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[jiggles]

THPS3 taught me what an awning was. I must've grinded that whole goddamn boat before I got it. :lol

 

[agaru]

It's straight away, something like this "Are you an Otaku too?" "Hmm?" "An Otaku is a guy like me who likes Japanimation" "Japanimation?" and so on.

It's shocking actually, how many times Snake just repeats what was said as a question. Hind D? Second floor basement? That one is said twice actually.

Ah, ok... Maybe I missed it then. Oh yes, the number of times Snake would repeat what's said as a question was just crazy in a way that made his next line very predictable. I thought it was a "trademark" of the game back then. :lol

 

[Edgeward]

"A True Paladin Will Sheath His Sword"

Couldn't be fucking bothered to have just told me to not attack, could you?!

 

[Cow Mengde]

Most of the posts are words from when they played a game around late elementary school Captain Dickthrottle.

*looks up the word dickthrottle*

I honestly don't remember. I think the last game might have been some strategy game. I know I've looked up words before, I just can't remember when was it. At least once in High School I'm sure.

 

[pakkit]

Anachronox.

 

[Cahill]

Legacy of Kain

Gizzard, deified, Grand Guignol, Vae Victus, abated, mausoleum, aegis, malaise, Ignis Fatuus, haughty, cacophony, whelp, scything, dais, raiment, thralls, machinations, pall, courtiers, throngs, princeling, heft, fleeting, teeters, charnel, debased, fettered, fratricide, advisedness, unfurls, avarice, stifled, hitherto, antithesis, portend, indecorous, inexorable, sinuous, apostate, fonts, blithely, capitulation, immutable, abhors, messianic, impetuous, addled, spooling, ferreted, tyrannous, scion, voracious, incontrovertible, sconces, molder, braziers, and labyrinthian.

I know most of them now, but when I first played the games I was unfamiliar with them.

Wait... how the hell did you not only remember that you didn't know these specific words at a given time, but also that you didn't know all these words and that they were in Legacy of Kain?

and Captain Dickthrottle had me dying here for some reason. :lol

 

[SnakeswithLasers]

Only difficult word I have ever encountered in a game was ameliorate, but give me a break I was 14 at the time! :lol

As if 3 weeks ago is a long time.

 

[dc`]

Rendezvous, from the "Rendezvous with 006" objective in Goldeneye's Facility level. I was only about 9 years old and had never seen this crazy word before. I remember asking "what does ren-dez-voos mean?" and being laughed at for not pronouncing it properly

 

[Yaweee]

I recently used "polycephalic lagomorph" in a game I'm writing for. Also, "lepidopterist".

Ah, yes.

"I'm not a misanthrope. I'm a lagomorph!

 

[ZealousD]

It's shocking actually, how many times Snake just repeats what was said as a question. Hind D? Second floor basement? That one is said twice actually.

METAL GEAR??

 

[bernardobri]

you just reminded me that i had to look up what an Ocelot was when i played MGS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXxAGRpAcnA

Spoiler

Ocelot: "It's kind of a bobcat or something...

:lol

 

[BlueWord]

Tales of the Abyss - Kimlasca-Lanvaldear

Not really a word, per se, but definitely one of the worst names for a country or, well... anything. I chuckled every time someone mentioned it, though, so it made the game marginally more enjoyable.

 

[malingenie]

English was my second language and I learned a lot through Lucasarts and Sierra :lol

I remember in The Perils of Rosella (KQIV) I had no idea what a fuckin Bridle was, much less where to find one!

 

[Starchasing]

leather jacket

california games

when i as 8

 

[blame space]

ok-uh-ree-nuh of Time
Super Smash Brothers may-lay
yo-shee's Island
Super mahr-ee-o

If you pronounce any of the above any differently I'll probably think less of you.

 

[Carlisle]

Xeno fucking gears.

I didn't know what the hell Xeno even meant before that game.

 

[upandaway]

Am I really supposed to remember the difficult words? I think I learned a quarter of my vocabulary from games. Not a native speaker.

The earliest one, I think, is Tackle. I used it so often in Pokemon that, even without knowing the English alphabet, I knew how to write it down myself and how it's spoken and what it means.

I also think Monkey Island had quite a few "LOL BIG WORDS WHAT" moments for me. An out of place sentence or two will weird me out. But then I didn't even know what "opponent" was at the time (learned that from YuGiOh), so I guess it's kind of a given.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Oh yeah! I looked up the word "scion." Now that I think about it... I forgot what it means.

*runs to get dictionary again*

Oh, and someone should give PataHikari the title Captain Dickthrottle.

 

[usea]

ok-uh-ree-nuh of Time
Super Smash Brothers may-lay
yo-shee's Island
Super mahr-ee-o

If you pronounce any of the above any differently I'll probably think less of you.

I get that you're a junior junior member and all, but this thread is about vocabulary not pronunciation.

 

[StuBurns]

METAL GEAR??

REX?

 

[ismaboof]

Phantasy Star IV spell names, fuck you

Also, when I was new to the internet and playing Starcraft (56k what?) I asked another guy a questions and he replied, "dunno." I thought he said "dino" (like the Flinstones). Fucking internet slang.

 

[Lyude77]

Civilization II. I don't remember any words in particular, but I think it taught me agility somehow. Wait, maybe that was Pokemon... XD

Civ II did have a lot of weird historical names though (for a kid in elementary school).

 

[truly101]

No votes for Gaiden? Masamune? Yggdrassil and other Nordic mythical terms (outside of Thor) I was pretty unfamilar with until I played a lot of video games.

 

[Lucis]

I learnt Japanese from video game.
Does that count?

 

[blame space]

I get that you're a junior junior member and all, but this thread is about vocabulary not pronunciation.

"Difficult words you've encountered in a video game"

How dare I stray so far from the discussion topic?

I'm pretty sure Pokemon taught me the meaning of the word "leer".

 

[Dark Octave]

Sephiroth.

I never knew how to pronounce it until this scene when the choir sang his name.

Prior to this part, I wen't through the whole game reading it as "Sefromalanapapa..." or anything around that.

 

[Cow Mengde]

No votes for Gaiden? Masamune?

No, because they're not even English words. Plus, as a kid playing Ninja Gaiden, knowing what the word Gaiden means was the least of my problems. Hell, I didn't know what Contra meant back in elementary school either but at that age, I just didn't give a shit.

 

[schick85]

No votes for Gaiden? Masamune? Yggdrassil and other Nordic mythical terms (outside of Thor) I was pretty unfamilar with until I played a lot of video games.

No, because they're not even English words. Plus, as a kid playing Ninja Gaiden, knowing what the word Gaiden means was the least of my problems. Hell, I didn't know what Contra meant back in elementary school either but at that age, I just didn't give a shit.

I actually wondered what gaiden was as a kid, believe it or not.
I asked my dad what it was growing up. Too bad he didn't have a clue.

 

[KevinCow]

Impeccable in Pokemon Red.

"That name is impeccable!"

NO FUCK YOU DUX IS A STUPID NAME FOR FARFETCH'D.

 

[Fourth Storm]

Came across "transmogrified" in Persona 3 last night and didn't believe it was a real word before looking it up. :lol

 

[IcebergSlim3000]

Ryu.

I used to pronounce it rye-you. Much later on in life I learned that it was pronounce Ree-you.

 

[Flachmatuch]

You pussies posting about SMT spell names clearly never tried to struggle through Phantasy Star IV at age 7.

ZAN
WAT
FOI
TSU
GRA
RES
SAR
SHIFT
SANER
RIMPA
REVER
BROSE
VOL
HEWN
TANDLE
WARLA
TELELE

Full spell list from Bard's Tale 3:

Arfi
Mafl
Trzp
Frfo
Maco
Wohl
Lere
Levi
Wast
Flre
Inwo
Grre
Shsp
Male
Flan
Apar
Fafo
Insl
Regn
Scsi
Vopl
Qufi
Aren
Howa
Maga
Mysh
Ogst
Stfl
Drbr
Spto
Anma
Gist
Phdo
Ymca
Dest
Rest
Ices
Ston
Lotr
Mija
Phbl
Disb
Fear
Wiwa
Sesi
Invi
Wiog
Caey
Widr
Diil
Mibl
Sosi
Wigi
Magm
Wihe
Prec
Rime
Fofo
Suel
Deba
Prsu
Disp
Flco
Ande
Herb
Spbi
Sowh
Bede
Grsu
Grsu
Wizw
Dmst
Hafo
Meme
Basp
Camr
Nila
Heal
Brkr
Mama
Vitl
Arbo
Enik
Wifi
Cold
Geli
Ecul
Gofi
Stun
Luce
Ileg
Luck
Fade
Kine
Obra
What
Olay
Oluk
Ecea
Grro
Fota
Aece
Kulo
Shsh
Fafi
Evil
Live
Eada
Easo
Eawa
Treb
Eael
Wawa
Rock
Roal
Suso
Sast
Sant
Glst
Path
Maba
Jobo
Eama
Gill
Diva
Nuke

And you could enter the name directly instead of selecting it from a list.

 

[Starchasing]

Civilization II. I don't remember any words in particular, but I think it taught me agility somehow. Wait, maybe that was Pokemon... XD

Civ II did have a lot of weird historical names though (for a kid in elementary school).

garrison

 

[Steven_Jitters]

I was 12 when SSBM came out and I had no idea what a Melee was. Luckily I still pronounced it correctly.

 

[usea]

How dare I stray so far from the discussion topic?

Sorry, was just kidding around. Didn't mean to sound like a dick.

 

[faridmon]

No, because they're not even English words. Plus, as a kid playing Ninja Gaiden, knowing what the word Gaiden means was the least of my problems. Hell, I didn't know what Contra meant back in elementary school either but at that age, I just didn't give a shit.

wait, does Contra has a meaning?

yeah, i had to use the dictionary to understand the jokes of Paper Mario. English is hard

Spoiler

Even though I live in UK now

my English is not fluent yet *sigh*

 

[thomaser]

Two more: "stamina" and "urban" from Urban Champion. I pondered those many a sleepless night. I didn't have an encyclopedia or anything, so I concluded that your fighter's name was Urban, and that stamina was probably some kind of drug.

Edit: Link's Awakening on the GB was full of great lines. I memorized many of them and used them in essays and English tests, to the teacher's amazement. Once, I wrote in the grampa who can only talk properly on the phone, and used many of his lines.

 

[Cindres]

Melee (from Starcraft): My friends and I in middle school would always choose melee when we battled in Starcraft, but none of us knew what it meant.

l

This, i was always pronouncing it wrong anyway.

 

[Corto]

Napishtim... My sumerian was a little rusty.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

ITT people who need to read more.

/thread

* high five

 

[Gomu Gomu]

Quit game... I used to pronounce it as quite game.

 

[Tenks]

Oh yeah when Diablo was released I had no clue what the hell dexterity is. I thought it trivial so I put every stat point for my warrior into STR and STA.

Actually that was a godly play through. I got a Zodiac Ring, Godly Plate of the Whale and that big fucking axe ... Merachidsts Reaver or something.

 

[VoteForPedro]

/thread

* high five

ITT people not realizing not everybody here was born in an English speaking country.

As for me it was without a doubt Antidisestablishmentarianism in a Sherlock Holmes game, I had no idea there was such a long word in the English language. Peculiarly enough I heard it again only a few days later in a Black Adder episode :lol

Ever noticed that how when you learn a new word you seem to hear it more often in the next few days? Weird.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Nothing really comes to mind for the last twenty years. But I do remember going through a big old thesaurus to discover and use alternate words for things I'd see in those old graphic screen-text adventures when I was a kid.

 

[Ourobolus]

Ether. I was 11 or so when I first got Chrono Trigger and kept saying "ee-ther." To this day I have to remind myself that it's "eh-ther."
Also, I called Ryu "rai-yoo." I still have trouble overcoming this one.
And yes, Masamune is still "Maa-suh-myoon" to me (I know what it's supposed to be).

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

ITT people not realizing not everybody here was born in an English speaking country.

ITT a whole lot of not my problem.

 

[VoteForPedro]

ITT a whole lot of not my problem.

Classy

 

[Deleted member 30609]

ITT people who need to read more.

This is so, so true, but not really relevant to this thread.

 

[MikeE21286]

I find memorizing stuff in SMT easy.

Agi -> Fire
Bufu -> Ice
Zio -> Lightning
Garu -> Wind
Mudo -> Dark
Hama -> Light
Dia -> Heal

Ma -> Multiple Targets

(prefix)
Taraku -> Attack
Raku -> Defense
Suku -> Hit/Evade
+
(suffix)
nda -> Debuff
kaja -> Buff

I just don't........these were my hardest "words" to remember in recent memory.

 

[Snuggles]

la-le-lu-le-lo