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In your opinion, what video games have terrible names? (fedia.io)

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In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

All of them that are so generic I gotta add "the videogame" to when I'm googling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The Sexy Brutale

Such a good game and such a weird name for it. I highly recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I really hate the Xbox system names.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ordered the Peri Peri Chicken Club at a cafe today as it reminded me of a strangely named game.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sequel: a published, broadcast, or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one.

Just because it tells the story from before the first piece of work does not mean it is not a sequel. Prequel sequels are everywhere and basically always have been

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't think of another example where a title with a 2 in it had a story that took place before the first one. The closest I can think of is The Godfather 2 (assuming I'm even remembering right) and that had the prequel parts as flashbacks within a story that took place after the first one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The immediate one that comes to mind because it was a big deal back then is FNAF2

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, that's 2.5 examples between us then. I'd hardly consider that to be "everywhere".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.