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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 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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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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A lot of JRPG's with weird punctuation and seemingly ly 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
I don't believe any of these titles are real.
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Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Triangle Strategy
Bravely 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
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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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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! 👍
This post is about bad names, not brilliance!
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.
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- 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
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.
It sounds like either a throwaway mobile gacha game or an epic CBT adventure porno, but it's actually a pretty good 3D platformer.
Ubuntu have had some weird-ass names for their titles (Warty Warthog, Edgy Eft, urgh) and the games themselves have been pretty lacklustre.
There was this one level where you had to rearrange icons to the left and it just looked stupid. Unity or something.
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.
“Echoes of the Plum Grove”. Sounds like they asked ChatGPT and went with the first suggestion.
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
Halo Infinite. Numbers are for mainline games. Subtitles are for spinoffs.
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anno.
If you know a little of spanish is just sounds awful
because it's in Latin (or Italian)...
Genital Jousting. Its a perfectly fitting name for what the game is. But its deeply unsettling.
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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.
Red Dead Redemption 2. It's not a sequel. Love the game though.
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.
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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
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Ordered the Peri Peri Chicken Club at a cafe today as it reminded me of a strangely named game.
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