I was discussing it other day with some friends, there are games that call your attention with their names but they are completely misleading.
e.g. I expected "Retrovirus" to be something about infection, epidemy and drug treatment, I expected "Natural Selection" to be some sort of improvement over Spore, I expected "Epigenesis" to be something marvelous since I can't even imagine a game about epigenesis, but what I really saw was... shooter, shooter, shooter! Also "Darwinia" is a RTS that, well, has actually nothing to do with Darwin...
What game names do you people think are totally misleading, have cool words but say nothing about the actual gameplay?

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I think Darwinia had to do with evolving computer programs or something so I don't know if that one is terribly misleading.

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Darwinia is pretty spot on story wise, though gameplay doesn't have too much in regards to evolution aside from the corruption.

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Killing Floor.I totally wanted a game that allowed me to tear up floors.

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X3:Reunion.

I was hoping for a game that is about sex or Moonshine alcohol.

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Dead Island.

I was hoping for enviromental criticism :(

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What are you expecting from X:Rebirth?

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Religion teaching game ?

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Birthing simulator

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A game offering renewed interest in algebra.

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i was expecting killer floors

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Team Fortress 2. I thought people would work as a team. Oh boy, was I wrong.

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+1

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That comment made my day, well played sir.

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^^

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+1

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I thought it would be new version of TF, I was wrong...

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+1

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haha priceless

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+14 internets

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so epic xD

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Spore , I was hoping fir a game about mushrooms and getting high :(

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well it's still kinda trippy xD

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You mean ferns? lol

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Braid, you are not making any braids, you are just one guy saving a princess.

Limbo, instead of Limbo, you get the walk in the forrest.

Lone Survivor: You are not alone

Castle Crashers: You crashed only one Castle in the entire game

Serious Sam: The Sam is not serious.

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sorry but actually in CC you crash moar than just 1 castle x)

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ye sori me stooped lel

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Yes, yes you are.

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Regardless of the amount of castles, the crashers is plural not castle. It's a co-op game with multiple crashers

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Sorry to burst your bubble, but LIMBO is about Limbo, the place between life and death, and you are a boy who literally came from out of the ground

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Skyrim - Should be a game where you join the rim job division of the mile high club.

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I lol'd.

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+1

thanks for this thread; you guys made my day.

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+1

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theres probably a mod for that at least

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rofl

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You're some kind of troll or you are really so.. silly, we'll just call it "silly" to jump on free giveaways and not even know what you're in for? You didn't look up any of these games? Are you really so "silly" as to think words and phrases used, often cleverly, to title a piece of media must translate directly into.. nope wait yeah you are just a troll.

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Wait, what? I don't think he mentioned anything about giveaways.

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wut

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yes?

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The stupid! It burns!

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wat

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Loving the random outburst. You win today's internet!

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And your prize is 1 gaben

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I just love how he puts "silly" is quotation marks.
It's so "silly"

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ikr

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I think you're in the wrong thread...

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Yea,those damn Cabbage-People trying to take over our spoons,I hate them.

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Half-Life. At first I thought it would be a game series that would take me half of my life to complete but.... but.. wait a second...>.<

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Instead, you realized that you'd have to wait for approximately one half-life of uranium-238 before HL3 releases?

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Uranium-238?

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Yup, the same. Editing that now.

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wow, this is really a nice joke.

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or you start every level with 50% health lol

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I thought it was quarter-life :(

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All of the Elder Scrolls games pre-Oblivion, the worst offender being Arena. I say this because:

  1. No Elder Scrolls appear in ANY of the games pre-IV.
  2. The Elder Scrolls: Arena doesn't feature and Elder Scroll nor an Arena of any sort.

The only thing any of them got right are the areas where they take place.

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Don't forget that no dagger falls on you in Daggerfall.

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Actually, this is a legitimate misleading title of the series. I mean, how the hell did they come up with the name for it anyways?

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At least for Arena I think i heard that at first they were going to make an arena rpg-ish fighting game but then the game kind of evolved to become nothing close to it. But they still decided to stick with the name.
I think that was how it went, still could just be blabbering into the wind xD

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I always think that the ultimate goal or mission in elder scrolls games is to find and guard or protect the elder scrolls because the elder scrolls are even the names of these games...

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the elder scrolls is a series of games ending with skyrim... so its only natural u dont get to find it till later releases played morrowind oblivion and skyrim never ended morrowind xD so i dont know about that but done my research long ago and that is what i found out maybe what u do in the pre oblivion it to help secure the elder scroll despite u never actually see it

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Drunken Robot Pornography

sooo disappointing... :(

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lol :D

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same here :(

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I just wanted to post that one too :)

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Grid 2...?
was expecting polygons and checkers.

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I think when the racing starts and ends, you see that grid flag, right? I don't know if this is F1 because I don't have this game.

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It's actually the area of racetrack that marks the starting positions of cars (starting grid), but you were close. :)

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Continental Circus.

Whaaaa...? No clowns? No Big Top?? No bearded ladies???

Chargeback incoming.

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wargame airland battle, you control a lot of ground units too.

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airLAND battle

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The Binding of Isaac - I wanted to tie up someone called Isaac.
Alien Breed - To be fair, I was adding an "ing" on the end of this one.
Ace of Spaces - This isn't a card game!
Chivalry - Everyone just chops my head off! How un-chivalrous!
Duke Nukem: Forever - I got bored after five minutes. I was promised eternity!
Sanctum - What kind of sanctum is this? There are monsters EVERYWHERE!

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AoS was actually good before Jagex got their dirty hands on it.

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Eeyup. I miss the original. "Free to play, forever!" my ass.

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It's spades in card games though :D

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I have yet to hear of any raping in Forced.

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XD

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Sin Episodes: Episode 1. . . I thought there would be more :(

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Those were some sad days :(
Still hoping to see anything else come from them.. :/

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at least we had an epic anime about it.

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Why so disappointed, BLAAAADE?

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Sleeping Dogs: I just wanted some nice puppies :(

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+1 heads up real big disappointment with watchdogs.

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Imagine my despair when "Touch Dic" failed to involve anything like the sort of stimulating interactive experience I'd been anticipating :(

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:D

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löl xD
Seems you like "Cogs" ;)

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I'm a sucker for Cogs.

Uh - wait...

:o

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oh no, this one too? :( Thank god there are still nice games like Secret of the Magic Crystal and Petz Catz 2.

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this :(

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AI Wars? More like UI Wars.

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Thats a bug, that word doesn't exist in german.

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Your comment indicates that you believe it was on purpose. But your link proves that the game is absolutely nothing like Mass Effect, indicating that yes, that is a bug in Google's translation software.

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I do believe it is a bug, and I was being heavily sarcastic in my reply.

BUT, the finale to the trilogy released and many are comparing the ending of it to Mass Effect 3, so I think it's really funny, though probably just a glitch.

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System Shock 2. I thought the game would destroy my computer.

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Command and Conquer - Red Alert 3. I was expecting Red Alert 3, instead got WarCraft 3 made badly.

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So true. RA2 was amazing!

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Team Fortress 2. Until I found it was hat fortress 2 (not in a bad way)
Torchlight 2. I thought it was something like a puzzle game about lighting torches -_-

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Medal of Honor. I didn't get a medal =_=

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You did get several of them in Allied Assault.
I miss this game...it was the best of the series. If only they'd make it free on Origin like BF1942 or even a remake. Good times.

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SQUAD, LISTEN UP. THIS IS A RESCUE MISSION. SO WATCH YOUR FIRE, DON'T GIVE YOUR POSITION AWAY, AND CHECK YOUR CORNERS.

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Zeigen Sie mir Ihre Papiere! rushes by holding up papers

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The infiltration mission was the greatest. I've beaten that game over 8 times but I think I've played that mission alone over 40 times.

MoHAA is just great.

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The sarcasm in this thread makes the OP look so stupid

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I think it makes the commenters look more stupid. Sarcasm isn't something you should try if you don't know how to do it.

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There really is some weak childish wannabe sarcasm.

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Just Cause, what's the reason?

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Its (a) Just Cause, instad of doing something Just (be)Cause.

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Exactly. A lot of people don't get that. Its Just Cause like "I'm doing this for a cause that is just."

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i guess thats the reason for the name: United States invasion of Panama

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I actually think the name is quite fitting for the game :P

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