Marketing? Hmmm... If a game is a hit on computer X and publisher makes a conversion for computer Y, the title should be the same to show people that it's the same hit game.
Yes but why buy the same game for a different system, when you can be made to think you're buying a similar game for a better system and therefore using all the improved features of the new system.
Using the same name implies you getting a direct copy of the game whereas a different name makes you think it's been coded to take advantage of the faster processor, better graphics chip or whatever.
And that's because Biohazard the group own the name in the US.
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
I prefer firing up MAME and having a game of rush'n attack than a game of green beret. Don't know why but there you go.
ASpec.
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On 2005-12-17 15:38, Necros wrote:
Some games have different names in different regions. For instance, Resident Evil is known as Biohazard in America and Japan.
I've never seen this Biohazard game you mention ... but I have seen Resident Evil here in the States (wifey actually likes that series).
The new GTA game is called 'San Andreas' but on the PS2 it's called 'Liberty city stories' I thought a new GTA game had come out, it confuses people releasing the same game with different titles on different formats!
On 2005-12-18 00:32, zx1 wrote:
The new GTA game is called 'San Andreas' but on the PS2 it's called 'Liberty city stories' I thought a new GTA game had come out, it confuses people releasing the same game with different titles on different formats!
San Andreas exists on the PS2, Liberty City Stories is for the PSP, and is a different game altogether.
did you hear about renaming the movies for distribution in other countries?
for instance Cruel Intentions was in our movie theatres under the name Dangerous Acquaintances or something...
distributors say it?s the matter of keeping the incoming copies safe from pirates who cannot predict under what label will be the copy available... weird but a bit logical
On 2005-12-17 15:38, Necros wrote:
Some games have different names in different regions. For instance, Resident Evil is known as Biohazard in America and Japan.
I've never seen this Biohazard game you mention ... but I have seen Resident Evil here in the States (wifey actually likes that series).
Skarpo :)
No, he got a little muddled. Resident Evil is named Biohazard in Japan only.
The same sort of thing happens here too. Starfox on the Snes was renamed Starwing in the UK because (and you're gonna love the link to speccy's here!) there was already a Spectrum game called Starfox out.
ISTR that when the Speccy game [Wahey, on topic! -- Ed] Vixen was released in Germany, the censors there didn't like the name as it sounded too much like the German for copulation, so for the German market the name was changed -- to She Fox! :lol:
As at least two magazines gleefully pointed out, this sounds like the English for copulation. :D
I never make misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs — oh, sod it.
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Using the same name implies you getting a direct copy of the game whereas a different name makes you think it's been coded to take advantage of the faster processor, better graphics chip or whatever.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
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ASpec.
I've never seen this Biohazard game you mention ... but I have seen Resident Evil here in the States (wifey actually likes that series).
Skarpo
:)
San Andreas exists on the PS2, Liberty City Stories is for the PSP, and is a different game altogether.
and even more confusingly CONTRA III (Snes) is called SUPER PROBOTECTOR on PAL format versions.
for instance Cruel Intentions was in our movie theatres under the name Dangerous Acquaintances or something...
distributors say it?s the matter of keeping the incoming copies safe from pirates who cannot predict under what label will be the copy available... weird but a bit logical
No, he got a little muddled. Resident Evil is named Biohazard in Japan only.
The same sort of thing happens here too. Starfox on the Snes was renamed Starwing in the UK because (and you're gonna love the link to speccy's here!) there was already a Spectrum game called Starfox out.
As at least two magazines gleefully pointed out, this sounds like the English for copulation. :D
misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs— oh, sod it.