Ridiculous Game Titles

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Carlos** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:09 pm

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Tactical Espionage Action

In fact the whole MGS series, as I have yet to use any tactics or indeed any espionage techniques (i.e: spying) in any MGS game.

In fact any game that uses the ':' colon for a subtitle that is not needed. Nowadays we have things like 'The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'. Back in the day it was just 'Sonic 3'

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Pokémon** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:56 pm

Metal Gear Solid
Katamari Damacy
Devil May Cry
Another Code: Two Memories
Kirby Power Paintbrush

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Judoscar** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:00 pm

My Speccie used to have a ton of strange titles:

One of the best ......

Eric and the Floaters

and .....

Micro Mouse Goes Debugging

Tir Na Nog

Terrormolinos

Fat Worm Blows a Sparky

And one of my fav old games ....

Jack the Nipper

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Cropolite** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:21 pm

Driv3r.

It's not a bannable offense here, is it?

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **SEP** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:22 pm

Cropolite wrote:Driv3r.

It's not a bannable offense here, is it?

Yes, it is. Sorry, but rules are rules.

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Green Gecko** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:28 pm

wat

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Ironhide** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:32 pm

My Human Gets Me Blues wrote:Fat Worm Blows A Sparky.

I can't breathe.

oh, another one - Funky testicle on the Spectrum.

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Agent47** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:36 pm

Okay guys, I gotta address a few issues here:

1) Metal Gear Solid is totally valid and has meaning, since the story is a continuation of the "Metal Gear" series, about giant battle tanks called - yes you guessed it - Metal Gears. Also, since this story is specifically about Solid Snake, it makes perfect sense to put his name somewhere in the title.
The "Guns of the Patriots" is basically what the fourth story is about, nothing needs explaining there.
As for Tactical Espionage Action, that's not a part of the title - it's purely there because it's the genre it made up. Why do they feel the need to put it on the covers? F**k knows, they just do.

2) FEAR: Perseus Mandate - yes F.E.A.R. is a silly acronym, but Perseus Mandate is the mandate carried out by the character within the game. It actually clearly states what the game is.

I do agree about Infinite Undiscovery though, it's clearly just an attempt to come up with a similarly stupid name to rival Final Fantasy (yes, I'm aware it's the same company) and try to create a similarly popular franchise.

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Green Gecko** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:39 pm

To be honest it might just be a Japanese translation that doesn't really work in English.

I agree about MGS although there really isn't any espionage installed. You could argue that the supporting characters like Otacon do the espionage and Snake does the tactical sneaking stuff.

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Danzig** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:43 pm

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Colin McRae: DiRT
Clive Barker presents Clive Barker's Jericho by Clive Barker (sorry)

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Ironhide** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:45 pm

Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **gaminglegend** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:48 pm

Arc the Lad: Monster Game with Casino Game
Bubsy 3d

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **floydfreak** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:55 pm

Canis Canem Edit

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **OLIN** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:09 pm

Spindash wrote:

The game apparently lived up to it's title.

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Loire** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:10 pm

Agent47 wrote:I do agree about Infinite Undiscovery though, it's clearly just an attempt to come up with a similarly stupid name to rival Final Fantasy (yes, I'm aware it's the same company) and try to create a similarly popular franchise.

Final Fantasy's name origins have a great story behind them, I'll have you know.

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Qikz** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:11 pm

Tongue of the Fatman
Commodore 64, DOS, Mega Drive - 1989

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Banjo** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:12 pm

Loire wrote:
Agent47 wrote:I do agree about Infinite Undiscovery though, it's clearly just an attempt to come up with a similarly stupid name to rival Final Fantasy (yes, I'm aware it's the same company) and try to create a similarly popular franchise.

Final Fantasy's name origins have a great story behind them, I'll have you know.

True dat.

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **OLIN** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:25 pm

So what is the story?

Linky?

PostRe: Ridiculous Game Titles by **Banjo** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:27 pm

Copied from wikipedia

In the mid 1980s, Square entered the Japanese video game industry with a string of simple RPGs, racing games, and platformers for Nintendo's Famicom Disk System (FDS). In 1987, Square designer Hironobu Sakaguchi began work on a new fantasy role-playing game for the cartridge-based Famicom, inspired in part by Enix's popular Dragon Quest. As Sakaguchi planned to retire after completing the project, it was named Final Fantasy.[2][45] Despite Sakaguchi's explanation, the name of the game has also been attributed by various sources to the company's hopes that the project would solve its financial troubles.[5] Final Fantasy indeed reversed Square's lagging fortunes, and it became its flagship franchise.

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