going to give this dude a C+ (which is rare) but now I think I'm going to go for a B. I'm getting soft in my dotage, and skilfully written trollage like this is rarer and rarer nowadays.

 

Congrats, flaming-fist-in-capitals-dude. I salute you.

Edited September 4, 2013 by Monte Carlo

[Messier-31]

I think that it is more posiible than ever, that the final game will be called simply "Eternity"... check the title at the bottom of this map (ąfter following the link, click on the picture to enlarge). See? No "Project". Besides, this title is already too damn good associated with the game, and is good.

 

http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2013/06/map-of-project-eternity.html - CLICK MEEEEE!