The Confusing Titles of Video Game Sequels 

358/2 days is just 179 days I hate that title so much

Mortal Kombat 11 minus 10 looks nice

The Titanfall series is really consistent with naming, Titanfall 7 was a blast and i cant wait for Titanfall 8 next year.

I’ve always been a fan of the way pokemon names their games. It’s simple but effective, and there’s rarely any confusion (this is a purely main game take)

Am never gonna forget how the xbox naming scheme caused me to buy a 360 instead of an Xbox one and didn't manage to refund it after realizing that

"Do yourself a favor, if you haven't played the Kingdom Hearts series don't." "Where's my shotgun?"

Uncharted also did a good job naming their games, I like how they have their own titles, but they also have their numbers so no one gets confused on how the timeline goes

U forgot about Assassins Creed. That’s probably one of the goofiest series’s when it comes to naming their games

The Horizon Zero Dawn series has the best names because the thing that comes after “Horizon” has lore relevance like in the first game “Horizon Zero Dawn” “Zero Dawn” is the name of the secret project that saved the planet and the second game is called “Horizon Forbidden West” and takes place in the Forbidden West it just makes sense!

i love video essays, and macro going into just whatever topic he wants (but game related), i really like just the discussion of his mind

The moment I saw the title I thought about Mortal Kombat. Honestly, I didnt even watch the video yet but that shit better be the most confusing one considering we have like 2 games called Mortal kombat (one its the first, 2nd one its a reboot which took place in 2011, 9th in the series) and now we just got another game called mortal kombat 1 which is 12th in the series and its another reboot, like wtf

I would’ve lost it if he slid in Valorant when he was naming CS titles

I love the mic talk! also glad I''m not crazy because the newest modern warfare 2 and 3 were so confusing to me, like isn't that a game already😂😂

For me its Chess so simple yet soo effective you'll never confuse it with Chess 2 or Chess 3: The King's Return

For anyone who cares, here's why Kingdom Hearts spinoffs are named what they are: Chain of memories: A game focused on remembering things, and the idea that one memory leads to another, in a chain. 358 Days/2: The story is about the lives of 2 people, told over 358 days. Birth by sleep: The plot has an important moment around sleep and rebirth. (Arguably, it should be Rebirth by Sleep, but Re: is already used to designate remakes in the series, such as Re:Chain of memories) Coded: The game takes place in a computer simulation. Dream Drop Distance: A game about travelling through dreams, with a mechanic of switching characters called Drop. 0.2 Birth By Sleep: A fragmentary passage (oh boy): A short tech demo type-game taking place at the end of Kingdom Hearts 1, featuring a character from Birth By Sleep. Melody of memory: A music-based game focused on the memories of a series protagonist. I agree, the titles are stupid. But in context, they at least have a reason for it.

talking about confusing, Metal gear chronological order be like Metal Gear Solid 3 Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Metal Gear Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Metal Gear Solid 1 Metal Gear Solid 2 Metal Gear Solid 4 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Titanfall games are really good at sticking to the numbers. We had Titanfall 1, Titanfall 2, Titanfall 3 just came out and now respawn has been greenlit to work on 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Truly a time to be a Titanfall fan

Ratchet and Clank legit have the best video game titles ever. The game developers who named the games knew what they were doing.

Battlefield has to be up there with the most inconsistent naming convention

God Of War kinda makes sense. It's the first time we play as Kratos in the Norse Pantheon and there's almost a thousand years between the two games (3 and 2018). I said it kinda makes sense because they could've just named it differently. Now it's difficult to search whether I want something related to the original GOW or the 2018 one. And it is totally a sequel. No reboot, no soft-reboot nothing.

I feel like The Legend of Zelda definitely made the right choice with avoiding numbers. Numbering games makes you feel like their connected on an important level to their previous entries, but that’s only ever applied to BOTW & TOTK. I myself played Majora’s Mask before OoT & still had an amazing time even without having context from OoT. The one time that Nintendo did number Zelda games was with Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link, and I don’t think there was a need for it because you didn’t HAVE to play the first game to understand what was going on.

nice to see macro experimenting with new editing styles

I am very surprised he didn't mention Overwatch....... "2"

I always know that when Macro uploads, its going to be amazing, A+

He really went after the smash fans I have never seen someone with that much guts

Really enjoying the new video format! Hope to see more of these Macro

In defense to Kingdom Hears, the names are consistent to the plot, which are both very confusing. Nice video, feel you pain. I cannot tell my friends about the 358/2 days since I have no idea how to pronounce it in my language.

Goat simulator 3 enters the chat

Don't Forget that Square Enix also has Dragon Quest, Mana and SaGa which are all numbered.

I love these types of videos from Macro

0:54 "Slap a two on it" he says as there is already a two on it...

Aww man, was just thinking about getting merch recently anyways and then you mention 40% off and now it's all sold out Hope you can restock soon, would love a hoodie

...who's gonna tell him about Zelda II: The Adventure of Link?

I love this video format thanks for the vid macro ❤

Man i miss the simple days where we would just go by numbers. You have to go out of ur way online to check what the chronological order is

really like this format

Sir, you forgot about Zelda 2 for the NES, I also try to forget about that travesty so fair enough for not mentioning it.

Bro really woke up and said "imma shit on Kingdom hearts today".

Love the new camera style with its now a speech on RU-vid

It's always a good day when macro uploads

Ur intro made me feel like im the age of an eldrich terror... im not even that much older than you... just hearing someone say, early 2000 babys r old is wild to my brain hahahah great vid 😊🎉 also I really wanna know how KH hurts you sm 😂

My dude be looking like he is about to bully Tom Holland's spider man I like it

There are some franchises that try to number their entries, but have a completely different and messy chronological order. Like Metal gear series: 1. Metal Gear Solid 3 snake eater / subsistence. 2. Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops. 3. Metal Gear Solid Peace walker. 4. Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes. 5. Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain. 6. Metal Gear. 7. Metal Gear 2. 8. Metal Gear Solid (Integral). 9. Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty / Substance. 10. Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of Patriots. 11. Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. Then there are also spinoffs like Metal Gear Acid duology, Metal Gear Survive, Metal Gear 2 Snake's Revenge and more.

i think the gow one is supposed to show that kratos is a new god of war going on a different past like hes restarting.

we do have to keep in mind with final fantasy, that in the west ff6 was named ff3

Love you're videos❤

Zelda fans shuffling Zelda II back into the closet when they see those gold stars being handed out.

Macro has some incredible consistency Apex makes no sense 1, 2, and 3! * chef's kiss * GOLDSTAR Macro

Excuse me!!?? No gold star for my baby splatoon

He said “DOOM” then showed Quake 2 remaster footage

Title be like the most confusing shit like : COD Cold Ass |||

Its called Counter Strike 2 cause of the new source 2 engine. Which explains the title. But it is confusing to new players

Can't believe he didn't talk about assassin's creed names😂

You could’ve talked about Battle Front. Let me go over the games in order Battle Front, Battle Front 2, Battle Front 1, Battle Front 2 (again). I mean Dice could’ve been a little more creative

The life is strange games have been confusing to me, there are prequels, sequels, unrelated games? Like what? Very STRANGE

Yo macro you should probably have put overwatch 1 then their sequel Overwatch light edition or Overwatch 1.1 Love your videos keep it up!

The Borderlands series is pretty good with naming. you have the first one that doesn't have a number then 2, The Pre Sequel because it takes place before the second game but was released after, then 3. And Tales/New Tales and Wonderlands are spinoffs.

at this point whenever i see "(game) 2" then i just assume is a big update.

Cool video man

Me after Macro mentioned Persona "OH MY GOD THATS THE GAME I LIKE AND HE MENTIONED IT NO ONE EVER MENTIONS IT"

I think the Donkey Kong Country games did it perfectly: Donkey Kong Country 1 - 1994 Donkey Kong Country 2 - 1995 Donkey Kong Country 3 - 1996 Donkey Kong County Returns - 2010 Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze - 2014 Simple number system, then a ‘return’ to the game franchise after 14 years, and then sticking to the new theme of filling the blank DKC:____ Hopefully if there’s another Donkey Kong Country game for the switch they continue this theme

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, not to be confused with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, is the sequel to the second version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

My man just gave a gold star to Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 💀💀💀💀💀

IT IS A FACT that fifa should just be updated!!! I mean it is such a small amount of improvement per year that it sould not be anything more and charging the playerbase 70$ every year for no reason is just evil

Mortal Kombat 1 is eating popcorn right

Wait till he hears how many games are titled "Super Mario Bros 2"

The whole stupidity that is mortal kombat should have been talked about longer

_Need For Speed_ titles are lowkey all over the place too

Based Boneworks outro music? The entire game's ost slaps

This gaming company be like "nahh...I'm gonna do my own thing"

Nothing makes less sense than CoD bringing back MW2 maps in MW3 instead of bringing them back in MW2

Devil may Cry is also very confusing

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Assassins Creed once feels like it’s the biggest franchise to do this the most

When I think of strange namings, I always think of Assassins Creed considering AC3 is actually the 5th game, sincethey decided to make 2 sequels to AC2 because of its success. then after ac4 they just ditched the numbers entirely which was probably a good call since they pump out so many of them

When you talked about fifa and NBA I was expecting some overwatch 2 slander

The logo for R&C Going Commando does form a 2 to be fair.

I don't get why video game companies keep adding a "1" to things that aren't the first installment, Xbox One, Battlefield 1, and now Mortal Kombat 1, it's so stupid especially since you never see the actual first installment of anything labeled with a "1", also you didn't mention that between Madden NFL 13 and Madden NFL 15 was Madden NFL 25, ever since that game came out I wondered what the 2024 installment of Madden would be, and now I'm just terrified we're so close to that point already.

Let's not forget the fact that there are 3 different Mortal Kombat 1's because calling the direct sequel to MK 11, Mk12 was apparently not good enough.

want to mention the name Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R as a great naming for a third game in your series. Also just for clarity, Guilty Gear 2 is the 4th installment.

hello macro love the vids

We have: Lego star wars Lego star wars 2: the original trilogy lego star wars: the complete saga lego star wars 3: the clone wars lego star wars: the force awakens and lego star wars: the skywalker saga Why can't you just name the third one 3 instead of the fourth? Or just continue the numbers from there on? Lego Marvel superheroes Lego Marvel avengers Lego marvel superheroes 2 Same problem: just skips one and continues numbering. Lego batman does it well. We have Lego batman Lego batman 2 Lego batman 3

Omg I need Kingdom Hearts: Bacon Grease now

Jak II always confused me because I thought it was a spinoff and wondered where the first Jak was, like how they dropped the "of war" in the gears franchise, and also the original Jak was called precursor legacy as it sounded like a prequel, instead of just calling it Jak & Daxter

half life is an odd one, the first games makes sense, Half Life, then Half Life: Opposing force, then Half Life: Blue Shift, even early versions of CS was Half Life: Counter Strike, simple and cool. But then half life 2 came and scrambled everything, specially with the episodes, there is Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode 1 and Half Life 2 Episode 2, and the fun thing is that the Episode 1 is actually a direct sequel to Half Life 2. I know many cases of ppl buying Episode one thinking is the start of the game and getting to confused with what is happening.

lords of the fallen had me mad confused for a sec

“Tom clancy’s ********** “ like we get it Tom, the game belongs to you

I'll never touch Kingdom Hearts with a glowing recommendation like that

How long will this merch be in the store, cuz I like the hoodie, but I will probably wait to buy it?

Garden Warfare 1, Garden Warfare 2 and then, Battle for Neighborville?

I will not take this Kingdom Hearts slander! Macro I'm suspending you from your own class!

The death stare was really scary 3:34

I should point out, it's not officially called "Super Smash Bros 64" it's just "Super Smash Bros", people call it 64 just so you know which game they're talking about.

I love ur videos ❤️

You know what's confusing? The Red Dead Franchise. Red Dead Redemption 2 is the prequel to the first Red Dead Redemption, not an actual sequel. But here's the kicker. Red Dead Redemption 2 is the THIRD game in the Red Dead Franchise, with the first Red Dead Redemption being the SECOND game in the Red Dead franchise. Red Dead Revolver is the actual FIRST game in the Red Dead franchise. Meaning that the first Red Dead Redemption is the second Red Dead game, while the second Red Dead Redemption is the third Red Dead game 🙃

there is one game series that would fit this video and that would have been angry birds and all of the spin-offs it has oml

If cod gave a sequal number 5 then the next game woldn't come for 10 years.

Hey um..for the Counter Strike, the naming and the numbering is based on the version they are based in. There should be some articles on that i think..

is it weird wanting macro to talk about persona now

Hey macro are u gonna play the new battle Royale game battle crush when it comes out cuz the beta is in 2 weaks

Please do marvel snap for noobs. I would absolutely love that!