Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names

• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shows the name doesn’t matter at all to be memorable or not memorable. It’s the popularity of the game that makes the name memorable, not the other way around. Also with your example in the post “Horizon: Zero Dawn should have just been called Zero Dawn”, how would it be more memorable? Horizon is a catch word to have with all their games in the series, for easier recognition with later releases. It makes perfect sense for a game series that is planned to be like this, and perfectly memorable.

  The game quality makes names memorable, not the other way around.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Look, it wouldn’t have been a huge improvement to just call it Zero Dawn, but at least you get past the gore of the unnecessary colon they talk about in the article. All three of the words in Horizon: Zero Dawn probably have a high hit rate if you’re searching for titles on Steam, but getting rid of the colon would still have made it a more interesting title.

    I did pull those as examples of bad title trends called out in the article, but the likes of Sony can muscle past problems with a bad title by throwing money at it, and if you’re just one of a few dozen indies in the middle of a Keighley showcase, you don’t have that luxury.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think it would be an improvement for the name to call it Zero Dawn. Just like all Zelda games are Legend of Zelda. It wouldn’t have changed anything about the success of the game or being memorable. If anything, it was a good idea, so they can name a future game in the series as Horizon (like Legend of Zelda) with a subtitle as the main title for the game.

      Or do you want games be named as Zero Dawn 1, Zero Dawn 2, Zero Dawn 3? Is that more memorable?

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      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Which wouldn’t even make sense considering “Zero Dawn” in context of the Horizon series is that it is a specific canonical event that is only discussed in the second game. The first game didn’t have any notion of the Zero Dawn event afaik.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        See the article’s debate over adding the colon to the first entry in a series, and I basically share the same viewpoint. If the first entry was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, it would have been much harder to solidify itself with people learning of this thing for the first time. See my comments elsewhere in this thread here with Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun as a first entry for a series that didn’t take and how I don’t think Horizon aptly describes its game or story.

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