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So is it <The Next Game> or <The Next Next Game>

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:12 am
by Disco Stuie
I'm a-wondering.

Now that Darwinia is all-but out, and no longer need be referred to commonly as <The Next Game>; how do we refer to whatever it is that IV are cooking up for #3?

We could use a sort of absolute system, where Uplink was just Uplink, or "the first game" or "the one that started it all" etc etc... and then Darwinia is nominatively <The Next Game> for all eternity, and #3 is <The Next Next Game>. Trouble is, it's already getting quite long to type, and, based on the predicted success of this, relative to that of Uplink, #3 is inevitable, and #4 highly likely.

Alternatively, we could say that since Darwinia has (for some time) been named as such, we can refer to it as Darwinia, Uplink, similarly, as just Uplink, and then #3 earns the already-familiar title of <The Next Game>. Hence there will never be a <The Next Next Game> except where people are talking *very* hypothetically, and things are easier to type; on the downside this could lead to ambiguity among those Uplink Vets who are so utterly used to <The Next Game>="Darwinia" that they cannot think otherwise :P

Any views, or am I just being far too complicated? :wink:

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:23 am
by Darksun
Darwinia will always be <The Next Game>.

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:28 am
by Disco Stuie
*Cough* Forum Vet! *Cough*

*Cough* Set in his ways! *Cough*

:D

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:59 am
by Deepsmeg
Chris said that after darwinia's release, <the next next game> will become <the next game>, and it will progress like that.
Can't remember when, but he did say it a while back on IRC

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:05 am
by Stewsburntmonkey
Did we really need him to tell us that? I mean anyone who knows English can pretty much work that out on there own, right? :roll:

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:11 am
by Iris
Stewsburntmonkey wrote:Did we really need him to tell us that? I mean anyone who knows English can pretty much work that out on there own, right? :roll:

It's for the hype, Stews, just for the hype. :D

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:13 am
by xyzyxx
we could call it <The Subsquent Game>

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:10 am
by Deepsmeg
The queuing system is fine.
otherwise we get <the next next next next next next next next game>....

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:32 am
by The GoldFish
Spose it'll kinda make Icepick's site look silly.

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:01 am
by Starfyre
Not really. He said way back then that it wasn't for Darwinia only.
So the site can move on with the titles! :D

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:51 am
by Hektik sniper
I think you'll have to pull Chris away from City of Heroes before we get a <The Next Game> or <The Next Next Game> ;p

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:46 pm
by Starfyre
Actually, no, don't.
<the next game> might end up being the best MMORPG ever ;)

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:55 pm
by Rkiver
Well Darwinia was <The Next Game>, but now it has a name, so whatever IV are working on next is now <The Next Game>. At least that is if you look at it logically, which us lot are hardly known for. :lol:

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:55 pm
by NHJ BV
The Third Game

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:58 pm
by xander
How about <the next game>, but in another language?
I vote for <<sledushye igra>> (pardon my poor transliteration). ^_^

xander