Board 8 > Weird video game official pronunciations you didn't expect

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We all know about Teedus, but I just learned Live a Live is "Liv Alive."

Chozo

Gardevoir before I knew about French pronunciation.

Ys is "eese" apparently

Raka_Putra posted...

Gardevoir before I knew about French pronunciation.

I actually thought that was kinda obvious. I have no idea what other way to even try pronouncing it.

Leonhart4 posted...

Ys is "eese" apparently

like the english word Ease, yeah

Anagram posted...

We all know about Teedus, but I just learned Live a Live is "Liv Alive."

it's not though. It's so Live (rhymes with hive) Alive

I dont know if its official, but the pronunciation most people use for Suikoden doesnt sound as good to me

Gerudo

By a similar token of following the katakana, Bubble Lead in Mega Man 2 is , or Babu Ruriido, which means it's pronounced lead as in "to lead", not lead as in the element lead

I've never liked the official way to say Rayquaza.

Also Cait Sith is pronounced Ket Shee

Crescent-Moon posted...

I actually thought that was kinda obvious. I have no idea what other way to even try pronouncing it.

Gar (as in garden)
De (as in the brand Dell)
Vo (as in voice)
Eer (as irritate)

Well that was the most natural way of reading it for kid me with Indonesian as my native tongue anyway.

Raka_Putra posted...

Gar (as in garden)
De (as in the brand Dell)
Vo (as in voice)
Eer (as irritate)

Well that was the most natural way of reading it for kid me with Indonesian as my native tongue anyway.

Yeah, this makes sense. I think it might be the case that native english speakers from the anglosphere countries are more used to seeing french phonemes get tossed around here and there so something like 'voir' is less likely to be tricky - we've seen and heard the term 'film noir' enough, for instance, to make that rhyming connection, or something like the french "voila!"

I got several FF names mispronounced as a kid. I thought Zidane was pronounced "zi-dain", Steiner was "Steen-ner", Freya was "Free-yah", Eiko was "Eek-co", constantly misread Amarant as Aramant ("Ah-rah-mant"), Seifer was "See-fur", Rinoa was "Rhye-no-ah", Yuffie was "yoff-ee", Aeris was "Air-rees", Shiva was "Shiver", Odin was "Ohh-dinn", and a bunch of others I'm sure I'm forgetting. I also made the Teedus mispronounciation (though I swear I heard Teedus when playing DISSIDIA ages ago).

I also recall mispronouncing the word steak as "Steek" when first reading the word in a video game.

The biggest "mispronounciation" of a word/name I ever made was when I was around 7 or 8 when I was playing some sort of (I think) early quiz computer game and the game showed the word "funky" on its own. I thought it read/was pronounced "Fucky", which when I said it at one point in school or somewhere else in public got me in trouble.

Fir from FE6 is pronounced like "Fear"
Guy from FE7 is pronounced something like "Gii"

Both of those I didn't know until I heard how they were pronounced from official Fire Emblem Heroes videos.

WhiteLens posted...

Fir from FE6 is pronounced like "Fear"
Guy from FE7 is pronounced something like "Gii"

Both of those I didn't know until I heard how they were pronounced from official Fire Emblem Heroes videos.

caeda and caeldori? thonk

The C in Chester is silent.

Resident Evil Revelaitons is apparently pronounced like 'revelations'

paulg235 posted...

I got several FF names mispronounced as a kid. I thought Zidane was pronounced "zi-dain", Steiner was "Steen-ner", Freya was "Free-yah", Eiko was "Eek-co", constantly misread Amarant as Aramant ("Ah-rah-mant"), Seifer was "See-fur", Rinoa was "Rhye-no-ah", Yuffie was "yoff-ee", Aeris was "Air-rees", Shiva was "Shiver", Odin was "Ohh-dinn", and a bunch of others I'm sure I'm forgetting. I also made the Teedus mispronounciation (though I swear I heard Teedus when playing DISSIDIA ages ago).

Yeah most of these, I messed up pretty much every Final Fantasy character/term as a kid. I still say chock-obo like chocolate.

Also I said Yoshi with a short o, which to be fair is how the Yoshi speak themselves.

Arceus as "arse-ee-us"

The Taito shooter series Darius is pronounced Dar-eye-us which follows neither English nor Japanese pronunciation conventions for that spelling.

andylt posted...

Also I said Yoshi with a short o, which to be fair is how the Yoshi speak themselves.

what, they definitely say YO-shiiiiiiiiii

for MGS2 Raiden, I said "ray-den" before I heard it

not video game related but I had no clue how to pronounce Hermione before I watched the Harry Potter movies

Cecil
Kain
Cait Sith

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Arceus as "arse-ee-us"

Oh this is a good one. What a dumb pronunciation.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

I dont know if its official, but the pronunciation most people use for Suikoden doesnt sound as good to me

Describe it.

The only version I cant stand is when people just ignore the I and say SOO-ko-den or soo-KO-den

For me, when I was young reading about SF2 in magazines, I thought Guile was gully because I had never seen the actual word before

Jakyl25 posted...

For me, when I was young reading about SF2 in magazines, I thought Guile was gully because I had never seen the actual word before

Yeah, I had a friend who did this, too.

Speaking of SF2, I said "rye-you" until I eventually heard Ryu's name spoken.

I bet most English speakers did.

Oh yeah Guile (and subsequently Haguile, miss that guy) threw me off too.

LeonhartFour posted...

what, they definitely say YO-shiiiiiiiiii

for MGS2 Raiden, I said "ray-den" before I heard it

not video game related but I had no clue how to pronounce Hermione before I watched the Harry Potter movies

hermy own

I believe Arceus in English is officially Ark-ee-us though in Japanese it is not

Otherwise Silvallys Ability being RKS System makes no sense

The anime sometimes uses wrong pronunciations

LeonhartFour posted...

what, they definitely say YO-shiiiiiiiiii

for MGS2 Raiden, I said "ray-den" before I heard it

not video game related but I had no clue how to pronounce Hermione before I watched the Harry Potter movies

1) Because that's how they say it in Mortal Kombat.
2) I never watched the movies. One day someone said the name and I had no idea what they were even talking about. From context, I was like, uhh...do you mean her-mee-own?

Every PS1 FF character

WazzupGenius00 posted...

I believe Arceus in English is officially Ark-ee-us though in Japanese it is not

Otherwise Silvallys Ability being RKS System makes no sense

The anime sometimes uses wrong pronunciations

TPCi can be weird about pronunciations sometimes. For a while, Aegislash was officially "A-jislash". Thankfully, they eventually fixed it to "E-jislash" like it always should have been.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Arceus as "arse-ee-us"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZeVNwAmkk&t=1026s

It's Ar-key-us.

paulg235 posted...

Odin was "Ohh-dinn"

Is this not right?

I swear, I hear Bahamut pronounced in different ways.

Something like "Ba-ha-mutt" or "Ba-ha-moot"

xenosaga posted...

The C in Chester is silent.

Dammit I smiled.

MacArrowny posted...

It's Ar-key-us.

this is also an insane pronunciation

like the -eus clearly comes from either deus or Zeus why is it not pronounced like either one

Jakyl25 posted...

Describe it.

The only version I cant stand is when people just ignore the I and say SOO-ko-den or soo-KO-den

Not even attempting Soo-ee and just saying Sweek-O-den or Swee-Ko-den drives me nuts.