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Talk:Metal Gear Solid (Game Boy Color)

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The rules says that the wiki should favor U.S. titles whenever they're available, but an exception should be made with this one. Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI and Hebereke are all listed under their original Japanese titles, so I don't see why this shouldn't be the case here. Very few people actually refer to this game "Metal Gear Solid" anyway, since everyone associates that title with the PlayStation game. On the other hand when people mention Ghost Babel you can be sure that they're talking about this game and that's the title most commonly used in discussions about the series. I think the insistence of using the overseas title in this case is a bit superfluous (it's formality for formality's sake). Jonny2x4 17:38, 20 April 2013 (EDT)

I've never seen anyone refer to this game as Ghost Babel outside of Metal Gear fansites... Everyone seems to call it by its US title. // Foxhack 20:06, 20 April 2013 (EDT)
Yeah, why is FF2 & 3 called as FF4 & 6 if those are not the USA titles? ReyVGM 01:44, 21 April 2013 (EDT)
Releases as Final Fantasy II / III: 1 each. Releases as IV / VI: A fuckton. // Foxhack 01:54, 21 April 2013 (EDT)
I didn't realize the FF IV and VI pages covered the PS ports as well (I assumed it only covered the SFC/SNES version). Still, that doesn't explain the GB Mega Man and Ufouria examples I've mentioned. No one has given me any good reasons why this should be Metal Gear Solid (Game Boy Color) and not Metal Gear: Ghost Babel and I don't like how the page was moved without taking into account the rest of my edits. Jonny2x4 12:32, 21 April 2013 (EDT)
I think it's called Hebereke over Euforia because the naming here is USA 1st, then Japanese 2nd and Europe 3rd. As for Megaman, I noticed that too, but the problem is the NES Megamans have roman numerals for their title screens, but arabic numerals on their boxes. I don't know which one the rules say should be taken into account each time though. ReyVGM 13:03, 21 April 2013 (EDT)
To be fair, Ghost Babel is hardly a popular game. Barely anyone outside the MGS fanbase knows about it. I've also just noticed that the Mega Man articles also use unconventional naming. Specifically the NES game articles have Arabic numerals (despite the fact that their actual title screens used Roman ones) in order to distinguish them from the Game Boy versions, which is purely an informal practice done mainly by fansites. I'm not sure why they break the naming rules for those games, but not in this instance. Jonny2x4 20:57, 20 April 2013 (EDT)
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