Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl General Thread - All Star Brawl 2 Available Today!

[Borskaboska]

I can agree with All-Star being a tad overdone but I have to disagree with the second half. It's not just a fighting game thing after all, but a naming convention across multiple genres.

Having some sort of descriptor in the title isn't necessarily a bad thing. It helps to tell you what the game is about when you're going in with zero knowledge.

They're not the most creative names a lot of the time but what else would you call Mario Party or Mario Kart for example? Or to use your own example of Street Fighter, what's a good alternative? No matter what, you're going to allude to fighting somehow. World Warrior is the most appropriate alternative that comes to mind for me at least. That still doesn't pass your criteria though.

Neither does Tactics Ogre for that matter. Let Us Cling Together is the subtitle. Nor does it's series: Ogre Battle.

It's a tactical/strategy RPG with tactics in the name. Triangle Stategy has strategy in the name. Final Fantasy is a fantasy RPG with fantasy in the name.

I think you get the idea by now, but descriptors don't make a name bad, it's about how it's used and in some cases simply the perception of overuse due to repeated exposure.

I mean it's just a personal preference, I just think it's boring. I came to this conclusion when I heard Persona 5 Tactica and Warhammer Tacticus around the same time, i just thought "wow, people really can't come up with other names for tactics games?"

Is the Party game genre not named after Mario Party? I feel like before mario party came out, games like that would've just been called "board game simulator"

Triangle Strategy is actually a horrendous name. Like up there with the worst. There are parents naming there children after long dead war criminals, and Triangle Strategy is still a worse name. I MUCH prefer evocative gibberish names like "Octopath Traveler".

Final Fantasy isnt really what i'm talking about, game genre and setting genre aren't the same thing.

I'm fine with street fighter, and World Warrior would be OK too, mostly because those refer to the characters more than the game itself. Like, ryu is the guy who fights in the streets, he's the street fighter. It just works for me, maybe i just think its funny that its so on-the-nose generic. But a lot of fighting games have really bland names. Like Fighter's History and Art of Fighting.

I think titles should either provide a hook by alluding to some plot detail or create a tone to set the stage for the experience. Like, Super Smash Bros is a great name. For one, it's a play on super mario bros because it has platforming elements. Secondly, it uses a comparatively silly word like 'smash' instead of something serious like Fight or Combat, which makes it feel like its actually play fighting instead of an actual death match. It perfectly sets the tone of a silly game where you smash around your friends and the violence is just cartoon slapstick.

 

[Capybara Gaming]

For anyone who's interested, I did put up a video on my channel where I interviewed community lead, TO, and commentator Cherry about his experience with the series, what it's like being a TO and commentator, and more. The recording software did not like my mike haha

 

[Wario Wario Wario]

NASB1's getting its PM. Current patch is just bug fixes and restoration of certain earlier patch changes.