Same thing with Image FightSlap Fight is an odd name for a shoot 'em up.
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Game titles that sound like they're in a different genre than they actually are
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Star Orpheus
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When I first heard the name Melty Blood I thought it was a weird horror game. Not a fighting game based on a visual novel.
Well, that name doesn't really say anything about it being basically a soccer game so no.
DiipuSurotu
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Buriki One sounds like the name of a fast food item in some sort of Japan-themed fast food restaurant.
Gai Murakumo
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Funny enough Mega 64 along with Hironobu Sakaguchi make fun of that very thing in the skit they did together.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
That or a space exploration sim.
LOL
How About No
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+1 for BIOHAZARD
Baron Von Beans
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Katamari Damacy seems like some sort of kingdom building game. Which...I guess it sorta is, sorta....
Giga_Steve
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Thought it was going to be a rhythm game when the title was revealed before the gameplay was shown in the direct.
immortald3ath
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Gran Turismo
Sounds like a racing game.
Sounds like a racing game.
So true
even today after playing the games, every time I read "Dead or Alive" my first thought is zombies.the eating ogre
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My buddy never gave Ogre Battle a chance because he assumed it was a fighting game based on the name.
QuixoticNeutral
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Overwatch is a title that screams for an XCOM squad tactics game, and when Blizzard announced it I was actually rather let down that the world and characters were being spent on an FPS instead.
atomic moth
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This makes too much sense
MetalGearZed
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Came to post. i wonder what type of game non-gamers think i'm talking about when i mention it.
SpScarecrow0
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Halo and its not about angels
Racer/shooter hybrid is not the first thing that comes to mind when one hears the title Alleykat.
Sounds like it should be a platformer on the Sega Genesis with a cartoon mascot.
Tyraniboah
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Chicken Wiggle
pretty done
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Super Smash Bros should be a gay visual novel
Grettir_the_Swole
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Turns out it's plot was just a semantically obfuscated nightmare you wouldn't find in even the hardest SAT logic section.
Wut.
Much like it's predecesor, Maximum Carnage, the title is based on a comic book saga, if i recall correctly.
Earthbound sounds like a game about space travel where there's a lot of difficulties that won't let people get off the planet.
i was one of those that tought Animal Crossing was a breeding game since the title sounds close to the spanish word for breeding.
Sin & Punishment sounds more like a detective visual novel than an on-rails shooter.
i was one of those that tought Animal Crossing was a breeding game since the title sounds close to the spanish word for breeding.
Sin & Punishment sounds more like a detective visual novel than an on-rails shooter.
Messiah was already taken.
Yeah, Octodad is the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear Project Octopath Traveller.
thesonovabeach
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That was the joke but not obvious enough.
That's like the neverending story and its sequels
How About No
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The game named after a Greek word for a rectangular Infantry formation, featuring a bearded banjo-playing extra from Deliverance on the cover is, as one might suspect, a futuristic space shmup set on an alien planet.
I adore this cover, and I get it, but I can't explain why I get it, or what there is to get
How About No
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Brain Lord was a fucking awesome game. hella tunes too
but lol that title
also hot damn is that cover character based on a Yoshitaka Amano illustration or something??
Silvergun-Blue
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Story of Thor (beyond Oasis in the US) has fuck all to do with Thor or anything even remotely Norse for that matter. You'd expect something like Volgarr the Viking.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, is there a more fitting title than Streets of Rage?
On the opposite side of the spectrum, is there a more fitting title than Streets of Rage?