Making fun of terribly named video games is one of my favoritepast times, but I'm also willing to give credit where credit is due. Now that the dumbest video game titles of 2015 have been appropriately lambasted, it's time to take a look at 10 games with names that are so awesome they sell themselves.
Helldivers
Space marines are a dime a dozen in video games, but rarely
do their game titles convey how badass they are: Halo, Destiny, Warhammer 40K: Space Marine,
PlanetSide 2 – boring! Even Killzone doesn't tell you much about the characters
you'll be playing, just that there's a designated location where you're either going to murder things or get murdered yourself.
There's no ambiguity with Helldivers; not only are the titular soldiers tough
as nails, they're also probably more than a little crazy – they are willing to
dive into hell, after all.
Fort Meow
On the completely opposite end of the naming spectrum, Fort
Meow sounds positively adorable! Despite being an ardent dog person, even I can't
resist smiling at the thought of a military base being run by a bunch of
purring kittens. Not that it would be very difficult for the enemy to overrun –
you can't get a cat to do anything it doesn't want to, and I doubt enrolling in
military service ranks up there with lying in sunbeams and coughing up
hairballs. Lousy cats.
Extreme Exorcism
Oh man, you know this game isn't messing around. After all,
every exorcism is extreme – so what makes this one so much more extreme that it
requires being labeled as such? To put it in perspective, the classic horror
film The Exorcist involved a teenage
Linda Blair projectile-vomiting green puke and doing unspeakable things to a
crucifix – and that was just an old-fashioned, run-of-the-mill exorcism! I don't
even know if I want to play this one...
Pokémon Super Mystery
Dungeon
Pokémon games have always had terrible names – when they're
not just a straightforward color, they devolve into nonsense like Alpha
Sapphire and Omega Ruby. The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series has been around for
a while, but the additional "Super" is just what this game needed – this is
clearly the mystery dungeon you've been waiting for! Sure, the super mystery
dungeon is just going to end up containing stupid monsters shaped
like car keys like every other mystery dungeon, but the added intrigue
should keep hope alive at least long enough to get players to buy it.
Corpse Party: Blood
Drive
Rob Zombie probably cries himself to sleep wishing he could
come up with a movie title as demented as the name of Team GrisGris' latest
game. What kind of sick freaks go to a corpse party? Based on the screenshots,
it looks like they're all teenage students, which is even more screwed up. However,
the subtitle provides an additional wrinkle to the macabre scene – whoever
these corpse partygoers are, they're evidently thoughtful enough to set up a
blood donation. Kinda makes you second-guess your prejudices, doesn't it?
Coming Up Next: More awesomely named video games from 2015...