Topic: Game titles: What not to do. (Read 5699 times)

« **Reply #50 on:** December 05, 2009, 08:10:41 AM »

Darkness of the Crystals: Wisdom Chronicles

^Cheesy name, that

« **Reply #51 on:** December 06, 2009, 10:01:06 PM »

Wow. That was funny.

Ah, you won't have to worry about any of that in the game I'm currently creating. In fact, I can't even think of a title at this point. I usually save the titling for last. Kinda like most authors with their books. It's more fun that way. But so I can distinguish from one another, I gave it a working title. That working title being 'Taurus'. Why? Because that is the name of the town you start in.

...but, yeah. I see that a lot in RPG titles, too. And you know what else is funny? Japanese titles. I take Japanese class, so I know what I'm talking about. I once saw an RPG called "Shichimenchouken: Sword of the Seven-Faced Bird". They got that part right. But you know what's so funny about it? Shichimenchou...it means Turkey. Yes. In Japanese, Turkey is literally translated as 'seven faced bird'. Why? I don't know. I just had to laugh at the title because it looked like a person who knew almost nothing about the Japanese language made an entire game based around Japan.

« **Reply #52 on:** December 07, 2009, 04:42:29 PM »

Oh man that game, kinda sad that it was named Turkey O_o

« **Reply #53 on:** December 07, 2009, 08:09:05 PM »

Blade of the turkey, more accurately. It's incredibly hilarious when people who know only the Japanese words 'kawaii' and 'sugoi' (most people think it just means 'terrific', but in proper context it means 'terrible') try to use the language.