Final Fantasy IX - Steiner says "Princess" 89 times on the first disc

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MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

I named her Halberd or Katana or whatever.

# ? Jul 18, 2015 21:25

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 11:06

Xerophyte: Mar 17, 2008; This space intentionally left blank

Zidane is into real ~~Hanzo~~Damascus steel and wants to educate the plebes in his party on the difference between a ~~Wakizashi and a Daito~~Dagger and a Broadsword.

# ? Jul 18, 2015 21:36

SonicRulez: Aug 6, 2013; GOTTA GO FIST

The only thing I don't like is you don't get the chance to change it back. At least from what I remember. I think there comes a point where you could have. And chosen from a few worthy choices to rename.

Auto-Regen is broken as all hell. There reached a point where I honestly didn't feel like I could lose. Sure some battles dragged, but I didn't think I'd die. More like I'd get bored and cut the game off.

# ? Jul 18, 2015 21:37

Bufuman: Jun 15, 2013; Sleep in the briefing room.
At your own peril.

SonicRulez posted:

The only thing I don't like is you don't get the chance to change it back. At least from what I remember. I think there comes a point where you could have. And chosen from a few worthy choices to rename.

There's an NPC in a late-game town that can change names for you... as long as you have a specific card. One that you only have two chances to obtain before the guy shows up and can't be obtained ever if you miss them both. Thanks, FF9.

# ? Jul 18, 2015 21:42

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Mega64 posted:

There's a new enemy here, the Carve Spider. No big deal.

My first association was "what if Harvey had a Spider persona. Like... jazz-y sax-playing Spider". I dunno, I need to sleep instead of reading LPs.

# ? Jul 18, 2015 21:44

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Tzarnal posted:

Jewel isn't bad. Personally i'm a fan of just not renaming her.

Actually lets get into this a little bit. Names are Important. Probably even more so in media than in regular life. Any situation in which a character chooses a new name is of significance. Garnet deciding to just pick whatever thing that first catches her attention feels pretty bad.

Now sometimes someone picks a new name simply because they need to hide, fit in, etc. In those situations the new name itself isn't going to be very signficant. However Dagger as far as we can see doesn't really fit any naming patterns we see in the rest of the game either.

So just renaming her back to Garnet and moving on is my prefered aproach.

Her naming herself Dagger has a pretty big payoff later on.

# ? Jul 18, 2015 22:02

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

I name her Kris.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 00:00

Krumbsthumbs: Oct 23, 2010; 2nd Place.
1st Loser.

I'm fairly certain my 13 year old self named her Dumbass and giggled for the rest of the game.

Dagger is debatable in being a better choice.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 04:49

Dastardly: Jun 14, 2011; Fresh outta hecks.

Highly relevant and the only correct choice after your first playthrough. I don't think being stuck with Dagger the entire run is worth that one line that works almost as well with Garnet.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 05:18

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Dagger is a good name that represents her character much better than Garnet :colbert:

# ? Jul 19, 2015 09:57

Cerebral Bore: Apr 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

Tzarnal posted:

Jewel isn't bad. Personally i'm a fan of just not renaming her.

Actually lets get into this a little bit. Names are Important. Probably even more so in media than in regular life. Any situation in which a character chooses a new name is of significance. Garnet deciding to just pick whatever thing that first catches her attention feels pretty bad.

Now sometimes someone picks a new name simply because they need to hide, fit in, etc. In those situations the new name itself isn't going to be very signficant. However Dagger as far as we can see doesn't really fit any naming patterns we see in the rest of the game either.

So just renaming her back to Garnet and moving on is my prefered aproach.

But isn't the bolded part literally what she's doing? She needs to hide for now, and so she comes up with a random-rear end fake name.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 10:01

Marmaduke!: May 19, 2009; Why would it do that!?

It's like a sitcom where someone has to come up with a fake name on the spot and makes their choice based on the first thing they see, except it's being played straight here. Although it's a shame there's also a character limit so we can't go with "Gal Incognito".

# ? Jul 19, 2015 11:56

Hemingway To Go!: Nov 10, 2008; im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway

This is dagger, back together.

Couldn't she have come up with something better than "whatever this thing here is".

# ? Jul 19, 2015 12:31

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Acne Rain posted:

Couldn't she have come up with something better than "whatever this thing here is".

I wonder what name I should...ew, what did I just step in?

Yuck, looks like dog poo poo.

DogShit, huh...

Uh, Garnet...

I'm not Garnet, I'm DogShit now.

Oh dear lord...

# ? Jul 19, 2015 12:44

Sum Mors: Feb 21, 2008

Squalitude posted:

It's like a sitcom where someone has to come up with a fake name on the spot and makes their choice based on the first thing they see, except it's being played straight here. Although it's a shame there's also a character limit so we can't go with "Gal Incognito".

Stiletto would be a better name, if it fit.

You can also reference other Final Fantasy games and give her a mighty pedigree: Butz

# ? Jul 19, 2015 12:44

Marmaduke!: May 19, 2009; Why would it do that!?

If something smells, it's probably the Butz/Dogshit.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 12:48

Rabbi Raccoon: Mar 31, 2009; I stabbed you dude!

"Call me Queen, bitches"

# ? Jul 19, 2015 13:48

Kemix: Dec 1, 2013; Because change

Mega64 posted:

Oh dear lord...

That entire conversation is entirely :lol:

worthy.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 15:37

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Call her Shank. It's her prison nickname.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 17:41

Aithon: Jan 3, 2014; Every puzzle has an answer.

How about Shiv?

# ? Jul 19, 2015 18:07

sergeantz: Apr 27, 2015

I vote naming everyone "I say", to make everyone in the game talk like Foghorn Leghorn.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 20:32

Gihyou: Feb 19, 2011; Oh God no the ball is gone.

Yeah, Garnet renaming herself is one of my favorite naming characters scenes. She does this whole bit with the dagger, and then says she's going to change her name to...I don't know, Lisa. Or DONGS. If it's anything but Dagger, she just went on about daggers for basically no reason. Or, yeah, you can make her remain Garnet and make everyone look like morons.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 21:32

ziasquinn: Jan 1, 2006; Fallen Rib

Xerophyte posted:

Zidane is into real ~~Hanzo~~Damascus steel and wants to educate the plebes in his party on the difference between a ~~Wakizashi and a Daito~~Dagger and a Broadsword.

I love how he starts nerding out immediately. I don't know why it surprised me this time but lol

# ? Jul 19, 2015 21:47

DMorbid: Jan 6, 2011; With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

Sum Mors posted:

You can also reference other Final Fantasy games and give her a mighty pedigree: Butz

Renaming Bartz back to Butz works really well in the PSX version of FFV, as the name they used for the default class was "Bare". I may have laughed at that far too much because I'm a child. :eng99:

As for Dagger, the next time I'm playing FFIX I should name her Chelsea, after the Chicago Blackhawks goal song.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 21:55

L5 Death: Oct 6, 2009

The FF9 world has a sabbath? Fingers crossed the japanese developers didn't make Burmecian jews. That could end... badly.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 22:11

McDragon: Sep 11, 2007

Hooray it is my favourite Final Fantasy game. I think it's probably because it just oozes character from everywhere. There's some with battle systems I prefer, but this just blows the rest of them away in every other category for me. It was my first Final Fantasy game and there's definitely a big chunk of nostalgia there, so I can't exactly be objective about that though. Also the music rules and most of it is burnt right into my head.

Namechat I definitely have a name I always have to give her now but it's a spoiler. The scene makes no sense if you call her anything else

Also poke the barrel.

Kemix posted:

That save Moogle is my favorite save moogle in the game. I was honestly shocked when I saw that "YOU BASTARDS" line as a kid...then again I hadn't started watching south park for the first time around then either.

IX has the best Moogles. It's the character thing again. All other games have inferior Moogles. Apart from VI and Mog and his gang.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 23:07

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

L5 Death posted:

The FF9 world has a sabbath? Fingers crossed the japanese developers didn't make Burmecian jews. That could end... badly.

There's definitely some kind of religion in the background of FF9, but it never becomes relevant to the plot. It's just flavor.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 23:15

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Fister Roboto posted:

I name her Kris.

I just wanted to make sure this one got more love.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 23:25

Captain Bravo: Feb 16, 2011; An Emergency Shitpost
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Fister Roboto posted:

There's definitely some kind of religion in the background of FF9, but it never becomes relevant to the plot. It's just flavor.

A JRPG where the world religion isn't the root of all evil? Blasphemy!

:v:

# ? Jul 19, 2015 23:33

DMorbid: Jan 6, 2011; With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

ulmont posted:

I just wanted to make sure this one got more love.

That's pretty great, I didn't even notice it earlier.

# ? Jul 19, 2015 23:42

Nihilarian: Oct 2, 2013

McDragon posted:

IX has the best Moogles. It's the character thing again. All other games have inferior Moogles. Apart from VI and Mog and his gang.

Ivalice Moogles are pretty great too actually

# ? Jul 20, 2015 01:38

Gamma Nerd: May 14, 2012

Nihilarian posted:

Ivalice Moogles are pretty great too actually

# ? Jul 20, 2015 02:32

Hirayuki: Mar 28, 2010

Gamma Nerd posted:

Moogles (mouguri) are supposed to be a cross between a mole (mogura) and a bat (koumori). This one definitely has some rabbit in its family tree.

# ? Jul 20, 2015 04:00

Schwartzcough: Aug 12, 2009; Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Hirayuki posted:

Moogles (mouguri) are supposed to be a cross between a mole (mogura) and a bat (koumori). This one definitely has some rabbit in its family tree.

They prefer to be called Viera, you racist.

# ? Jul 20, 2015 04:03

Kemix: Dec 1, 2013; Because change

Schwartzcough posted:

They prefer to be called Viera, you racist.

Pffft. If he were part viera we'd never have seen him. Fun fact: there ARE male viera. They just get relegated to the kitchen! Gender roles in MY final fantasy? More likely to be flipped than you'd think! Of course I could be completely wrong here. In which case feel free to smack me and 'politely' ask me to get you yer sammich.

# ? Jul 20, 2015 04:22

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Kemix posted:

Pffft. If he were part viera we'd never have seen him. Fun fact: there ARE male viera. They just get relegated to the kitchen! Gender roles in MY final fantasy? More likely to be flipped than you'd think! Of course I could be completely wrong here. In which case feel free to smack me and 'politely' ask me to get you yer sammich.

this post sucks

# ? Jul 20, 2015 04:27

pichupal: Mar 23, 2013; Poochy ain't Stupid.
I might be.

I'm personally a fan of the fuzzy puffball Crystal Chronicles moogles.

You can even paint and groom their fur :3:

# ? Jul 20, 2015 04:40

zfleeman: Mar 12, 2014; I wonder how you spell Tabasco.

I completely forgot about Crystal Chronicles. What a cool... thing that was. I also forgot Garnet's name changed this early on.

# ? Jul 20, 2015 04:44

Gamma Nerd: May 14, 2012

Hirayuki posted:

Moogles (mouguri) are supposed to be a cross between a mole (mogura) and a bat (koumori). This one definitely has some rabbit in its family tree.

There's some bats with huge ears though

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AweStriker: Oct 6, 2014

pichupal posted:

I'm personally a fan of the fuzzy puffball Crystal Chronicles moogles.

You can even paint and groom their fur

Not to mention Stiltzkin is in it, too. Vivi met him earlier this LP, here's his appearance in Crystal Chronicles:

# ? Jul 20, 2015 06:14

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