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The 10 most pointless videogame subtitles ever

A little hate for the meaningless words that live behind colons and ruin otherwise good game titles

Words: Tyler Wilde, GamesRadar US
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Bov11  - 9 months 16 days ago 
Classy.
sourpunch  - 9 months 16 days ago 
Great article one of my favorites on GR. Good job Tyler.

Also Defender: Saving the Human Race is pretty bad lol
TradanBattlan  - 9 months 16 days ago 
(INSERT GAME TITLE): The Game
The Game
The Game
We all just lost the game.
ShadowFoxNinja09  - 9 months 15 days ago 
Wow, Some of those "Subtitles" are there to clarify that it isn't the same game that came out a few years earlier i.e. Tomb Raider: Underworld

Also, think how boring and generic "Blitz" would be by itself. It would make me scratch my head more than "Blitz: The League."

Other than that, this article is way too sarcastic, and I really didn't enjoy it at all.

Sorry Guys, Better luck next time.
noofer7  - 9 months 15 days ago 
ur stupidful
flk  - 9 months 15 days ago 
lol
Moschetto  - 9 months 15 days ago 
Which has more impact: “Resistance” or “Resistance: Some Useless Text?”

Resistance: Some Useless Text, actually. It balances the title and makes it a bit more memorable, you see. Thank God you guys weren't marketing the game.
Defguru7777  - 9 months 15 days ago 
I'm gonna stand by skyguy343 on this one. ODST sounds cool. CSI, FBI, NYPD. Those are stupid and useless letters.
TreyTable  - 9 months 15 days ago 
So Tyler, "Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht" is stupid because you are? You didn't get a good education, so therefore things that you do not understand must be stupid? You don't know German, neither do I. But you don't know Nietzsche? As for the Japanese release of Xenosaga Episode I, they didn't have it in German because their alphabets are radically different from that of German and English. So why German, right? That's just too easy. Namco probably didn't want to dumb it down, thinking that English speaking audiences would be in an uproar that Namco was ripping off Nietzsche.
TreyTable  - 9 months 15 days ago 
I have to say that ODST sounds good as well. Better than F.E.A.R., I think, but I do think that the title should just drop off the number 3. Halo: ODST sounds better than Halo 3: ODST.
smellypeanut  - 9 months 15 days ago 
Where's the concession stand at the end of the article?
friedpork  - 9 months 15 days ago 
Halo: ODST? Huh? More like Halo: Where's the Chief?
GamesRadarJoeMcNeilly  - 9 months 15 days ago 
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I always thought that "A Link to the Past" was a horribly awful pun, luckily the game delivered the goods
idlemindkiller  - 9 months 15 days ago 
great article. the Rygar book made me laugh out loud. great job Tyler!
majorsuave  - 9 months 15 days ago 
LOL:"Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice – Did you mean to say "injustice"?"

I am pretty sure they mean diarrhea.
MacGyver1138  - 9 months 14 days ago 
I think some subtitles are added just to make a catchy acronym (e.g. World at War=WOW, Warhammer: Age of Reckoning=WAR, etc.)

Also, is "this ain't rocket surgery," becoming a popular phrase now? An article at Cracked.com used it in the last week or so.
barrage7667  - 9 months 14 days ago 
how about the game achievement unlocked...tht sounds like something u would get on the 360 or PS3 for trophies and points
Cra-Z-Jake  - 9 months 14 days ago 
My only explanation as to why they used "World At War" is....

Since it's not just Europe, they decided to say "world"? If that's the case, I'm wondering why they didn't put "Call of Duty 3: Europe At War". Is it not self explanatory?
Onefish  - 9 months 12 days ago 
Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaiichi 2 Shin Another Road Never Ending Title: The game.
Circlestrafe  - 9 months 11 days ago 
Regarding Space Rangers 2:Reboot; totally agree, whomever came up with the ridiculous 'reboot' concept should be taken out back and shot. Sounds stupid, looks stupid, is stupid. As in the Batman and Terminator series being 'rebooted'. LAME!
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