"Suddenly everything's called Rise of the Bonelord: Origins of Dust."

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.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        8 hours ago
        $ git clone -q https://github.com/karlforshaw/opengamedb.git
$ cd opengamedb/
$ cut -d, -f1 names.csv |xargs -i% cat %.csv|cut -d, -f1|sort|uniq|sed 's/^"//'|sed 's/"$//'|grep -E '^(.*)\1+$'|uniq

        [snip]

        ***
1010
101010
222
999
Ape QuestApe Quest
BeatBeat
DingDingDing
GUNGUNGUN
JUJU
KARAKARA
MochiMochi
MokMok
niconico
OlliOlli
QbQbQb
ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS
ROWROW
RRRR
RUNRUNRUN
TripTrip
VVVVV
VVVVVV
YamaYama
zzzzz
$

        There do appear to be games like that (though “Ape QuestApe Quest” appears to be a typo).