Suggestion: Game Aliases
4 years ago
Indiana, USA

I moderate some of the Dragon Quest SRC boards, and it would be useful if we could give a game multiple names (aliases) so that when you type "Dragon Warrior Monsters 2" into the search bar (the game's English name) it pulls up the board for "Dragon Quest Monsters 2" (the game's Japanese name), where we have a separate category for English runs.

The Dragon Quest series was known as "Dragon Warrior" in the West until whenever DQ8 came out, so a lot of DQ games could benefit from this, and I can think of a couple older series that used to (or still do) have different names in Japan vs the US.

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Canada

There's also plenty of examples of different NA and EU names. Ratchet and Clank Going Commando is subtitled as "Locked and Loaded" in Europe. This would be great for those such games as well.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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Śląskie, Poland

Yeah, it's also much more often in older games, different examples would be:

  • "Another World" being known as "Out of This World" in US
  • "Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers" being known as "Donald Duck: Quack Attack" in Europe
  • "Judge Eyes" (JP) - "Judgment" (localized title)