Least Favourite RPG Names

[samuraigaiden]

King's Quest isn't a RPG.

Wait, maybe it is nowadays. I'm confused

 

[Disciple]

Underrail

I like Underrail. It's certainly much better than the tentative title it went by while in development: Timelapse Vertigo.

 

[Gargaune]

Actually, nevermind. I just loaded up BG3 and it turns out you can fire a bow.

Remind me, were the Belgae great warriors?

I want to have the thing behind the archer as a playable character!

Generic-Giant-Spider

 

[mediocrepoet]

The ones I hate the most are those JRPG names with random punctuation like semi-colons (; ) in the middle of the titles or random words and letters just jammed together to mean nothing. There are a variety of these, but for instance: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generation. Seriously, eat a bag of dicks.

Nothing in WRPGs comes close to being as bad, even though something like Mechajammer really craves taking the title. (Is it a mech game full of ECM? A music game starring robots? ... a cyberpunk game?? )

 

[Twiglard]

The ones I hate the most are those JRPG names with random punctuation like semi-colons (; ) in the middle of the titles or random words and letters just jammed together to mean nothing.

Engrish using random words as proper nouns is triggering. Fuck these yellow niggers.

Bix nood except it's kawaii and moe.

 

[Eastwood]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
I love the game, but I don't really get what the title is supposed to mean and how this relates to the story. Also I think it just sounds plain stupid.

 

[curds]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
I love the game, but I don't really get what the title is supposed to mean and how this relates to the story. Also I think it just sounds plain stupid.

Holy shit I forgot about this one. I remember cringing at the title way back when I first heard of the game. One of the most uninspired, generic titles of all time. You could use it for a game of almost any genre or setting.

 

[Aarwolf]

Dragon Age: Origins, besides being very generic, it made me think it was a prequel to some really obscure RPG series when I first heard of it.

Playing the game I was like "we are the fucking dragons?!" and there was one, very lame, at the end. So disappointing.

 

[Citizen]

I know, played them all, but its like saying Dark Messiah and Heroes are the same series of games, innit? world & setting might be the same, but gameplay is worlds apart.

Whoa whoa, next thing you gonna tell me interplay and bethesda fallouts aren't parts of the same series just because the gameplay is so different?

 

[V_K]

Dragon Age: Origins, besides being very generic, it made me think it was a prequel to some really obscure RPG series when I first heard of it.

Playing the game I was like "we are the fucking dragons?!" and there was one, very lame, at the end. So disappointing.

Offtopic, but dragons generally should be retired from RPGs. They've been overdone to death in the past decade - Dragon Age, Dragon's Dogma, Skyrim, Dragonfall...

 

[wahrk]

Elex
Greedfall
Steelrising

Combining two words together to make the title is just terrible. It always ends up sounding like some bad fan-fiction.

Also, honorable mention to games where the first game in the series has a title and a subtitle for no apparent reason, like Dragon Age: Origins. Why not just Dragon Age?

 

[SlightlyRadioactive]

I know, played them all, but its like saying Dark Messiah and Heroes are the same series of games, innit? world & setting might be the same, but gameplay is worlds apart.

Whoa whoa, next thing you gonna tell me interplay and bethesda fallouts aren't parts of the same series just because the gameplay is so different?

They shouldn't be though!

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Yiik

 

[Twiglard]

Non-RPG: Revengeance.

 

[vazha]

I know, played them all, but its like saying Dark Messiah and Heroes are the same series of games, innit? world & setting might be the same, but gameplay is worlds apart.

Whoa whoa, next thing you gonna tell me interplay and bethesda fallouts aren't parts of the same series just because the gameplay is so different?

Oh awright then

 

[Gregz]

The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos

Swords and Sorcery - Underworld - Definitive Edition


Unfortunate names for great games.

 

[V_K]

The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos

I'm not sure names that are bad on purpose qualify.
But if they do, Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon is far more groan-worthy.

 

[curds]

I'm not sure names that are bad on purpose qualify.

I think they should still count. They’re silly on purpose, what makes them bad is the fact that they’re not funny while trying to be.

 

[d1r]

King's Quest isn't a RPG.

Wait, maybe it is nowadays. I'm confused

Kings Quest 8 was. A very dark one as well.

 

[octavius]

I'm not sure names that are bad on purpose qualify.

I think they should still count. They’re silly on purpose, what makes them bad is the fact that they’re not funny while trying to be.

That sums up my impression of Frayed Knights (not having played it).

 

[V_K]

I'm not sure names that are bad on purpose qualify.

I think they should still count. They’re silly on purpose, what makes them bad is the fact that they’re not funny while trying to be.

That sums up my impression of Frayed Knights (not having played it).

It's not aggressively bad, writing-wise, and anyway it's blobber - you don't play those for writing. Level design and character building in FK are quite decent.

 

[Rieser]

Everything I don't even know how to fucking pronounce because it's a made up word/name. Also games with a subtitle - especially games that aren't even a sequel.

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
Dungeons of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos (fuck off)

Two examples of games that are guilty of both. A good title is short, relevant and doesn't use lore names. Like Jagged Alliance.

 

[Bruma Hobo]

I'm not sure names that are bad on purpose qualify.

I think they should still count. They’re silly on purpose, what makes them bad is the fact that they’re not funny while trying to be.

That sums up my impression of Frayed Knights (not having played it).

It's not aggressively bad, writing-wise, and anyway it's blobber - you don't play those for writing. Level design and character building in FK are quite decent.

Frayed Knights has the best fate points implementation ever, which made dungeon crawling pretty tense without resorting to limited savepoints or hardcore permadeath mechanics, and allowed the implementation of traps, lock picking minigames and some status effects that would otherwise be immediately savescummed by most players. Despite its lack of party creation and lame sense of humor, the game deserves way more love than what it gets around here.

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Best game with worst name is Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul.

The original is Проклятые земли which is more or less "Cursed Lands". Generic, but not quite as funny as EVIL Islands.

Anything that's impossible to spell, like Naheulbeuk, is annoying. Although in this case it's an existing property, so they probably had no choice but to have it in the name.

Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel being two entirely different games.

Disgaea sounds like some sort of stomach medicine.