Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord
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Sushiman said:
No, it isn't a real word. If you disagree, feel free to provide a link to a dictionary definition. I'm sure Merriam-Webster, OED, or American Heritage will have one.
Well yeah. I said I'd tell them what's wrong with their game, not how to fix it.BadaBoomBadaBang said:
Eh, medieval combat is what the game does, I'm not so sure that it excels at it. And I already made it clear why it's not a fine title, so I don't think I need to repeat myself.Sushiman said:
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Warband may not be a proper English word, it is used in legitimate documentation. I've seen references to it in at least four different books about British and European history. A quick search on Google shows links to more of said books with the word contained within. It may have originally been written as, "war-band" but due to the fact it transcended each separate word, was de-hyphenated and assumed to be ok.
The people trying to sell the game should give a **** most of all. You want your war game to have a badass name, not a silly or nonsensical one. "Mountain Blade" is undeniably silly (almost as much as "Almondia"), "Bannerlord" doesn't mean anything.K-64 said:
I tried searching on Google, but after five or so pages of nothing but M&B links I gave up and turned to more appropriate tools instead. None of the online dictionaries recognizes the word, nor does my full edition of the OED. The British National Corpus turned up only five instances of it, three of which were in reference to tabletop gaming. Just so we're perfectly clear, the BNC contains 100 million words. That should give you an idea of the frequency with which "warband" is used in English outside of this forum. Five out of a hundred million is not enough to qualify as a real word, IMO.Lerber said:
"War-band" returned 0 results, so I don't think that hypothesis holds up.
Who gives a flying **** if it's in a dictionary. If words can't exist before they're in dicitonaries, then no new words would ever happen, ergo, you are a tosspot.
It doesn't matter if its a word or not.
It does matter if it sounds good, or makes sense. Bannerlord just sounds awkward, really doesn't give any hint to what the game is, or anything. It would be better to just stick with Mount&Blade 2, Mount&Blade II, or Mount&Blade++.
It does matter if it sounds good, or makes sense. Bannerlord just sounds awkward, really doesn't give any hint to what the game is, or anything. It would be better to just stick with Mount&Blade 2, Mount&Blade II, or Mount&Blade++.
Skyrim's not a real word, crucify the Bethesda team. If you feel the title is lacking, do provide some sort of contribution to back up your comlaint and provide a compelling and dramatically gripping title.
It's a coat of studded boiled leather. I win.Rallix said:Hey guys, somebody thinks that the chick on the cover-art for Warband is wearing something other than a coat of plates.
I posted it here, because making a thread about it seems dumb, but I wish to prove a point.
So, Studded Leather, or Coat of Plates?
Really, that's how you react to being proven wrong and educated? With insults? You learned something today, I did you a ****ing favor. The proper response to that is "thank you".Sushiman said:
K-64 said:
Stringing those together creates what TV Tropes calls a word salad title.Ringwraith #5 said:
Yeah, I agree. What was so wrong with just putting a number after the title?Splintert said:
Actually "Skyrim" is an anagram of "Skrymir", a giant in Norse mythology. See? You learned something today too.Vermillion_Hawk said:
Ringwraith #5 said:Actually "Skyrim" is an anagram of "Skrymir", a giant in Norse mythology. See? You learned something today too.
I'm not seeing it in Merriam-Webster, the Oxford English Dictionary OR American Heritage, so it must be bad.
Vermillion_Hawk said:Ringwraith #5 said:Actually "Skyrim" is an anagram of "Skrymir", a giant in Norse mythology. See? You learned something today too.
I'm not seeing it in Merriam-Webster, the Oxford English Dictionary OR American Heritage, so it must be bad.
Random House Dictionary has it.
You're welcome, btw.
Ringwraith #5 said:Vermillion_Hawk said:Ringwraith #5 said:Actually "Skyrim" is an anagram of "Skrymir", a giant in Norse mythology. See? You learned something today too.
I'm not seeing it in Merriam-Webster, the Oxford English Dictionary OR American Heritage, so it must be bad.
Random House Dictionary has it.
You're welcome, btw.
Couldn't find it.
Urban Dictionary has Warband. You're welcome.
Yes, in the same way that penisland.net is about writing implements. Most people's minds go to the other thing first. In the case of penisland it's because most people are actually pervs. In the case of M&B it's because "mountain" is much more common than "mount and", so when parsing the spoken words they hear the more likely of the two similar-sounding possibilities.K-64 said:
Also, technically it's not "Mount & Blade", it's "Mount&Blade". Which is just blatant disregard for the rules of English typography.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skrymirVermillion_Hawk said:
You're welcome.
Oh, not Skrymir, I didn't doubt that. I meant Skyrim. Last I checked Skrymir was not the game's title.
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