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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:36AM sirgregorymayne said

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I can't read the english, the Japanese says Furagorila フラゴリア
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:38AM (Unverified) said

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Looks like the English name reads "Fragoria" to me.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:17PM (Unverified) said

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how exactly does the japanese read 'gorila' when none of the japanese sylabaries contain an "L"? that's just a plain ol' "A"
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:46PM Vegnagun said

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Gregory:

It reads Furagoria.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 2:32PM (Unverified) said

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since there is no "L" in Hiragana or Katakana (or Japanese language for htat matter)... Good job on deciphering it!
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 3:47PM R Planteer said

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Ulotirch, actually you are slightly wrong. what the Japanese do is combine the L and R sounds into one letter. Most of the time when a Japanese word containing this L/R sound is romanized (translated into English), it is written as an R. However, it is also considered both acceptable and correct to write such letters as Ls. One good example of this is the Japanese name れな, which you see translated both as "Rena" and "Lena" fairly often.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 4:57PM MrKlorox said

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"Cause that little muthafuckin cheetah can't hang with furagorila"
"Cap peelers. Furagorilas in the mist"
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 7:59PM sirgregorymayne said

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I realize there is no L in the Japanese phonetic alphabet. It was a typo. I corrected myself a few comments down.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2009 11:54AM cylet said

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dammit where were you guys for the Peace Walker demo?!?!
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:36AM (Unverified) said

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Fragoria?
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:21PM Skor said

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Yep, I'd say FRAGORIA also.
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Posted: Sep 28th 2009 1:44AM embassy said

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I thought it was Frag o III.

Thinking this was somehow the 3rd entry in a series or something.

Holy Shit.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:37AM shiftplusone said

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Fragoria?

Tragoria?
Trigeria?

Wtf
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:39AM iononion said

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At first i thought it was TRICO III. Then i read the japanese and realized there were a's. Fragoria.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:46AM Jonbo298 said

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Thank you Joystiq, for melting my brain trying to figure out what the hell that is.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:49AM sirgregorymayne said

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Sorry, the Japanese says Furagoria フラゴリア
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:50AM (Unverified) said

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According to Google, Fragoria is a browser-based MMO RPG. So a pretty safe bet that it's Fragoria. There's some info here:

http://feature.mmosite.com/content/2008-07-29/20080729013758143,1.shtml

Note that this page has an even WORSE logo for the game.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:07PM (Unverified) said

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holy shit, you weren't kidding! haha
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:12PM kojo87 said

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"Combat with Other Heroes"

now thats descriptive for an MMORPG
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:24PM SmokemeaKipper said

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They really did improve the logo for TGS. Those Japanese and their constant quality improvement.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:36PM (Unverified) said

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That "worse" logo actually says Fragoria in cyrillic Russian.

I'm new to russian and it's actually EASIER to read for me than the english one!
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:55PM Hyperfludd said

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Review of the game according to that site:

"HOW DO U REGISTER THE GAME! THE STUPID VIDEO SUCKS AND IT IS BOORINGGG"

Oh yeah, it's a keeper.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 11:53AM (Unverified) said

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That's awful. On a completely unrelated note if anyone's looking for a logo artist my 9 year old sister is available. I think she has MS paint.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:01PM KinseySS said

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Even amateur artists know not put a yellow background behind yellow writing.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:57PM DevilSei said

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Obviously your lack of artistic talents is shown by such a statement. It isn't just yellow on yellow. No!
The writing is in a bright, golden yellow, while the background is a mixture of "Baby poo orange" and "drunken yellow".

It's edgy and eye-catching!





/sarcasm
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:03PM Vaitork said

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I think the logo designer should probably get some credit. If it wasn't for his horrible logo, almost no one would ever know what Fragoria is. There isn't such a thing as bad advertising after all.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:07PM Bowser Rogozhin said

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That's some mighty fine Wordperfect clipart there.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:18PM (Unverified) said

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Looks like some logo designer wants to be in a metal band.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 5:05PM MrKlorox said

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It most certainly doesn't. NO serious metal band would use that font.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 6:29PM qbert18 said

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i bet dragonforce would
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:20PM Shadowbender said

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Is this some kind of sick joke?
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:21PM JeezWhiz87 said

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I think that font is called "Power Metal Cyrillic".
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:23PM MystileArmor said

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If they can't get the logo right, imagine what the game will look like... and it's flash-based as well.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:27PM Shadowbender said

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Oh crap...
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:43PM MystileArmor said

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Oh crap is right.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:23PM INNUENDO 64 said

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the graphics are very reminiscent of Age of Empires
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 12:44PM Misfit Toy said

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Little Hiro-san is holding his large box of cookies because it was instructed to only give cookies to those that correctly deciphered the title. Sadly he has only handed out three cookies. Poor Hiro-san.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:40PM Unvrfd said

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WIN
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:10PM Railgun said

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Geeze you aren't kidding. I was trying to make it out at first until I saw the katakana below.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:20PM HelloKoopa said

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And I thought my 1st grade Japanese reading skills would never prove useful, thanks Rosetta Stone!! But seriously, that looks more like a black metal band then a game...
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 5:04PM MrKlorox said

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BLACK metal? No no no.... as some dude mentioned earlier, it's much more POWER metal looking than anything.

Besides it is much more readable than most extreme metal logos and isn't a bunch of jagged intersecting white lines that looks like a Rorschach test from a distance.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:25PM razielx said

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Holy cow, after all these years! Ultima Online gets better graphics!!
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:34PM mrln said

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At least the Japanese is readable, but the English is just ugly, never mind indecipherable.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 5:01PM MrKlorox said

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So many JPRGS use a Serif font and it's just so damned hard for my eyes to read. That's one main reason I haven't played through one this generation.

When will they learn the display Romanized text is best when using a plain old sans-serif font?
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 1:38PM ArchiGamer said

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Effort-9
Execution-1
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 3:01PM (Unverified) said

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[spam!]
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 3:38PM ROBOCOLOSSUS said

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I could read it without the Katakana but it wasn't easy.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 5:07PM MrKlorox said

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Nobody's mentioned the wilted, almost rasta-colored pot-leaf behind the logo.
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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 6:50PM sinai said

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Posted: Sep 27th 2009 9:32PM Courtney said

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Tralfamadore!
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