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Love this so much! How about Luchadeer!?

They made me excited for a new Star Wars game. Mission accomplished.

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@LordAndrew said:

@DaBuddaDa: Giant Bomb can't be taken seriously because it refers to a game by the same title the developer did? Give me a break! Both are perfectly valid.

Feel free to argue a point instead of making unsubstantiated, declarative statements. I do not believe both are perfectly valid, and have already provided a great deal of evidence and argument to support why.

Unlike MW2, Trenched was actually capable of being retroactively renamed. You can't go to a store and buy a box that says Trenched on it. You never could because it's only available as a download. The downloadable versions could easily be changed, and the only way you'd have Trenched instead of Iron Brigade now is if you never allowed it to be updated. And for the record, the presence or absence of the "Call of Duty" name really doesn't matter. Let's focus on more important things, like renaming all the SoulCalibur pages every six months.

@DaBuddaDa said:

@iAmJohn said:

Climax Group, The --> Climax Studios, according to their website.

@DaBuddaDa said:

Modern Warfare 2 should be renamed to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to make it consistent with the rest of the series in the database.

Pretty sure we've decided numerous times that MW2 being the official name according to Infinity Ward trumps that.

Activision Blizzard calls it Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The Infiniti Ward website refers to it as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 all over. The box art calls it Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Every other site known to man calls it Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 including retailers. Every other Call of Duty game since 4 is called Call of Duty: Subtitle. Infiniti Ward's reason for constantly calling it Modern Warfare 2 and dropping the Call of Duty title was to enhance the Modern Warfare name as a brand; that's a marketing decision. This is a decision that should be re-evaluated based on...all the evidence in the world.

Press release from when the game was announced as solely Modern Warfare 2. Story from when the final box art got revealed when Infinity Ward confirmed, once again, that the official title is Modern Warfare 2, showing that Activision's reasoning for putting Call of Duty back in the name on one of the releases of the game (and only that one) was just as much a marketing decision. Or the fact that all the non-regular editions of the game completely removed the Call of Duty branding, as did everything in the game itself. Heck, I'm looking at the manual for the game right now and they never refer to it as anything but Modern Warfare 2 in there, even though they refer to the first Modern Warfare numerous times by its full title. Reattaching the Call of Duty branding to it is a retronym. There's probably a good case to be made that because they have retronymed it as such that we should change it (I mean, just look at how the way they sold that series drastically changed between 2 and 3 - with 2 they tried to distance themselves from Call of Duty as much as possible; with 3, "Modern Warfare" doesn't even appear on the box). Honestly I don't really care and just go with "eh, it already shows up as an alias if you write out the full thing anyway so does it really matter?", but that is the reasoning why we've kept it like that IIRC.

@iAmJohn said:

Climax Group, The --> Climax Studios, according to their website.

@DaBuddaDa said:

Modern Warfare 2 should be renamed to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to make it consistent with the rest of the series in the database.

Pretty sure we've decided numerous times that MW2 being the official name according to Infinity Ward trumps that.

Activision Blizzard calls it Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The Infiniti Ward website refers to it as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 all over. The box art calls it Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Everyothersiteknowntomancalls it Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 including retailers. Every other Call of Duty game since 4 is called Call of Duty: Subtitle. Infiniti Ward's reason for constantly calling it Modern Warfare 2 and dropping the Call of Duty title was to enhance the Modern Warfare name as a brand; that's a marketing decision. This is a decision that should be re-evaluated based on...all the evidence in the world.

Modern Warfare 2 should be renamed to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to make it consistent with the rest of the series in the database.

Not having "buying both" as an option is an epic fail.

Great perspective Patrick. The key point for the people against the ME3 ending is that evidence from behind the scenes in Bioware shows what was shipped is not what they had planned to be the ME3 ending and does not reflect the creator's vision accurately; it had been compromised for a slew of reasons, none of which having any consideration for "art" or "storytelling." I think of the retooling of the ending that's rumored is akin to what happened with Bladerunner in some ways, although they're clearly not parallels.