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In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 54 points 9 months ago
[-] Fribbtastic@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Even worse is that it is a trademark. There was a kickstarter for a game "prey for the gods" which could have gotten a trademark dispute over the usage of the name "prey" from bethesda.

So they changed the name to "praey for the gods" to not have to deal with yearlong legal battle and burn the Kickstarter funds.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Bethesda sucks. Damn.

[-] BurnoutDV@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

And even worse, prey 2017 is actually a good game that should have totally been named Neuroshock or something

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 44 points 9 months ago

The names aren't terrible by themselves but it really sucks that the critically acclaimed narrative space puzzler "outerwilds" released the same month as the open world space rpg "outerworlds".

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

Supposedly their offices were near eachother and they'd joke about that.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

Braid. Sounds like a dress up game but it's a puzzle platformers about time travel. I always have to explain it every time I talk about it

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A lot of JRPG's with weird punctuation and seemingly neverending titles or made-up words.

  • Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Re:Chain of Memories and Dream Drop Distance and χ Back Cover and 0.2 Birth by Sleep and Re Mind and -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX- and HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue
  • Legend of Fantasy: Monstrum Refantazio
  • Death end re;Quest
  • Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generation
  • UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late and II Sys:Celes
  • Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army
  • .hack//G.U. Last Recode
  • void* tRrLM2(); //Void Terrarium 2
  • Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator and lots of other Atelier games
  • Divine Divinity
  • Infinite Undiscovery
  • Various Daylife
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
  • Mon-Yu: Defeat Monsters And Gain Strong Weapons And Armor. You May Be Defeated, But Don’t Give Up. Become Stronger. I Believe There Will Be A Day When The Heroes Defeat The Devil King.
[-] AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz 11 points 9 months ago

Agree with most of these but

Revengeance is perfect

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[-] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 9 months ago

All games and movies that reuse the same name as the very first title in the franchise to make a "fresh start" while spitting on the original.

[-] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Any examples off the top of your head?

[-] Poik@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago

NFS: Hot Pursuit. HP2 was a perfect game in the arcade racer genre. HP remake doesn't even have bots in multiplayer, meaning you and your buddies won't be chased by cops because no one plays that game and the cops have to be played by humans.

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Tomb Raider, Doom, Mortal Kombat for example

Not bad games at all but I just don’t like that it’s claiming the name of something, basically saying it wasn’t good enough.

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[-] bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

FiST: Forged in Shadow Torch

Such a stupid and contrived name.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

The gameplay is as clumsy as the title. So it FiTS.

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[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I think all the games that do this are annoying. We're not stupid, we can come up with an acronym for your name. It's silly, I know, but it made me not want to play FTL: faster than light for a long time.

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[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 17 points 9 months ago

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. Not much changed between this and Rocket League, the name was probably the main thing holding them back.

[-] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

It’s got a beautiful flow when you say it out loud, though.

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[-] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 16 points 9 months ago

Anything with a subtitle that isn’t a sequel or licensed game.

  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
  • Blood Omen: The Legacy of Kain
  • Condemned: Criminal Origins
  • Immortals: Fenyx Rising

That sort of thing.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 9 points 9 months ago

Kingdome Come: Deliverance.

So the sequel gonna be different subtitle right? Right? Not just adding a 2 at the back right?

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[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Triangle Strategy

Bravely Default is pretty bad too

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[-] zerosilversky@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago
[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

I genuinely thought that name was a joke about Fire Emblem for so long.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

Just Cause. I actually like the series as a kind of brain-off game, but I always read the name as "just cuz".

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months ago

I felt like that was the joke

"Why are you smashing a town with two helicopters chained together?"

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 21 points 9 months ago

Yeah this one is actually a great title with the double meaning

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[-] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

That's the pun. It's intentional

[-] skittlebrau@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago
[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I hate SuperGiant's naming scheme. Bastion? Transistor? Pyre(i couldn't even remember this one)?? Hades??? Cmon man, your company isn't called Giant but SuperGiant, make it stand out as your company's name!

Also VVVVVV. No one will notice this game if it come out today. Prey(2017) is the prime example of this.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago

All 6 of those names are fine to me. VVVVVV is borderline but not nearly as bad as some of the stuff here.

[-] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Shadowrun (the arena shooter) probably would've been better received if it were named basically anything else.

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[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 points 9 months ago

Halo Infinite. Numbers are for mainline games. Subtitles are for spinoffs.

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[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago
  • Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (PSX, 1997)
[-] TauriWarrior@aussie.zone 14 points 9 months ago

Technically, one Star Wars game should be called Star Wars: Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ubuntu have had some weird-ass names for their titles (Warty Warthog, Edgy Eft, urgh) and the games themselves have been pretty lacklustre.

There was this one level where you had to rearrange icons to the left and it just looked stupid. Unity or something.

[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

The name Unity just needs to be avoided. I get the well intentioned meaning behind the word, but it has been the name of three major controversial/disastrous products in semi-recent history - Ubuntu Unity Desktop, Assassin's Creed: Unity, and the Unity Engine.

[-] itsgallus@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

“Echoes of the Plum Grove”. Sounds like they asked ChatGPT and went with the first suggestion.

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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

Red Dead Redemption 2. It's not a sequel. Love the game though.

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[-] kang@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

anno.

If you know a little of spanish is just sounds awful

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[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

Genital Jousting. Its a perfectly fitting name for what the game is. But its deeply unsettling.

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