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Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:56 AM

Older RPGs from before voice acting that let you name all the characters feel weird to me, now

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:56 AM

like FF7 for a while

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:56 AM

You meet Tifa

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:56 AM

and then it's like "NAME TIFA"

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:56 AM

And I'm like "But she already has a name!"

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:56 AM

"I've known Tifa for 22 years I'm not changing her name!"

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:57 AM

The character is too well established in my head to name her anything other than what her name is

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:58 AM

yeah

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:58 AM

They were experimenting as the medium advanced technologically

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:58 AM

not everything they try was bound to work

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:59 AM

Though really that was the opposite of experimenting

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:59 AM

"WE'VE ALWAYS DONE IT THIS WAY SO WE'RE GOING TO KEEP DOING IT THIS WAY EVEN THOUGH IT MAKES NO SENSE"

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 1:59 AM

The only exception to this is

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:00 AM

with games where a character is going under an alias

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:00 AM

sometimes I'll name them their real name

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:00 AM

Frog = Glenn

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:00 AM

Marle = Nadia

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:00 AM

etc

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:05 AM

Anyways

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:05 AM

the first time Quinnfernal played FF7 they named Tifa "Spoogle"

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:05 AM

then Scott deleted my save file

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:05 AM

Then he did that

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:05 AM

because I named Tifa Spoogle

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:06 AM

And also because we were like 13 and we were all assholes

shinotenshi22

@shinotenshi22

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:06 AM

^_^

shinotenshi22

@shinotenshi22

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:06 AM

I remember these days, and my cousin (7 yrs younger than me) changing names around

Bolt Vanderhuge

@TriadOrion

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:08 AM

I do miss renaming characters in RPGs but I definitely get why that's out of vogue now. XDD

Bolt Vanderhuge

@TriadOrion

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:08 AM

It's certainly a relic

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:08 AM

It's out of vogue now because voice acting makes it almost impossible

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:09 AM

I thought Mass Effect did a pretty good job at it

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:09 AM

about as good a job as you can hope for

Bolt Vanderhuge

@TriadOrion

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:10 AM

Yeah. At this point with voice-acting it's hard to dance around it

Bolt Vanderhuge

@TriadOrion

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:11 AM

Three Houses dodged it by having everyone call Byleth "Professor" or "Teach"

Bolt Vanderhuge

@TriadOrion

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:11 AM

Which is not unlike "Commander" for Shepard, but yeah

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:11 AM

They even lampshaded themselves in Mass Effect

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:12 AM

had a whole conversation with the ship's doctor where she drunkenly goes on this whole rambling speech ending with "And that's why I will NEVER use your first name!"

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:12 AM

emerges from the sewers, uttering

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:12 AM

s e n p a i

Ramases II

@Nerdorama

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:13 AM

shit I got rid of my better emote for this

CrowsbeforeBros

@RShini

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:14 AM

DQXI had where a character was going to use your name but ends up sneezing

CrowsbeforeBros

@RShini

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:14 AM

which is funny, and kind of clever

E.S. Levi

@firebenderjess

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:14 AM

Persona gets around it by always having the voicing be 'this guy' or 'leader', but it still gets...clunky.

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:15 AM

Customizeable names

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:15 AM

OR

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:15 AM

Voice acting

Snake-Kun

@Overbringer

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:15 AM

PICK ONE

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:15 AM

it can be worked around but like

oh i'm scary

@yurisoldier

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:15 AM

Quinn coming out of the sewers to shame Atluskind

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:15 AM

one time in fifty is it worth the clunk

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:15 AM

just give them a name

E.S. Levi

@firebenderjess

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:15 AM

Atlus is just...determined to pretend the Persona protags are blank slates for self-insert.

CrowsbeforeBros

@RShini

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:16 AM

yeah, names would be way less clunky, and most of them tend to end up with official names anyways

E.S. Levi

@firebenderjess

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:16 AM

Even though I've mostly just seen delight that Akiren has real expressiveness and personality to him.

Ramases II

@Nerdorama

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:16 AM

I got a personality out of Sooj by doing what they did in the anime anyway and just making him a deadpan troll

A Grinning DM

@TwiceBlessed

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:17 AM

My favorite name the character moment in any JRPG will always be Professor Oak in the original Pokemon asking you what his grandson’s name is

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:17 AM

"It's... It's me, gramps"

CrowsbeforeBros

@RShini

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:18 AM

then they quit that after so many people named the rival bad words

A Grinning DM

@TwiceBlessed

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:19 AM

Naming your rival in Pokemon

moontouched

@rukafais

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:19 AM

iirc they made a joke about this in let's go pokemon

moontouched

@rukafais

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:20 AM

where oak asked and then blue was immediately just like "UGH YOU DO THIS EVERY TIME GRANDPA ITS NOT FUNNY ANY MORE YOU KNOW WHAT MY NAME IS"

C▲se 5

@Andrusi

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:23 AM

meanwhile, etrian odyssey still barely has voice acting so you can name everyone

C▲se 5

@Andrusi

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:23 AM

(well, except the untolds)

C▲se 5

@Andrusi

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:23 AM

but also I'm thinking of star trek online which is weird about it

C▲se 5

@Andrusi

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:24 AM

because you inherently have a title that everyone could naturally address you by (your rank)

C▲se 5

@Andrusi

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:25 AM

but they drop it out of the voice acting, like they do with your actual name, instead of having the vas record it

C▲se 5

@Andrusi

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:25 AM

/edits that for clarity

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:25 AM

Star Ocean 4 lets you rename everyone, but then just still uses the default names in the voice acting

CrowsbeforeBros

@RShini

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:26 AM

I feel like that's the best compromise if they insist on having nameable protagonists

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:26 AM

Having seen SO4, I hard disagree

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:26 AM

it's so off-putting to have the subs say one name and the voices say another

A Grinning DM

@TwiceBlessed

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:27 AM

Clearly the solution is to have all video games voiced by Siri

Quinnfernal

@quinn2win

Sun, Dec 15, 2019 2:27 AM

and makes it feel like your name change doesn't count for shit