Why do Jap games have such terrible names?
>Hyperdimension neptunia
>Final Fantasy
>Bravely Default (like wtf?)
>Killer is Dead
>Deadly premonition
>Resident Evil
>Silent Hill
>Legend of Zelda (bitch is a side character)
>Dark Souls
>Splatoon (sounds like spittoon)
>Donkey Kong
>Guilty Gear
>Fire Emblem
The worst one if Metal Gear: Revengeance
Like... what?
cause they have to appeal to the lowest common denominator to earn money (and that's murrica)
FUCK YOU.
What do you think are good Western names? Horizon: Zero Dawn?
wtf is call of duty even mean
you dont make calls in the game
It's the soldiers call to duty.
Sony shit.
I liked the game, friend. But the name is just stupid.
>Grand Theft Auto
wtf??
It means the soldiers are answering the call of duty.
>he cares about the game's title.
I'm sorry, what?
Is this something you truly have time to give this much energy and effort to?
>Resident Evil
Biohazard.
Also, mind telling how exactly they are bad?
Found the redditor.
>Hyperdimension neptunia
>Deadly premonition
>Resident Evil
can't blame the nips for those ones
It's just a quirky Japan thing.
Look at how they name their porno films otherwise known as JAV.
>Police code for car jacking
wow
If you played Medal of Honor you would understand. Or if you even paid attention to WW2 history.
You got me
>complaining about revengeance
>not complaining about metal gear
missing the forest for the trees
As opposed to
>edgy or stupid generic name
>or decent name but shitty subtitle slapped at the end of it.
For Honor Overwatch and COD "insert current random subtitle" are all great titles.
>decent name but shitty subtitle slapped at the end of it
>COD "insert current random subtitle" are all great titles
you lost me here
>Deadly premonition
It was called 'Red Seeds Profile' in Nippon.
The name change was for the best.
>The name change was for the best
How do you figure?
I don't think they actually name their JAV's that in English, rather it's a Google Translate tier translation of it's actual Japanese name. Besides, JAV is better known for their codes so half-assing the creativity of the title to get straight to the point makes sense.
>ywn hang with review brah
>>Resident Evil
What's wrong with that title?
I mean, aside from the fact that it's not even the Japanese title and you're stupid for thinking it is.
Just as a title, what's wrong with it?
Japanese translates badly to English. This is also why anime has horrible, stilted, awkward dialogue all the time.
What is Red Dead Redemption?
Care for some examples?
>Legend of Zelda (bitch is a side character)
Take responsibility and give me the answers, OP
From your list only Hyperdimension, bravely default, and maybe guilty gear are bad. Hyperdimension neptunia being by far the worst, obviously.
Horizon: Zero Dawn is a pretty awful name desu
This isn't a "horizon is shite sonyggers" meme btw, it sounds stupid and generic.
What is the shitty Grand Theft Auto then lmao
Retards shitting on Jap games for retarded reasons
Japanese are horrible at English, and if they used a Japanese title their games wouldn't sell in the West.
is this photoshopped?
>Horizon: Zero Dawn
Does the title even mean anything? Serious question. It looks like the developers just picked random words that they thought sounded cool.
Any title that isn't one word -two at maximum- is shit.
If they ever make a sequel, will it be Horizon: Zero Dawn 2 or Horizon: One Dawn
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure "Zero Dawn" is supposed to mean something like the restart of society or something, but it's still like a stupid combination of sci-fi-ish buzzwords.
You proabably could call a bunch of other post-apocaliptic sci-fi games "Horizon: Zero Dawn" and it would sound equally stupid.
>call your game Final Fantasy
>keep making more of them
Half these names are pretty reasonable. I was expecting more htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary or Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Absolute nonsensical names.
>Not knowing the history of Final Fantasy
normie pls go
>htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary
the fuck is that
that title makes the Devil Summoner games look reasonable
>Horizon: Zero Dawn
>Red Dead Redemption
>Beyond: Two Souls
>Sleeping Dogs
>E.YE. Divine Cybermancy
>Divine Divinity
>Just Cause
what did they mean by this?
Sleeping Dogs and Just Cause are good titles, if you're not illiterate.
The rest are "let's put these words together because it sounds cool".
More likely it'll be Horizon: (insert subtitle).
Having a just cause would only not make sense to a non-native english speaker.
htoL#NiQ is a heavily stylized Hotaru no Nikki.
Which just means Firefly Diary. So it's just Firefly Diary: The Firefly Diary.
Retarded on at least 3 levels. Impressive.
Aparrently the Zero Dawn bit does have a relation to the story but Horizon is just slapped on there because it sounds cool
Sleeping Dogs, Just Cause, and E.Ψ.Ǝ Divine Cybermancy are excusable
There is too much negativity going on in this thread, so what are some good names instead? A few I can think of are:
Virtue's Last Reward
Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
>Virtue's Last Reward
When the original title was Good People Die, they don't win points.
I think we all can agree that
>That Dragon, Cancer
is the worst fucking name ever
that title is still good
So we are having one of these threads and yet no one has said "Melty Blood: Actress Again: Current Code: Hologram Summer Again, Tri-Hermes Black Land, ver. 1.07 netplay revision 1.4.0"
no this is:
>Summer-Colored High School Adolescent Record – A Summer At School On An Island Where I Contemplate How The First Day After I Transferred, I Ran Into A Childhood Friend And Was Forced To Join The Journalism Club Where While My Days As A Paparazzi Kid With Great Scoops Made Me Rather Popular Among The Girls, But Strangely My Camera Is Full Of Panty Shots, And Where My Candid Romance Is Going.
>Summer-Colored High School Adolescent Record – A Summer At School On An Island Where I Contemplate How The First Day After I Transferred, I Ran Into A Childhood Friend And Was Forced To Join The Journalism Club Where While My Days As A Paparazzi Kid With Great Scoops Made Me Rather Popular Among The Girls, But Strangely My Camera Is Full Of Panty Shots, And Where My Candid Romance Is Going.
Seriously though
>WAHHH PEOPLE ARE LET'S PLAYING THIS HOW AM I GOING TO MAKE MONEEEEEEEY
I'm not against art games at all, but seriously come the fuck on, was the point of making it only to profit off your child's death?
I bet this is like two moonrunes.
>was the point of making it only to profit off your child's death?
No you fucking idiot. The game was made so people could have an emotional experience, and the creator was pissed at Let's Players because he saw the secondhand viewing as cheapening the point.
>implying that isn't the GOAT name
>夏色ハイスクール青春白書 ~転校初日のオレが幼馴染と再会したら報道部員にされていて激写少年の日々スクープ大連発でイガイとモテモテなのに何故かマイメモリーがパンツ写真ばっかりという電実と向き合いながら考えるひと夏の島の学園生活と赤裸々な恋の行方。~
Because it's localized for EOPs and retards like you.
>Melty Blood: Actress Again: Current Code
That's the title and subtitle.
>Hologram Summer Again, Tri-Hermes Black Land
Isn't that just garbage text that's part of the design of the background?
>ver. 1.07 netplay revision 1.4.0
Version numbers clearly aren't part of a title.
If you wanted to use a French-Bread title, you could go with "Under-Night In-Birth Exe-Late[st]".
a title's purpose is identification, to make it stand out from the rest. if it's silly I don't care, it should be unique and memorable. now the western meme of naming your new games after old games (eg d44m) is terrible naming
Bravely Default was translated from the japanese name.
Square, lazy as they are always, couldn't think on a name until every rpg fan has heard about "Bravely Default".
So they just roll with it.
...
>Title has an exclamation mark in it
This is more of a problem with TV shows, but people need to stop doing it no matter what.
>Silhouette Mirage: Reprogrammed Hope
resident evil is the western name, its called biohazard in japn.
OP BTFO.
Because the cannot into english
to match with everything else
what the shit are you talking about, for JAV they use the most literal title like "my boss fucking my wife because I can't get erection" and "that girl got a sexy leg and I can't focus because of it so I fuck her"
No, it's 100% genuine.
like shin megami tensei
1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby)
Why do you keep posting pictures of that ugly fedora kid?
he doesn't even have a fedora
Get out.
Killer is dead is amazing but resident evil isnt the japenese version name you dumb fuck
>ugly
I think he's cute desu
At least metal and gear are actual words
No
I don't care what anyone says Killer is Dead sounds fuckin rad.
He's one step away of becoming the supreme gentleman
>Max Payne
Why? terrible
make your own Jap game title using the following guide:
>take an adjective/adverb
>take a noun
>put em together
I'll start.
Slimy Junction
>Final Fantasy
>Killer is Dead
>Silent Hill
>Legend of Zelda
>Dark Souls
>Donkey Kong
>Fire Emblem
>Guilty Gear
All of those are acceptable names and you should feel bad for thinking they're anything on the level of:
>Bravely Default
>Hyperdimension Neptunia
>Resident Evil
Which...admittedly are fucking dumb.
OP is a faggot once again.
This. Its like they don't even use words the same way we do. Translating from one to the other always gets most of the meaning lost or ends up looking horribly weird.
Good People Die was some Japanese pun that also meant "I Want to Be a Good Person" or something like that. VLR's a nice localization.