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2017's Prey
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.
Bethesda sucks. Damn.
And even worse, prey 2017 is actually a good game that should have totally been named Neuroshock or something
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".
Supposedly their offices were near eachother and they'd joke about that.
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
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.
Agree with most of these but
Revengeance is perfect
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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.
Any examples off the top of your head?
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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FiST: Forged in Shadow Torch
Such a stupid and contrived name.
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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Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. Not much changed between this and Rocket League, the name was probably the main thing holding them back.
It’s got a beautiful flow when you say it out loud, though.
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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.
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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Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Triangle Strategy
Bravely Default is pretty bad too
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Triangle Strategy
I genuinely thought that name was a joke about Fire Emblem for so long.
Just Cause. I actually like the series as a kind of brain-off game, but I always read the name as "just cuz".
I felt like that was the joke
"Why are you smashing a town with two helicopters chained together?"
Yeah this one is actually a great title with the double meaning
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That's the pun. It's intentional
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.
All 6 of those names are fine to me. VVVVVV is borderline but not nearly as bad as some of the stuff here.
Shadowrun (the arena shooter) probably would've been better received if it were named basically anything else.
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Halo Infinite. Numbers are for mainline games. Subtitles are for spinoffs.
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- Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (PSX, 1997)
Technically, one Star Wars game should be called Star Wars: Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy
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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.
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.
“Echoes of the Plum Grove”. Sounds like they asked ChatGPT and went with the first suggestion.
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Genital Jousting. Its a perfectly fitting name for what the game is. But its deeply unsettling.
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