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
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
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