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Alex W.

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Names for sequels which don't have numbers in them are great.

Metal Gear Solid: Good

Metal Gear: Ghost Babel: Good

Metroid Prime: Hunters: First Hunt stretches credibility though.

Metroid Prime, Fusion, Zero Mission and so on are brilliant names.

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Flockheart

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Resident Evil is probably the best name for a game, ever.

Yeah I agree with that, it's far better than the Japanese "Biohazard" aswell. Sticking with survival horror I think that "Fatal Frame" is a pretty cool name too and more relevant than the UKs "Project Zero".

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Best name ever was the gloriously pretentiously named Thrust clone, Zarathrusta.

Colons and subtitles normally go terribly wrong. One short title always gives you a sense of classicism - Half-life, Doom, Quake, etc.

Most depressing are games like "Halo: Combat Evolved" and "Hitman: Codename 47" which have a fairly basic iconic title, then just fuck it right up.

KG

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That was Sega...

I know it was Sega, but it's a fine example of this particular naming convention. As is Super Puzzle Fighter II and scores of others. Prefixing a name with "Super" makes it super exciting! After all, would you play a game called "Monkey Ball" or "Puzzle Fighter II"?

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zektbach

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Best name ever was the gloriously pretentiously named Thrust clone, Zarathrusta.

Colons and subtitles normally go terribly wrong. One short title always gives you a sense of classicism - Half-life, Doom, Quake, etc.

Most depressing are games like "Halo: Combat Evolved" and "Hitman: Codename 47" which have a fairly basic iconic title, then just fuck it right up.

KG

Hyphons piss me off as well...

I think the most fantastic name I've ever came across was PANG. God it just encapsulates the entire game in one singular 4 letter word.

PANG!

EDIT : I agree with the Super theory proposed earlier on, I mean PANG was fantastic, but SUPER PANG was fan-fucking-tastic.

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Glad someone said Resident Evil already, that probably tops my list.

That subtitle:colon thing is odd, but I've been told on several occasions "the US market loves sub-titles" so add one if you havn't already. And apparently this isn't even to do with hiding the fact it's a sequel or an attempt brand building, it's a name-thing.

It's probably just a PR/marketing urban legend.

Like the way someone said at a GDC a year or so ago "You must use alpha keyboards in games" [for name entry etc, as opposed to qwerty] and everyone started doing it regardless.

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PC games get is the worst with names, especially all this subtitle/colon stuff.

I hate beardy RPG names. Stuff like Morrowscape: Guardians of Arpeth of whatever.

Also the zillions of tactical shooters, all with names made up of the words 'special', 'shadow', 'desert', 'operations', 'combat', 'team', 'rogue', 'squad', 'counter', 'tactical' etc.

Resident Evil is probably the best name for a game, ever.

The best "high score" ever for a shit game name is probably Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption (or whatever it was fucking called), which managed to have two semi-colons in.

And I totally agree that a name with any of 'Operation', 'Mission' or 'Project' in makes the game sound rubbish.

As for the best name, I'm still waiting for Namco to inevitably make a gun game called Crisis Crisis.

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PC games get is the worst with names, especially all this subtitle/colon stuff.

I hate beardy RPG names. Stuff like Morrowscape: Guardians of Arpeth of whatever.

Also the zillions of tactical shooters, all with names made up of the words 'special', 'shadow', 'desert', 'operations', 'combat', 'team', 'rogue', 'squad', 'counter', 'tactical' etc.

Resident Evil is probably the best name for a game, ever.

I despise the name Resident Evil with a passion!

Sounds Ghey IMO

'Hi. I'm evil and I live here' /points to old mansion/

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zektbach

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Thats funny cuz I think that is one of the worst, most uncool names ever, doesnt help that I hated that game with a passion.

Treasure do great names...

Radiant Silvergun, Silhouette Mirage.

Yeah I walked into the bathroom this morning and yet again was disappointed at the fact I wasn't already lying dead in the bathtub.

Shit game.

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