Genre & Subgenre Guide

[tactical_nuke]

I saw one example you changed, and wasn't sure about that, considering it's part of the pun for the title.
"A Mazing", to me, shouldn't be "Mazing, A"

Ah, I wasn't sure about that myself. I'll change it back. It's tough to make the call sometimes. There's some foreign titles with "A " that I have to look into how to do.

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but would it be possible to standardize the publisher "RetroZone"? It's entered Retrozone, RetroZone, and RetroUSB. I believe that they are changing their branding over to just RetroUSB, but I'm not sure if that is what they should all be changed to.

I'll take care of them. This thread might as well be a DB tip line for stuff like this too.

[Izret101]

Well wouldn't the older stuff still be in as RetroZone and newer stuff be RetroUSB?

I would assume they have their branding somewhere on the product.

Your not going to go back and make Pac-Man on NES Namco Bandai Games are you?

[Shadow Kisuragi]

...or, for that matter izret, it's Namco Bandai outside JP and Bandai Namco inside JP...

[SirPsycho]

My Tales of Xillia 2 says Bandai Namco.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

[img width=550 height=779]http://www.rfgeneration.com/images/games/U-115/bb/U-115-S-08400-A.jpg[/img]

Logo says "Bandai Namco", but as you can clearly see, the Publisher listed on the back is NAMCO BANDAI Games America. Same with the Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate copy that was released last week.

[tactical_nuke]

To be clear, I only fixed the capitalization. Publisher name of course shouldn't be updated if the company changes its name later on.

[tactical_nuke]

Progress update: The Adult Genre is almost done. There's only Japanese titles left. The vast majority of these should be Adult Visual Novels. Edutainment still has to be renamed. That's about it. Before we move on to part two, I'll look through the thread once more to fix the games/series people wanted changed.

[SirPsycho]

I just checked the entirety of my Tales of Xillia 2 copy and it doesn't say Namco Bandai anywhere on it. Everywhere the company is listed it is labeled as the reverse, Bandai Namco. Even the inside sleeve with the warranty information lists the company as Bandai Namco Games America Inc. multiple times. Either they're flip flopping the name or there's a misprint somewhere.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Must be a 2014 change then - it was Namco Bandai on the 2013 Tales of Xillia.

[SirPsycho]

Maybe they're going for uniformity since the logo could be seen as confusing to people?

[Shadow Kisuragi]

The logo's always been Bandai Namco, but it was carried over as Namco Bandai due to how the Japanese was translated. The same's the case with Koei Tecmo, as it's Tecmo Koei outside of Japan right now. Likely, they're fixing the translation issue now that the merger has been finalized and they can change their legal name to match the logo.

[Duke.Togo]

I thought I heard recently that they went global with Bandia Namco in all territories for uniformity of brand. I don't recall where and am too lazy to look for a source, but it's worth looking into.

[ApolloBoy]

Logo says "Bandai Namco", but as you can clearly see, the Publisher listed on the back is NAMCO BANDAI Games America. Same with the Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate copy that was released last week.

I just use "Bandai Namco Games" to keep everything consistent in the DB.

[Izret101]

"Bandai Namco Games Inc. (BNGI) (株式会社バンダイナムコゲームス Kabushiki Gaisha Bandai Namuko Gēmusu?) is an arcade, mobile and home video game publisher, based in Japan. The company also publishes video, music and other entertainment products related to its video game IPs. It is the product of a merger between the video game development divisions of Bandai and Namco. Originally referred to in the West as Namco Bandai Games, the company was internationally renamed as Bandai Namco Games in January 2014.[3]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandai_Namco_Games

I would assume the rebranding would be potential cause for variants.
Should be easy enough to correct the mistakes since anything before 2014 would be Namco Bandai.

[ApolloBoy]

I don't know if I've said this before, but I'm actually rather pissed off that the "Breakout/Pong" genre is gone. Anyone else with me?