Name that videogame! Of title stereotypes
1UP’s James Mielke was ranting three weeks ago regarding the blatant use of the words “Call of”, “Rise of”, “Empire,” “Nations,” and “Ops” in game titles. (He was talking about Call of Juarez.) Well, we’ve lived through this type of stereotyping, but it doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of it right? Makes us wonder, do devs consult some sort of list when thinking of a title?
Anyway, the guys at GameSetWatch set out to come up with the “most stereotypical video game name… evah”. The turnout was pretty crazy: Simon Carless (Game Developer/Gamasutra EIC) “Quaternion: The Beige-ning”, Jill Duffy (Game Developer managing editor) came up with “Ubisoft‘s Tom Clancy‘s Call Of Duty: Revenge Of Duty”, and Brandon Sheffield (Game Developer features editor) gave the hilarious “Pauly Shore’s XTREME Nude Wakeboarding II: The Awakening”. The winner was Frank Cifaldi (Gamasutra features editor) with “WWII: World War II“.
My fellow QJ staffers gave a few bits of their own. Victor B. came up with two – “Space Shooter: The Star Galaxy Trek Wars of Gradius” and “Final Generic Fantasy RPG Quest XX” – while our researcher R gave me this – “Death Ride Alliance: Blade War XIII”. We’re sure you have your own game title cliche and we’d love to hear about it. The more trite, the better.
Ready, set, go!
1UP’s James Mielke was ranting three weeks ago regarding the blatant use of the words “Call of”, “Rise of”, “Empire,” “Nations,” and “Ops” in game titles. (He was talking about Call of Juarez.) Well, we’ve lived through this type of stereotyping, but it doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of it right? Makes us wonder, do devs consult some sort of list when thinking of a title?
Anyway, the guys at GameSetWatch set out to come up with the “most stereotypical video game name… evah”. The turnout was pretty crazy: Simon Carless (Game Developer/Gamasutra EIC) “Quaternion: The Beige-ning”, Jill Duffy (Game Developer managing editor) came up with “Ubisoft‘s Tom Clancy‘s Call Of Duty: Revenge Of Duty”, and Brandon Sheffield (Game Developer features editor) gave the hilarious “Pauly Shore’s XTREME Nude Wakeboarding II: The Awakening”. The winner was Frank Cifaldi (Gamasutra features editor) with “WWII: World War II“.
My fellow QJ staffers gave a few bits of their own. Victor B. came up with two – “Space Shooter: The Star Galaxy Trek Wars of Gradius” and “Final Generic Fantasy RPG Quest XX” – while our researcher R gave me this – “Death Ride Alliance: Blade War XIII”. We’re sure you have your own game title cliche and we’d love to hear about it. The more trite, the better.
Ready, set, go!
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