Quake always struck me as a strange game name. Its predecessor, Doom, made sense, because the game was very... doomful. Quake, however, had nothing to do with the word "quake." I guess the world was called Quake? Or one of the demons was, or something, but it wasn't even the main demon.

Then they reused the franchise in a separate game arc that involved cyborg aliens, which took it away from its already iffy foundations.

It's a real arbitrary title.