In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?
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.
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 kickatarter funds.
Bethesda sucks. Damn.
And even worse, prey 2017 is actually a good game that should have totally been named Neuroshock or something
FiST: Forged in Shadow Torch
Such a stupid and contrived name.
The gameplay is as clumsy as the title. So it FiTS.
Ha ha… Take my updoot 👏
The protagonist fight with a big mecha fist though, I don’t think it is that bad of a name?
Yes, but the breakdown of the FiST acronym was very clumsily thrown together based around that concept.
Yeah but “forged in shadow torch”? Come on.
They wanted to name it fist and went back from there. For that its bad IMO.
Forged in shadows touch
Fight in shallow trenches
Freaks in silly tales
Fist inside Someone’s Tush
Fart inverse serene toot
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.
Pure genius though. Gets the first spot of any game list it’s featured in, when sorting alphabetically.
Divine Divinity (sorry Larian, but it’s true)
All the names in that series are horrible.
anno.
If you know a little of spanish is just sounds awful
because it’s in Latin (or Italian)…
Civ
That’s not the name of the game.
Sid Meier’s Civilization is a weird name.
Any game with the designer’s name in it is dumb to me. The worst example is American McGee’s Alice, mainly because the guy has a confusing name that makes the title sound especially dumb.
It’s originally used by the game company to denote “this is one of those weird things HE’s making, not our usual games” as a sort of sign of distrust from the marketing department
Meyer was just so good at what he did that it quite quickly turned into a badge of quality instead and the convention stuck
Its the same idea as Stephen King’s IT
Sid Meyer’s Civ 6, is the name of one game. If you’re unfamiliar with the franchise then you might not have any clue what the game is about.
No it isn’t. It’s straight up called Civilization VI everywhere. What are you smoking ?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/289070/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI/?curator_clanid=32844624
It doesn’t say “Civ” anywhere in the promotional text.
I guess I’m wrong then. I’ve only ever seen it referenced as Civ 6. I’m pretty sure that’s the title on PS5 and Switch, but I’ve been mistaken before (once or twice).
Shadowrun (the arena shooter) probably would’ve been better received if it were named basically anything else.
I loved that game and i love the TTRPG. I’d always have to tell people it’s not really a good Shadowrun game, it’s just Counter-Strike with a couple mods. On console. With bots.
Which was, like, the best thing ever to me at the time. I ate that shit UP
Genital Jousting. Its a perfectly fitting name for what the game is. But its deeply unsettling.
It’s exactly what the title says it is.
All of them that are so generic I gotta add “the videogame” to when I’m googling.
I also found Death Stranding to be weird.
It’s like… Death coming ashore?
I mean I get that it’s about this whole concept of people having their own beach when they die or being able to travel to other people’s beaches or something weird like that. But they’re really pushing it with that title.
And also the fact that Death end with ‘th’ followed by a word starting with ‘s’ makes it really difficult to pronounce.
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.
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.
that’s just begging to be referred to solely as “SARPBC” pronounced as a word
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.
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend
Drag is personally offended that you don’t like Revengeance. Drag is a big fan of musical theatre and also of turning fascists into confetti.
Agree with most of these but
Revengeance is perfect
I don’t believe any of these titles are real.
The MegaTen games have some weird ones, yeah. Like Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, then the sequel to that came out and it was just Soul Hackers 2. Same with how Persona 1 was Megami Ibunroku Persona and then became Shin Megami Tensei: Persona. Oh and how theres two Persona 2s, Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment. Great games but man, really should have been like Persona 2 Part 1 and Part 2.
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