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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
Divine Divinity (sorry Larian, but it's true)
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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.
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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.
The gameplay is as clumsy as the title. So it FiTS.
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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.
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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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Triangle Strategy
I genuinely thought that name was a joke about Fire Emblem for so long.
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Triangle Strategy
Bravely Default is pretty bad too
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It sounds like either a throwaway mobile gacha game or an epic CBT adventure porno, but it's actually a pretty good 3D platformer.
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Shadowrun (the arena shooter) probably would've been better received if it were named basically anything else.
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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.
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
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.
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.
- 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
Halo Infinite. Numbers are for mainline games. Subtitles are for spinoffs.
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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.
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