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Games with absolutely stupid and/or ridiculous names?
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BigTnaples
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Project Cars.
Sounds like a mod or a code name for an unreleased game.
Cyberpunk also doesn't make much sense as an actual title.
Sounds like a mod or a code name for an unreleased game.
Cyberpunk also doesn't make much sense as an actual title.
Dangerous
It's basically Eve Offline and pretty legit despite the overabundance of bought assets but that name...
Bad names come in the two varieties mundane/impossible to search (cf. Enemy, 4089, Zombies*, ...) and garbled nonsense. Japan is the king of the latter since they seem to pick English names by randomly throwing words together that sound kinda cool. See also all games inspired by Warning Forever (Infinity Danger, Captain Forever, etc).
*=Renamed to corporate lifestyle simulator for that reason.
It's basically Eve Offline and pretty legit despite the overabundance of bought assets but that name...
Bad names come in the two varieties mundane/impossible to search (cf. Enemy, 4089, Zombies*, ...) and garbled nonsense. Japan is the king of the latter since they seem to pick English names by randomly throwing words together that sound kinda cool. See also all games inspired by Warning Forever (Infinity Danger, Captain Forever, etc).
*=Renamed to corporate lifestyle simulator for that reason.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Seriously, the title alone made me completely disregard the game for years, until the constant praise from GAF eventually led me to pick it up.
Yeah caused me to miss the game at first as well.
Though it works better as "The Line".
Spec Ops seems like something the publisher forced onto it so it would sell.
SaggyMonkey
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Any final game with "project" in the title
Edit: Beaten
Knell is a death bell, and Qoga means finale. So the title means "The Finale Ar Tonelico: Death bell of Ar Ciel", which is still pretty bad.
Knell is a death bell, and Qoga means finale. So the title means "The Finale Ar Tonelico: Death bell of Ar Ciel", which is still pretty bad.
Thief: The Dark Project is a fine name.
Holy cow, I never even caught that until you pointed it out. The name makes a lot more sense now.
and while it doesn't have "Project" in the title, "Thief: The Metal Age" is also a fine name. In fact, I'd say "Thief: Deadly Shadows" is the lesser name of the three
Gunstar Ikari
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam is kinda silly. They could have called it Mobile Suit Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam or something.
SD Gundam: Emotional Jam is also dumb. It sounds more like a dating sim than a strategy RPG.
SD Gundam: Emotional Jam is also dumb. It sounds more like a dating sim than a strategy RPG.
Ryouji Gunblade
Member
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
Finale Fireworker
Member
People not understanding what Resident Evil means is blowing my mind. Resident means to be present somewhere for a prolonged period of time. As a verb it is residing. Resident Evil means a deeply-rooted evil presence.
You people are killing me.
You people are killing me.
joecanada
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I kept tying bloodbourne when it first came out by accident ... The Blood Bourne Identity lol
SerTapTap
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Any Japanese fighting game, especially ones not by Capcom. Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!! is a personal favorite, bonus points for officially having 5 exclamation points in the name.
Warface is exceptional in how simple yet incredibly stupid it is. Most funny japanese game names are weird because they're a wordsalad of "cool" english words. But Warface is just. Warface.
Also I love *w* Quintet (the "w" looking thing is a lower case Omega), wish they kept the *w* as the prominent part for the western release. I still insist on calling it *w* Quintet whenever possible.
Warface is exceptional in how simple yet incredibly stupid it is. Most funny japanese game names are weird because they're a wordsalad of "cool" english words. But Warface is just. Warface.
Also I love *w* Quintet (the "w" looking thing is a lower case Omega), wish they kept the *w* as the prominent part for the western release. I still insist on calling it *w* Quintet whenever possible.
that and Touch Dic are hilarious
Wtf are these real.... ??
Demons in the DeS universe do possess tons of souls each so Demon's Souls actually makes sense. It's still an awkward name though.
Oh wow, I had no idea! It's still awful though.
Also I've just become aware of my own avatar and remembered how much I hate telling people I like a game called Monster Hunter but that one might just be me.
Elite: Dangerous
Cities: Skylines
The whole point of a subtitle is to have something unique to distinguish it from everything else that might use "Elite" or "Cities" in their name. But both subtitles are just as generic. Skylines even caused confusion by making people think it was part of the Cities XL series.
Cities: Skylines
The whole point of a subtitle is to have something unique to distinguish it from everything else that might use "Elite" or "Cities" in their name. But both subtitles are just as generic. Skylines even caused confusion by making people think it was part of the Cities XL series.
Considering it was developed by Crytek, I'd love to think they wanted to call it "Cryface" then decided against it.
ieptbarakat
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Guilty Gear Xrd
It's so stupid I love it.
It's so stupid I love it.
Beyonce Beytwice
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New Super Mario Bros 2 (it is the 3rd rather than the 2nd, and the "New" annoys me as well since how long can something be New?)
SerTapTap
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The funny thing is it even has a weird convoluted story behind it. The second Guilty Gear game is Guilty Gear X. Then there was Guilty Gear XX. Then a bunch of judgements and #reloads and such. And now finally XXX, or the third X--Xrd--game. At least I think that's what it's supposed to be. Sign is...just a random word they put on there best I can tell.
Dragon Puncher
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My favorite bad game names are the super lazy/redundant ones like:
Beyond the Beyond
Divine Divinity
What does that those even mean??
Infinite Undiscovery will never be beaten though. A game where you spend infinity without ever discovering anything you say? Sounds like a great time.
Beyond the Beyond
Divine Divinity
What does that those even mean??
Infinite Undiscovery will never be beaten though. A game where you spend infinity without ever discovering anything you say? Sounds like a great time.
lazer_bean
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Demon's Souls isn't Demon Souls so that's my pick. Just a bad choice.
CanUKlehead
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Kenka Bancho Badass Rumble.
Or is that best name?
Or is that best name?
SomedayTheFire
Member
Why not Warcry? So dumb.
it could've been better, though maybe they wanted to avoid any kind of association and/or confusion with either the power metal band of the same name or the collectible card game
Steve Youngblood
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I thought it was kind of lame at first too. And it still kind of is. But I get it. It's wordplay. "For" can be swapped with "Four" because it's Super Smash Bros. 4 for 3DS and Super Smash Bros. 4 for Wii U.
Munkyspace
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They named their games after Queen songs.
TharpDaddy
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"BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien" love the game but holy shit the name.
Infinite Undiscovery was also pretty dumb, and the new Star Ocean name is silly.
Infinite Undiscovery was also pretty dumb, and the new Star Ocean name is silly.
eso76
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Project Firestart. Your argument is invalid
Drunken Robot Pornography
Then name is so absurd.
Then name is so absurd.
There was a recent thread with a similar premise, and I went a bit nuts on it.
Taking out the games that had actually quite good (I felt!) names, for absurdity we still have:
Tongue of the Fatman:
Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time:
My Name is Uncle Groucho, You Win A Fat Cigar:
The Astonishing Adventures of Mr. Weems and the She Vampires:
Gregory Loses His Clock:
Fat Worm Blows A Sparky:
Attack of the Mutant Zombie Flesh-Eating Chickens from Mars:
Don't Buy This:
The Quest for the Golden Eggcup:
Journey to the Centre of Eddie Smith's Head:
Superhero League of Hoboken:
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head Or Tail Of It:
And from the modern independent text adventure field:
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me!
Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort
Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home
Taking out the games that had actually quite good (I felt!) names, for absurdity we still have:
Tongue of the Fatman:
Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time:
My Name is Uncle Groucho, You Win A Fat Cigar:
The Astonishing Adventures of Mr. Weems and the She Vampires:
Gregory Loses His Clock:
Fat Worm Blows A Sparky:
Attack of the Mutant Zombie Flesh-Eating Chickens from Mars:
Don't Buy This:
The Quest for the Golden Eggcup:
Journey to the Centre of Eddie Smith's Head:
Superhero League of Hoboken:
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head Or Tail Of It:
And from the modern independent text adventure field:
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me!
Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort
Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home
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