Roman numerals in videogame titles are super annoying.

Do you like Roman numerals?

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winjer said:
No it's not.
The correct way is "IV"
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While "IIII" is technically the older, less common way to represent the number 4 in Roman numerals, "IV" is the standard and preferred way to write it. The use of "IIII" on clocks and watches, particularly for the 4 o'clock position, is a matter of aesthetics and tradition.

Historical reasons:
The earliest forms of Roman numerals did not use subtractive notation (like "IV" and "IX"), and "IIII" was the standard way to represent 4.
 
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The Lunch Legend said:
Why the frick does half of all games use Roman numerals in their sequels? It doesn't look any cooler and it just confuses people.

For example, something like GTA VI is nonsense . And none of these games actually has a Roman setting.

So it literally has no reason to use numerals except for that some lunatic in marketing thinks it looks cooler if they use a bunch of x's and v's instead of a normal number that people know how to read.
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artsi said:
Video games didn't invent numbering volumes with roman numerals

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Right.

My first time ever seeing roman numerals were on very old encyclopedia sets at public libraries.
 
Roman numerals are just fine until they start getting up there, I think the last a few Super Bowls had me wondering what number it was.
 
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On Final Fantasy games I think the Roman numerals look better on the logo, but typing them out ill mix and match.

For most logotypes i think roman numerals look better.





Modern Warfare 3 and Modern Warfare III are two different games.

Esppiral said:
That is a wide mistake
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Subtractive and additive roman numerals have multiple forms.

Both IIII and VIIII are totally fine.....just not particularly pretty to write.
 
They look great to me (roman numerals). In fact, I get annoyed when I see written "GTA 6" instead of "GTA VI".Like it or not, they wanted to use the roman numeral in the title, the media has to respect that.
 
nowhat said:
Oh well, Xbox went from nothing to 360, and then to 1, and then a series.

(I'm pretty sure the series has been cancelled due to poor viewership)
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For people who make computer things it's weird how they don't seem to know how numbers work.
 
ReBurn said:
For people who make computer things it's weird how they don't seem to know how numbers work.
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Or letters, even. I mean really. "S" and "X" in English are not that far apart, and I'm willing to bet easily confused by casuals. Yet they did it, twice.
 
I keep an enemies list which is mostly filled with game developer studios who have a franchise where the first few games have roman or arabic numerals, and then they just randomly decide to drop those and switch to lame subtitles. That's what really chaps my hind.
 
Sony actually who started this s. I liked Resident Evil Code: Veronica X on DC more than the numerical system on PlayStation like RE3, how about that?
 
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winjer said:
No it's not.
The correct way is "IV"
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you should go to Rome and look at the numbers on the colosseum gates. you won't find IV but multiple instances of IIII

also look at most clocks... Big Ben is famous for using IV instead of IIII, because it's so unusual.
 
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If you don't understand roman numerals, you probably aren't intelligent enough to know where to put the game disc anyways.
 
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kevboard said:
you should go to Rome and look at the numbers on the colosseum gates. you won't find IV but multiple instances of IIII

also look at most clocks... Big Ben is famous for using IV instead of IIII, because it's so unusual.
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Of course that with an empire that lasted a thousand years, there were changes in the language.
But the standard that we use to represent Roman numerals is IV, not IIII.
 
winjer said:
Of course that with an empire that lasted a thousand years, there were changes in the language.
But the standard that we use to represent Roman numerals is IV, not IIII.
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What's the standard? the most common use? if that's the standard then IIII is the standard as it's used on nearly every clock and watch with roman numerals, of which there are probably billions out there.

also IIII was used in rome up until the "end" of the empire.
when the Colosseum was built, subtractive notation was already in use. so IV already existed. but they still used IIII instead of IV, as there's no rule against that. just like XXXX was often used instead of XL even tho XL was already in use.

and today we do the same. IV is commonly used, but so is IIII. nothing changed. and both are 100% correct.

Roman numerals don't have strict rules when to use additive or subtractive versions of these numbers, just some conventions that differ depending on use or what the writer thinks is more esthetically pleasing.
 
When it's limited to 1-3 characters, roman numerals quite often look neater as part of a design than numbers with all their awkward curves. Generally easier to work with when balancing things out.

I think the GTA mainline entry logos just wouldn't be the same.
 
The Lunch Legend said:
Why the frick does half of all games use Roman numerals in their sequels? It doesn't look any cooler and it just confuses people.

For example, something like GTA VI is nonsense . And none of these games actually has a Roman setting.

So it literally has no reason to use numerals except for that some lunatic in marketing thinks it looks cooler if they use a bunch of x's and v's instead of a normal number that people know how to read.
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The complaint here is incredibly stupid and acting as if roman numerals were some complex science to master is laughable, but to the OP's credit I DO have a complaint about them:

Roman numbers don't sort alphabetically in a list. Which is indeed mildly annoying when you own multiple titles in a series in your library.
 
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I think it's a convention inherited from books and film.

I'm fine with them until they reach around 40 or 50, at which point I start scratching my head. I don't know any game that has 40 sequels, so I'm good.
 
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