I Wish They Showed More Imagination When Naming Games

[VetLegion]

This is just a recent example:

Commander: Europe at War
Supreme Commander

Both are recent strategy games so it is easy to get confused. Any other examples you can think of?

[Solver]

Add Universe at War to those two and it gets better

[The diplomat]

Re: I Wish They Showed More Imagination When Naming Games

Originally posted by VetLegion
This is just a recent example:

Commander: Europe at War
Supreme Commander

Both are recent strategy games so it is easy to get confused. Any other examples you can think of?

Are gaming companies supposed to get together before every game to make sure the names of their games don't have any common words?

[lord of the mark]

Re: Re: I Wish They Showed More Imagination When Naming Games

Originally posted by The diplomat


Are gaming companies supposed to get together before every game to make sure the names of their games don't have any common words?

nah, but they hardly need to do that to realize that mashing together "empire" "World" "arms" "conflict" "imperial" "war" "galaxy" etc in various combinations gets kinda generic.

Compare, say "Sins of a Solar Empire" (well its got empire, but its still pretty distinctive) Or even "Victoria" (very different, despite the subtitle) Or Spore.

[Sparrowhawk]

Took me a while to realize that Warcraft and World of Warcraft were different games.

I also thought for the longest time that the Sims was part of the Simcity series of games (and maybe it is, but from what I have read it sure seems different then the Simcity that I remember).

/me

[vovan]

Also confusing for me was Halo: Wars (the upcoming halo RTS), as opposed to Halo: Combat Evolved (the original halo game).