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[Eudaemonium]

Am I the only one who is primarily bothered by FF13-3 being 'Lightning Returns: FFXIII' because it will mess up their alphabetically-sorted trophy list?

 

[raven777]

here is your 5 instead of V

But yea I think V and X are special cases because its really nice to make a logo with it.

 

[Bending_Unit_22]

Super Mario Advance
Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (better than Super Mario Advance 3: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island I suppose)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
Star Wars: Dark Forces III: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars: Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy

As above, stuff like that is what bothers me. They did a similar thing with the Rogue Leader games.

V or FIVE? I'm confused.

GTA V: Five, or they have to make sure the targeted audience knows it isn't GTA Vee

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

At least video game sequel numbering never went the way of The Naked Gun.

 

[masterkajo]

Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
Star Wars: Dark Forces III: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars: Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy

Ha, I find that hilarious. It's like on purpose to mess with everyone's head. Respect.

 

[GorillaJu]

At least video game sequel numbering never went the way of The Naked Gun.

Clayfighter 63⅓ begs to disagree.

 

[Ty4on]

The Need for Speed
The Need for Speed: SE
Need for Speed II
Need for Speed II: SE
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
Need for Speed: High Stakes (4)
Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (5)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (6)

Fixed it for ya. The rest of the games aren't NFS, when HP2 is hardly NFS in the first place.

 

[GlamFM]

 

[TheMink]

Super Mario Kart
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Mario Kart: Double Dash
Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart 7

Hahahahahaha

 

[Monty Mole]

V or FIVE? I'm confused.

'V'. The 'FIVE' is just there for the less than intelligent target market who don't understand simple Roman numerals.

 

[Pikawil]

Counting "main" titles only:

Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero III: Warriors of Rock
Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

 

[FyreWulff]

I like Nintendo's recent decision to number the Mario Kart games.

At this point I'm convinced they numbered 7 just so they could incorporate the mobius-strip 8 as a callback to 8's track-orientation gimmick

 

[Meier]

Don't bother being obsessive about stuff like this. Or anything. Your life will be better off. 5 and V are interchangeable. XIII and 13 are interchangeable. There is no difference between the two.

 

[Symphonia]

XBox
XBox 360
XBox One

Boom.

 

[SparksterMeta0]

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

Guilty Gear Xrd

 

[Off-Kilter]

Saints Row
Saints Row 2
Saints Row: The Third
Saints Row IV

And you just know they did it on purpose too. lol

Never change Volition

 

[chaostrophy]

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines

I think the subtitle there is to differentiate it from the pen and paper RPG Vampire: The Masquerade, which came first.

 

[lt519]

Next up...Saints Row 101.

Nobody got your joke ):
Edit: I only read the first page, but some still seem confused

 

[terrisus]

Nobody got your joke ):
Edit: I only read the first page, but some still seem confused

101 base 2 = 5 base 10, for those still missing it.

 

[UrbanRats]

Armored Core 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. What do these games have in common? They both have sequels that use a Roman numeral V. Does this drive anyone else crazy? I'm kind of obsessive about getting sequel numbers right, like Dead Space 3 and Dark Souls II, so it's kinda bizarre and off-putting to me when a series changes the way its entries are numbered.

Share anything else you find explicable in iterative game naming.

5 is a dumb looking number, "V" looks much better, however 4 looks better than IV.
This is the extent i'm willing to go.

'V'. The 'FIVE' is just there for the less than intelligent target market who don't understand simple Roman numerals.

It's mimicking the dollar bill.

 

[Tesseract]

it's just a symbol, brah. chill and let your mind soak in the creativelies.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Is it true that people can't do Roman Numerals?

Like I heard people do 2012 "II 0 I II" rather than MMXII

 

[SixMachine]

Nobody got your joke ):
Edit: I only read the first page, but some still seem confused

In binary 101 is 5.

edit: re-reading your sentence, you probably get the joke.

 

[Arkos]

Something like the NFS or Guitar Hero names could seriously stop me from trying a title from a series Id never played because I would want to play a main entry and might mistake some of those as spin offs. Never really thought about that.

 

[Rei no Otaku]

It's mimicking the dollar bill.

When I worked at Gamestop AT LEAST half the customers asking for GTA IV would say "Grand Theft Auto Eye Vee", so while it's probably also mimicking the bill I think it's more to do with the intelligence of the mainstream audience.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Wait, they seriously aren't teaching roman numerals?

 

[Zee-Row]

Metal Gear
Snake's Revenge
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Metal Gear Solid 4
Metal Gear Rising
Metal Gear Solid V

 

[popyea]

When I worked at Gamestop AT LEAST half the customers asking for GTA IV would say "Grand Theft Auto Eye Vee", so while it's probably also mimicking the bill I think it's more to do with the intelligence of the mainstream audience.

What they meant was they wanted it straight into their veins.

 

[Bradiculous]

Never noticed that before, Saints Row don't give a fuck.

Next one will obviously be Saints Row Five

Spoiler

that would be pretty cool

Followed by the reboot, "The Saints Row"

 

[Atraveller]

Rome : Total War

Total War: Rome II

 

[Alcotholic]

At this point I'm convinced they numbered 7 just so they could incorporate the mobius-strip 8 as a callback to 8's track-orientation gimmick

Maybe, I'll only agree if they don't number the one after Mario Kart 9.

 

[Concept17]

And you just know they did it on purpose too. lol

Never change Volition

I hope the next one is Saint's Row One, simply because they are master trolls.

 

[Princess Viola]

Mario Kart 64

Wait so this wasn't the 64th Mario Kart game? I thought the 2nd through 63rd ones were like exclusive to Japan or some shit.

 

[xBladeM6x]

Saints Row
Saints Row 2
Saints Row: The Third
Saints Row IV

This.

 

[IvorB]

Saints Row
Saints Row 2
Saints Row: The Third
Saints Row IV

This must drive the OP freakin' nuts.