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windbane on 23 February 2009
seece said:
windbane said:
starcraft said:
windbane said:
yeah, starcraft, it's all a joke. The guy uses sales numbers to "prove" which game is better all the time. That's no joke.

Where on Earth did he attempt in his OP to prove GOW was better than God of War?

All he said was that one series is bigger due to it's sales.

You need to calm down and have a glass of water my friend, you're imagining things.

 

Sorry you might have missed it during your absence. Squilliam has flat out said that he thinks sales prove quality of games. Look it up. He also said, in this thread, that he just wanted to point out sales numbers. I'm trying to reconnect those 2 thoughts...maybe you can do it for me.

 

Doesn't sound like Squillium.

 

He created a thread based on it.  Maybe you don't know what he sounds like.

 



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starcraft on 23 February 2009
seece said:
windbane said:
starcraft said:
windbane said:
yeah, starcraft, it's all a joke. The guy uses sales numbers to "prove" which game is better all the time. That's no joke.

Where on Earth did he attempt in his OP to prove GOW was better than God of War?

All he said was that one series is bigger due to it's sales.

You need to calm down and have a glass of water my friend, you're imagining things.

 

Sorry you might have missed it during your absence. Squilliam has flat out said that he thinks sales prove quality of games. Look it up. He also said, in this thread, that he just wanted to point out sales numbers. I'm trying to reconnect those 2 thoughts...maybe you can do it for me.

 

Doesn't sound like Squillium.

 

Indeed.

 



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Rath on 23 February 2009

Who gives a damn?



Kantor on 23 February 2009

1) God of War came first.

2) God of War got better reviews than Gears of War (well, from IGN at least, 9.8 vs. 9.4)

3) God of War is awesome.

4) ???

5) Profit! And also GoW is God of War.



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Seece on 23 February 2009
Kantor said:
1) God of War came first.

2) God of War got better reviews than Gears of War (well, from IGN at least, 9.8 vs. 9.4)

3) God of War is awesome.

4) ???

5) Profit! And also GoW is God of War.

 

lol nice joke post.



 

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Fumanchu on 23 February 2009

wow...it must be a slow news week.



Diablerie on 23 February 2009

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

The real GoW = http://www.gunnersofwar.com/

2001!  Um, but really that's just a gaming clan that I've been in since forfreakinever.  I honestly will always see GOW as God of War.



Onyxmeth on 23 February 2009
perpride said:
@Khuutra - I already presented by stance towards google being used in this argument. It is completely moot. Gears came out two months ago. Wait till God of War comes out and re-test the theory.

Type GOW into wikipedia. The first thing you see is a 1939 novel called Grapes of Wrath. Second is GOW. The third is Gears. Also, type in MK in google...the first that has to do with games is Mortal Kombat. Also, I was not referring to you when I said that the reason for this discussion is 360 fans.

@Onyxmeth - nice tag. Why do you have to come into a perfectly decent argument and stomp all over? I was actually quite enjoying this disscussion, but will not return to this thread because I don't need the hate. Peace and love to you all, use the damn acronym for whatever you want...

Gears, a shooter - which is the reason people like me prefer it, sells much better than God of War...YAY.

Fine. Let me be...nice.

1. It's not an acronym at all. No one goes around saying "GOW" (pronounced like the word cow) all day long. If you were to actually sound it out, which would be idiotic since it takes longer than actually saying the names of each game, you would spell out each letter, making it an initialism, not an acronym. An acronym would be pronounced like the word it is spelling. Also GEOW would be a psuedoblend, not an acronym or an initialism because you are using two letters from the same word to create it.

NBA, MLB, NAACP=initialisms
SUNY(State University of New York) pronounced as "sue-knee"=acronym
Sonar, Radar=psuedoblends

2. Neither company has trademarked the intialism "GOW", so anyone can use it for whatever means they want. There is no unwritten law in intialisms, acronyms and psuedoblends that says it's "first come first serve". If somebody trademarks it, then it could become that, but only by the other company. Nothing can stop people using it however they see fit. However, if we were to go by the notion that it was first come first serve, then the initialism would default to the novel the Grapes of Wrath, because it came first and it's more popular.

3. If God of War is "GOW" and Gears of War is "GEOW" then what is Geometry Wars? GEOMW? If people were responsible typers then all three should be able to share the same initialism "GOW" because like how it's properly done for little known intialisms, the name will be spelt out once to avoid confusion in the first place.

4. They argued this same stupidity over in the System Wars forum on Gamespot. Yes, that trash bag, festering forum on Gamespot. If that doesn't tell you something about this topic then nothing will.

5. This a joke thread.

 



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Squilliam on 23 February 2009
windbane said:
seece said:
windbane said:
starcraft said:
windbane said:
yeah, starcraft, it's all a joke. The guy uses sales numbers to "prove" which game is better all the time. That's no joke.

Where on Earth did he attempt in his OP to prove GOW was better than God of War?

All he said was that one series is bigger due to it's sales.

You need to calm down and have a glass of water my friend, you're imagining things.

 

Sorry you might have missed it during your absence. Squilliam has flat out said that he thinks sales prove quality of games. Look it up. He also said, in this thread, that he just wanted to point out sales numbers. I'm trying to reconnect those 2 thoughts...maybe you can do it for me.

 

Doesn't sound like Squillium.

 

He created a thread based on it.  Maybe you don't know what he sounds like.

 

windbane said:
yeah, starcraft, it's all a joke. The guy uses sales numbers to "prove" which game is better all the time. That's no joke.

Yep, games which sell more are better sellers. Im glad we agree!

 

 



Tease.

C8 on 23 February 2009
perpride said:
@Khuutra - I already presented by stance towards google being used in this argument. It is completely moot. Gears came out two months ago. Wait till God of War comes out and re-test the theory.

Type GOW into wikipedia. The first thing you see is a 1939 novel called Grapes of Wrath. Second is GOW. The third is Gears. Also, type in MK in google...the first that has to do with games is Mortal Kombat. Also, I was not referring to you when I said that the reason for this discussion is 360 fans.

@Onyxmeth - nice tag. Why do you have to come into a perfectly decent argument and stomp all over? I was actually quite enjoying this disscussion, but will not return to this thread because I don't need the hate. Peace and love to you all, use the damn acronym for whatever you want...

Gears, a shooter - which is the reason people like me prefer it, sells much better than God of War...YAY.

Type "GOW" into google.  Not only is the first result the official Gears of War page, every single video game-related result on the first page is for Gears of War.