In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?
I really hate the Xbox system names.
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.
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.
that’s just begging to be referred to solely as “SARPBC” pronounced as a word
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
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Pure genius though. Gets the first spot of any game list it’s featured in, when sorting alphabetically.
Civ
That’s not the name of the game.
Sid Meier’s Civilization is a weird name.
Its the same idea as Stephen King’s IT
Any game with the designer’s name in it is dumb to me. The worst example is American McGee’s Alice, mainly because the guy has a confusing name that makes the title sound especially dumb.
It’s originally used by the game company to denote “this is one of those weird things HE’s making, not our usual games” as a sort of sign of distrust from the marketing department
Meyer was just so good at what he did that it quite quickly turned into a badge of quality instead and the convention stuck
Sid Meyer’s Civ 6, is the name of one game. If you’re unfamiliar with the franchise then you might not have any clue what the game is about.
No it isn’t. It’s straight up called Civilization VI everywhere. What are you smoking ?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/289070/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI/?curator_clanid=32844624
It doesn’t say “Civ” anywhere in the promotional text.
I guess I’m wrong then. I’ve only ever seen it referenced as Civ 6. I’m pretty sure that’s the title on PS5 and Switch, but I’ve been mistaken before (once or twice).
Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Triangle StrategyBravely Default is pretty bad too
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+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
It’s “fitting” but that doesn’t make it a good name
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.
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.
And even worse, prey 2017 is actually a good game that should have totally been named Neuroshock or something
Bethesda sucks. Damn.
FiST: Forged in Shadow Torch
Such a stupid and contrived name.
The protagonist fight with a big mecha fist though, I don’t think it is that bad of a name?
Yes, but the breakdown of the FiST acronym was very clumsily thrown together based around that concept.
Yeah but “forged in shadow torch”? Come on.
They wanted to name it fist and went back from there. For that its bad IMO.
Forged in shadows touch
Fight in shallow trenches
Freaks in silly tales
Fist inside Someone’s Tush
Fart inverse serene toot
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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Divine Divinity (sorry Larian, but it’s true)
All the names in that series are horrible.
Genital Jousting. Its a perfectly fitting name for what the game is. But its deeply unsettling.
It’s exactly what the title says it is.
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?
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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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.
Just Cause. I actually like the series as a kind of brain-off game, but I always read the name as “just cuz”.
That’s the pun. It’s intentional
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
I’d spend so much time doing stupid shit like that. That game was great for just fucking around in with the Rocket Boosters and shit
