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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Paper's Please

  • I broke my monitor when i kept punching it with my passport
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I lol'd, thanks

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LOL, best reply so far.

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+1

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XD That made my morning.

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Thanks, you made my day :DD

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+1

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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - they didn't die and appeared in sequel even later!
Knight Shift - most missions happen during the day.

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KNIGHT, not night

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You just don't get it, do you?

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that just makes the title more confusing :)

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Just trying to give a proper reason to put knightshift in this topic (because up was just nope).
Also I suppose it may be some kind of bad translation thingy used instead of knighthood or something (I like name Polanie 2 better)

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Sleeping Dogs... I played through the entire game and i didnt see even one dog that was sleeping! >.>

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Farcry, i hoping for a long emotion jouney can make me cry for a long time,.,,,...crazy in;t it

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Far Cry 3 made me cry, though, so I guess THAT particular title might be considered legit (I'm talking specifically about the Co-Op portion of the game).

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lol yeah the multiplayer was terrible i'm saddened they couldn't do better

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War of the Roses. Not a single flower in-game

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Just like Red Orchestra, the name has historical references - I think it's well picked (unless you are more in the music and you were expecting some sort of opera simulator).

Beside that, you can see a lot of flowers in WotR: for example in Conquest game mode, when an objective is captured, the flowers on the ground change colour according to the owner team. :P

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Torchlight - nothing about torches at all :/

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Final Fantasy - followed by dozens of sequels, remakes and spinoffs.
At least Square Enix got better with naming their games later - with no sequel to The Last Remnant in sight.

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Actually Final Fantasy was supposed to be the last game from Square - they were on the brink of bankruptcy when they made that game and it was supposed to be their last game before closing the company. Ironically it sold so good, that we got a lot lot more of it ;-).

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+1 true story there was theyr last fantasy about continuing to make games there for the name

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Dune 2

first time i heard about it from friends, i thought what a stupid game title, the game must be stupid and boring too. but then later that week i went to a nearby game shop, looked at the game cover (i think it was a troop in front of the energy building) and i was sold.

mind you, i was a little kid that time, so i didnt know about "dune" the novel or film.

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Unreal Tournament 3... where there was no longer any 'tournament' aspect within the game.

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Unstoppable Gorg - he is stoppable.

VVVVVV - some spikes go /\/\/\/\/\/\

World of Goo - the world is not actually made of Goo.

Scribblenauts - more like... Typingnauts.

Bad Rats - ...no wait this one is exactly right.

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Haha Typingnauts, spot on!

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Counter Strike - I was expecting to strike counters...

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Hard Reset. Any programmer will know. :D:D:D

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Actually, that's hardware, not software.

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dont sh*t your pants - i was expecting.....er nvm its exactly what i expected

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Eve online, i hoped i would meet eve online but i turned out o be a "game: instead of a person :(

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Anyone here know Parasite Eve's Aya Brea?

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Ys Book I & II - Disappointed it wasn't a visual novel compilation

Three Dirty Dwarves - Maybe my mind was just in the gutter on this one...

7th Saga - Refused to play this for years until I found the prior 6 sagas

Monster Party - I was expecting to get rad with a bunch of monsters but no... well there is the dancing zombie bosses so maybe that's the "party"

English Country Tune - Expecting a music game not a puzzle game.

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I expected Mark of the Ninja to be about a ninja named mark.

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It Isn't?! O.o

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One word: DERP.

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When i first heard of Mirror's Edge, it thought it was a game about mirrors.

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maybe there are u just cant see them

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The dog will be a ghost after he dies heroically to save you.

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It's called that because Patrick Swayze is the main char

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He was the lead actor in Ghost. It was a joke.

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StarCraft. Not a single star crafted in that game.

Batman: Arkham Origins is not about the origin of Arkham.

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Galactic Arms Race: I thought about something sci-fi racing game. You are not racing.

Unreal Tournament 3: I thought about the Liandri Corporation's Championship. You are not on the tournament.

Killing Floor: I thought about, that you must avoid touching the floor, or it will kill you. You are killing specimen (NOT ZOMBIES! :O)

VVVVVV: I thought, it was 3 pieces of "W". You get 6 "V".

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Zombies and specimen are the same, due to the fact they're a mutation that causes various things like necrosis.

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Runescape - I thought I'd need to be an escape button and run
Team Fortress - I thought I'd need to kill my teammates and make a fortress out of them

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Runescape good one loll

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New Tomb Raider... Should be called "the survivor"... it went totally different routes from the older ones

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Killing floor - I thought you were the husk and you needed to escape by using your hand-weapon-launcher-thingy to solve puzzles to get to the next floor. Then you would kill your maker on the final floor.

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