IcaroRibeiro said:
burninmylight said:
Nah, I think you're reaching to explain an overly convoluted naming convention that turns off anyone who isn't already a fan. I hope that the name of the third game is "Reborn" so we can have three different games that are meant to be played together, but all pretty much named the same thing.
There's are two different RPG series from Bandai-Namco that have like two dozen games on Switch between them + special editions, DLC and side games called Atelier : Subtitle and Legend of Heroes. Every once in a while I get close to trying them out when they go on sale, but then I give up because I can't figure out which ones came first in the series by actual release date, which are first chronologically in the lore, which are remakes, and so on. Could I take the extra time to go to Wikipedia or Reddit to figure it out? Sure, but I don't care enough to do that.
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If you don't bother to look for something as simple as release order or to check which ones were remakes then you're not really that interested in first place
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Maybe so, but I'm not giant corporation that needs to sell millions of copies of a game to the masses to justify hundreds of millions of dollars in development costs, am I?
IcaroRibeiro said:
Final Fantasy naming convention is extremely east to figure out. It's literally numbers. You can't get more obvious than that
Each numbered entry is essentially a new IP. Meaning everything with VII in the name belongs to VII universe
Sometimes those games are stand alone (IX, XV, etc) and sometimes they have sequels or spin offs (XIII, X, VII)
It's like Persona, every spin off of Persona 5 is on Persona 5 universe, whilst Persona 3 and 4 has no connection to Persona 5 whatsoever
Can someone quickly me explain how is this naming convention harder to understand than franchises with completely different names that doesn't explain anything about the chronological position of the game ?
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Sure, I can quickly explain. The two games released so far in the new Final Fantasy VII trilogy all have the same number in the name: VII, or 7, or Seven. And the two have a word in the name that mean practically the same thing to most people. That's confusing.
When Persona 5 was rereleased as Persona 5 Royal, simply adding that extra word indicated that it's either the same game plus extra content or a remaster of the game. Same thing with Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Advance Wars and Advance Wars 1+2: Reboot Camp. But when you put a new word after "Remake" like Intergrade, then it's like, what more could you add after already remaking the game? You mean the complete re-imagining from the ground up game you just put out wasn't complete?
Last edited by burninmylight - on 10 May 2025
