In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?
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.
Divine Divinity (sorry Larian, but it’s true)
All the names in that series are horrible.
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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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
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.
I don’t believe any of these titles are real.
Not to defend the game itself but Neptunia is at least on some level a parody of other JRPGs, so the title is meant invoke that cringe. The first one was still called Hyperdimension Neptunia and the “resemicolonbirth” line was a remake which has its own remake now as well with a star in the title…
So, like I said, not defending it.
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend
.hack and Void Terrariums names both make sense within the context of their game.
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.
Hahaha a few come to mind from the NES and SNES era.
“Hey punk! Are you TUFF-E-NUFF?” comes to mind.
Edit: was missing the first part of the title. Thanks for pointing it out! 👍
My favorite that I unironically love is Totally Rad. Short, sweet, to the point, and PERFECTLY encapsulation 80s radditude.
Hey Punk!
Oops! Forgot that park
This post is about bad names, not brilliance!
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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Kain was another installment of the Blood Omen series. It was a sequel.
Whut, Blood Omen Leggy of Kain was the first one tho, I remember it because the same day my friend and I tried prank calling maury povich and farting into the telephone.
A few years later Soul Reaver came out
I give you props for somehow commenting before I deleted that, seconds after posting it.
I’m really fast…just ask my wife
Got’em!
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Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was an awesome game.
I enjoyed Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance too. I also played through Blood Omen 2.
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 👏
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.
The protagonist fight with a big mecha fist though, I don’t think it is that bad of a name?
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
Yes, but the breakdown of the FiST acronym was very clumsily thrown together based around that concept.
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
Triangle Strategy
I genuinely thought that name was a joke about Fire Emblem for so long.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. After it was banned in India, and bought back, it was called Moba Legend. Both the names are terrible.
Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Triangle StrategyBravely Default is pretty bad too
+1 for octopath. Such a weird name.
Pretty fitting name. You have 8 characters and you travel their path with them. Couldn’t be more fitting to be honest.
It sounds extremely weird as a native English speaker. Makes you think of an octopus.
You mean that animal which is know for its 8 feet?
Wait, octopath isn’t about an octopus??
Nope its a pretty standard anime style jrpg
It’s “fitting” but that doesn’t make it a good name
Not by itself but it certainly is a good criteria.
All three games are great, however. The names, no so much. This also reminds me of Romancing Saga, also by Square.
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
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
I’d spend so much time doing stupid shit like that. That game was great for just fucking around in with the Rocket Boosters and shit
That’s the pun. It’s intentional
