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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 1 year 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] 8 points 1 year 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.