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- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 19 hours ago:
I think the history of the name is similar to PUBG. The original games name was Pocket Monsters, but the community just abbreviated it to “Pokemon”, because Pocket Monsters isn’t a word they can pronounce correctly. But it wasn’t the part of the name at all. You can check the game title, cartridge image and packaging. In a later international release because of the trademark issues they just used the shorter name instead.
I think to this day the games are named “Pocket Monsters” in Japan, but with “Pokemon” added in front. But I’m actually not sure about this. One source to look for are game box-art covers: pokemondungeon.com/media-downloads/box-art and on archives.bulbagarden.net/…/Category:Game_covers
- Pokemon Blue (Game Boy, Japanese)
- Pokemon Ruby (Game Boy Advance, Japanese)
- Pokemon Sun (Nintendo 3DS, Japanese)
But in newer games (I don’t know since when) they seem to have dropped the “Pocket Monsters” part from the actual game name entirely:
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 22 hours ago:
What do you mean?
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 23 hours ago:
Rockstar has a history of showing exactly in gameplay trailers to what the game becomes when it releases. Look at the gameplay footage. It’s not 60 fps, it looks like 30. I do not expect in base PS5 a 60 fps mode, I don’t even know if the PS5 Pro will be able to do that. Even without RayTracing and lowering the settings (the game would still look amazing), the real bottleneck would be the CPU due to the complex world. I wouldn’t expect 60 fps on base PS5 at all.
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 1 day ago:
This is not a Cyberpunk 2077 situation, where the game was problematic on last gen (besides the bugs, but we talk about performance in this context). Its like the game was ported to Xbox One and Playstation 4, that was the situation of Cyberpunk. But that’s not the case here. Also we talk about Rockstar who showed lot of gameplay footage running on the Playstation 5. Look how their last game Red Dead Redemption 2 run on last generation even and look great.
I doubt the game will run at 60 fps on base PS5. But even if they managed to do it with lower graphics settings, I wouldn’t call it “shit graphics”. You forget that some games lowest quality settings look often better than most normal games. You can’t judge that by settings alone. And its not like Rockstar never made a GTA game before.
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 1 day ago:
- Gears of War: E-Day (October)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (October)
You don’t have to like those games, but these are big (some of the biggest this year) PC releases.
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 1 day ago:
with shit graphics.
Are you joking?
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 1 day ago:
“Why should we just give up the entire month of November?”
Because of GTA 6 and Zelda Remake.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
I misunderstood your help. I took it as an offense. My bad. Thanks for the correction. In fact I put the reply into a translator because I didn’t know what “yeasted dough” means and got a complete misunderstood translation.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
Thanks for the useless comment.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
I proofed that the titles of games doesn’t matter at all for the success and being memorable.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, it would have been much harder to solidify
But that was not my argument at all. This is not the first game in the series. My example was about the first game being “The Legend of Zelda”. The forgettable part “The Legend of” just puts mystery and a sort of adventure feeling to it. If the game was named just “Zelda”, it would less convey what type of game it is. That was my point I’m making. And for your example of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past as the first entry, I think it would be not bad as first title too. There are lot of games with a main title and a subtitle. The subtitle is like a specific book in a series. Like Pokemon: Red or Pokemon: FireRed. There is a main title that is consistent across the entire series and a subtitle that is the specific game title. It makes perfect sense to have games with colons like this. It doesn’t make games less memorable because of that.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
No, they proof that the name of the game doesn’t matter. It can be forgettable name, yet the game can be memorable because its a good game and everyone talks about it. If the names were less forgettable, it wouldn’t change anything about their success, popularity and memorability. Names become memorable, because games become successful. Not the other way round.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
I don’t think the success of game Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun would change with the name change. I think Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a more memorable name than The Heretic Prophet, but I don’t think it would matter to change it before release. Nowadays the games success doesn’t depend on the name of the game, it matters what game is recommended, the video trailers of games, description, keywords, ratings and reviews. Nothing would change with those suggested name changes, nobody cares about that.
And my listed examples in our other discussion proofs that.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days 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?
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
The games aren’t memorable because of their names.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days 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.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
No, read again. The games are very memorable, despite their extremely forgettable name. Its really that simple, not sure how you could misunderstand that. Nobody cares about a name nowadays, especially on Steam. Games can be very successful despite their absolutely forgettable name, because names doesn’t matter like in old days.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
The name of a game doesn’t matter to become unforgettable. Without being disrespectful: What exactly doesn’t you understand about this?
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
Exactly that’s what I’m saying. The other games listed as not memorable is not because of their names. So it doesn’t matter what ht names are, as my list proofs.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
The point of my list is to list popular games with forgettable names. I don’t understand what you mean. You mean the games are partially successful because the names are forgettable?? The list shows, that the names doesn’t matter at all.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
Look at Mixtape… The name is hardly special, but the game is widely known and recognized (as good or bad), not hidden gem. My point is, game names aren’t memorable because of their name; game names are memorable because of their popularity. Especially RPGs have often unspectacular names.
More (relatively… little a lot relative) recent games that became hits or known, despite their forgettable names: Blue Prince, Big Walk, Cyberpunk 2077, Starfield.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
Pokemon also started out as Pocket Monsters in the original Japanese release. When it came to release outside Japan, there was trademark issues and they had to find an alternative name… ended up with Pokemon. Later they rebranded the game in Japan too. Someone correct me if I’m wrong here.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 2 days ago:
Most game name are uninspired and forgettable on its own. The success and being popular makes them so memorable. Classics like Super Mario World wasn’t particular inspired name at the time it came out. Super Metroid or many other Super games had this issue. The games itself made the names unforgettable, not the name.
- Comment on The WipEout Game You Had to Buy a Movie to Play 4 days ago:
There was even movies on Game Boy Advance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_Video Which is kind of dumb, compared to UMD. And if you think about it, we watch movies on mobile devices. The first iPhone came out years later, so we wasn’t used to smartphones yet.
- Comment on The WipEout Game You Had to Buy a Movie to Play 4 days ago:
The WipEout Game You Had to Buy a Movie to Play
Unless you rent it. :-) Back then we had Blockbuster (and equivalents in other regions of the world.)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A dream for scalpers. :D
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Can’t wait to emulate this game on PC.
- Comment on "Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs 1 week ago:
Now Halo becomes just another Call of Duty. Great.
- Comment on Xbox Reportedly Plots Second Layoff Wave This Week, with Blizzard and Halo Studios both in the Firing Line 1 week ago:
The war continues. XBOX under surprise attack by their enemy Microsoft again.
- Comment on Xbox planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week | via Wario64 1 week ago:
Same gif again.
