In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 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.
    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

    • trslim@pawb.social
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      3 months ago

      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.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Hahaha a few come to mind from the NES and SNES era.

    “Are you TUFF-E-NUFF?” comes to mind.

  • GiveOver@feddit.uk
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    3 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.

  • saigot@lemmy.ca
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    3 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”.

  • Stepos Venzny@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 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.

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    X4 Foundations. I have probably 500 hours in it and still don’t know what it really means. But it’s a unique and interesting game.

    • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It’s the fourth game in the X series. Originally named after the player’s ship in the first game, the X-Shuttle. X being short for experimental.

      Regarding “Foundations”, from the Release Q&A

      Why is the game called X4: Foundations?
      Owen: I think some people get confused because of the two different uses of the word foundations. I think some people maybe think foundation like a corporation or a charity, while we’re more thinking of the building foundation. Something we build off and what the races in the universe are building off. They’re still recovering from all the gates shut down and they’re finally getting on their feet.
      Bernd: It’s funny, how we choose names. It was not not long before the presentation actually that we had a long list of possible names and some people like some, but there was no name that everybody liked. Once that we found this name, everybody seemed to like it. Partially for different reasons. But what I like about the names for X-games is always that they leave some things to interpretation just like the X itself. If the game stands for anything, then it stands for the freedom and that the game can be different things for different people.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    3 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”.

  • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Octopath Traveler
    Octopath Traveler II
    Triangle Strategy

    Bravely Default is pretty bad too

    • Fribbtastic@lemmy.world
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      3 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 kickatarter funds.

  • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. After it was banned in India, and bought back, it was called Moba Legend. Both the names are terrible.

    • TauriWarrior@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

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

  • Mango@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    All of them that are so generic I gotta add “the videogame” to when I’m googling.

  • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    3 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