In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?

2017's Prey

Even worse is that it is a trademark. There was a kickstarter for a game "prey for the gods" which could have gotten a trademark dispute over the usage of the name "prey" from bethesda.

So they changed the name to "praey for the gods" to not have to deal with yearlong legal battle and burn the Kickstarter funds.
- Bethesda sucks. Damn.
- And even worse, prey 2017 is actually a good game that should have totally been named Neuroshock or something

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".

Supposedly their offices were near eachother and they'd joke about that.

Braid. Sounds like a dress up game but it's a puzzle platformers about time travel. I always have to explain it every time I talk about it

A lot of JRPG's with weird punctuation and seemingly 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.

Agree with most of these but

Revengeance is perfect
The MegaTen games have some weird ones, yeah. Like Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, then the sequel to that came out and it was just Soul Hackers 2. Same with how Persona 1 was Megami Ibunroku Persona and then became Shin Megami Tensei: Persona. Oh and how theres two Persona 2s, Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment. Great games but man, really should have been like Persona 2 Part 1 and Part 2.
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend
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.
.hack and Void Terrariums names both make sense within the context of their game.
Not to defend the game itself but Neptunia is at least on some level a parody of other JRPGs, so the title is meant invoke that cringe. The first one was still called Hyperdimension Neptunia and the "resemicolonbirth" line was a remake which has its own remake now as well with a star in the title...

So, like I said, not defending it.

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.

Any examples off the top of your head?
- 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.

FiST: Forged in Shadow Torch

Such a stupid and contrived name.

The gameplay is as clumsy as the title. So it FiTS.
- Ha ha... Take my updoot 👏
I think all the games that do this are annoying. We're not stupid, we can come up with an acronym for your name. It's silly, I know, but it made me not want to play FTL: faster than light for a long time.
The protagonist fight with a big mecha fist though, I don't think it is that bad of a name?
- Yeah but "forged in shadow torch"? Come on.
  
  They wanted to name it fist and went back from there. For that its bad IMO.
  
  Forged in shadows touch
  
  Fight in shallow trenches
  
  Freaks in silly tales
- Yes, but the breakdown of the FiST acronym was very clumsily thrown together based around that concept.

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. Not much changed between this and Rocket League, the name was probably the main thing holding them back.

It’s got a beautiful flow when you say it out loud, though.
that's just begging to be referred to solely as "SARPBC" pronounced as a word

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.

Kingdome Come: Deliverance.

So the sequel gonna be different subtitle right? Right? Not just adding a 2 at the back right?

Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Triangle Strategy

Bravely Default is pretty bad too

Triangle Strategy

I genuinely thought that name was a joke about Fire Emblem for so long.

Just Cause. I actually like the series as a kind of brain-off game, but I always read the name as "just cuz".

I felt like that was the joke

"Why are you smashing a town with two helicopters chained together?"
- Yeah this one is actually a great title with the double meaning
- I’d spend so much time doing stupid shit like that. That game was great for just fucking around in with the Rocket Boosters and shit
That's the pun. It's intentional

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactics_Ogre

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.

All 6 of those names are fine to me. VVVVVV is borderline but not nearly as bad as some of the stuff here.

Shadowrun (the arena shooter) probably would've been better received if it were named basically anything else.

I loved that game and i love the TTRPG. I'd always have to tell people it's not really a good Shadowrun game, it's just Counter-Strike with a couple mods. On console. With bots.

Which was, like, the best thing ever to me at the time. I ate that shit UP

Halo Infinite. Numbers are for mainline games. Subtitles are for spinoffs.

Infinite is a great name if the game is good enough to be something like Team Fortress or Counter Strike. A game that'll be played for decades.

Here's the online game, and here are the solo games. That would have been great... if the studio could make good games.

Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (PSX, 1997)

Technically, one Star Wars game should be called Star Wars: Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy

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.

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.

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“Echoes of the Plum Grove”. Sounds like they asked ChatGPT and went with the first suggestion.

that sounds like a parody wuxia move
"[Echoes of the Plum Grove]!" enemy rushes off to the toilet as they start undergoing profoundly healthy bowel movements

Red Dead Redemption 2. It's not a sequel. Love the game though.

Kind of an odd one there in that as far as I understand, they were reusing one of their IP's, Red Dead Revolver. Ironically, I played Red Dead Revolver as a kid, never played RDR2. That said, it's not like it's a cohesive universe between the two by any means, so your point still stands.
- There's Red Dead Revolver, Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2. Revolver is thematically similar but beyond that isn't related to the other two. RDR and RDR2 are continuing the same story but the events of RDR2 take place before RDR.