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[EloKa]

Also fortissimo EXS//Akkord:nächsten Phase

lol what's up with that series? first thing is they have "akkord" as a subtitle which is just german for chord.

then they use Fortissimo (internationally known music term), but also "nächsten Phase" which is even wrong german grammer and I found another title called "bsusvier" which is just the chord Bsus4 ... this stuff is confusing

Another random name:
EZ: Ehrgeiz - God Bless The Ring

 

[DryvBy]

Weird. It's in German.

 

[Timu]

Lol at the title.

 

[daTRUballin]

Dead Island
Dark Souls

 

[Sixfortyfive]

Yup.

See also:

I assume some Japanese developers just use English as a decoration of sorts.

You guys forgot about Arc System works fighting games and their sequels/expansion..

Also them, but they're still not as out-there as French Bread's stuff.

 

[Banjotanooki]

might even be missing some...

That's because the games released before it were contained. With the sequels..... they're UNLEASHED!

 

[Son Of D]

Final Fantasy XII: International Zodiac Job System

I know the International edition added the job system and all but putting it in the name? It'll be like naming USFIV Ultra Street Fighter 4: 5 New Characters.

 

[Walpurgis]

Horizon: Zero Dawn? Really? Dis you pay a marketing team for that?

Rise of the Tomb Raider? Watch enough movies recently?

Came here to post these. Looks like the OP did my work for me.

Bravely Default is by far the worst one.

It's actually a good name that ties into the game mechanics. Besides, Engrish titles like Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Metal Gear Solid are great. They are unique and instantly recognisable.

Killzone.


Its the name you give a fake video game in a TV show.

I love Killzone. Killzone 2 is one of the greatest games of all time but damn, you're absolutely right. Every Killzone fan knows this in their heart.

I assume some Japanese developers just use English as a decoration of sorts.

This one is legit bad.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Fuse and Haze come to mind.

 

[Wildean]

Demon's Souls is a rubbish name. Demon Souls or Demon's Soul would have been fine. Scholar of the First Sin is bad too. Epic Mickey. Pilotwings is Police Cops/Badge Patrol style naming. Elite: Dangerous (why not Elite: Harmless or Elite: Elite if that's the route you're taking?)

 

[Aru]

Redundant redundancy

What about The Legend of the Legendary Heroes: Legendary Saga on PSP?

 

[Hanmik]

It might not be bad .. but.. Splatoon is not a good sounding name in my book.

 

[Adnor]

Star Wars: Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy

 

[Lanrutcon]

Came for Divine Divinity, was not disappointed.

 

[Sixfortyfive]

I thought Killzone was a fake joke game title at first.

The name is actually a significant reason why I never tried it out.

 

[Zolbrod]

No mention of this one yet?

 

[Sixfortyfive]

I assume some Japanese developers just use English as a decoration of sorts.

This one is legit bad.

Wait until you see some of the character names:
http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Nrvnqsr_Chaos

 

[deoee]

Max Payne

 

[tanooki27]

Anything with a colon.

sorry

 

[Langdon Alger]

DMC : Devil May Cry.

Why the abbreviation ? It's literally saying Devil May Cry : Devil May Cry.

I agree, but Spielberg does this with his movies. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. It's baffling.

 

[May16]

The title is completely accurate, so I guess they get points for honesty....

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Ha ha! Time for Falcom:

Dinosaur is actually the name of the final boss, not that you (were) are supposed to know when starting the game. The game's a first-person story dungeon crawler with some creepiness to it, but nothing that brings "Dinosaur" or anything prehistoric to mind. It's like calling Ys I "Dark Fact or, I dunno, Asteka Xanadu maybe.

 

[Earthpainting]

These as just titles that speaks to one's imagination.

 

[Erevador]

Nothing compares to the awful glory of...

Mobile Suit Gundum: Gundum vs. Zeta Gundum.

 

[UrbanRats]

The Last of Us is pretty stupid.

Beyond:Two Souls

Mass Effect

That makes sense, since it's in reference to a line in the game.

 

[Quocia]

The world ends with you

I mean, I love that Game, and the Name does definitely make a lot of sense in the context of the Game, but damn, sometimes it's hard to sell people on a Game with such a Name

The japanese title is a bit différent, it means something like Such à wonderful world (it's hardly better though)

Anyone mentioned Life id Strange ? Not a bad name but doesn't sound like à title to me

 

[Walpurgis]

Wait until you see some of the character names:
http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Nrvnqsr_Chaos

LOL at Nero Chaos pronunciation.

Anyone mentioned Life id Strange ? Not a bad name but doesn't sound like à title to me

Yeah, that doesn't sound like a title to me either.

Spoiler

You spelt it wrong. I agree though, it's very generic and says nothing about the game.

 

[Android18a]

Any mobile puzzle game with "saga" or "legend" in the name.

No, it's matching three fruits. It's not a saga.

 

[Azzawon]

Awful name, great game.

 

[Jaroof]

*Ctrl+C* - *Ctrl+V*

Infinite Undiscovery

"Let's never find anything - FOREVER!"

Wouldn't Undiscovery be reversing what has been discovered?
I think Nondiscovery would be never finding anything... right?

My contribution is Final Fantasy and the numerous iterations that the series has gotten.
You'd think that they would rename the sequel something else, while making it known that it's a new FF.. because having a 2nd(and so on) Final Fantasy makes no sense.

 

[retroman]

 

[Killyoh]

That makes sense, since it's in reference to a line in the game.

You know, UrbanRats we re-

 

[Feel_The_Pain]

Japanese games dont count .

 

[Skux]

Demon's Souls

Double S is a pain. People just said "Demon Souls".

 

[Shuggananas]

Japanese games dont count .

Does it count if the protagonist has facial hair ? And has had facial hair for at least 10 years in mainline games

 

[Hendrick's]

ZombiU / Zombi
Diablo
Gears of War
Metal Gear Solid
Hearthstone
Elite Dangerous
Battleborn

 

[redcrayon]

Bulletstorm, Battleborn, Bloodborne, Warstorm, Thunderblade, Killzone, Hellblade.

The school of 'take something to do with fighting and bolt another word onto it to make something we can register as a trademark'.

Codename S.T.E.A.M. is pretty bad too, you have to be pretty silly to call your special squad the Strike Team Eliminating the Alien Menace just because it makes up the same word as the power source in their backpacks. It isn't even much of a codename if it's directly obvious why they use Steam and it also spells out what their purpose is. It would be like calling James Bond Codename: B.A.G (British Assassin with Gun).

 

[VMAN01]

This fucking mouthful of a title...

 

[StanleyPalmtree]

D4: Dark Dreams Dont Die

Spoiler

i love it, would not change for anything.

Bulletstorm, Battleborn, Bloodborne, Warstorm, Thunderblade, Killzone, Hellblade.

The school of 'take something to do with fighting and bolt another word onto it to make something we can register as a trademark'.

pretty sure Bloodborne is in reference to transferring disease, not the act of spilling blood.

 

[stryke]

Awful name, great game.

That reminds me Playstation Allstars Battle Royale is another bad title.

 

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Canis Canem Edit

 

[ohyouagain]

I don't know why Elite: Dangerous hasn't been mentioned yet.
It's by far the dumbest video game title for a game actively played by a community.

 

[redcrayon]

D4: Dark Dreams Dont Die

Spoiler

i love it, would not change for anything.

pretty sure Bloodborne is in reference to transferring disease, not the act of spilling blood.

And I'm sure that Killzone involves actual military killzones, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will involve both blood and rituals, and Hellblade involves a demonic weapon, it doesn't stop the names being as generic as they come for computer games.

It's like if Image stopped naming hilariously gritty 90s comics and started naming computer games instead. Next up: Warguy! Bloodbond! Gunblade (no, wait, FFVIII used that already), Battledeath! Bulletrain!

 

[Nachos]

Revenge Joe's Brother
World Soccer Winning Eleven 5: Final Evolution
Tongue of the Fatman
MAG: Massive Action Game
Way of the Dogg
Super 3D Noah's Ark

Can someone explain the meaning of this title? My English is not enough to understand this one.

It doesn't make sense to a native speaker, either.

Any mobile puzzle game with "saga" or "legend" in the name.

No, it's matching three fruits. It's not a saga.

As someone who's been a saggie (not to be confused with a sagger) for years now, I can say that the Pet Rescue Saga's cliffhanger kept me awake at night for months, until Papa Bear Saga came out. I don't know how they're going to follow up Scrubby Dubby Saga.

 

[Benzychenz]

Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra

Couldn't get any more pretentious if they tried.

 

[lazygecko]

If a western title is corny and bad, you bet your ass it's marketing that insisted on it. Divine Divinity is a confirmed case of this.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra

Couldn't get any more pretentious if they tried.

You could. See any Tetsuya Nomura game.

 

[BriGuy]

All the Nietzsche bullshit subtitles appended to the PS2 Xenosaga games. Such an embarrassingly try-hard attempt at making these games sound "deeper" than what they are.

Edit: goddammit. Well, at least I'm not the only one.

 

[Riposte]

Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra

Couldn't get any more pretentious if they tried.

Is the game title "Beyond Good and Evil" pretentious too?

 

[Earthpainting]

D4: Dark Dreams Dont Die

Spoiler

i love it, would not change for anything.

While the game's future is uncertain, I do have some thoughts about the title.

Spoiler

The four D alliterations feel a bit forced, but I suspect that has a point. The game makes you pay attention to every D in the game, but I think Swery has got some sneaky shenanigans going on there.

The reason why you look for Ds is because Little Peggy told you to "look for D". Simple enough, but I suspect Peggy actually said or meant "look 4D". The game is pretty much about investigating four-dimensionally if you assume the fourth dimension in spacetime is a location in time. You use mementos to travel to the past and uncover what took place. Either way if accurate, then that would explain why they insisted on the forced alliteration that doesn't really seem to relate to the game itself.