Top of mind for me after reading this article is that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet should just be called The Heretic Prophet, and Horizon: Zero Dawn should have just been called Zero Dawn.

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    No, they proof that the name of the game doesn’t matter. It can be forgettable name, yet the game can be memorable because its a good game and everyone talks about it. If the names were less forgettable, it wouldn’t change anything about their success, popularity and memorability. Names become memorable, because games become successful. Not the other way round.

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      You picked excellent titles and called them forgettable, one of which was a textbook example listed in the article as to how to choose a good name for a video game. You “proved” that picking good titles for video games helps them sell. Your choices for “forgettable” titles were, in my opinion, so bad that I’m surprised you didn’t list a top tier title like No Man’s Sky. And besides, Horizon: Zero Dawn is a successful video game, at least in part, because it doesn’t have the same discoverability problems that the developers do that are targeted by this article and Failbetter Games. I merely listed it because it came to mind with the criticisms about trying to start a new franchise with a colon like the other examples in the article.

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        I proofed that the titles of games doesn’t matter at all for the success and being memorable.

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          FYI, you want “proved” here. “proofed” would be something you do to a yeasted dough.

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              Mate, just trying to help you improve your English. If you don’t want to learn something new, disregard. No need to be a dick.

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                I misunderstood your help. I took it as an offense (make fun of). My bad. Thanks for the correction. In fact I put the reply into a translator because I didn’t know what “yeasted dough” means and got a complete misunderstood translation.