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[Phediuk]

If I had heard the name "LittleBigPlanet" and nothing else, I would've assumed it was either a Populous-style strategy game or, alternatively, an EcoQuest-style edutainment game from the 90s.

Chrono Trigger sounds like it should be a shooter (think Timesplitters.)

Monday Night Combat sounds like a wrestling game.

Bust-A-Move sounds like a rhythm game, not helped by the existence of Bust-A-Groove, which actually is (and is even named Bust-A-Move in Japan.)

"Zelda: Twilight Princess" sounds like a Barbie game to someone who doesn't know what Zelda is.

Minecraft could have just as easily been an RTS along the lines of Warcraft and Starcraft set in the near future and based around rival factions building underground empires.


name more.

 

[mikelink]

four words - Silent Scope: Bone Eater

 

[disappeared]

Silent Hill

 

[Phediuk]

Silent Hill

In an alternate universe, Silent Hill and The Witness have each other's titles.

 

[Nilua]

You mentioned Chrono Trigger, and I Just realized it could very well be a fitting title for Quantum Break

 

[Synth]

Dead or Alive certainly wouldn't bring a 3D fighter to mind just off its name. Sounds more like a shooter and/or zombie game.

 

[Levito]

Amnesia: Memories

 

[disappeared]

In an alternate universe, Silent Hill and The Witness have each other's titles.

That's... surprisingly accurate lol

 

[petran79]

To me Littlebigplanet sounded like the third installment of Little Big Adventure

I was dissapointed to find out it was a different game

 

[n0razi]

Destiny, sounds like a Bioware RPG... not an FPS loot shooter

 

[MAtgS]

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days could've been an edutainment math game.

 

[disappeared]

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days could've been an edutainment math game.

Sora divided by zero

 

[Phediuk]

The Genesis game High Seas Havoc sounds like a ship-to-ship combat game, along the lines of Shipwreckers.

 

[Cranster]

Halo

Not a name that screams First Person Shooter.

 

[GamerJM]

Live-a-Live makes me think of an Animal Crossing-type of game for some reason.

Blades of Steel sounds like a hack-n-slash or a character action game, not a hockey game.

 

[slick7rick]

Off topic, but when the Vin Diesel movie, xXx, first came out I had a burned copy on a DVD and my mother found it and was yelling at me thinking it was a porno. I'm like, "Mom, if I was trying to hide a porno, why would I label it XXX?" Lol

 

[Phediuk]

The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang sounds like a side-scroller based on a Nickelodeon cartoon.

 

[Phediuk]

Halo

Not a name that screams First Person Shooter.

Same with Marathon, and Destiny.

 

[Zukkoyaki]

Wipeout sounds like it should be aquatic to me

 

[Phediuk]

Wipeout sounds like it should be aquatic to me

Or a snowboarding game.

 

[Emitan]

I thought Chrono Trigger was a FPS until I played it

 

[Archanfel]

Stephen's Sausage Roll

 

[GoldStarz]

DanganRonpa literally translated means "Bullet Refutation" which sounds more like some kind of action shooter rather than the mystery VN that it is.

 

[SkateorDi3]

Rocket League

 

[Phediuk]

DanganRonpa literally translated means "Bullet Refutation" which sounds more like some kind of action shooter rather than the mystery VN that it is.

Frankly, Danganronpa is exactly what I expected a game with that title on the Vita to be.

 

[Phediuk]

Rocket League

In another world it's a knockoff of Kerbal Space Program.

 

[Dr.Brobotnik]

Rock of Ages sounds like another music periphrial game, and Tomb Raider sounds like an old school dungeon crawler.

 

[Fliesen]

Same with Marathon, and Destiny.

well, what would be a name fitting for a shooter then?
Also, that's probably why Halo was named "Halo - Combat Evolved".

I love the 'swap two game's names to give each a more fitting title' thing you kicked off a lot more than the thread's premise, btw

 

[JinjoUnchained]

Paper Mario: Sticker Star sounds like an RPG.

 

[Kurt]

Horizen, sounds like a fly game

 

[DecoReturns]

Metroid.

 

[Correctomundo]

I'm quite certain more than a few people looked at the cover of any of the Castle Shikigami series and thought they were anime JRPGs.

 

[Zevenberge]

Animal Crossing. In Dutch, "dieren kruisen" ("to cross animals") means to breed different races of e.g. dogs. So yeah, I was kind of surprised how the games turned out.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Paper Mario: Sticker Star sounds like an RPG.

:lol

 

[Scrawnton]

Paper Mario: Sticker Star sounds like an RPG.

I laughed.

Spoiler

really like that game, too..

 

[RRockman]

Rockman


Rock super hero to the rescue

 

[thesonovabeach]

That is why you should call your game something in the vein of Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars.

No confusion.

 

[retroman]

Slap Fight is an odd name for a shoot 'em up.

 

[Ritzboof]

when i see the name wipeout, it makes me think of that tv show where they made a bunch of assholes traverse impossible obstacle courses suspended above mud

 

[Link1110]

Lee Trevino's fighting golf. There's no fighting in it. I expected a hybrid like ninja golf

 

[Garraboa]

There's this Japanese only Original Xbox game called "The Wild Rings". When I first read the title, I thought it was a JRPG funded by Microsoft to try and woo Japanese gamers, kinda like True Fantasy Live Online would've done.

Imagine my disappointment at discovering it was a wrestling game.

 

[thekonamicode]

Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden doesn't EXACTLY sound like an RPG

 

[ULTROS!]

God Wars = Brutal action adventure game

 

[retroman]

Racer/shooter hybrid is not the first thing that comes to mind when one hears the title Alleykat.

 

[kubus]

Animal Crossing. In Dutch, "dieren kruisen" ("to cross animals") means to breed different races of e.g. dogs. So yeah, I was kind of surprised how the games turned out.

It took me a while to realize that they (probably) mean crossing as in crossing the street. Still kind of a random name though, especially since the original Japanese name is "animals' forest".

 

[Zen Aku]

Off topic, but when the Vin Diesel movie, xXx, first came out I had a burned copy on a DVD and my mother found it and was yelling at me thinking it was a porno. I'm like, "Mom, if I was trying to hide a porno, why would I label it XXX?" Lol

man i would love to been there when that went down. lol

 

[ForkNetwork]

Paper Mario: Sticker Star sounds like an RPG.

Nice one

 

[13ruce]

Twilight Princess a barbie game🤔
Thought it was about Zelda tbh just a dfferent form or something when i first heard it as a kid.

Kingdom Hearts sounds like a strategy mobile game or somthing.

Metal Gear Solid like a industrial simulator.

Runescape sounds like run and escape RUN ESCAPE

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Silent Hill

That name straight up sounds like a prototypical horror setting though.

 

[cantona222]

"Zelda: Twilight Princess" sounds like a Barbie game to someone who doesn't know what Zelda is.

That's a good one. I never read it like that )