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[Ivan Amiibo]

Under Night In-Birth
Kingdom Hearts 347/2+6(400+20+69)

I can't believe it took 16 replies before someone mentioned Revengeance! Not only is the word itself almost as dumb as "Irregardless," but it also has the connection to the KKK.

So because some asshole said it once 60 years ago in some random case, it's completely off limits for the rest of history?

outrage culture plz

 

[DiipuSurotu]

The Legend of Legacy

Bravely Second

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy

 

[FaintDeftone]

Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt

 

[matrix-cat]

You can't 'un'discover anything, and why would you enact vengeance a second time?

It's not 're-vengeance', it's a portmanteau of 'revenge' and 'vengeance'. It's like taking revenge, only harder.

 

[Manners]

Bad Day LA

 

[Steiner84]

Dudebro: My Shit Is Fucked Up So I Got to Shoot/Slice You II: It's Straight-Up Dawg Time

Stupidly awesome?

what actually happened to it? Did it came out eventually?

on topic: every japanese game with at least 10 words in the title.

 

[Burbeting]

Danganronpa.

That says it all.

Actually Danganronpa makes sense as a name. It means "bullet rebuttal" or to be precise "winning an argument with a bullet" which is something that is done a lot during the game. The problem is that the name was not translated for western release, making it just sound gibberish (Well truth to be told Bullet Rebuttal would not be a great name either, but t least it wouldn't be ridiculous.)

Still, lot of japanese games would get my vote. The names either make no sense (Infinite Undiscovery), use very bad english ("Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance), are absurdly long with re-releases making it even worse ("BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II Plus"). And in many cases, the name has all three at the same time.

 

[Scotch]

More recently, I found "Grey Goo" to be an especially horrible name for an RTS game, which I'm sure impacted its dismal sales.

 

[RedToad64]

Cherry Tree High: I! My! Girls!
What does that mean?

 

[MightyAlpha]

I always have a soft spot for the Badman games.
Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?
Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! 2: Time To Tighten Up Security!
and No Heroes Allowed!

Although they got renamed to What Did I Do To Deserve This My Lord!? 1 and 2 though for obvious reasons.

 

[jroc74]

Fat Princess

 

[Couleurs]

Back when EA made baseball games they used to constantly title it using the next year; for example Triple Play 98 was released early in 1997.

I get why this is done with football, basketball, and hockey games since the seasons run into the next year, but the baseball season falls in the same year so there was no reason to do this other than to make the game seem newer than it actually is and trick people into buying it

 

[poipoipoi9]

Double Spoiler ~ Touhou Bunkachou

It doesn't even make any sense. The game is about taking pictures, not a car game with a double spoiler or a game where you spoil stories.

 

[Roshin]

Concise and informative. I don't see the problem.

 

[MaximusPayne]

Heavy Rain

 

[CaviarMeths]

One copy of Hotel Nick please.

Be realistic, nobody is going to go into a store and ask to buy that game.

Spoiler

I bought it and loved it, RIP in peace NIS.

 

[grumpy]

Metal Gear Solid
Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy

 

[Despera]

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary

Why? because htoL#NiQ is an stylized verision of the Japanese name Hotaru no Nikki (ホタルノニッ&#12461 and what does that means? "Firefly Diary", it purely redundant and makes the game hard to find on online searches

I was going to mention this game, but I couldn't for the life of me remember the title.

 

[PandaShake]

Speed Car Racing: Need for Drift on Real Asphalt Tracks

Any ios game trying to cheat the search engine really

 

[FrontalMonk]

I saw a couple other street fighter ones on the first page, but my vote goes to Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha. My buddy would say "Hey man, wanna play some SFEXPA?" and anyone who didn't know exactly what we were talking about would be so confused. The Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition (2012 version) is obviously the king of stupid names, but SFEXPA I think was the first one to have the really stupid name. Okay, maybe that award goes to Special Champion Edition, but still I think the important takeaway to all this is Capcom sucks at SF names.

 

[SmithnCo]

Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme.

 

[tintin1029]

Am I the only one that completely grew on to the word "Revengeance" and actually consider it an actual word?

Baby Maker Extreme

 

[bennywhatever]

This was the first thing to come to mind.

Also, "Awesome Possom" bothers me because it's "Opossum."

 

[Arkeband]

Some of these aren't really all that crazy. I mean, someone thought Budokai Tenkaichi was stupid and/or ridiculous. Are non-English languages that wacky?

Heroes of the Storm is a stupid name for a completely different reason - Blizzard games are often referred to by their acronym, so they made a HotS game after they already had a HotS game. (Heart of the Swarm)

Rookie mistake!

 

[Anarki]

Surprised no-one has posted this yet...

 

[LordBaztion]

Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know!

Actually is awesome.

 

[Boogiepop]

I don't actually hate these names, but since people are mentioning overly long names in here:
Super Robot Taisen: OG Saga: Endless Frontier: Exceed

And

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army

Alternatively, you can add a 2 to that Devil Summoner and change it to "vs. King Abaddon" and you get a game I actually blurted out in full to a poor Gamestop employee in order to put down a preorder once. But yeah, super long titles, and not even parody stuff.

 

[RobRSG]

Espgaluda II -Be Ascension. The Third Bright Stone of Birth-

What the fuck is this supposed to mean?

 

[Rising_Hei]

Metaphor ReFantazio

 

[STARSBarry]

Espgaluda II -Be Ascension. The Third Bright Stone of Birth-

What the fuck is this supposed to mean?

 

[Represent.]

DemonS Souls

Just say Demon Souls

Souls of The Dead even sounds better

 

[SF Kosmo]

Off the top of my head:

Fat Worm Blows a Sparky (ZX Spectrum)
Irritating Stick (PSX)
Dink Smallwood (PC)
Ninja Baseball Batman (Arcade)
Melty Blood (Arcade/PC)

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Hell is us

Not a good name at all

 

[SleepMachine]

I'm not very fond of the name Unicorn Overlord. Good game tho

 

[AV]

These necros are getting wild, man

 

[playXray]

I always thought Oddworld: New & Tasty was a real misfire - they should have just called it Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee HD, Abe's Oddysee Remastered, or even just Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and used the release dates to differentiate them. I also think it's even worse because of the title 'New & Tasty' - to me, this implies it's a new game in the series, rather than a remake of an older game.

I reckon there's a lot of people out there who had no idea this was a remake of the original game - I once worked with someone who was a massive fan of the original and he had no idea there had been a remake, and went straight out and bought it once I told him about it. I didn't even realise myself until six months after it had been released.

Would be interested to hear if anyone else thought the same.

 

[Stu_Hart]

Fighting ex layer
MGS V the phantom pain

 

[RCX]

Almost any modern RPG made in Japan.

Metaphor Refantazio?

 

[Shake Your Rump]

DemonS Souls

Just say Demon Souls

The entire plot is regarding one demon (the "old one", or maybe the king, depending on your perspective) consuming human souls. They are now the Demon's Souls. By definition (in-game), humans turned to demons no longer even have a soul.