Final Fantasy technicality...

[Demon]

Something which I find annoying about Final Fantasy is how everything has to be called by a technical name or technical process. If there's a dog, it can't be called a dog, it has to be called a Revquakvakar from Lusdif's Furofneal.

I'd probably talk about my Final Fantasy experiences a little more in some threads, but then I realize that I'm going to have to spend a half hour brushing up on some of the terminology and technicality, even though I played the game, because calling things upon their appearance becomes confusing when we're talking a very large game full of technicality. Some things just never really make sense in the games, so you have to look at what someone else said and say "There you go, that makes sense now."

 

[DarkShadow]

I think its better not to call something by what they look...........

It sounds better too with the technical name.......I mean well monsters in FF can do different moves like poison you,petrify (stone) you,zombie you etc etc.......

now thats something the real-life thing CANT do.........

plus like FFXIII they have different versions of the behemoth it would be odd just to call every single one Behemoth.......when some are stronger and look different than the other behemoth.

 

[Linnaete]

Well seeing as it's a "fantasy" series, it is logical for so much unusual and exotic terminology to show up as you're at liberty to put anything in. I've no issues with this though. I'm one of the people who quickly grasp various bits of terminology especially if I encounter such names regularly. It's hardly fantastical if you substitute a name like "Daeva" for something like "Demon" (the "technical names" tend to make sense anyway) and I do like the idiosyncratic uses of terms such as "Fal'Cie" despite how silly they may sound.

This isn't exclusive to Final Fantasy either anyway. Other games and things outside of games do it all the time as well. Final Fantasy as a culprit is little compared to some other things I have seen with horrifically exact and complex terms.

 

[Exoskeleton]

FF games tend not to take place on earth so it makes sense for the terminology to be different. It's supposed to give the games more of a fantasy feel. If FF places were actually real and ours weren't it would seem that our words for things were more difficult. It's not too hard to follow FF terms for me... Lets just be thankful that the games still call "attack" and "magic the same. Or even the term "earth" !!!

 

[Ayen]

I never had much of a problem with the technicality of the games, or any other game for that matter. The only issue I could come up with would be my inability to properly pronounce some of the terms they throw in there. Like Revquakvakar. No idea how to pronounce that so in verbal discussion I'd probably just call them "Rev" for short.

 

[Demon]

I never had much of a problem with the technicality of the games, or any other game for that matter. The only issue I could come up with would be my inability to properly pronounce some of the terms they throw in there. Like Revquakvakar. No idea how to pronounce that so in verbal discussion I'd probably just call them "Rev" for short.

Yeah.

I made the whole "Revquakvakar from Lusdif's Furofneal" thing up to show a point, by the way. Not a real name.

 

[Valvalis]

There are a lot of names taken from real life mythology too Like the serpent Midgardsormr, for example; the name comes from Norse mythology, from the versions I've heard it's a giant serpent which battles Thor to the death during Ragnarok (another name commonly seen in FF). I think the real-life mythological element is interesting to add into the series, because it feels somewhat like some of the lore the characters are familiar with is the same as our own, and contributes to the realism and gives us a sense of familiarity with their world

 

[Ayen]

Yeah.

I made the whole "Revquakvakar from Lusdif's Furofneal" thing up to show a point, by the way. Not a real name.

Seriously? I could have sworn that was what Rinoa pet in Final Fantasy VIII was called.

Or at least that's what it's going to be called my next play through

 

[Rydrum2112]

Personally, I always thought the monster's attacks had even crazier names.

 

[fallen_dragoon]

i prefer when they do it like that. it keeps the illusion going of being in a fantasy world. plus then if your an epic nerd like me you can joke with your friends about the new names

 

[Gabe]

Sometimes this is an annoyance to me, depending... If I'm playing Final Fantasy XIII and some "Whatdehfawkisdat" appears, and I have no idea what this resembles, I'll probably just talk about it by saying it's a gooshy looking blue robot motorcycle tree, and see if other people get the picture. The biggest "victim" in this case I would have to say is the "Quezacotl"; a Guardian Force Summon from Final Fantasy VIII. I have no idea how the heck you'd pronounce that, but it has a bizaare name, when instead they could have called it something a little more locally pronounceable and identifiable way. They could have called it "Green Spirit" or "Thunderwing" and that still would have sounded somewhat suitable. When it's ridiculously hard to pronounce a name, it's gone too far.

But just for fun, here's my made up creature name:

YELLOW Schniznacatchnya Moshtavnrocknyafosch... . . .

 

[Dishy]

The biggest "victim" in this case I would have to say is the "Quezacotl"; a Guardian Force Summon from Final Fantasy VIII. I have no idea how the heck you'd pronounce that, but it has a bizaare name, when instead they could have called it something a little more locally pronounceable and identifiable way. They could have called it "Green Spirit" or "Thunderwing" and that still would have sounded somewhat suitable.

The reason it's called Quezacotl is because it's based on an Aztec god of the same name. If they called it something lame like "Thunderwing" then the connection to real-life mythology would be lost, and it would just be some retarded looking bird/snake thing.

 

[Gabe]

I agree it sounds lame, Mr. Same Avatar, but umm... I didn't know he was mythologically connected o.o I'm stupid. Well, now there's a reason. Now only if the Aztecs could make more pronounceable names

 

[Dishy]

The only reason I even knew that was because around the time I first played VIII (a long time ago) I was studying a little bit on Aztec culture in school.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have had a clue wtf it was supposed to be either.

Actually, the full name of the god is "Quetzalcoatl". but I believe they shortened it due to character limitations, like with Pandemona (which I think was meant to be "Pandemonia").
Quetzalcoatl means 'feathered serpent', which is like the exact reverse of what Quezactol appears to be (a serpent-like bird).

It's weird things like these that make FF interesting.