After the announcement of Eidos’s Thief 4/Thi4f sparked some controversy over the replacing of letters with numbers in game titles, and after some suggested that perhaps E may not equal 4, we decided to delve a little deeper to see what other titles Eidos might have coming up. Read on for this world-breaking, possibly slightly untrue news.
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DEUS 3X works fairly well…
Maybe they should call it Heift.
1 4ppr0v3
I don’t give a shite what it’s called, I’m just glad it exists.
Will this continu4 until w4 know all th4 d4v4lop4rs, th4n pr4s4nt a list of th4ir nam4s with l4tt4rs r4plac4d appropriat4ly? Th4y should also do that in the cr4dits.
I can tell by some of the pixels.
etcetera.
This looks shopped I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
@Required: Perhaps you missed the joke? Take a close look at the Thief 4 logo, and you’ll see why Walker is substituting random letters for random numbers, rather than following conventional “l33t spelling”
Max Payn3, STALK3R, Call 6f Duty, 2pore, Residen7 Evil… Not difficult is it?
This is a trend that concerns me greatly.
I really thought 2 Fast, 2 Furious was a bit of marketing genius in as much as I didn’t, at all, and actually believed it signalled that we had finally reached a level of dribbling inanity in the entertainment industry from which there would be no return; this opinion was of course cemented in place by the release of Get Rich or Die Trying which I thought was a Scary Movie style spoof on hip hop culture like CB4 but was actually a serious film – who knew…
My point – after all that digression – is that franchises and stupid naming conventions are the sort of things that appeal to the same sorry retards that like stuff like 2Fast2Furious and I wish the mainstream guys would fuck off with this continuing dumbing down of entertainment or at least restrict it to churning out movies full of stereotypes and stop cross contaminating the gaming market.
Left 4 Dead did NOT make these silly names OK again. L4D was also silly but it made some sense. Thi4f does not, it’s just dumb.
Left 4 Dead was a homophonic replacement, those are sort of ok in my book, it also has a fairly good double meaning that they turned into a triple meaning by using puntastic box art. Win.
Driv3r was dumb but a valid l33t replacement of 3 for e and so also sort of ok from a suitably liberal language perspective but awful from a marketing perspective because there’s nothing less cool than an uncool person trying to look cool. Fail.
Thief is 4 for e and now we’re into a dark unexplored region of trying and failing to look cool while violating the rules of l33t, breaking the minimal rule set required for intelligibility. Epic fail! Thank goodness it’s only a working title.
Tomb Roider : A fighting game set in an old tomb. Power up your roid meter to perform special R01D M0V3S that devastate your n00b opponents!
Sorry, if that was shit, couldn’t resist it.
They sure didn’t try very hard. Why not Thie4 with a backward 4?
Who cares. Really. It is difficult for me to imagine the level to which a human being had to sink before they felt offended by something of this nature.
Actually I’m finding it difficult to imagine the level to which a human being had to sink before they didn’t feel offended by something of this nature.
It smacks of shoe-horning in a number because “games with numbers in the middle of a word sell better according to market statistics!”.
The sort of person who came up with this would probably use the word “product” instead of “game”.
@Alaric: Offended? Who’s offended? I just think it’s funny that they misspelled their product’s name during the big unveiling.
I’m not sure which I found more amusing, the people who didn’t get it, the humourless people moaning about it being posted or the post itself. Winner!
@DMJ
“Thief 4ranchise.”
More offensive than Driv3r was their NOT using DrIVer for the fourth game.
Let’s put the blame squarely where it belongs, and that’s on David Fincher’s brilliant motion picture “Seven.” Or, as IMDB and half the world likes to call it, “SE7EN,” which doesn’t make any god-damned 7ense at all.
We REALLY should’ve put the hammer down on this garbage with that steaming pile of a movie “Independence Day,” aka “ID4.” Huh? ID4? Way to confuse A) Americans who are questioning where ID1-3 are and B) the rest of the world who don’t care about the significance of the number four. Really, really a desperate, awful naming convention that should’ve been buried alongside a million E.T. carts just outside of Albuquerque.
Now is the time to channel Howard Marion-Crawford and his single, bile-filled and oft-repeated, word of condemnation from Lawrence of Arabia.
OUTRAGEOUS! OUTRAGEOUS!
Stop the madness. It’s not 1337. It’s not cool, not in the slightest.
ROFL!!! Bravo to writer.
Tomb R-lol-der?
DrIVer is a beaut. And of course unmber 5 could be DriVer, or drVr in this day and age
DriVer’s pretty drivey.
But Driver 6 is DriVIer…
Shameless. I know.
@MeestaNob!: I’ll shake your hand for that. Before I bludgeon you to death for the exact same thing. Naturally.
DriVer’s pretty drivey.
But Driver 6 is DriVIer…
Shameless. I know.
7/10
Tomb Roider:
Solving the double mystery of Lara’s bust size AND aptitude for outlandish athleticism.