Worst Game/Console Title

[WhyWasThat]

Big Mutha Truckers 2: Truck Me Harder

 

[WhyWasThat]

I always thought that War Face was a pretty damn stupid name, I mean really now, WAR FACE.

Also I don't mind "Crysis" on its own, but the fact that the game is called Crysis, there is an evil organisation in it called CryNET, its powered by the CryEngine and its developed by Crytek who also released FarCry? Yeah, I cant keep a strait face with that.

And no they're at it again with 'Ryse'

 

[Atmos Duality]

A Valley without Wind

The game featured no Valleys, very little wind and was one of the mind-numbingly worst games I've played just to top it off.

Oh, the game has its titular "wind".
It's a death wind of sorts, that inhibits your movement and slowly saps your HP.
More broadly, it's the reason why civilization is having trouble rebuilding, because it's supposedly killing or driving whoever enters it insane. Had the concept been done properly, it would have made for a very cool game.

But no...instead it's just a shitty random-level platformer. It's nowhere near the worst game I've ever played (it's kinda impossible to top Action 52), but it's definitely one of the worst games I've played in the last three years.

 

[IAmTheToaster]

I always thought that War Face was a pretty damn stupid name, I mean really now, WAR FACE.

Also I don't mind "Crysis" on its own, but the fact that the game is called Crysis, there is an evil organisation in it called CryNET, its powered by the CryEngine and its developed by Crytek who also released FarCry? Yeah, I cant keep a strait face with that.

I quite like the name War Face. I have no idea what it is, but it puts in mind a Kinect game - a rail shooter which automatically does everything. However, your character's speed and strength is determined by the quality of the "war face" the player pulls.

 

[A'tuin]

That "Aaaaa" aka "Good luck finding it on Steam/Google" game.

Yeah, the games "AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! ? A Reckless Disregard for Gravity" and " 1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby)", 2 terrible games with terrible names that are the reasons why I created the trash bin folder on Steam.

The Swapper. I'm not saying it's the worst title ever, but hearing TotalBiscuit pronounce it as "the swawppaah" made me cringe. Especially when they could have gone with the awesome Theseus theme (name of the spaceship, refers to Ship of Theseus-paradox that fits the game's thoughts about individuality perfectly).

The most misleading title is "UnReal World". Makes you think of some outlandish sci-fi shooter, probably made with Unreal Engine right? It's actually very detailed, realistic and down-to-earth roguelike game about surviving in ancient Scandinavia, building saunas, trapping squirrels for furs and all that.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Infinite Undiscovery. I don't even know what the game is about, but the title is just so baffling that I couldn't not post it.

Nothing wrong with the game...bit harsh for bringing it up as worst ever...action based rpg with some funny cut scenes and a massive end-game section thats pretty damned hard.

 

[Battenberg]

I feel like a few people are missing the point of this thread and using it to vent about issues they have with certain games rather than their titles...

I'd have to go with Yahtzee and say that MoH: Warfighter sounds fairly silly (even if 'warfighter' is a genuine military term). Also points to 'Wet' [http://www.vgblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/15/wet_ps3_cover_M.jpg] (largely for the fact that the cover of the game is just an overly sexualised woman and that one word) and huge points to 'Wargasm' [http://www.cdaccess.com/jpg/shared/front/large/wargasm.jpg] as well for obvious reasons.

As far as consoles go the Wii has to be the worst console name I can think of purely because of all the urine jokes it invites although I didn't think much of the name 'Dreamcast' either.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Assassin's Creed: Revelations. The game with zero overall story progression (The main character is literally in a coma the whole game), was called Revelations? What the hell.

It's the Revelation to Ezio that he has merely been a messenger
It's the Revelation to Desmond what happened to the first civilization and where he needs to go next

But then again, if they'd paid attention earlier, both these points had already been addressed in Assassin's Creed II. Not really earth-shaking new insights.

Console, Wii, I know they went with it ?cause it sounds like we, as in "we" can all play casual games, you know what else it sounds like Nintendo? Wee, as in "this stinks of stale piss!"

I'll agree with that though. Nintendo is pretty awful at naming things. And then they made it worse with Wii U...

 

[Hemlet]

I dunno, Revengers of Vengeance on the Genesis might be the worst title that I've ever come across, even though I've never actually played it.

Spoiler: Yup, this is a thing

 

[Exhuminator]

Although I plan to buy it, I still think the name Bravely Default: Flying Fairy is a wretched mish mash of words.

 

[JasonKaotic]

Mystic Quest Legend.
Freakin "Mystic Quest Legend".
It's like they just looked in a D&D manual, chose three words at random and stuck them together.

 

[Blaster395]

All the way back on the Atari 2600. This title is just absurd, but at least it's fitting for the 80s. Wikipedia says "The communist mutant armies are controlled by the Mother Creature, a strange alien who has gone mad due to irradiated vodka."

 

[debtcollector]

This isn't even that bad a title, but I hate the name of the first Dragon Age game. "Dragon Age: Origins"! What, is it a prequel? No? Well, no shit it's origins. Just call it Dragon Age instead of being misleading.

I feel bad throwing in too many JRPG names, but here's a few:
Resonance of Fate (you called it End of Eternity in Japan, which at least means something. So why did you make up this meaningless shit for us?)
Dissidia 012 [duodecim] Final Fantasy
Just about any Kingdom Hearts title
Ar Tonelico Qoga
The aforementioned Infinite Undiscovery
Growlanser
The Last Story (yes, we see what you did there, Sakaguchi. Good job.)

Also, anything with more than one subtitle. I'm looking at you, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow--Mirror of Fate.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Infinite Undiscovery. I don't even know what the game is about, but the title is just so baffling that I couldn't not post it.

Nothing wrong with the game...bit harsh for bringing it up as worst ever...action based rpg with some funny cut scenes and a massive end-game section thats pretty damned hard.

I thought we were talking about the worst titles, as in names? Oh, must've misread the intent of the thread. I thought it was about weird sounding names.

 

[moosemaimer]

You thought the WonderSwan was bad?

They made a version called the SwanCrystal.

 

[FPLOON]

Anything with an "RE" word subtitle.

You mean like Kingdom Hearts: RE:Chain of Memories or Kingdom Hearts: RE:Coded...

Kingdom Hearts Three Hundred Fifty Eight Divided by Two.

Uh... It's actually pronounced "Kingdom Hearts Three Five Eight Over Two Days"... and even then you're wondering why the title is even pronounced that way upon first impressions...

OT: Time and Eternity... I get what it means (due to playing games with these kind of titles), but it's not that mysterious of a game, title...

 

[Phoenix1213]

Assassin's Creed: Revelations. The game with zero overall story progression (The main character is literally in a coma the whole game), was called Revelations? What the hell.

It's the Revelation to Ezio that he has merely been a messenger
It's the Revelation to Desmond what happened to the first civilization and where he needs to go next

But then again, if they'd paid attention earlier, both these points had already been addressed in Assassin's Creed II. Not really earth

I think it was meant to be focused on Altair, and revelations of what happened to him after Assassins Creed 1... So basically fan service for everyone that felt he was more badass and cool.

It was kind of disappointing though. I happened to see on the wiki that he marries the Templar impersonating the grandmaster late in the first game. I was hoping for some interesting development there but, they just skip right past that and focus on boring internal strife with the guild.

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As for bad game names, I'd have to go with Deus Ex. It's my favorite game, but any time you tell someone about it they think you're saying day sex, gay sex, do sex, deuce sex, douche s- you get the idea...

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Demon's Souls.

Doesn't look to bad when its written down, but it's awkward as fuck to pronounce.

 

[Snotnarok]

VVVVVV is one for sure.

Anything with an "RE" word subtitle. Revelations, Retribution etc. That just says to me "We put no actual thought into this title whatsoever."

Same goes for naming reboots the name of the original game ala Tomb Raider, Sonic the Hedgehog, Prince of Persia, etc.

Beyond: Two Souls is a recent one. Not extremely offensive, but as the TBFP pointed out, you can never just call it Beyond or Two Souls because no one is going to know what you're on about.

I've said before Resident Evil is bad. It's just laughable, not egregiously terrible our anything. It's just backwards and odd.

I agree with pretty much all Wii U games that use U in the title. That's just lazy. Reminds me of the early days of the DS when devs had a weird thing about using DS as an acronym in the subtitle. Although that was kinda clever in a way.

Kingdom Hearts Three Hundred Fifty Eight Divided by Two.

Touch my Katamari

Spec Ops: The Line

Persona 3 FES. Mainly the FES part, which isn't actually an acronym and is supposed to mean festival.

DayZ aka daisy

As a bonus, some of my phonetic favorites include:

Jeanne D'Arc
Killer7
Hotline Miami
Knights in the Nightmare
Enviro-Bear 3000
DOOM
Silent Hill
No More Heroes
Castlevania
Minecraft
Adventure
Animal Crossing
Catherine
Myst

You punk, you beat me to it.
I agree, anything that does the "R" crap, Revelations, Revolution, derp derp derp, because none of the subtitles mean anything to the game, it's just "We didn't want to tack a number on the end because of X reason and decided to slap a cliche subtitle on it."

I've liked games with these subtitles but the meaning isn't there so it just makes for a dumb title.

Though, let me boot up steam:
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 3 Full Burst
^What the flipping hell!? Caps on, caps off, storm, ninja, burst? 3!?
It couldn't just be called Naruto Storm 3? I won't pretend to know anything about the show, but I can't imagine it requiring such a lengthy and retarded name

 

[Enverex]

Cliffhanger from the 90's on the Amiga. I'm not sour at all....