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• Aug 19, 2009

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I remember when Victoria:AEUtS came out the name was sort of, shall we say, a negative selling point for some. I for one didn't have a problem with it, and still don't but perhaps a more concise and gender neutral name could be agreed upon.

One that captures the era, without undue focus on any one monarch or regime. Something... magnificent!

 

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• Aug 19, 2009

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Victoria is... Victoria


In fairness two things hindered the game, the UI and marketing - or lack thereof, as far as I know.


Maybe Victoria [Insert good/proper and glorious time period related name here]

 

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• Aug 19, 2009

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I just hope PI has learned something from Vicky1. A game called Victoria with a fat, old lady on the cover sells BADLY.

 

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• Aug 19, 2009

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Nikolai said:

I just hope PI has learned something from Vicky1. A game called Victoria with a fat, old lady on the cover sells BADLY.

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What about the charging soldier from Ricky?

 

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Well, his eye bothered me for months.

 

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Uni Maximilian said:

What about the charging soldier from Ricky?

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Or some examples of 'luxury furniture' on the cover


I think a collage of a steam engine, an iron-clad, a British red-coat and/or Johnny Reb and Billy Yank (for the American market) will do fine.

 

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• Aug 19, 2009

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Nikolai said:

Well, his eye bothered me for months.

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Likewise. I'm sure there is market research into this, but I bet a picture of someone holding a gun on the cover increases a games' sales by about 15%. Why not this:

 

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On the other hand, you don't want to draw a bunch of ADHD-addled twits with shiny violent packaging and a misleadingly rarr-grr-manly-splosions name, only to have them play the game and find it's a slow-moving, complex grand strategy. Victoria without the opportunity to be a snooty elitist prat on the forums is no such thing, sirrahs!

I think the name isn't really an issue - anyone who'd pass up a game because it, eeewww, has a gurl name and thus threatens his masculinity or something is probably not going to want to buy it anyway. Besides, what with the mad money rolling in from HOI3, I think Paradox can afford to make a not-as-profitable cult favourite. A "Good Night and Good Luck" to HOI3's Ocean's 12, so to speak.

 

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Nikolai said:

Well, his eye bothered me for months.

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It's still better than Napoleon's leg on the NA loading screen.

 

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This is even better:

http://www.kingshospital.ie/thekingshospital/Images/Wilhelm II (1).jpg

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Good box art. Make the 2 nice and big, makes it look like its improved. Keep the Victoria text small. Put lots of guns, perhaps some soldiers, maybe even a tank. An explosion is needed, an attractive color will make it sell.

 

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Nikolai said:

I just hope PI has learned something from Vicky1. A game called Victoria with a fat, old lady on the cover sells BADLY.

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What, something like this would perhaps sell better?

 

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Nikolai

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• Aug 19, 2009

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Remind me Zmaj?

 

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TheDarkside said:

What, something like this would perhaps sell better?

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Not quite what I had in mind, but....yeah.

 

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TheDarkside said:

What, something like this would perhaps sell better?

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Might get Vicky 2 a +18 age rating.:rofl:

 

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Doubt it. A pretty chick isn't enough to give a game an adult rating.

 

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Moltke said:

I remember when Victoria:AEUtS came out the name was sort of, shall we say, a negative selling point for some. I for one didn't have a problem with it, and still don't but perhaps a more concise and gender neutral name could be agreed upon.

One that captures the era, without undue focus on any one monarch or regime. Something... magnificent!

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As a matter of fact, the title might remind potential gamers of certain Monty Python sketches:wacko::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOhoKFZYaI0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktYMkxD0Fzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR0qSf-AQlo&feature=related

 

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Nikolai said:

Remind me Zmaj?

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His left leg is disturbingly long.

 

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Ah. Yes.

 

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Nikolai said:

Doubt it. A pretty chick isn't enough to give a game an adult rating.

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Not if the rating board believes that some sleazy stuffs are secretly embedded like the "coffee mod"~~~