History TitleDrop / Videogames

** The sub-title for each game in the main series to date is a [[MetafictionalTitle Metafictional]] OneWordTitle of an in-universe "ThePlace".[[note]]Yes, even ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'', as it's mentioned in the intro that "Arena" is an alternate name for Tamriel (later retconned as an alternative name for Nirn)[[/note]]. ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'' takes it UpToEleven by dropping the subtitle in a very blatant and glorified manner in the opening cinematic:

* You get to find the Mask of the Betrayer in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'', but it isn't actually referred to anywhere in dialogue as such.

*** And in dialogue with Deekin, he mentions that he's going to be writing a book about your adventures in the above expansion pack, and asks the PC to give it a name. Naturally, one of the options is ''Hordes of the Underdark.'' Or "Anything but Hordes of the Underdark." Prompting some scribbling on Deekin's part.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' is the name of the motel that Travis lives at, and is also written on the wall in any of the bathrooms that act as the game's [[SavePoint Save Points]]. It's also delivered in a TakeThat by [[spoiler: Travis's ex-girlfriend Jeane]] before the Rank 1 boss fight:

** The sequel title drops both the series and subtitle name. First in the opening...

** The [[VideoGame/HalfLife1 original game]] has a chapter named "Forget about Freeman!". These words can be heard during a radio broadcast at the start of the chapter urging the military to evacuate the Black Mesa facility.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' has a double meaning in that it first refers to how Miller and Big Boss still feel pain where their limbs have been lost, but also refers to the feeling of emptiness and loss they feel in all their fellow soldiers who died during the attack on the MSF base as well as how getting their revenge on Skull Face hasn't really helped any in getting better from it.

** Several games beginning with ''Monster Hunter Freedom Unite'' have a quest called "Monster Hunter", which pits the player in a BossRush against multiple monsters, usually the flagship monsters of the game you're playing.
** ''Monster Hunter XX'' ("XX" being pronounced "Double Cross") has an endgame quest called "[[BrutalBonusLevel Advanced]]: Double Cross", which follows a similar concept with the game's five flagship monsters. In the localized versions, which are called ''Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate'', the quest is called "Advanced: Ultimate Generation".
** The flagship elder dragon of ''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne'', Velkhana, has the [[RedBaron title]] of "The Iceborne Wyvern".

* Lampshaded in the preview for ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free'', as well as in the game itself:

'''Strong Bad:''' Shut up!

* ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIIMonsterLair''(UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 CD version only): "But you have fought off their wicked attempts and locked these fiendish rogues in the eternal limbo of the...'''Monster Lair'''!"

* ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIIMonsterLair''(UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 CD version only): "You have fought off these fiendish rogues and locked them in the eternal limbo of the...'''Monster Lair'''!"

** ''Devil May Cry 4'' has another one, in Nero's battle theme. The last lyric before the song repeats is "I make the angel scream, and the Devil '''CRY'''!"

* "VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream" ends in a title drop [[spoiler: during bad ending, just like the novella. Averted in the good ending as the title never comes up.]]

** Also, the intro of Modern Warfare 3 begins with Makarov saying: "Modern Warfare is based on deception."

** The opening sequence video for VideoGame/NeverwinterNights Hordes of the Underdark closed with a TitleDrop.

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' doesn't use "planescape" -- but then, the game is properly called ''Torment''. (Calling it ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' is like calling another game, for example, ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms: VideoGAme/BaldursGate''.) Torment starts getting dropped at about the midpoint of the game, increasing in frequency from there.

* "Inspired by his never ending quest for progress, in the year [[VideoGame/{{Robotron2084}} 2084]], man perfects the [[VideoGame/{{Robotron2084}} Robotrons]], a robot species so advanced, that man is inferior to his own creation..."

* {{VideoGame/Rogue Legacy}}:

* The TurnBasedStrategy ''Shattered Union'' ends the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkpTiHSFioI intro]] in particularly...'''Dramatic Fashion'''.

* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjX_zJNYw8g&feature=player_embedded When You're Gone]] does this for the most recent Silent Hill game.

* ''VideoGame/{{Something}} series''

* The phrase "VideoGame/SonicHeroes" was apparently rammed into the game of the same name for no reason. Both Sonic and Eggman use it to describe Team Sonic, but it also appears in Team Chaotix's theme song, meaning that it might describe all the main characters... even though they have completely different reasons for fighting Eggman and actually fight each other every so often.

-->'''Metal Sonic:''' It's no use... why can't I defeat you...?\\

:::Metal Sonic then promptly faints/powers down, possibly due to being beaten, but one must wonder if it was because of that title drop...

* As the resident FourthWallObserver, before the second battle with the Piggy Man, the Terror Mask remarks "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Show him why we call it]]... ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}."

* ''Starion'' is the solution to one of the first puzzles in the game (AD 1985: "Be present at your birth"). Or potentially ''[[SequenceBreaking the]]'' first.

* In John Woo's ''Stranglehold'', Damon Zakarov tells BigBad Wong, in his demands that he hand over Hong Kong to him, "Your stranglehold has lasted far too long."

-->'''Human:''' We learned to wield the '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H91qZSfYLoU Sword of the Stars]]'''''.\\

-->'''Suul'ka:''' Your season in the sun has passed. Now you will tremble before the '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoupNUyM9-8 Lords of Winter]]'''''.
-->'''Loa:''' Lay down your arms, or face the '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enNftYHBxwM End of Flesh]]'''''.

* VideoGame/TheyAreBillions: When you are alerted about the final horde in a survival game or the campaign, your announcer states "Oh my God! A huge swarm is coming! THEY ARE BILLIONS!!! They are approaching from all sides!"

* In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' games, [[CallingYourAttacks Spell Cards]] have names which generally take the form of something like '''Love Sign "Master Spark"''', and this is used for a Title Drop a few times for the final Spell Card of the FinalBoss. In ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', Yuyuko's final spell card (before her DesperationAttack) is titled '''Cherry Blossom Sign "Perfect Ink-Black Cherry Blossom"'''; in ''Mountain of Faith'', Kanako's final attack has no "sign" part of its name (though it is far from unique in that regard) and is simply called '''"Mountain of Faith"'''[[note]]Only on Easy and Normal mode though; on higher difficulties it is "Virtue of Wind God"[[/note]].
** Also, Tenshi from the FightingGame SpinOff ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' gives us '''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody for all Mankind'''.
** In ''Imperishable Night'', the "sign" parts of all of Kaguya's Last Spells are called '''Imperishable Night's End'''. Furthermore, the "sign" parts for her five normal spellcards are all called '''Impossible Request''', which matches her stage title "Five [[ImpossibleTask Impossible Requests]]".

** Utsuho Reiuji has '''"Subterranean Sun"''' on Hard and Lunatic, and Koishi Komeiji has '''"Subterranean Rose"'''.
** Played a bit differently in ''Ten Desires''. The final boss's power is listening to ten people at once, or rather, to their Ten Desires.

** ''Shinkirou'', the Japanese title of ''Hopeless Masquerade'', is revealed in Kokoro's ending to be [[spoiler:[[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis the name of the new Noh Play she made based on the events of the game]]]].
** The fangame ''Concealed the Conclusion''[='=]s Stage 5 is titled '''Concealed the Conclusion''' ([[GratuitousEnglish in English, in a Japanese game]]). Ironically, it is also the stage where the [[DreamApocalypse conclusion]] is ''[[WhamEpisode revealed]]''.

* "And so began [[VideoGame/VagrantStory the story of the wanderer... the vagrant]]."

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' -- welcome in that we get to find out what they were smoking when they came up with that one. [[spoiler:Turns out it's suggesting that the parts of the world you ignore might as well not exist, and with [[EmoTeen Neku]] (who is told this) that means a ''lot'' might as well not exist. Thank you, [[AC:TitleDrop]]!]]
-->'''Mr Hanekoma''': Listen up, Phones! The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go.
-->'''Neku''': Are you kidding? I'm stuck in the Reapers' Game. I can't even leave Shibuya. How am I supposed to expand my world?
-->'''Mr Hanekoma''': That's for you to figure out.
-->'''Neku''': ''(thinking)'' Expand my world...

* "Hi, it's 'Kate' from ''[[VideoGame/{{HotlineMiami}} Hotline Miami's]]'' dating service."

* ''Videogame/IMissTheSunrise'' has one in the very last scene: As one character watches the first sunrise they have seen in millennia, they remark, "God, I missed this."

* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}''
** The English version of ''VideoGame/{{Persona3}}: FES'' is composed of two segments- the main game is "The Journey," while a part after the events of the game is "The Answer." In both of them, you see references to the title and the overarching themes of the story in parts of the game over messages -- "Though life is merely a journey to the grave, it must not be undertaken without hope," and "The answer has been lost, never to be found again...", respectively.

* From ''Videogame/{{Section 8}}: Prejudice'':

* In John Woo's ''Stranglehold'', Damon Zakarov tells Main/BigBad Wong, in his demands that he hand over Hong Kong to him, "Your stranglehold has lasted far too long."

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' games, [[CallingYourAttacks Spell Cards]] have names which generally take the form of something like '''Love Sign "Master Spark"''', and this is used for a Title Drop a few times for the final Spell Card of the FinalBoss. In ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', Yuyuko's final spell card (before her DesperationAttack) is titled '''Cherry Blossom Sign "Perfect Ink-Black Cherry Blossom"'''; in ''Mountain of Faith'', Kanako's final attack has no "sign" part of its name (though it is far from unique in that regard) and is simply called '''"Mountain of Faith"'''[[note]]Only on Easy and Normal mode though; on higher difficulties it is "Virtue of Wind God"[[/note]].

** Within the game, the title of the ''Explorers and Exploiters'' story arc (better known as the [[FanNickname Dr. Q Task Force]]) is randomly wedged into dialog by a random NPC about a quarter of the way through.

** ''In Dead Space 3'', players are able to hear this line on a recording, "It's all just dead space"-Dr. Earl Serrano, referring to something told to him by an old colleague. The original line was meant with the idea that there was just no alien life anywhere in the universe, and nothing to study, but for both the player and Serrano, those words take on a whole new meaning; the cycle of death a rebirth brought about by the Markers has left nothing but emptiness across the stars. In this way, it has both a literal and figurative meaning.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfGoo'' Corporation.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', the closing lines of the Spirit Tree, [[spoiler: [[NarratorAllAlong who was Ori all along]]]], are "It was '''the will of the wisps''' that life begin anew". During the second act, the main quest is also titled "The Will of the Wisps".

** And there's a more direct [[AC: TitleDrop]] in the third game, which explains that Dante named the shop after a line spoken by Lady at the end of the game during a SandInMyEyes moment, telling him that even a demon might cry over [[spoiler:his brother (seemingly) dying.]]

-->A very special girl would have to undertake an ''enchanted journey'' across magical lands, helping princesses in need.

** The title ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', which is quite traditional to UsefulNotes/{{Super Nintendo|EntertainmentSystem}} games, is also a name of the result of another research project.

* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}: Risky's Revenge'' does this during the first battle with Risky:
--> '''Risky''': Lock and load men! It's time for Risky's Revenge, so let's attack aggressively!

* The English version of ''VideoGame/{{Persona3}}: FES'' is composed of two segments- the main game is "The Journey," while a part after the events of the game is "The Answer." In both of them, you see references to the title and the overarching themes of the story in parts of the game over messages -- "Though life is merely a journey to the grave, it must not be undertaken without hope," and "The answer has been lost, never to be found again...", respectively.

* ''Franchise/DragonAge'' pulls its TitleDrop in the Codex, of all places, as part of the description of the Chantry's practice of naming each century as "____ Age" after a significant event. Since dragons reappeared in the world (after being hunted nearly to extinction by the Nevarran dragon hunters) at the beginning of this century, the game is set in the Dragon Age.

--->[[{{Engrish}} NOW REACHES THE FATAL ATTRACTION BE DESCRIBED AS "HELLSINKER"]]

-->'''Kass:''' Let not the sound leave horses riled. Breathe in the '''breath of the wild'''.
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': At one point in the game, Max says "Life is", then pauses for a moment, before continuing "weird", [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] this trope.
** Earlier, we also get "Life is... so not fair."

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' refers to a category of technology that is the main AppliedPhlebotinum of the game series, which is critically important for galactic civilization in the game.
** The opening title consists of a short description of the events that led humanity into the interstellar field, culminating with "They called it the greatest discovery in human history. The civilization of the galaxy call it...''Mass Effect''".

* * ''VisualNovel/MinotaurHotel'': Happens twice. Once when you need to name the wi-fi network something, so you name it "Minotaur Hotel", and another when it's been pointed out that the hotel doesn't have a name, so you just decide to name it "Minotaur Hotel" as well.

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', Jill ends her opening monologue stating that her escape from Raccoon City will be her "last escape"; a reference to the Japanese title, ''Biohazard 3: Last Escape''.