Where is the Creativity?
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Cordova, TN; September 9, in the year of our Lord 2024
-- Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the
family friendly video games is continuing to be the voice of
diversity in the gaming media, and media at large. Since 1998 I
have covered video games from some media viewpoint. It all
started with Wyldcard's WAY and grew into Family Friendly
Gaming. I have seen all kinds of trends in the video game
industry. Do not forget that I started playing video games as a
kid. PONG was the first system I ever used as a kid. I have more
hours in video games than most tenured professors have in
whatever is they are teaching at major universities. If we went
just on hours played I have over twelve PhD's. How many
specialists do you know that can say that?
I marvel at the ingenuity and creativity of a lot of the video
games that are created. I do not marvel at some of the names
that are chosen. I recently worked on publishing some images of
a Nintendo Switch video game called - Cooking. Can you guess
what you do in this downloadable only video game that is missing
the all important physical copy format? If you guessed that you
cook in that video game then you would be on the target.
Whooohoooo! Points for you. How much effort did it take to come
up with a name for a cooking video game? There have been plenty
of other cooking video games out there. No other ideas came to
mind? Best Cooking, or You Cook, or Cooking King, Emperor of
Cooking, or some other idea. By the way I came up with those on
the fly while writing this article.
That one little example is not the only one. My biggest gripe is
video games that put - 'The Official Videogame,' in the title of
their game. How many unofficial versions of that bike racing
game are there? I did some research and could find none. Why do
you need that in the name? No one can figure out it is a video
game when it is on the PS5, or Xbox Series X. How many other
products are getting physical copies on those systems? I do not
see any movies, or television shows coming out in physical copy
on those systems. What else would be on the PS5 or Xbox Series
X? We do not need that kind of a phrase as part of the name of a
video game.
My final gripe on lack of creativity in video game names are the
ones that have to be an entire sentence. We do not need to know
every single aspect of the game in the name. Supersonic
Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars is a great example. I now
know every single thing I need to about this video game. I have
no interest in playing it because there is no mystery left to
it. Why does the name need to be that long? The Supersonic
Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars video game is pretty much a
wannabe Rocket League. Notice how Rocket League is more pithy?
Notice how Rocket League is easier to say and discuss? Which one
do you think is more popular? That would be Rocket League.
Excessive length to video game names just annoy gamers, and make
you look like you are lacking any creativity.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Emperor
Family Friendly Gaming
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