10 Awesome Video Games With AWFUL Titles

Revengeance isn’t a word, basically.

Unlike most games here, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance follows a very simple naming convention of Franchise: Subtitle. Mass Effect: Andromeda, Call Of Duty: Ghosts and Crash Bandicoot: Warped have all used the pattern down the years, but that doesn’t save Metal Gear.

Andromeda, Ghosts and Warped are all simple, snappy and told you something important about the game, whether that be the setting, characters or core mechanic. Revengeance just doesn’t, really.

With a bit of logic, you can probably ascertain that they were going for Revenge and Vengeance, but rather than consider the thematic meaning of those words, most were instead left scratching their heads wondering why they bothered making up a word when they had two perfectly good ones.

That is probably the biggest issue with Revengeance; making a new portmanteau is one thing, but revenge and vengeance have such similar meanings that merging them tells us absolutely nothing. We know the game is about getting back at somebody, which both Revenge and Vengeance would have told us on their own.

It’s almost as if they were down to the final two choices for the name, then just mashed them together.