In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?

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.

Supposedly their offices were near eachother and they'd joke about that.

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.

BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend

.hack and Void Terrariums names both make sense within the context of their game.

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.

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.

All the names in that series are horrible.

Any examples off the top of your head?

My favorite that I unironically love is Totally Rad. Short, sweet, to the point, and PERFECTLY encapsulation 80s radditude.

This post is about bad names, not brilliance!

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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.

The protagonist fight with a big mecha fist though, I don't think it is that bad of a name?

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

Kingdome Come: Deliverance.

So the sequel gonna be different subtitle right? Right? Not just adding a 2 at the back right?

Kain was another installment of the Blood Omen series. It was a sequel.

I genuinely thought that name was a joke about Fire Emblem for so long.

+1 for octopath. Such a weird name.

Sounds like a porn box set

CBT

there's already a game called C.B.T. actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOIp7S_TTsw

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

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.

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

All 6 of those names are fine to me. VVVVVV is borderline but not nearly as bad as some of the stuff here.

I felt like that was the joke

"Why are you smashing a town with two helicopters chained together?"

That's the pun. It's intentional

Infinite is a great name if the game is good enough to be something like Team Fortress or Counter Strike. A game that'll be played for decades.

Here's the online game, and here are the solo games. That would have been great... if the studio could make good games.

that sounds like a parody wuxia move
"[Echoes of the Plum Grove]!" enemy rushes off to the toilet as they start undergoing profoundly healthy bowel movements

because it's in Latin (or Italian)...

Z

It's exactly what the title says it is.

Kind of an odd one there in that as far as I understand, they were reusing one of their IP's, Red Dead Revolver. Ironically, I played Red Dead Revolver as a kid, never played RDR2. That said, it's not like it's a cohesive universe between the two by any means, so your point still stands.

Sequel: a published, broadcast, or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one.

Just because it tells the story from before the first piece of work does not mean it is not a sequel. Prequel sequels are everywhere and basically always have been

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.

That's not the name of the game.