What are some titles and names in video gaming that people often mispronounce?
For example, Ico, Shenmue, Ryu, etc.
For example, Ico, Shenmue, Ryu, etc.
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Titles and names that people mispronounce
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Mario
yeah I went there
for the record I pronounced ICO as eye-co for over a decade, and kind of still do
Tidus from FFX - largely owing to the fact his name is never actually spoken in that game.
It's Tee-dus, not Tye-dus.
It's Tee-dus, not Tye-dus.
Remember that time everyone on here (or it might have been The Old Place pre-Exodus) thought the narrator of GVMERS was a text-to-speech device because he pronounced Bayonetta "bay-YON-tta"?
What about not even spell correctly? Or even use the wrong name altogether?
It pains me whenever i see Laura Croft
It pains me whenever i see Laura Croft
Yep noticed that
Also for the longest of time I thought Tear Away was Tear as in eye tear but it wasn't....
Nier: Automata.
A surprisingly large amount of people don't know how to pronounce the word automata, and that makes me sad.
A surprisingly large amount of people don't know how to pronounce the word automata, and that makes me sad.
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Roegadyn from XIV.
Or rather, any Roe name in general.
It's "ROO-ga-din"
Not "row-GAY-din"
"All instances of "oe" in roegadyn names are pronounced like "moon".
Or rather, any Roe name in general.
It's "ROO-ga-din"
Not "row-GAY-din"
"All instances of "oe" in roegadyn names are pronounced like "moon".
がろう, so it would be ga-row (like rowboat)
That's what I always thought
You can hear it around 00:15
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Ryu. A lot of people say RYE-U it's REE-U I mean the game even says it but they still say it wrong ..
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the funniest part of that is that everyone pronounces Shoryuken correctly
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It's meant to be Deep Throat in Romaji but I got the last two syllables wrong lol (I guess the correct form would be Diipu Surouto?)
I took this username because I leaked the Final Fantasy Fortress tech demo back in the day
Who mispronounces that? I see lots of people misspelling but how else would you say it?
I thought you were using Romaji and it looks like I was right! But yeah, "Surotu" is incorrect and it bugged me for a very long time. Seeing as you're from France, I thought your name might be French and that I was mistaken about the Romaji.
Now this is one that I've never heard spoken out loud.
In my head I read it as 'toe-hoo', but I'm guessing that's the mispronunciation lol.
Sure but you didn't give any examples of them pronounced (written) haha
Hoo as in Yahoo or with a long o sound like Ho Ho Ho?
It should be the latter
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Most people who mispronounce it are just keeping their habit from before the name was heard in the actual games
I swear there was some publication back in the day when it was previewed or reviewed that specifically stated it was pronounced "eye-co." Which always confused me because ee-co seems the much more natural way to pronounce it.
ninja gaiden has to be the most prolific mispronunciation out there.