What about games with multiple names?
4 years ago
Hungary

Some games have different names, f.e. across different regions. How are these cases handled by the site? I wish there was support for all different names. (Only English names, as it's an English site, supporting all languages would be too much right?)

European Union

The site (currently) supports english & japanese names for games. Japanese names are restricted to staff tho as people didn't understand that you had to actually put japanese in there and not just garbled stuff.

Imaproshaman and Pac like this
Hungary

But what if there's differences between English speaking regions?

Texas, USA

I guess use the most popular or most official name?

DdariQ and Imaproshaman like this
Belgium

This is something that would be nice to see implemented. For example, with Kirby's Return to Dream Land, the PAL name is Kirby's Adventure Wii. When I would talk about KAW, people were thinking I was talking about Kirby's Adventure for the NES on WiiVC, while I kept saying I'm talking about the Wii game KAW. As a kid, you'd be left wondering "why is there no KAW on this site? All other kirby games are here!!", and this would cause a lot of confusion.

Granted I do always say KRtDL now instead of KAW.

[quote=HowDenKing]Japanese names are restricted to staff tho as people didn't understand that you had to actually put japanese in there and not just garbled stuff.[/quote]

If that's actually the reason, that's kind of stupid. I feel like most people would understand to put the actual Japanese title in Japanese, as long as there's a JP version.

European Union

[quote=Tessera]I feel like most people would understand to put the actual Japanese title in Japanese, as long as there's a JP version.[/quote] You overestimate people...

but yes, if memory serves correctly, that is the reason.

I, too would love to see a solution implemented.

Pokkén Tournament, for example, is named Pokémon Tekken in germany, and germany only. Rest of EU got Pokkén Tournament.

(This is because the German name for Smallpox is Pocken, and phonetically Pokkén & Pocken are the same, so to avoid people confusing it with smallpox, they changed the name to Pokémon Tekken for germany.)

https://www.lidl.de/media/product/0/2/6/5/6/0/6/nintendo-wii-u-pokemon-tekken-zoom.jpg

Edited by the author 4 years ago