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[.Pennywise]

Have you ever got confused thinking of a game when you read the title only to find out it was a different game?

That might not be your fault, but the ones picking the name titles of the games.

You see, developers (or publishers) keep picking the same names and words for the titles, despite having more than 170.000 words (just in English).

What are the most overused names?

No, Royale nor Clash count because I'm not including mobile lol

 

[Codes 208]

Definitive edition

 

[HE1NZ]

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War is the worst title ever.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Surprised "Blood" wasn't an option. Even if it were, I'd still have voted "Shadow."

 

[Birdo]

Remake.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Killer Hero Fights Champion Assassins in a Fantasy Shadow War of Evil Dungeons and Ages in Battle when Crafting a Legendary Commanders Blade.

Terrible title, but what a great game that was.

 

[MastAndo]

Something -fall seems to be pretty popular. I suppose Godfall makes sense, but I'm not sure how gravity can affect something like Greed.

 

[Raploz]

64, Super, Wii

 

[stonedwal]

Game Title: Origins.

Get a thesaurus.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Remaster/remake

(I like most of em tho, keep quality ones comin)

 

[Birdo]

The.

 

[Vawn]

Definitive edition

That's a huge improvement over the old "Game of the Year" edition. Most of the time that title was laughable.

 

[stranno]

64, Super, Wii

There you go.

 

[Ailynn]

It's surely "Super", right?

 

[brian0057]

Game of the Year/Definitive/[insert meaningless marketing tearm of your choosing] Edition.

 

[Bernkastel]

[Title of the first game in series] (Current Year)

 

[IamOnline4Real]

Off topic a bit, but why is "Emma" used so often for characters names?

 

[and 3 others]

Origins. Age of...

 

[Kataploom]

Definitely "Origins" for me. Also, for some reason I've played a good handful of games with some important artifact or place called "The crusible".

 

[iorek21]

“War” is pretty common word: God of War, Gears of War, World at War, Shadow of War, WW1, Warfare, etc etc.

Though I have to congratulate Guerilla for one of the most generic titles ever for a good game: Horizon Zero Dawn.
I mean, seriously?

 

[Bakkus]

Single words you find in the dictionary. Destiny, Control, Observer, Fortnite, Dishonored.

 

[CobraXT]

I dont think its the most overused but god i hate the word returns in the title of games/movies sequels

 

[cireza]

Mario

 

[nikolino840]

The.

F... You stole my idea

 

[Stilton Disco]

Origins by far with Simulator a close second, and Revelations third.

 

[turtlepowa]

Origins and Remastered for me.

 

[Animagic]

“Something” FALL

 

[brian0057]

• Game.
• Game 2.
• Game 3: Origins.
• G4me.
• GAME.
• GAME 2.

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

F... You stole my idea

And I'm here to steal 2nd place...
Of.

 

[.Pennywise]

Origins by far with Simulator a close second, and Revelations third.

Damn I forgot to put those two, specially Simulator.

 

[intbal]

Dark

 

[Soodanim]

I voted "Legend". Lots of those over the years, even when "War" and "Fall" weren't a thing.

 

[Myths]

Legend... by a long shot.

 

[Happosai]

Seems to be Ultimate or Super. I was seeing those a lot 25-years ago and still am today.

 

[Vawn]

Odyssey has been making a run lately.

 

[LazyParrot]

Rising. I hate "[Noun] Rising" titles, in both games and movies.

 

[Magic Carpet]

infinite

 

[Alan Silvestro]

SUPER

 

[.Pennywise]

They keep coming

Spoiler

 

[JOEVIAL]

“War” is pretty common word: God of War, Gears of War, World at War, Shadow of War, WW1, Warfare, etc etc.

Though I have to congratulate Guerilla for one of the most generic titles ever for a good game: Horizon Zero Dawn.
I mean, seriously?

I remember GAF when Horizon was announced. So many posts about the goofy name, it was glorious

But yeah my answer:

2

 

[frogger]

mario this or that

 

[Bartski]

THE

 

[Orta]

FIFA