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Riftrunner renamed to Beyond Divinity
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Moriendor
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Riftrunner renamed to Beyond Divinity
   

Larian Studios has issued a <a href="http://www.larian.com/riftrunner/press_release_beyonddivinity.php" target="_blank">press release</a> today confirming recent rumors (<a href="http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10077&newsid=23837">story</a>) of a possible name change of their 'Divinity' universe based RPG 'Riftrunner'. The game has been renamed to 'Beyond Divinity' to make the link to 'Divine Divinity' more obvious.
Post Tue Dec 16, 2003 10:41 pm
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At least it's not "Beyond Beyondness".
Post Tue Dec 16, 2003 10:44 pm
 
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Post Tue Dec 16, 2003 11:20 pm
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I rather liked the sound of "Riftrunner" as a name. Oh, well...
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Post Tue Dec 16, 2003 11:43 pm
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What ? It should be Beyond Divine Divinity of The Divine
Post Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:41 am
 
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or Beyond The Divine Divide

Seriously, imo, Beyond Divinity sounds like the title of a post mortem(or something) article written by one of those gaming sites on Divine Divinity after it is released.
Post Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:29 am
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Beyond Divinity, isn't that a porn flick?
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Post Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:50 am
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WHEN WILL THEY LEARN!! They changed an originally great title; Divinty Sword of Lies to Divine Divinity and now they change another great title!! Will someone with some influence PLEASE tell them not to keep doing this!!!!
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Whats in a name? If I remember right,people whined about the name "Divine Divinity" when it was annouced as well,only to be treated to a really well made rpg....except for the ending.
Post Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:31 am
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The "Divine Divinity" name probably scared off a good many potential customers, but "Sword of Lies" wasn't that great either, there's already a bazillion products/stories with "Sword of Whatever" titles.
Post Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:42 pm
 
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Not-a-gain !!!
   

RiftRunner, opposite to that, would have been really a good name in its own right. And it would have fit better, of course, to what the game´s truly about: The Art of `Riftrunning´!

But noooooo - it has to be the Stupid Stupidity of the oh so merry `rename game´ again!

"Making the name resemble a proximity to `Divinity´ better" is such a hollow motive!

And the combination with "Beyond" makes such an empty phrase!

But this time it seems to be the Larians themselves, "committing the crime"!
It´s just sad, so sad!

Sorry for sounding so harsh, Larians, but there´s no other way to put it, IMHO.


One would have just wished that they´d come up with at least a better "cover to not judge the game by" this time!


Ragon, The Mage

P.S.: If they at least had only renamed it to Divinity: RiftRunner, that´d been an acceptable compromise!


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Post Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:50 pm
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I think Beyond Divinity is a VERY cool title.
   

Just my opinion, I'd rather be playing the game than arguing about the name, though.
Post Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:43 pm
 
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Just marketing types thinking we are too stupid to know what game it is.
Post Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:26 am
 
hoyp
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Are they insane?
Riftrunner was a damn good name, this will seriously affect slaes ( yes there are buffoons that dont buy games with lame titles ).
Post Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:48 am
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