Kirameo on 05 August 2011
| Blacksaber said: Because it's "trendy" and in with the kids of today. It's the same reason they put numbers into the names of games like F3AR AKA Fear 3, it's only there to catch the buyers interest no matter how little it does. When you see something out of the ordinary your more likely to look at it and in games case gives a better chance of being sold to "hipster" consumers. And on a final note I hate Hipster's with all my heart and soul. |
I wholly disagree with this post. Roman numerals have much to do with the environment and feeling of the game itself. If it is a game about times that could relate to what Rome was like (or is percieved to have been) in the past, these numerals fit well. If not, the don't. That way we could see that a game like Halo benefits more from standard (modern after a fashion) numbers, but games like Age of Empires would benefit more from roman numerals, because they fit better in the style of the game.
