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Parrot-of-War
Join Date: 2007-05-02 Member: 60782Members
Hi guys. I'm Parrot-of-War and I started playing Natural Selection about 3-4 years ago and have been playing on and off since then (sometimes with long breaks in between as I started playing other games).
Anyways, I have a question about NS2: will Natural Selection 2 really be it's name, or is that just what's it's being known as in it's current state? I think since NS1 wasn't really a full game, bit rather a free mod that isn't known much (if at all) to people who don't play HL1 mods you should just call this full game Natural Selection or just give it a subtitle like Natural Selection: Annihilation (but not as corny and cliche as that). It's what The Ship team did and I think it was a good idea just using the original name.
That is all, thanks.
Anyways, I have a question about NS2: will Natural Selection 2 really be it's name, or is that just what's it's being known as in it's current state? I think since NS1 wasn't really a full game, bit rather a free mod that isn't known much (if at all) to people who don't play HL1 mods you should just call this full game Natural Selection or just give it a subtitle like Natural Selection: Annihilation (but not as corny and cliche as that). It's what The Ship team did and I think it was a good idea just using the original name.
That is all, thanks.
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I too find that most people I personally come across who don't play Valve games haven't heard of Natural Selection, however I'm not sure how much that point matters when NS2 will be sold over Steam, which pretty much means UWE is targetting a subset of HL2's market.
I would bet there's all ready a name picked out like this that the devs will release at a strategic time. Maybe I'm just an optimist though.
Obviously while picking out a name you are trying to appeal to the largest audience you possibly can. Calling the game Natural Selection 2 would give a mass audience a feel that this is a quality game/idea if a sequel was made of it. However I still agree with your suggestion that a new name may help.
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Actually it's that idea that I think might drive off some newcombers. If they see it was a sequal, and have never heard of the first one in their life, they might think the first one was a complete failure.
NS2: Evolution <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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i like it a lot - but its a bit of a tongue twister! EDIT - to say "Natural Selection Evolution"
What about NS : Reinforcements? - or something to suggest its it the 2nd in the series without actually placing the number 2 anywhere <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
EDIT2 :- ahh i think i've got it - <!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b><!--coloro:#CC6600--><span style="color:#CC6600"><!--/coloro-->Natural Selection Evolved <!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--></b>
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PoW brings up a good point
Maybe we could copy a certain series?
The Natural Supremacy! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
I dunno, the only thing I could think of that's serious was...
Natural Selection: Peak of Conflict
Natural Selection: Peak of Conflict
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Hell I hope it wont be the peak, I want an NS3! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
I remember having heard that NS1 was the "first contact", and NS2 was going to be "the war". So something in the lines of "Natural Selection 2 : The War" is fine to me ^^ It's explicit enough to know you'll be right in the middle of an already boiling struggle, even if you didn't play NS1.
I think that NS2 Would be good because a ton (not as many as CSS) have played this game and tell their friends to pick it up like CSS that how it all starts. Well i know it was like that for me, a friend told me about CS actually and then she told me about CSS. So NS2 would be fine i think because people would get the word around. Maybe get a My space chain thing going.
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That would make more sense if CSS was actually named CS:2.
NS2 is going to be an all new game, not a simple port. And here is a important point. Sequels don't sound bad in the video game industry, sequels tend to be better here. It's in the movie industry that sequels are often known to be worse than their predecessor. Adding a subtitle just makes it sound more like a add-on, like "Sims: Living it up" or "Total war: Annihilation".
It's is my sincere opinion that Natural Selection 2 is the best name proposed yet.
<b>Natural Selection 2:</b> <i>Infestation</i>
Thats nice