Why do people call the game UT99?

Swift Viper · Aug 31, 2003

Kind of minor, but I'm wondering why people start calling this game UT99 after UT2k3 came out. UT came out in 1999, so it should be called UT2k (or UT2000) or UT2k3(2003) would have to been called UT2k2(2002).

UT99 = Came out in 1999
UT2003 = Came out in 2002

I'm not getting the picture here, calling it UT99 can confuse some people into thinking it came out in 1998 (the first Unreal did). It should either be called UT99 and UT2k2 or UT2k and UT2k3. Then again calling it UT is the best way to go because that is the actually name and does not have the Sports Theme that UT2003 has.

Again, I know it is kind of a minor thing, but please don't post stuff like "OMG, who cares!?", because it is just pointless and the same could be said for every thread that you don't care about, plus that would sound like it is speaking for everyone.

NeoNite · Aug 31, 2003

Yeah it's so silly.. just call this game "unreal tournament", "ut", "ut1"..

ut99 sounds so ...

hilarious.. I don't know.
People can be so silly sometimes...

}{ero /\/\ata · Aug 31, 2003

they do that so people know which ut they r talking about, since there r two uts now.

VernerVK · Aug 31, 2003

If you said UT and UT2K3, ppl should be able to differentiate b/w the two

Sir_Brizz · Sep 1, 2003

UT99 didn't have a "sport theme" attached to it so it didn't have a year. People call it UT99 because it came out that year and didn't have a year attached to it.

If Ut2k3 were called UT2 instead it probably would have been a non issue, but in the UT2k3 forums everyone refers to UT2k3 as UT.

Swedix · Sep 1, 2003

Or you could call it UT1k999

Swift Viper · Sep 1, 2003

Sir_Brizz said:
UT99 didn't have a "sport theme" attached to it so it didn't have a year. People call it UT99 because it came out that year and didn't have a year attached to it.

If Ut2k3 were called UT2 instead it probably would have been a non issue, but in the UT2k3 forums everyone refers to UT2k3 as UT.

That is the problem right there, people are not calling it by the actually name, because UT2003 is the name of the game and UT is the name of a game too. It does not take that long to type 2k3 after UT and calling the game by a name it is not can be confusing. While calling it UT1 is not a problem, because this happens with all games that have a part 2 or higher. I'm not targeting you, but the peopel that started the whole confusion, but then again it is not much of a confusion at all actually

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Sir_Brizz · Sep 3, 2003

yah I'm generally not confused. There are a few times though, especially with moved threads....

Zedsquared · Sep 3, 2003

And anyway, while we're being pedantic, 2k3 == 2.3k == 2300 according to long established practice so it's all wrong so there!

Sir_Brizz · Sep 3, 2003

I've never heard, seen, or been taught that...

the k in 2k3 is for the naughts. You can use it in place of any thousand units...this would be like 2000 + 3...so 2k24 would be 2000+24, etc...

asylum · Sep 3, 2003

Zedsquared said:
And anyway, while we're being pedantic, 2k3 == 2.3k == 2300 according to long established practice so it's all wrong so there!

2k3 does not equal 2.3k

2k3 simply says "2 thousand 3" which makes sense if a little grammatically incorrect.

Zedsquared · Sep 3, 2003

>2k3 does not equal 2.3k

It does in electronics engineering (and maybe physics etc), the multiplier is used in place of the decimal point,
probably because the . might not show up on blueprints or bad photocopies copies of circuit diagrams which would lead to very bad mistakes if a resistor ended up being 23K Ohm when it should have been 2.3k Ohm.

A 4.7 Ohm value would be 4R7 (using an R cos O for Ohm would really confuse things as it could be a zero ) 2.3 meg would be represented as 2M3, a 2.3 microfarad capacitor would be 2u3 and so on (where u is a handy substitute for the greek 'mu' character ).

see the "Resistor shorthand" section of this page for an example...

http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/resist.htm

It's UT that's the newcomer abusing this naming convention IMHO ... sorry to be a heretic

... then again it might just cos I'm an old electronics engineer type, not worth fighting about anyhow, we all know what it means really ( .. . unless maybe epic have a secret time machine and really did spend a three hundred years developing the new engine and had to send it back to us... hmmm interesting

)

Cheers,
Robin.

Sir_Brizz · Sep 4, 2003

Maybe it's because both 23k and k23 would be wrong...who knows lol!

since 2000 is 2 kilounits, you figure that by psychic supernatural powers 2k3 is just 2 kilounits plus 3! What's wrong with you old engineering types anyways...you know too much

Swift Viper · Sep 4, 2003

How can one little post turn the whole thread into a different discussion

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On topic: No one called the first Unreal, Unreal98 (or U98) after Unreal II came out and yes, I understand it did not have any kind of sports theme or anything.

Hunter · Sep 4, 2003

it's UT99/ut1 or ut

im guessing 99 because ut2003 has a year in it so they put a year on ut

Kaligraphic · Sep 25, 2003

I just call it UT37, but really that's just my perverse need to baffle people. I suppose some of our Brits may know what I mean

OO7MIKE · Sep 26, 2003

I still can't get over people calling maps "boards" online. It really gets to me.

"I hate this board."

Zur · Sep 26, 2003

Boards ?! WTF :con:

!? If people talk about "boards" why don't you tell them to go back to playing chess or strategy games.

:stick:

FireWire · Sep 27, 2003

rofl about the boards first time i hear that .. and you reminded me how long was since i play chess last time .. o well

I find even names like ut1 silly i just call them by their official names Unreal, UT, UT2k3 , Unreal2 (or U2).

GeneticFreak · Sep 27, 2003

ALL HAIL !!
FROM NOW ON TEH GAME WILL BE CALLED UT7D3h !!! ALL VIOLATORS WILL BE BEHEADED!!

TEH KING HAST SPOKEN !!!
:lol:

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