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Games have a reputation of having terrible titles. When they are not cramming the words "Dark", "Shadow" and "Souls" into every title they tend to be downright nonsensical or just a string of "cool" English words.

But some titles are very cool, which ones do you like a lot?

I'll pick Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and its companion Fire Emblem: Thracia 776.

I really love Genealogy of the Holy War as a title because it's unique, it's descriptive and it sounds really cool. It's a genealogy, so it's personal but also bigger in scope than any given person. It's not a normal one, but a Holy one, which again shows the big scope. And the game has a massive scope for a FE game.

Thracia 776 I love because it's exactly the opposite: A place, a year. This is again very descriptive because Thracia 776 has a very small scope compared to its predecessor.

That it's made so explicit also makes us think that it marks a very important event like a "1453" or "1492". Thracia also evoques Medieval Europe, though the game's aesthethic is closer to the Holy Roman Empire than that of Thracia.

So yeah, really like those two. What are some of your favourite game titles, and why?

Zombies Ate My Neighbors

I really dig Bikini Zombie Slayers...for obvious reasons given that I'm a weeby perv.

Toejam and Earl

I really like the titles for Atari's old sports games. Football. Soccer. Basketball. Tennis. Short, sweet, and to the point.

I'm partial to the old River City Ransom game, along with the terrible box art it gave you the feeling of a truly low budget cheesy 80s fighting movie and given how Kunio plays that out it fits very well (far better than the crap EU name of Street Gangs.)

ActRaiser was one that wouldn't make a lick of sense if you didn't know squat about the game, but the essence of that game is really captured in that cool to the point title once you realize how it works. You play out acts in combat, and you raise them and the land from the brink of death by re-developing dead society in a simcity lite type game.

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I also like the title of the new Wii U game B3 Game Expo for Bees.

Is what it is.

Baby Maker Extreme was a pretty great title, too.