@Crocabit Only Real gamers Know
@poss_bot @Moot @KommaChameleon @Crocabit this thread is ending my life
@ShugoWah @poss_bot @Moot @KommaChameleon @Crocabit of course, it's hard to beat anyone using such an advanced control method as this
http://llg.cubic.org/docs/prohance70.jpg
@ShugoWah @poss_bot @Moot @KommaChameleon @Crocabit or even the dreaded dual Namco rotary controller combo. How do you even compete with that?
@KommaChameleon @Felthry @ShugoWah @Moot @Crocabit (listen i kinda actually want this bc i have a copy of VOOT for DC)
@Felthry @poss_bot @Galuade @ShugoWah @Moot @Crocabit Virtual On is a one-on-one mecha fighting game from the 90s featuring a behind-the-back camera and a dual stick control scheme. It's played split screen or on separate displays.
VOOT is "Virtual On Ontario Tangram", the Dreamcast version of the game.
@Felthry WHOOPS I kinda typed it wrong, it's "Oratorio Tangram". It's a pretty thesaurus name but
Oratorio = a large-scale opera
Tangram = a puzzle about rearranging shapes
So it's basically a fancy way of saying "Virtual On: Grand Remix". Tangram is also the name of one of the game's villains.
@Felthry Yeah. In many cultures, giving things foreign-sounding names gives them an air of mystery or prestige (e.g. you can order "filet mignon" but not "tender beef"). Japanese media often does this with loanwords from English or other European languages.
@Felthry @KommaChameleon Bravely Default
@KommaChameleon @poss_bot Romancing SaGa
@KommaChameleon @Felthry @poss_bot Thousand Arms
@poss_bot @ShugoWah @KommaChameleon Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
@poss_bot @ShugoWah @KommaChameleon also Legend of Dragoon
@poss_bot @ShugoWah @KommaChameleon which would probably make sense if it had an article in there and I think it actually does but the logo makes it very unclear whether it's The Legend of Dragoon or Legend of the Dragoon
@poss_bot @ShugoWah @KommaChameleon oh and Valkyrie Profile comes to mind, though I dunno if that makes sense in context
@poss_bot @ShugoWah @KommaChameleon also honorable mention to the Suikoden series since the first one was only very tangentially based on the book Suikoden and the later ones had nothing to do with it at all
@Galuade @Felthry @poss_bot @KommaChameleon BIO F.R.E.A.K.S.
@ShugoWah @Galuade @poss_bot @KommaChameleon Bio Force Ape
@Felthry @ShugoWah @poss_bot @KommaChameleon I WAS GOING TO SAY THIS
@ShugoWah @Galuade @poss_bot @KommaChameleon oh, Lunar: Silver Star Story is kind of awkwardly worded
@ShugoWah @Galuade @poss_bot @KommaChameleon also, a number of Square games: Final Fantasy itself, and Breath of Fire, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, ~~Chrono Break~~, maybe Vagrant Story
@Felthry @ShugoWah @Galuade @KommaChameleon Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millenium 2001
@poss_bot @Felthry @ShugoWah @KommaChameleon Armored Core for Answer
@ShugoWah @Galuade @poss_bot @KommaChameleon and Dragon Quest frequently has nothing to do with dragons
@ShugoWah @Galuade @poss_bot @KommaChameleon and other Enix games: Act Raiser, Soul Blazer, Star Ocean Til the End of Time, Robot Alchemic Drive
@KommaChameleon @Galuade @poss_bot @ShugoWah well I don't know if Skyrim counts as a pun, that always struck me more as a kenning that became the name of the place
@poss_bot @Felthry @KommaChameleon god I loved Coded Arms
@poss_bot @Felthry @KommaChameleon Like no bullshit I somehow played it for hundreds of hours
That might've been the first game I really played with an "endless" game mode and I just loved it
@KommaChameleon distilled to its purest form
@KommaChameleon @Felthry @ShugoWah this is STILL technically a continuation of the original post where shugo was showing off the xbox adapter and i'm glad that in the intervening like 30 posts we've had maybe 3 or 4 distinct sub threads
@KommaChameleon though I guess plenty of games have really strange names. Radiant Historia, Infinite Undiscovery, Exist Archive