Oh, I guess it's far less consistent than I thought. I might have misremembered there being a BUR where a game with roman numerals had it changed. I also kind of forgot about the entire Final Fantasy series, among many other examples like Street Fighter III and Ar Tonelico III. Oops. *_(ff14) qualifiers, on the other hand...
It may also have to do with the easiest and most common ways to type and read it, so please correct me if there has been past discussion on this issue.
Here's the BUR without any renames whatsoever. I also created topic #26860 to fix Diablo in the other direction.
This one adds a qualifier to the first game in the series.
There isn't any consensus on this, but topic #23477 suggests that *_(series) can be skipped when the game series uses roman numerals (even though it's just like a 1 and both Octopath Traveler and Shenmue are still very much the titles of the first game in their respective series).
There isn't any consensus on this, but topic #23477 suggests that *_(series) can be skipped when the game series uses roman numerals (even though it's just like a 1 and both Octopath Traveler and Shenmue are still very much the titles of the first game in their respective series).
I don't know how you came to that conclusion, but that's not it. It's because anytime there's a sequel people naturally affix a "1" or "I" to the first entry and for the standalone title to refer to the now-franchise as a whole in casual conversation. _(series) umbrellas came into being for nonnumerical/idiosyncratic titles, with the first usage being tales_of_(series) IIRC.
Ah, I think I get what you mean. There must have just been a lot of *_(series) ttitles I was looking at where the name was also a character tag or general tag name. Thanks! This will improve future and ongoing BURs.
