• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Doom =/= Doom (2016) or Doom 4

    If you’re talking about Doom, it’s the original Doom game (not to be confused with Ultimate Doom)

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      4 months ago

      Doom (2016)

      If you’re talking about Doom, it’s the original Doom game

      Sorry but you’re not the arbiter of worldwide speech, so you don’t get to decide that. The name of the 2016 game is just Doom. If there’s a chance of confusion you can add (2016) for clarity, as I did, but it really has the same title as the original Doom game and there’s nothing wrong with just calling it Doom. Which it is.

      See:

      It’s like Scarface and Scarface, or Cape Fear and Cape Fear, or Dune and Dune, or … you get the point.

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      4 months ago

      For the vast, vast majority of Doom (2016) players who have never played Doom (1993), they would probably completely disagree.

      I think it makes more sense to refer to the more relevant, popular, and well-known game as Doom and just refer to the other as “the original Doom” or Doom (1993). Especially since that’s what the store page does, as the other person made clear on the 2016 end, and this store page should make clear on the 1993 end.

      https://store.steampowered.com/app/2280/DOOM_1993/