In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?
- lightnsfw ( @lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) 1•29 minutes ago
Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s not a sequel. Love the game though.
- Stepos Venzny ( @SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ) English7•3 hours ago
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.
- Annoyed_🦀 ( @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ) 2•57 minutes ago
Kingdome Come: Deliverance.
So the sequel gonna be different subtitle right? Right? Not just adding a 2 at the back right?
- x00za ( @x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•1 hour ago
All of that stuff looks AI generated.
- saigot ( @saigot@lemmy.ca ) 9•5 hours ago
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”.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 2•2 hours ago
Supposedly their offices were near eachother and they’d joke about that.
- dan1101 ( @dan1101@lemm.ee ) 2•5 hours ago
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.
- Strayce ( @Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•4 hours ago
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.
- callouscomic ( @callouscomic@lemm.ee ) English7•7 hours ago
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.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 1•1 hour ago
.hack and Void Terrariums names both make sense within the context of their game.
- AutoPastry ( @AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz ) English3•4 hours ago
Agree with most of these but
Revengeance is perfect
- Dragon "Rider"(drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English1•6 hours ago
Drag is personally offended that you don’t like Revengeance. Drag is a big fan of musical theatre and also of turning fascists into confetti.
- GiveOver ( @GiveOver@feddit.uk ) 8•8 hours ago
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. Not much changed between this and Rocket League, the name was probably the main thing holding them back.
- Stepos Venzny ( @SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ) English3•3 hours ago
It’s got a beautiful flow when you say it out loud, though.
- Dragon "Rider"(drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English2•6 hours ago
Halo Infinite. Numbers are for mainline games. Subtitles are for spinoffs.
- Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 15•11 hours ago
Divine Divinity (sorry Larian, but it’s true)
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 hours ago
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.
- CalcProgrammer1 ( @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ) 4•3 hours ago
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.
- ClassifiedPancake ( @ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de ) 7•11 hours ago
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.
- CyberMonkey404 ( @CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 hour ago
Any examples off the top of your head?
- Poik ( @Poik@pawb.social ) 2•44 minutes ago
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.
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.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 30•14 hours ago
2017’s Prey
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English12•13 hours ago
Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Triangle StrategyBravely Default is pretty bad too
- LalSalaamComrade ( @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml ) 2•7 hours ago
All three games are great, however. The names, no so much. This also reminds me of Romancing Saga, also by Square.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English1•4 hours ago
Definitely good games! Just weird names
- Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 3•11 hours ago
+1 for octopath. Such a weird name.
- Iapar ( @Iapar@feddit.org ) 4•10 hours ago
Pretty fitting name. You have 8 characters and you travel their path with them. Couldn’t be more fitting to be honest.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English1•4 hours ago
It’s “fitting” but that doesn’t make it a good name
- Iapar ( @Iapar@feddit.org ) 1•3 hours ago
Not by itself but it certainly is a good criteria.
- Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 5•9 hours ago
It sounds extremely weird as a native English speaker. Makes you think of an octopus.
- Iapar ( @Iapar@feddit.org ) 3•7 hours ago
You mean that animal which is know for its 8 feet?
- Dragon "Rider"(drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English2•6 hours ago
Wait, octopath isn’t about an octopus??
- Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 2•4 hours ago
Nope its a pretty standard anime style jrpg
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English2•9 hours ago
Genital Jousting. Its a perfectly fitting name for what the game is. But its deeply unsettling.
- LalSalaamComrade ( @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml ) 9•14 hours ago
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. After it was banned in India, and bought back, it was called Moba Legend. Both the names are terrible.
- Annoyed_🦀 ( @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ) 4•12 hours ago
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.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English1•2 hours ago
All 6 of those names are fine to me. VVVVVV is borderline but not nearly as bad as some of the stuff here.