Game titles that don't suit the game?

Mr E

I was browsing around Gamestop at lunchtime, and it stuck me that some game titles really don't suit the game.

Take the Bioshock games, for example. What does Bioshock even mean in the context of the game? Changing your genetics with plasmids is a shock to your biology? Maybe because it was a spiritual successor to System Shock? Surely something like Rapture would have been a better title.

Darksiders - in the context of the game, the title makes no sense whatsoever. The word Darksiders isn't even mentioned in the game itself (as far as I can remember).

Infinite Undiscovery always struck me as a terrible name. I know nothing about the game, so maybe it means something profound, but its a truly awful pretentious name.

Oh, and the irony of Final Fantasy XIII isn't lost on me either.

What other games have unsuitable (or awful) titles?

cherryghost

Big Mutha Truckers.

RobertFoster

New Super Mario Bros. Wii just rolls right off the tongue.

Retr0gamer

Well Final Fantasy was supposed to be the last game an almost bankrupt Squaresoft would ever make. It was meant to be their swansong but became wildly successful.

folan

Wii Play - sounds like a wierd porn site

Otacon

I remember hearing Metal Gear Solid for the first time and not having any idea what to make of it!

Retr0gamer

Ring of Red on the PS2 sounds like a nightmare morning after pints and vindaloo/rapetime session rather than a tragically underrated strategy game.

pixelburp

Warcraft & Starcraft. I mean what do those words even mean? The craft of making stars / war?

Penn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well Final Fantasy was supposed to be the last game an almost bankrupt Squaresoft would ever make. It was meant to be their swansong but became wildly successful.

Final Fantasy has to win this.

Final... Fantasy... XIII ?

cableguy.ie

Sorry if i am going old school but

Jet Set Willy.

youcancallmeal

Street Fighter
Its clearly not about random fights on the street its all about organised tournaments by shadaloo etc. Should of been called World Warriors or something?

Metal Gear Solid
I dont get this one at all? Maybe a bad translation from the original Japanese name?

Banjo-Kazooie
???

mayordenis

youcancallme>al wrote: »

Banjo-Kazooie

Main character is Banjo,
Bird in his back pack is Kazooie.

L31mr0d

Crysis... why is it called Crysis?

Skerries

cableguy.ie wrote: »

Sorry if i am going old school but

Jet Set Willy.

well the jet set were people who could afford to fly on holidays rather than a few days by the sea in Skegness or Mosney

evad_lhorg

cherryghost wrote: »

Big Mutha Truckers.

No way it makes perfect sense. And dont forget the sequel
BIG MUTHA TRUCKERS 2: TRUCK ME HARDER!

sink

pixelburp wrote: »

Warcraft & Starcraft. I mean what do those words even mean? The craft of making stars / war?

Warcraft came first, It's a play on the word Witchcraft. Starcraft was derived from Warcraft, continuing many of the same game mechanics in a different setting.

nice1franko

Tetris

should have been called:

different-shape-blocks-falling-down-and-have-to-make-them-into-lines-tris

Mr E

nice1franko wrote: »

Tetris

Tetromino doesn't have the same ring to it.

pixelburp

sink wrote: »

Warcraft came first, It's a play on the word Witchcraft. Starcraft was derived from Warcraft, continuing many of the same game mechanics in a different setting.

Ack, I know that, but warcraft's already a made-up word (90% sure of that & it's not in the Dictionary); it kinda suits the game, but it's still a made up gubbins of a word

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Mr E wrote: »

I was browsing around Gamestop at lunchtime, and it stuck me that some game titles really don't suit the game.

Take the Bioshock games, for example. What does Bioshock even mean in the context of the game? Changing your genetics with plasmids is a shock to your biology? Maybe because it was a spiritual successor to System Shock? Surely something like Rapture would have been a better title.

Darksiders - in the context of the game, the title makes no sense whatsoever. The word Darksiders isn't even mentioned in the game itself (as far as I can remember).

Infinite Undiscovery always struck me as a terrible name. I know nothing about the game, so maybe it means something profound, but its a truly awful pretentious name.

Oh, and the irony of Final Fantasy XIII isn't lost on me either.

What other games have unsuitable (or awful) titles?

Only the other day I thought the same thing about Final Fantasy. It's pretty funny.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ring of Red on the PS2 sounds like a nightmare morning after pints and vindaloo/rapetime session rather than a tragically underrated strategy game.

Ring of Red would have suited the Xbox 360 better me thinks :P

pixelburp wrote: »

Ack, I know that, but warcraft's already a made-up word (90% sure of that & it's not in the Dictionary); it kinda suits the game, but it's still a made up gubbins of a word

Thought this was an easy one...

Warcraft: The art or skill of conducting a war; A warship (or warships collectively)

Star Lord

The Secret of Monkey Island.

20 years on and I still don't know the secret.

Then again, that makes it still a secret, so maybe it is fitting :pac:

bigeasyeah

Chuckie Egg.I just want to say Chuckie Egg.

Retr0gamer

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

The Secret of Monkey Island.

20 years on and I still don't know the secret.

Then again, that makes it still a secret, so maybe it is fitting :pac:

Eh, beat it and find out. My problem is that there's only one monkey on the island, a three headed one at that.

partyatmygaff

youcancallme>al wrote: »

Metal Gear Solid
I dont get this one at all? Maybe a bad translation from the original Japanese name?

The game used to be called Metal Gear in the old 2D days before it was released on the playstation in 3d hence the name solid.

landsleaving

Everybody's Golf.


I'm 99% certain that neither i, nor anyone else (except Tiger Woods) is golf.

Retr0gamer

Ninja Gaiden.

Gaiden is a non-canon sidestory.

So ninja gaiden is a side story of what exactly?

Eamo87

Tetris is the first that comes to mind. Like what is a Tetris?

cableguy.ie

Arkanoid.

humanji

Half-Life. I'm not sure what it's referencing. Is someone living part of a life? Or is it something to do with how long something lasts?

Dawn of War bothers me as well, since in that universe, all sides are always at war and the games take place well into this war.

Legend of Zelda. F*ck Zelda, Link's a legend!

Coriolanus

I always thought Half Life referred to Freeman's life before the incident in Black Mesa.
Ie: He was a tech, a drone, and was only living a Half Life.

o1s1n

Half-Life is a mathematical and scientific description of exponential or gradual decay.

Wiki said it better than I ever could. I was thinking in relation to the Half-life of nuclear fallout.