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Titles like "This game mix [game] and [another game] to give a [appreciation words] challenge" are really getting that annoying? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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To me, honestly, no much. I can see the SEO efforts: if you have to talk about a game called "suckass" probably... very few people will click on the title. But when they put [GTA] and [BALDUR's GATE] for a generic fantasy game where you steal stuff, you can see the magazine publisher is that hungry for click.

What really annoy when the don't put the actual name of the game in the title. Specifically when it's about indie developers that need to push their game's name out there! Disrespectful for both reader and dev.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The most annoying part, in my opinion, is when the game isn't actually like the games it mentions.
"You need to survive and also build a base" does not make a game the same thing as Valheim.
"There are dragons" does not make a game Skyrim.
"Contains an elf" doesn't make a game BG3.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Next you’ll say that dark souls isn’t basically just skyrim but harder or that not all open world games are skyrim/botw

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I think it's fine as long as it makes sense. "X meets Y" can summarize a whole selling pitch and readers will instantly know if they're interested or not. At some point it even became genre names like "souls-like" or "metroidvania", you instantly know what you're in for.

You can't explain a game in the post's title so a ton of people won't even bother looking at it if you don't do this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

this was two posts above yours: https://lemmy.ca/post/11097647

[–] odium 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Check the name of the poster

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oh yeah look at that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not only that one, there are a bunch of news I had to add the title manually or keep looking for the same news on different sources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Stop contributing to the problem you're complaining about 😂