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It is going to be a long list. Roleplaying games for instance have entire lists of them, and I am sure there is a video game somewhere that generate them proce

by GuB-42 4y ago

It is going to be a long list. Roleplaying games for instance have entire lists of them, and I am sure there is a video game somewhere that generate them procedurally, making the list effectively endless unless you have some kind of notability criteria. There are hundreds listed in here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MegaCorp https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MegaCorp and it is just the megacorps, there are many more that are not "mega".

inkcapmushroom 4y ago
I'm not positive but it looks like the list is limited to brands that have a specific, recognizable logo and name, which appear in visual media. So that should at least narrow it down.
yreg 4y ago
I think whatever is generated locally cannot be canon, since the world cannot know about it.
- GuB-42 4y ago
  It is canon within your game, and it may ascend to being a true world canon if your game becomes notable enough. But generally, I agree, I was just commenting about how many there are and how easy it is to create new ones, a lot of us probably made a few of them. Making a fictional brand is a common exercise in business or design schools, it can be done in creative writing, as an example for a presentation, in a role-playing campaign, or just for fun. If anything goes, we may be in the billions.
  - yreg 4y ago
    >It is canon within your game It is canon to my game, but I don't expect the Fictional Brands Archive to be canon to my game. Just the same as I'm not going to edit the Skyrim wiki and put down that the Dragonborn is wanted by all the guards in Winterhold and posseses a world's best collection of cheese wheels, just because it happened in my game. If the playthrough becomes notable enough then it's not a problem since there won't be billions of those.
ghostDancer 4y ago
Arasaka appeared in Cyberpunk 2020 RPG long before the video game Cyberpunk 2077 used it.

by GuB-42 4y ago

inkcapmushroom 4y ago

I'm not positive but it looks like the list is limited to brands that have a specific, recognizable logo and name, which appear in visual media. So that should at least narrow it down.

yreg 4y ago

I think whatever is generated locally cannot be canon, since the world cannot know about it.

GuB-42 4y ago
It is canon within your game, and it may ascend to being a true world canon if your game becomes notable enough. But generally, I agree, I was just commenting about how many there are and how easy it is to create new ones, a lot of us probably made a few of them. Making a fictional brand is a common exercise in business or design schools, it can be done in creative writing, as an example for a presentation, in a role-playing campaign, or just for fun. If anything goes, we may be in the billions.
- yreg 4y ago
  >It is canon within your game It is canon to my game, but I don't expect the Fictional Brands Archive to be canon to my game. Just the same as I'm not going to edit the Skyrim wiki and put down that the Dragonborn is wanted by all the guards in Winterhold and posseses a world's best collection of cheese wheels, just because it happened in my game. If the playthrough becomes notable enough then it's not a problem since there won't be billions of those.

ghostDancer 4y ago

Arasaka appeared in Cyberpunk 2020 RPG long before the video game Cyberpunk 2077 used it.