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In your opinion, what video games have terrible names?

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[–] scutiger 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any game with the designer's name in it is dumb to me. The worst example is American McGee's Alice, mainly because the guy has a confusing name that makes the title sound especially dumb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's originally used by the game company to denote "this is one of those weird things HE's making, not our usual games" as a sort of sign of distrust from the marketing department

Meyer was just so good at what he did that it quite quickly turned into a badge of quality instead and the convention stuck