Final game title?

[Owen]

I was wandering around the web, and found this announcement on the Strategy First website after looking at gamespot.com.

Is "Victoria - Empire Under the Sun" the final game title, or is this just a bit of Strategy First spin?

 

[crazy canuck]

It doesn't really matter. If that is the title that Strategy First is going to publish under then there it is.

Don't you like the title?

 

[Owen]

Well, I was just curious, but in answer to your question, no, not really.

 

[Syt]

Probably a subtitle. LIke "Age of Empires 2 - Age of Kings", "Jedi Knight 2 - Jedi Outcast", or the likes.

 

[unmerged(14393)]

"Empire under the sun"...that makes me thinking that the sole purpose of playing the game...the main objective will be to whip Britain´s ass...or help out with the whipping.
Or, of course, manage to acheive and maintain the empire under the sun as Britain did.

 

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Originally posted by Owen
Is "Victoria - Empire Under the Sun" the final game title, or is this just a bit of Strategy First spin?

The publisher gets the final say on what to actually call the game if I'm not mistaken. That's why they're releasing Europa Universalis: Crown of the North, and not by its original name, Svea Rike III...

 

[unmerged(16328)]

Empire of the sun sounds like Japan.
I thought Britain was 'Empire on which the sun never sets'

 

[crazy canuck]

Originally posted by foolish_child
Empire of the sun sounds like Japan.
I thought Britain was 'Empire on which the sun never sets'

Well maybe but when you add in the first part... Victoria.... I don't think there will be much confusion.

 

[unmerged(17421)]

"I thought Britain was 'Empire on which the sun never sets'"

Making the Empire constantly Under the sun ;D

 

[Amadís de Gaula]

Yes, but the empire inwhich the sun never set was the spanish. The phrase was said by Felipe II after he was told the Philippines had been conquered.

You english, stealing even the quotes...

 

[m45tion87]

It's more like Japan. Son of sun thing is just from Japan so why not?

 

[Paradox Interactive]

Victoria - An Empire under the Sun

It says so on one of the logos we've made. And soon we'll have the cover done as well


Patric

 

[brandnew70x7]

Originally posted by m45tion87
It's more like Japan. Son of sun thing is just from Japan so why not?

Japan is "The Land of the Rising sun"

So, they aren't under the sun, probably a timezone thing.

 

[Vynd]

I have wondered a bit about the title. The well-informed like us will see it and be intrigued, but I wonder if Joe Blow will even give a second glance to a game with a girl's name. He'll probably think this is the latest in the "Pretty Princess" line. Now I doubt I'm the first to suggest this, but if you changed the title to "Victoria's Secret" then you would probably get a lot more attention from casual shoppers.

 

[Demetrios]

Originally posted by Vynd
I have wondered a bit about the title. The well-informed like us will see it and be intrigued, but I wonder if Joe Blow will even give a second glance to a game with a girl's name. He'll probably think this is the latest in the "Pretty Princess" line. Now I doubt I'm the first to suggest this, but if you changed the title to "Victoria's Secret" then you would probably get a lot more attention from casual shoppers.

I doubt the casual observer will think the game will be along the line of "Pretty Princess" if the cover art shows a British trooper being impaled by a Zulu spear or something similar...

 

[brandnew70x7]

Originally posted by Vynd
I have wondered a bit about the title. The well-informed like us will see it and be intrigued, but I wonder if Joe Blow will even give a second glance to a game with a girl's name. He'll probably think this is the latest in the "Pretty Princess" line. Now I doubt I'm the first to suggest this, but if you changed the title to "Victoria's Secret" then you would probably get a lot more attention from casual shoppers.

Perhaps in the US this would happen, but im not sure if elsewhere.

(I mean honestly, what are the chances your average american will know who or what queen victoria did?)

 

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Originally posted by Demetrios
I doubt the casual observer will think the game will be along the line of "Pretty Princess" if the cover art shows a British trooper being impaled by a Zulu spear or something similar...

Barbie's Dream Trench, perhaps?

 

[Tim O]

As long as the Cover Art is signifigantly bloody and spectacular the name won't matter.

 

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Originally posted by Demetrios
I doubt the casual observer will think the game will be along the line of "Pretty Princess" if the cover art shows a British trooper being impaled by a Zulu spear or something similar...

For some reason I find this hilarious. Pretty Princess: Zulu edition

 

[degenerate]

well, i can think of 3 ways it works.
German Empire's 'a place in the sun'
Japanese Empire's 'land of the rising sun'
British Empire's 'the sun never sets'