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#1  Edited By marchantia

It's a pet peeve of mine: western developers think it's cool to give games a eastern european look by using cyrillic letters against their meaning. It probably started with Tet_я_is. I've made a list of all games I came across over at the wiki:

http://www.giantbomb.com/incorrect-usage-of-cyrillic-letters/3015-7287/

Can you think of other games that are guilty of doing this?

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#2  Edited By monkeyking1969

Wait...why is Jazzpunk on the list?

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#3  Edited By fisk0  Moderator

I didn't see Krazy Ivan on the list, it does that with multiple letters (though not the я, unusually enough!):

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I think there were a whole bunch in the 90's, but can't recall many titles right now.

Quake technically does it by including the NIИ logo on ammo pickups too.

If we go beyond cyrillic there are a whole bunch of games (and metal bands) using Ö, Ü, Ø, Å and Ä instead of O's, U's and A's despite them actually being separate letters in the Scandinavian, Baltic, Germanic, Turkish and some African alphabets, though usually not as radically different as the cyrillic ones where for example И is a vowel and Ч a consonant.

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Wait...why is Jazzpunk on the list?

Because it's guilty, too:

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