Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Horizon: Zero Dawn should have just been called Zero Dawn.
It should have been “Horizon.” That’s the game’s series title. And since it was the first one, it didn’t need a subtitle at all.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Zero Dawn was a thing in the game’s back story that explained how everything came to be. Horizon was a throwaway word in a monologue toward the end of the game, and they probably also risked brand trouble with Forza: Horizon, which predated it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Fair. And also, naming things is hard. I am numb to it by now; video games have always tended to have goofy, nonsense, or boring names. Tho, back in the day, we just assumed it was a translation thing considering a vast majority of the games in my youth were made by Japanese developers.
“Metal Gear Solid, huh? That’s certainly a name.”
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 3 hours ago
Kojima really is a gift to modern gaming with his naming conventions