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Obligatory patchly discussion about the HM gold title name
Once again we have the same trend of shiny titles being weird and stupid phrases.
This patch it is "Nightmare Trainer". Why trainer...? "Nightmare Hacker" I would at least understand.
Can we please go back to having the good ol' one word shiny titles: Surgeon, Determined, Forsaken.
It would be such a good title to work to earn if it was just "Nightmare".
It might sound like nitpicking and finding anything to complain out to the majority of players, but to the people who actually work to earn every patch's titles it would be really appreciated.
It would be cool to get at least a reply from staff on this change even being possible: @seandynamite @Spacecats @Denommenator
This patch it is "Nightmare Trainer". Why trainer...? "Nightmare Hacker" I would at least understand.
Can we please go back to having the good ol' one word shiny titles: Surgeon, Determined, Forsaken.
It would be such a good title to work to earn if it was just "Nightmare".
It might sound like nitpicking and finding anything to complain out to the majority of players, but to the people who actually work to earn every patch's titles it would be really appreciated.
It would be cool to get at least a reply from staff on this change even being possible: @seandynamite @Spacecats @Denommenator
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But the origin of the name is RK-8 from Castle Aranea.
That's definitely why. See also the news post:
"The RK-9 Kennel (Hard) dungeon is now live, offering a more formidable RK-9 and new fight mechanics. Can you show the ultimate junkyard dog who’s boss?"
It's a theme they created for it. "Nightmare Trainer" is part of that theme.
Wow I didnt think I could like the current title less than I already did. Give me back Everlasting Mobstopper if were just gonna go full [filtered].
If you couldn't tell from my original comment I'm not a fan of this title. These titles are meant to be something to be proud of, not some joke. The non clear-count titles can be funny the funny ones. Like Artful Dodger from TRHM is great, but it's not 50+ hours of work worth. EME is missing the mark for the people who get these titles; it's a lack of understanding of the playerbase.
On top of this laziness to get a proper title name they also didn't even name the boss properly. Why the hell is the boss called "RK-9 Kennel (Hard)"? Did you guys decide to throw out the normal Nightmare <boss name> naming convention? Because if you did that on purpose it might be less damming
oh wait the other bosses in the dungeon have the nightmare prefix, HMMMM.
Get on top of actually doing the job of translating the patch properly and actually translate the title name properly instead of making some random as name that doesn't make sense. What the hell is a nightmare trainer? Do we train nightmares?
The only reason the joke makes any sense is because the boss has K-9 in its name. But he's called RK-9, and he's not dog-like at all, in fact he's the most humanoid boss in the entire dungeon. It would be just as funny if you called the boss "Robot McFloaty-Arms" and made the title "Disarmed Nightmare" since it has just as much relation as anything else.
Also why nightmare trainer? If you're going to make a joke why not dog trainer? It's too silly? Then why not leave the title at nightmare? Not enough of a joke? Why does the epic shiny title of the hardest dungeon of the patch have to be a joke?
nothing in the dungeon is remotely dog-like yet you have this cool machine/robot/killer AI theme to work with and you blew it. you blew it with the weakest of wordplay imaginable. it's like ya'll put in effort to suck.
on the flip side Nightmare Trainer makes me think of some horridly evil pokemon trainer
p.s. dissembler and hacker are cool titles
Added bonus! Anyone with the Hacker title gets insta banned!