worst game names

[John Stalvern]

Ninja Gaiden. What makes any of the games a side-story?
Also, Donkey Kong. With only a single letter altered it would be a wonder if Nintendo wasn't sued.
Castlevania. Why? Did they want to use Transylvania but needed to avoid the controversy that would arise by letting the player kill Romanians?
Japanese names are even more guilty when lazily translated into English. It's what's responsible for so many goofy retro titles.

 

[Dr Faust]

Transylvania comes from the Roman name for the area, which translates roughly into "The area beyond the forest." Castlevania could be a play on words to imply "the castle in the forest" or "the castle and it's surrounding forest."

Or it could be they called it that to distance themselves from Bram Stoker, various film adaptations of Dracula, or the terrible "Transylvania 6-5000" movie that came out in 1985.

 

[This Person]

God Hand (Obscure game made by Clover Studios before they went the way of the dinosaurs.)
The only reason I think this name is silly is because of the game's theme song of the same name, which contains the line "Don't pretend you don't like my ballbuster!" and the tourettes-like screaming of the name of the main character's love interest.

 

[SimuLord]

With a little help from a Google search for "bad video game titles" and a look through my collection, some nominees:

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization. Implies it's an expansion pack for Civ 4 (it isn't). Couldn't they have called it Colonization 2 (or, if they absolutely had to, "Sid Meier's Colonization 2"?)

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army. I've got enough of a problem with SMT's pretentious nature, but this PS1 release was really too much.

Touch Dic. Whoever approved the title of this DS reference tool didn't think it all the way through.

Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals. Alliteration isn't as clever as it at first appears.

Big Mutha Truckers 2: Truck Me Harder. Just...no.

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender. To be fair, the titular MacGuffin is probably the most awesome MacGuffin in the history of gaming.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Great game. "You gotta be kidding me" title.

Petz Catz/Dogz/Horsez/Wolverinez. The use of "z" in place of "s" is the first sign of shovelware.

 

[FURY_007]

Why the fuck is left 4 dead a bad name, damn, sure it's substituting 4 for "for" but they had good reason, because it stands for the 4 survivors

 

[inventorvii]

some people will idagree, but Red Alert 3

 

[Fenring]

Astenex.

 

[Magnikai]

The Legend of Zelda

Its LINK!, LINK!

Zelda is the princess. I don't see a problem with this.

I have a feeling that they really didn't intend to make more than one game with it. I mean, you can't have much variation in the game when you set yourself up like that. Wait...I lied, the LoZ games for the GB don't have Zelda in them

Oh and.....Warcraft...a game about the craft of wars and such...yar..

Cold Shadow...seriously

 

[Altorin]

The Legend of Zelda

Its LINK!, LINK!

Zelda is the princess. I don't see a problem with this.

I have a feeling that they really didn't intend to make more than one game with it. I mean, you can't have much variation in the game when you set yourself up like that. Wait...I lied, the LoZ games for the GB don't have Zelda in them

Oh and.....Warcraft...a game about the craft of wars and such...yar..

Cold Shadow...seriously

Warcraft was a real word before it was a game.

It's actually the most apt name for a strategy game.

 

[Coolness]

Phantasy Star. HAD to change the spelling of Fantasy to distinguish itself from FF. Makes it difficult to describe to your friends.

"Dude, have you played the new Phantasy Star?"
"You mean Final Fantasy Twelve? Yeah beat it months ago."

...

 

[TopHatTim]

tube slider.

I'm not kidding

fucking mint right there mate

 

[Marv21]

Master Blaster

Wow 2 things that rhyme, lame name,yet good game.

 

[TopHatTim]

vampire rain

its definatly not raining vampires in that game

 

[TopHatTim]

Spanky quest
Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt!
Beyond the Beyond
Iggy's Reckin' Balls
If It Moves, Shoot It!

all real games

 

[Blair Bennett]

My own made up game name:The Soccer Mom Game!

Oooh! Oooh! Lemme' play!

I've got a few:

Jumpman: Wow, what do you think the premise of the story could be?

Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe's Brother: Not only is "Revenge Joe" a helicopter, but somehow, I highly doubt that it has a brother. Also, there really isn't anything to take vengeance for, considering this is the first installment in the series

Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom: Come on guys, it's a vegetable themed adventure game

M.U.S.C.L.E.: it stands for Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere

Wargasm: I swear to God, this actually exists

Honestly, people were paid to come up with this?

 

[House25]

final fantasy was named that because the company creating it was dying, so they made their final game name...final fantasy. and turns out thats that game that saved them.

Talk about shot-in-the-dark.

Mine has to be Bioshock.
I played SystemShock 2 after Bioshock, and i guess Yahtzee was right, "Bioshock isn't LIKE SystemShock 2, it IS SystemShock 2"

They couldn't have milked the former franchise more than they did.

 

[Reep]

This is my favourite thread. Made me laugh hard.

A handy list [http://www.gamerevolution.com/feature/worst_names].

The worst name i even read in that link was Sticky Balls.