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[Watch Da Birdie]

Absolutely fantastic visual design though.

And Ghetsis' from B2W2's hard mode was an absolute bitch.

Well "Cofagrigus" didn't factor into the design at all since it was his dub name, and I assume the Pokemon are given Japanese names first and it goes from there.

He is rubbish...

Say what you will about the design, but there's nothing wrong with the name. It's a nice, simple pun like you'd find in Generation 1.

 

[arhra]

Anything Gundam-related is always going to be an absolute goldmine of incredibly silly names.

Yes, "Full Frontal" is actually the guy's name.

 

[ULTROS!]

New Age Retro Hippie

Isn't this a hipster in short?

 

[Monocle]

Guybrush Threepwood, the thread.

 

[Ōkami]

Sexy doll from Ilbleed.

NSFW screenshot

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[Aaronrules380]

Anything Gundam-related is always going to be an absolute goldmine of incredibly silly names.

Yes, "Full Frontal" is actually the guy's name.

You bring up Gundam in a silly name thread, and the first example you pick isn't Quattro Vagina? For shame

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

You bring up Gundam in a silly name thread, and the first example you pick isn't Quattro Vagina? For shame

To be fair Quattro Bajeena is a fake name, not a real one...technically Full Frontal is presumably the same and I'm pretty sure it may have intended to be a slight throwback to that given the circumstances.

 

[Aaronrules380]

To be fair Quattro Bajeena is a fake name, not a real one...technically Full Frontal is presumably the same and I'm pretty sure it may have intended to be a slight throwback to that given the circumstances.

And this makes it less silly how? If anything, the fact that someone chose to call themselves that makes it even sillier

 

[arhra]

You bring up Gundam in a silly name thread, and the first example you pick isn't Quattro Vagina? For shame

Well, technically his name is supposed to be Quattro Bajeena, it's only after being roundtripped through katakana by people who know just enough english to be dangerous that it turns into that.

 

[bojie1986]

Solid Snake and Naked Snake/Big Boss

 

[Aaronrules380]

Well, technically his name is supposed to be Quattro Bajeena, it's only after being roundtripped through katakana by people who know just enough english to be dangerous that it turns into that.

Lets be honest, we all know what it was actually meant to be. I'd assume Bajeena was either poor english spell on the Japanese side (happens a lot honestly) or an attempt to tone it down in bringing it over

If it was written in katakana in the first place, that means it was meant to be a word from a foreign language, given that that's the entire point of katakana

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Isn't there a Buttz in a Final Fantasy somewhere?

 

[Gyossaits]

Banjo Threeie

 

[Golnei]

'Offensive/HONEY' is great too.

M76/MOIST was the worst/best Mechon name.

 

[Rushersauce]

New Age Retro Hippie

This is "the silliest names in games", not the "most amazing names in games"

 

[True Fire]

Winner of both worst design AND worst name

Nooj

I forgot about him. I think Nooj takes the cake just because there isn't a single part of his existence that is excusable.

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

And this makes it less silly how? If anything, the fact that someone chose to call themselves that makes it even sillier

Exactly. It's such a horrible name that no one would suspect it was a name someone purposefully chose for themselves.

 

[plutoknight]

Isn't there a Buttz in a Final Fantasy somewhere?

Final Fantasy V's protagonist was originally translated as Butz, yes.

Final Fantasy always has silly names though. Nooj, Yuj, every Roegadyn name that isn't "Hoary Boulder", names-with-random-apostrophes ('Kam'lanaut, Eald'Narche, Selh'theus, Nag'Molada...)

 

[foxuzamaki]

English name: Umbreon
Japanese name: Blacky

haha omg, localization did wonders for that eveelution.

 

[Elitist1945]

I like you a lot for mentioning this game.

I mention the game any chance I get.

 

[Icyflamez96]

Ganondorf

 

[RedRum]

Fucking "Wakka" FFX.

 

[doctor_zzim]

POLYGON

MAN

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

Cofagrigus.

I have NO CLUE what TPCI, or whoever decides upon the dub names, was thinking. I mean, it's a mummy Pokemon, it shouldn't be that hard to come up with a simple pun for that. The Japanese name is the pretty cool デスカーン, usually romanticized as Deathkan meaning "death coffin".

But no, we get COFAGRIGUS, a name so bad it even originally set off the censor and couldn't be traded online! I guess the pun is "coffin" plus "egregious" as people speculate, and should be pronounced sort of like "sarcophagus", but it's clunky as fuck and there's no way someone can look at this name and think, yes, that's what we'll name a creature in a series with mass market appeal.

Sarcophagus - ph + f - a + i (jumbled) = that^?

Guybrush Threepwood for me but I've never played the games. Just doesn't roll off the tongue too well.

 

[ryseing]

Frequency Vibrations.

I was curious and watched some of the cutscenes from the Spike Lee joint.

The justification given for that name is DUMB AS FUCK.

 

[braves01]

Frequency Vibrations.

So dumb.

Sol Badguy is also impressively stupid, as is Hot Coldman, Skull Face, Metal Face, Bedman, and anything else that just's a bare description masquerading as a name.

 

[SoulUnison]

Edge Maverick.
Edge. Maverick.
EDGE FUCKING MAVERICK.

I know this only starts a whole other argument about Star Ocean, but the cheesy "tryhard" character names make sense with SO3's revelation that

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the entire universe exists inside an MMO.

I personally enjoy the twist and how it frames the world and directly addresses the player, but most people seem to completely miss the point of the swerve and scream that

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"Nothing mattered,"

when the entire point of the idea was that everything

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legitimately happened and it's supposed to be a big "screw you" the the kind of people who would take the twist in a knee-jerk "I need to be angry about something" sort of way.

It's one of my favorite twists because the people who decry it are exactly the sort of people it's suppose to be subverting, but they don't have the self-awareness or willingness to explore the concept to realize it.

It basically a direct attack on "complaining about games I didn't want to have to think about." And I find that amazing that it still "works" to this day.

That said: Star Ocean 4 was TERRIBLE.

 

[Stinkles]

Sheng Long.

Because of the misconception.

 

[OrionComplex]

Ugh every name in Destiny
The Darkness
The Traveler
The Speaker
The Reef
The Hive
The Fallen
The Awoken
The Cabal
The Citadel
The Nexus
The Archive

...notice a trend here?
Seriously I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

 

[Icyflamez96]

Ugh every name in Destiny
The Darkness
The Traveler
The Speaker
The Reef
The Hive
The Fallen
The Awoken
The Cabal
The Citadel
The Nexus
The Archive

...notice a trend here?
Seriously I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

you're taking The Crazy Pills

 

[Astral]

Dingo Egret always makes me laugh.

"You shut up. I'm Dingo!"

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

not quite better lol.

I don't see what's wrong with it. You saying "John-117" is as "silly" as pretty much any of the names in this thread? At worst I could see an argument that it's not terribly original.

 

[SoulUnison]

Ugh every name in Destiny
The Darkness
The Traveler
The Speaker
The Reef
The Hive
The Fallen
The Awoken
The Cabal
The Citadel
The Nexus
The Archive

...notice a trend here?
Seriously I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

The new trend in sci-fi/fantasy worldbuilding is to be as vague and general as possible, then, when your fanbase fills in the gaps with theories and idea, you appropriate one of them and claim it was your "vision" all along.

It's crowdsourced fiction.

 

[kitschbeam]

Goldman.

 

[tbd]

Final Fantasy thread.

 

[Valkrai]

I was curious and watched some of the cutscenes from the Spike Lee joint.

The justification given for that name is DUMB AS FUCK.

Where can I see this? How is this explained?

 

[Omadahl]

Roll Fizzlebeef.

But seriously, 90% of Final Fantasy games have atrocious names. Rinoa Heartilly? Lightning? Cloud Strife? It's like they let some 12-year old girl make up these names.

 

[Tizoc]

I just remember this-
The name of the villain in Lost Dimension is The End.
Literally The End

One of the lines of dialog in the game is even '...dastardly The End!'
Like you couldn't ahve just called him Omega?

Japan pls....

 

[Slamtastic]

I just remember this-
The name of the villain in Lost Dimension is The End.
Literally The End

One of the lines of dialog in the game is even '...dastardly The End!'
Like you couldn't ahve just called him Omega?

Japan pls....

 

[Dark_castle]

Funguy, Chrono Cross.

 

[MMarston]

Revolver Ocelot

 

[Tizoc]

Funnily enough that character never crossed my mind, but at least in MGS3 the name has meaning and the grammar for using his name is done well.

 

[DownGrader]

Guybrush Threepwood for me but I've never played the games. Just doesn't roll off the tongue too well.

The silliness of his name is constantly referenced in the Monkey Island series so it's supposed to be kinda dumb.
Although the actual name "Guybrush" takes its origins from placeholder file name of his in-game sprite.

 

[Slamtastic]

Funnily enough that character never crossed my mind, but at least in MGS3 the name has meaning and the grammar for using his name is done well.

 

[AwakenedCloud]

Phoenix Wright has never been subtle with names but this guy gets in one car accident and they call him Carmine Accidenti

And then there's Deid Mann. Try to guess what his role is in the murder mystery.

Based off of twists in the series, he's probably the murderer.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Aloser from Tactics Ogre.

I think she was the toughest enemy in the game up to that point too. In the original she could one shot like half your army.

 

[Error]

Noctis

 

[Pikma]

The thread specifically asks for names and you give us an image without any kind of explanation? what the fuck is wrong with you?

 

[Icyflamez96]

The thread specifically asks for names and you give us an image without any kind of explanation? what the fuck is wrong with you?

lol

 

[Cameron122]

Japan should never make english names ever again

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name us all, Japan