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[Lord Panda]

My favorite is still Bravely Default.

"We do not accept modifications or adjustments to configurations. Absolutely no changes will be made, and we will defend that to the death".

Pretty brave, tbqh.

Hey, when it's explained like that ... it doesn't sound so bad.

 

[Draugoth]

More strange is this

What the fuck

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

What the fuck

That is very strange, I never saw a cow that liked milk...

I think I'll put it in spoiler.

 

[Irobot82]

You make it sound like western games are any better with their namings?

Some of the most played games right now:

Fortnite - Spelt like that
Rainbow Six Siege - Thats just 3 random words put together.
Roblox - what?
Defense of the Ancients
Unturned
Halo Infinite
DayZ
Minecraft
Player Unknowns Battlegrounds
Red Dead Redemption


I mean they arent Infinite Undiscovery but they arent gonna be winning any Pulitzer prizes.

Fortnite is a period of two week. The game was originally a set amount of time to built a fort and then defend it.
Minecraft. A game about mining and crafting.
Roblox. Robots made of blocks. A game where you make games, like out of blocks.
PUBG - Player Unknown is the create, this is his battle royal battleground.
DayZ. Day of Zombies?
Rainbow Six is the reference call for Officer.

At least a lot of these at least make sense.

 

[StueyDuck]

The answer is purely translations... its not a vice versa "this word means that"

But I swear square enix are fucking with us with triangle strategy and various daylife. That shit is just trolling, they definitely know better

 

[Woopah]

All of those have some connection to the game content though. Even if it is just word play.

Honestly they are not bad in comparison.

Yes that's true, they make sense when you play the game.

 

[Teslerum]

Yes that's true, they make sense when you play the game.

Still one of the ballsiest moves to hide a games major twist inside its title.

Gotta give them probs just for that.

 

[marquimvfs]

Well, unsurprisingly, Japanese people aren't good at English. Some names are rough translations of a theme, and some are just made up because they know games with straight up Japanese names won't sell as much. If west (mainly English-speaking countries) just accepted foreign names in languages other than English, maybe we could cut 50% of the crappy names we saw often. It's not only their cultural problem after all.

 

[01011001]

my favourite Japanese game name is still:
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra

they just randomly used some famous Nietzsche quotes for the games

Der Wille zur Macht

Jenseits von Gut und Böse

 

[Draxon Gamer]

'Infinite Failure Redemption' still makes me chuckle.