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Great games with terrible names
- Thread starter Unknownlight
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Infinite Undiscovery: "let's never find anything, forever"
It's really annoying how a lot of japanese games have their titles in all caps or include alternate titles on Steam. This is a mess:
u kno. . .
. . . when u think about it . . .
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Up until Person of Lordly Caliber, Ogre Battle was just using the titles of Queen songs for all its titles, so blame Freddie Mercury.
I don't know if it's going to be a good game or not, but "Blood & Truth" takes the cake for me.
Dragon's Dogma
The Ys games (people see it and are like, "Wise..? Ease..?")
Metal Gear Solid
wtf, lol
The Ys games (people see it and are like, "Wise..? Ease..?")
Metal Gear Solid
wtf, lol
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Some of the Ogre Battle games were named after Queen songs. So, Halcali is either pretending that a bad Ogre Battle game came out, but the name was good (despite clearly being absurd), or they are taking a swipe at Ogre Battle: Let Us Cling Together, while (confusingly) mocking the name. I only see that as a possibility because I know some people disliked the name and were specifically making the "I Want to Ride My Bicycle" joke back in the day.
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Yeah, they should just drop The Legend of Heroes and call the series Trails going forward. Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel are great titles. I know there's some interest in the pre-TitS LoH games but these days no one plays the Trails games because of the connection to those older ones.
Fully agree here. "Yakuza" is clean and that word represents so much. It's all you need to know about the culture and attitude the game is representing. It's as effective as movie titles like "Casino" or "Goodfellas".
"Like a Dragon" sounds like a Japanese play on Madonna's "Like a Virgin". It's pretty corny, if I'm being honest.
It's probably the worst name ever compared to quality of the actual game.
Even Redhead vs. Big Mech Dinos had been better...
I actually think a lot of japanese Square Enix games' names aren't terrible. They end up being memorable and can be easily trademarked. One exception though is Kingdom Heart spinoffs because the numbers are just awful.
The worst are generic fantasy jargon, like Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
Or generic word salads that don't mean anything, like Horizon Zero Dawn.
Or just generic platitudes, like Life is Strange. If I recall correctly, the working title was "What if", which is a much, much better name. Too bad it was already used.
The worst are generic fantasy jargon, like Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
Or generic word salads that don't mean anything, like Horizon Zero Dawn.
Or just generic platitudes, like Life is Strange. If I recall correctly, the working title was "What if", which is a much, much better name. Too bad it was already used.
I don't know... I like Tokyo Mirage Sessions a lot more than Performa. I can take or leave the #FE part but it's more catching than Performa; I feel like Performa needs something else to it.
Rough translation is: Summer-Colored High School ★ Adolescent Record – A Summer At School On An Island Where I Contemplate How The First Day After I Transferred, I Ran Into A Childhood Friend And Was Forced To Join The Journalism Club Where While My Days As A Paparazzi Kid With Great Scoops Made Me Rather Popular Among The Girls, But Strangely My Camera Is Full Of Panty Shots, And Where My Candid Romance Is Going.
According to user reviews on amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Haisukuru-Natsuiro-Seishunhakusho-PlayStation-4/dp/B00UBSJUV6 ) the game is good.
It took me forever to realize it is supposed to mean "Hotaru Nikki" which is Japanese for Firefly Diary. So it's Firefly Diary: The Firefly Diary. Hashtag.
Sleeping Dogs is a great game with a title that I never could vibe with.
Apex Legends is one of the worst ones in recent memory. When it was first revealed it took me a couple days to stop forgetting the name of the damn thing.
Apex Legends is one of the worst ones in recent memory. When it was first revealed it took me a couple days to stop forgetting the name of the damn thing.
I may just be unobservant, but I've never understood the naming convention for the Tales of Games.
For example, what does Vesperia refer to? I vaguely remember something about a guild or something. Symphonia? Xilia? I've played multiple of these games and have never picked up what they refer to.
For example, what does Vesperia refer to? I vaguely remember something about a guild or something. Symphonia? Xilia? I've played multiple of these games and have never picked up what they refer to.
Red Dead Redemption is a bit of an odd one, especially when considering what "Red Dead" originally meant.
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Drake's Fortune, Among Thieves, Drake's Deception, Fight for Fortune, A Thief's End, Fortune Hunter, and The Lost Legacy all sound like Direct To DVD titles to me. I know the mobile games aren't considered great, but I figured I'd list 'em anyway since they continue to lame title pattern. The only one I think sounds decent is Golden Abyss.
That said, my vote goes to Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. The stupidity of the title is proportional to the amount I love that game. I want to hear the story of who came up with that one, and how much push-back they got from people who were fluent in English.
That said, my vote goes to Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. The stupidity of the title is proportional to the amount I love that game. I want to hear the story of who came up with that one, and how much push-back they got from people who were fluent in English.
I'll never understand using the "Title: Subtitle" convention when naming games that aren't part of a series.
Been a pet peeve of mine for a long time.
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Both are great names that fit the games perfectly. I struggle to see them as terrible.
It would be helpful if you were to put the Japanese names.
The only names that I dislike are the ones that suck with SEO. "Dislike" in a mild inconvenience kind of way. That PSX dolphin music video game Fluid (JP)/ Depth (PAL) is probably the worst offender of all time. Not that SEO mattered as much then, but I kind of SMH and remember it when I see games named, like, "Mango" today. Makes it a pain in the ass to recommend to people.
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn.
Baldur's Gate is meaningless, referring to a made up city that's not in the game. If it evokes anything, its an unrelated Norse deity. Amn is another made up place. Shadows is just super cliched filler that gets chucked at far too many speculative fiction stuff.
Baldur's Gate is meaningless, referring to a made up city that's not in the game. If it evokes anything, its an unrelated Norse deity. Amn is another made up place. Shadows is just super cliched filler that gets chucked at far too many speculative fiction stuff.
It actually makes sense, considering what "Half-Life" actually means.