The Video Game Critic

Zwei is german for two, pronounded "tsvie". (rhymes with tie)  Herzog is pronounced "hair-tsoge", with "tsoge" rhyming with "bog" from "bogus".  Say it loud--"Hair-tsoge tsvie"!  (Six years of German at work!)

"Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3"
 
SMART

"Mega Man".

Seriously, look at the name. "Mega Man", what the hell?

[QUOTE=wur]Zwei is german for two, pronounded "tsvie". (rhymes with tie)  Herzog is pronounced "hair-tsoge", with "tsoge" rhyming with "bog" from "bogus".  Say it loud--"Hair-tsoge tsvie"!  (Six years of German at work!)
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I said that outloud and it made me feel like Hitler was in the room. I think the German language is evil.
 
Cousin Vinnie

The upcoming DS game, "Touch the Dead".

[QUOTE=Conn]The upcoming DS game, "Touch the Dead".[/QUOTE]
 
Yes, but it has potential to be accurate   "Typing of the Dead" was a stupid title too, if your goal is to separate the title from the game itself, but it at least accurately described the gameplay formula.  I feel "Touch the Dead" is a good title in that it reflects what the game is about.

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I said that outloud and it made me feel like Hitler was in the room. I think the German language is evil.

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yup -and since german and english share the same origins, french should be the lingua franca

[QUOTE=Chris Marsh]The worst has to go to that NES Fighting Golf game.
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You mean Lee Travino's Fighting Golf? There really wasn't any fighting in it? Wow.
 
I'd say the worst game title ever is Driver 3, mainly because of the idoitic way they spelt it; Driv3r.  Yeah, that's really clever... and really stupid.

Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra

Bad names for bad games.

[QUOTE=Zen444]Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und B�se
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra

Bad names for bad games.[/QUOTE]

Those are coopted from the existentialist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas and writings:

Der Wille zur Macht: "The Will to Power"
This is basically about the drive of the passionate, creative individual to "power"; not political power, but creative power.

Jenseits von Gut und Boese: "Beyond Good and Evil"
This is Nietzsche's criticism of the Judeo-Christian moral system, and how it bounds society's best individuals; these people must live "beyond good and evil".

Also sprach Zarathustra: "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
A parable he wrote using the prophet of the Zoroastrian religion, Zarathustra.  (The religion of Iran/Persia before it was converted to Islam)  Basically Zoroastrianism was the first religion/system to divide the world into "good" and "evil"; here Zarathustra comes to reject this dichotomy that he created.  (See above)  This is where the word "uebermensch" was coined, i.e., "over-man" or "superman"; an individual who has gone beyond the weaknesses of the ordinary man.  (unfortunately, the Nazis really exploited and misinterpreted this term for their own ends...)

To be honest, I've never had the willpower to read any of these cover-to-cover, and last cracked one open about eight years ago, so I might be off in my descriptions.   Also, I don't really agree with them, so please, no accusations of being a Nazi or anti-Christian or anti-Semitic.