Klopjero Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Hi, Upon moderating the entries I stumbled upon a series of name change requests that I don't agree with. The game titles are being submitted with AD&D in front of them. I think keeping the actual titles is a better idea and the AD&D should be submitted as an alternative title. And if you want to be purist about it, I'd say you call them Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, a forgotten realms fantasy roleplaying game epic vol. I : Pool of radiance instead of just pasting AD&D in front of them.. What do you guys think? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klopjero Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Jesus Mary and Joseph in a canoe. At this rate I'm expecting to find AD&D baldur's Gate or AD&D Planescape: Torment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Anyone who puts AD&D in front of those titles should be whipped, anyone who's approved those titles should be whipped harder.. The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons part should really be added as a series, it's definitely not part of the name, although for whatever reason, even though there's a series field in Launchbox it just seems to be pre-populated with not many series at all to be honest and there's sadly no series field on the online database. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klopjero Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 Okay, I had a quick search for AD&D and to my dismay I see some titles that have AD&D pasted in front of it. I will atempt to fix it the entries. add the alternate title, and will make the titles match the current standard, which is Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: [game title] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RetroLust Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 I agree, rejected all of them! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpujunkie Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Ran into them a few days ago. Rejected all of them and one had a typo of AR&R which I thought was funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 49 minutes ago, cpujunkie said: Ran into them a few days ago. Rejected all of them and one had a typo of AR&R which I thought was funny That's the pirated versions ARR! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klopjero Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 This is going to take hours.. so many games to go through...such a slow web interface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpujunkie Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Why doesn't the database have a series entry but the launchbox app does? Where do we suggest improvements to the whole database system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klopjero Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 it's so annoying the search engine doesnt take AD&D, but instead only searches for Ad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpujunkie Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Apparently enough people approved all the ad&d edits. Now I'm getting advanced dungeons & dragons: game name edits now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpujunkie Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 These advanced dungeons & dragons edits are making me sad ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klopjero Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 4 minutes ago, cpujunkie said: These advanced dungeons & dragons edits are making me sad ? Sorry that's me.. I'm matching them to the other entries. It's one schizophrenic mess I'm also adding the title as alternate so that it can still be matched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpujunkie Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) Shouldn't the main name just be the name of the game and ad&d/advanced dungeons & dragons at the beginning be alternate name entries? Edited September 21, 2018 by cpujunkie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klopjero Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 3 minutes ago, cpujunkie said: Shouldn't the main name just be the name of the game and ad&d/advanced dungeons & dragons at the beginning be alternate name entries? That maybe true.. I wish some mod would come in and shine light on how to proceed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaming.Zone Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 (edited) While I understand your frustration with naming some of these games were referred to as that name back in the day. Example: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragons of Flame https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/990 Also shouldn't games in the database be the literal title on the front of the box? Sometimes that means the title doesn't "feel" right, but for prosperity this seems the most logical. Or am I understanding wrong and you are referring to a shortening of "AD&D" rather then "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons"? Thoughts? Edited September 22, 2018 by Gaming.Zone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgarath Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 If you took everything on the box which looks like it's name then it's actual name would be Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Video Game: Dragons of Flame - A Dragonlance™ Action Game But it's not..It's Dragons of Flame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaming.Zone Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 (edited) Yeah back in the 1980's they were really bad at naming things ? I'd like to add that it probably doesn't matter as much what the Game DB has in it as long as it is easy for an end user to find that game. The user can always name there launchbox title for that game whatever they want anyways. Edited September 22, 2018 by Gaming.Zone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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