lily!
2024-12-24T23:06:50.000Z
[videogames in general] a hot take: if the game is fully voiced, you shouldn't get to name your protagonist
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lily!
2024-12-24T23:07:05.000Z
i get that it's RPG Tradition but it's so, SO awkward how nobody QUITE says your name in spoken dialogue
lily!
2024-12-24T23:07:09.000Z
it sticks out like a sore thumb!
raspberrydrink
2024-12-24T23:08:08.000Z
^ agreed
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Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-24T23:14:45.000Z
even worse is when you name your character and people refer to you by name in the subtitles but the spoken dialogue dances around it
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-24T23:14:52.000Z
looking at you DQ8
AzureChrysanthemum
2024-12-24T23:15:18.000Z
FFX is still the most egregious example of this imo
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-24T23:16:17.000Z
the actual worst imo is star ocean 4
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-24T23:16:30.000Z
where you can change your name and it changes your name in the subs but in the voice they just still say the default name
AzureChrysanthemum
2024-12-24T23:24:03.000Z
oof
AzureChrysanthemum
2024-12-24T23:24:07.000Z
Yeah that's really bad
Mega
2024-12-25T00:04:57.000Z
tbh, I feel like letting the protag have a name is fine, especially since many rpg series (e.g. tales, FF) have moved toward named protags
penis bacon
2024-12-25T05:29:24.000Z
honestly I support SO4 even if I acknowledge it as the worst possible choice, entirely because... yeah no, your protag is named Edge Maverick why the FUCK would you change that
MundersOWundus
2024-12-25T12:28:17.000Z
There was one (1) elegant solution to this. A game where you could change your given name but not your surname. Shephard.
MundersOWundus
2024-12-25T12:28:26.000Z
(Wrex.)
NekoInc, MSPM
2024-12-26T22:54:21.000Z
Even that one honestly pushed it IMO.

... Still better than the time Namco changed from one noncustomizable name to a DIFFERENT noncustomizable name in English. But left the original name in the voice acting.

So it was Kor Meteor, pronounced Shing Meteoryte.
NekoInc, MSPM
2024-12-26T22:54:50.000Z
(Tales of Hearts R, the ultimate "we did not care" translation for that series.)
✶ 天才的なIDOL様!
2024-12-26T22:56:21.000Z
a couple of the tokimemo games had really cool in-depth systems for having the girls address you by any name you input even in their voiced lines
penis bacon
2024-12-26T23:49:02.000Z
fuckin tales
penis bacon
2024-12-26T23:49:17.000Z
it's astounding how little namco gives a fuck about their most popular RPG series
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