Iva Demilcol
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Miyazaki confirmed that in an interview before even Dark Souls II was released and that didn't stop the crazy theories about Solaire.
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Video game memes that are based on inaccuracies or misconceptions
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Miyazaki confirmed that in an interview before even Dark Souls II was released and that didn't stop the crazy theories about Solaire.
Here's another good one: Ridley's artwork in the manual of the original Metroid. This is often trotted out as an example of dumb Americans replacing gorgeous Japanese artwork with ugly rubbish. Is there nothing those ignorant Westerners won't ruin?
But in reality, his artwork is exactly the same in the Japanese manual.
That was his intended look.
But in reality, his artwork is exactly the same in the Japanese manual.
That was his intended look.
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The Final Fanfasy X laugh memes
People desperately try and act like there's something noteworthy about that scene but it's frankly an unremarkable "just force yourself to laugh without pause" thing. I don't believe anyone who says they know the scene was ironic but consider it poor on a technical level on a production side. Please. You saw the video and thought it was bad voice acting on a normal scene and can't backtrack well.
People desperately try and act like there's something noteworthy about that scene but it's frankly an unremarkable "just force yourself to laugh without pause" thing. I don't believe anyone who says they know the scene was ironic but consider it poor on a technical level on a production side. Please. You saw the video and thought it was bad voice acting on a normal scene and can't backtrack well.
Hey, I don't create those sales ranks.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1277070&highlight=[PSV]
Just look at the amount of red in the lower sales ranks.
Isn't that the whole joke?
I like the fact you bolded decade. Thats exactly why the IGN remark is considered stupid. Hoenn's main feature that differentiates it from the other regions is the WATER. you'd think theyd pick up on that the first time around and realize "Hey! Wer're going back to Hoenn, I should expect water here!" But then you have said goofy quote happening. Its like saying there's too much caves and mountains in Sinnoh for crying out loud.
Right but it is misused is the point, right?
It IS stupid, but most people who saw this meme thought "Oh man, the AI are just plain dumb!" In context to the game, yes the game is stupid, and the AI isn't great, but the reason these guys are heat seeking on you is simply that they're "blind" in the story.
No one questions the atrocity of the game, but perhaps some of those who didn't play it did so because they thought the AI was stupid.
So by that, I suppose the meme saved hundreds of people from torment, torture, and sickness. Good job meme! Goodguymeme
MetroidPrimeRib
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The difference is FF8 is 7x longer then other M
Although if I am remembering right most of the baby lines are in the opening cut scene
Oh, I always thought they put it at the end to tie up a joke the set up at the beggining of the review in the sub-title. Maybe I'm mis-remembering that...
That's interesting. I never thought of that. I always just thought he had a weird name when I was a kid and didn't even notice it until the internet memes kept shoving it in my face.
Gremlin dva was gods work
UncleSporky
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I'm not specifically comparing it to FF8, I quoted the FF8 post because it's a similar situation, "number of times a thing was said" etc.
Head of Vengarl
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Heh. But at least his real son is cool as hell. Definitely the hardest boss in DS3.
Dragon Age 2 doesn't have any QTEs
But that's not showing qtes, it's showing the press A for Awesome philosophy from the actual devs.
Rellik
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Dragon Age 2 doesn't have any QTEs
That's not the point. It's saying all you have to do in DA2 is press the A button because they turned it into an action game.
Battlechili
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Yes
https://youtu.be/Ej6oRsKv6cY?t=1m43s
Did You Know Gaming pointed this out made it an especially popular theory.
This image also gets spread around a lot:
The co-creator of the series tackled this and stated its all made up and not true:
https://youtu.be/MhVNhFIUbNE?t=2m30s
And Miyamoto has also tackled it in the past saying that the theory is ridiculous.
EmCeeGramr
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Something that's bad the first time doesn't magically become un-bad the second time because you expect it.
Truly one of the worst shows to ever be so successful.
UncleSporky
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Yes
https://youtu.be/Ej6oRsKv6cY?t=1m43s
Did You Know Gaming pointed this out made it an especially popular theory.
This image also gets spread around a lot:
The co-creator of the series tackled this and stated its all made up and not true:
https://youtu.be/MhVNhFIUbNE?t=2m30s
And Miyamoto has also tackled it in the past saying that the theory is ridiculous.
Ahhhhh that kerning
"so that blood doesn't drain from the IR bra in when"
Tavernacle12
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Yeah. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what the actual 'meme' here is but I hated the water/HM use in those games when they first came out and I avoided buying the remakes because of it. I'm pretty sure there's a point where you need Pokemon with Dive, Waterfall, Surf, and maybe even Flash all at once, and remember just constant Wingulls...
Tom Nook Sawyer
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Which is 14 times more than it appears in every other game in the series
I didn't actually verify this
Even still, that scene is a (joke) cutscene.
EDIT: Actually, it might not be, its been awhile since I played DA2, thought it was the Varric narration scene at the start.
It was reality for me. In my first playthrough I did the dungeons or something in the game out of sequence and was hounded for literally hours with the same message to go do X. People I know who had previously never played OOT or heard of the meme have commented during gameplay that Navi is annoying as shit.
EmCeeGramr
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From what I understood of it before I actually saw the review it was from, it was acting like IGN were ridiculously saying that the very concept of water was offensive and saying the game was bad solely from that, which I guess is because at the very end where all the pros and cons are listed as short bulletpoints, "-Too much water" is one of them and everyone zeroed in on that alone. Then I read the actual review and it's like one or two paragraphs out of two pages where they, "Well they've updated a bunch but some core flaws are still here, there's still lots of annoying HMs to use and there's way too many boring water areas where you have to use HMs a lot, it's still pretty darn good," which was totally reasonable and what seemed like the utterly orthodox consensus surrounding the game.
It's like if Doom 3 BFG Edition came out, and still had you have to switch to the flashlight, and people were all "LOL this review says the game is too dark! It's a spooky game, idiot, why would you say that!" (Yes I know a sizeable amount of people over the years have come around on the flashlight thing in Doom 3, I'm just making an example)
Nope, it's still a fuckup. They translated the names inconsistently so the joke doesn't make sense unless you read about it online after the fact. It should've been something like Errol and Bagu if they wanted to be subtle about it or Error and Bug if not. "Error and Bagu" is still worthy of mockery.Another Zelda example:
Error from Zelda 2 is often cited as an example of "lol look how dumb those game designers were with their glitches and shit!" I mean, they didn't even finish his dialogue!
Except they did; Error is his name, and another guy named Bagu (Bug) refers back to him and you have to return and get an item from him.
matrixman92
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came here to post this exact same thing. Only happened to people with a specific graphics card and was fixed with the day one patch. But now the game will be forever plagued with that shit
MrSaturn99
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I agree context matters regarding the "too much water" thing although Hoenn still remains my favorite region for how varied it is. Diving was too cool, IMO
I agree with that. What they could have said instead of simply too much water is there is not enough to do on the water. Or say that they didn't like how the water routes was handled. Maybe even complain about very little was changed about how the water is handeled in Hoenn last time.(Something I hope they are working on in Sun and Moon) She did mention these things in the review but her summation was off.
Flatly saying too much water with out anything to it toward a water based region is dumb. If the statement was "The Water areas are a chore to manuver" with we wouldnt be talking about this now.
EmCeeGramr
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I feel like that's fairly clear about their problems. Could use more detail, but it gets the idea across just fine.
-Mutsukki-
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I'm pretty sure the meme came out because IGN seemed like they were expecting the remake to have the region completely redone and have less water parts. Which is kinda absurd I think, people expect Pokemon remakes to feature the region as faithful as possible to the original. I never liked Ruby/Sapphire because of a lot of reasons, one of the being surfing, but the remake is absolutely marvelous, it would lose a lot of it's charm if it became more streamlined, Hoenn is one of the most unique regions because of this.
edit: I mean, it makes sense, but ending the review with "too much water" as if they weren't expecting is just weird
Rexatality
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Dishonored "punishing" you for playing lethally.
It might as well be a meme at this point.
It might as well be a meme at this point.
Not necessarily a meme, but bring up Final Fantasy Adventure and you'll almost always get somebody tripping over themselves to remind you that it isn't a final fantasy game and is actually a Mana/Seiken Densetsu game and only had it's name changed in the US for brand recognition.
The reality is that the game was always branded as a Final Fantasy spinoff in Japan, and it wasn't until sequels that they started backing off on that (and not even immediately, seeing as how SD2/SoM still had moogles). Europe is the only region where Seiken Densetsu 1 didn't also carry the Final Fantasy title in some form or another.
The reality is that the game was always branded as a Final Fantasy spinoff in Japan, and it wasn't until sequels that they started backing off on that (and not even immediately, seeing as how SD2/SoM still had moogles). Europe is the only region where Seiken Densetsu 1 didn't also carry the Final Fantasy title in some form or another.
The Koopalings are Bowser's biological children. One of them is even named Morton Koopa Jr. for crying out loud.
Right but it's clear that Bagu is the fuck up and not Error. For some reason everyone latches onto the latter though. It's probably because most people never made it far enough to meet Bagu.
Right but it's clear that Bagu is the fuck up and not Error. For some reason everyone latches onto the latter though. It's probably because most people never made it far enough to meet Bagu.
Names can skip generations though. Maybe Morton is Bowser's dad's name.
edit:
Miyamoto has actually gone back and said that they aren't Bowser's kids now, but that wasn't necessarily the case before.
They were introduced as Bowser's childrens in SMB3 and subsequent media. It isn't a "misconception", an "inaccuracy" or even something invented in the localization, it's just something that changed.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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Even the cartoons clearly made them Koopa's kids
The annoying thing about this one is it's supposed to be a joke about really bad and unsubtle title drops, but people just use it as a template instead like "You know ___, we really are _____ (name of film/show/book/game)", instead of coming up with their own versions of terrible title drops.
Ultimadrago
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I'm surprised I haven't seen The Sonic Cycle image posted yet (though I wouldn't consider it the most inaccurate). I don't find it has been very relevant for a time.
I stand corrected.
It's like most dumb jokes on /v/, it's been repeated so often that it's become genuine misinformation.
Now Fi on the other hand...
decoyplatypus
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It's supposed to be awkward you dummies
Good call, Corpekata.
I don't know why laughing scene defenders assume the mockery originated from a misunderstanding. It's a simple scene, after all. People mock it because it is bad and features a memorable line reading, not because they misunderstand it.
"Hey I know you're on the fifth dungeon but there's a chance you've forgotten how to play so I'm going to pop up and tell you the solution to this puzzle."
Fi is the worst. She even sucks in Hyrule Warriors where almost everyone is amazing.
tintin1029
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MrSaturn99
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Oh yeah, wow. Funny how much that popped up for Sonic Boom.
Still, in civ 3, Spearmen are crazy broken when it comes to balance, they will tank way more advanced units like crazy, that's more or less where the joke comes, not specifically that it ALWAYS beats a tank, but that they will chew through your invading army most of the time unless you bring ludicrous numbers with you.
tintin1029
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Honestly, the scene is even dumber knowing the context of it.