"Beta"

The terms Beta, Alpha, Pre-Alpha, and all that shit have been cheapened recently. Beta especially. Games get put into Open Beta and they have absolutely nothing missing. Even more ridiculous is how that Shadows of Mordor trailer was "Pre-Alpha". While I can understand that it's a demo and trailer, so it'd be prettied up and focus on the stuff they've completed, Pre-Alpha should be the phases where most textures are pink blobs, animations are place-holders at best, and shit crashes if you move too fast.

It's fucking development buzzwords, usually.

Nintendo titles say hi.