Final Fantasy XV (was Versus XIII)

[ForceStealer]

Funny, I was just having a conversation with someone who couldn't stand "ramoo" in World of FF

 

[Lex]

Rah-moo

I was starting to feel like I was the only one who pronounced it this way

 

[Carlie]

EDIT: Almost forgot, listened to Carlie while she played

Spoiler: Chapter 9+ Spoilers

THAT bit. You know the bit. It was a joy to hear her extreme rage

Just to reiterate, it really is a shame what became of Luna. Not the dying thing, because who cares. The being a completely useless plot device whose sole purpose in existence is to service Noctis XD. Like this is an actual thing that happened guys XD.

TELL ME NOW WE DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT HER YET. TELL ME NOW STELLA WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER.

You can't. Because in the three seconds of footage where we had Stella drawing her own version of the Armiger against Noctis, she had literally more purpose and personality than Luna in the entirety of XV, Kingsglaive and Brotherhood combined. Fucking fight me, I dare you

This is one of those situations where I desperately wanted to be wrong but am still enjoying the vindication of being correct. I fully suspect people to still go "omg but we din' no stella tho" and like that's fine, but shut up and you're wrong.

Spoiler: Here's my reaction, needless to say massive spoilers ahead

 

[Flare]

I have about 23 hours of actual playtime in and I'm only in chapter 3

Also, my god, the chocobos in this game are just sooooo cuuuuuute <3

Also jumped from level 16 to 25 after saving up a shitload of exp and staying at the Galdin Quay.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

The pronunciation of Ramuh as "Rama" bugs me. That is all.

I have to know, and I'm sure it comes up in the game somewhere....

"Ba-hah-mutt" or "Bah-hah-moot?"

 

[Shademp]

The pronunciation of Ramuh as "Rama" bugs me. That is all.

I have to know, and I'm sure it comes up in the game somewhere....

"Ba-hah-mutt" or "Bah-hah-moot?"

 

[Lex]

EDIT: @Carlie, Reliving that and hearing myself laughing while I laughed again at the actual video was awesome XD

 

[Lex]

The pronunciation of Ramuh as "Rama" bugs me. That is all.

I have to know, and I'm sure it comes up in the game somewhere....

"Ba-hah-mutt" or "Bah-hah-moot?"

Spoiler

The first one, huzzah! (because that's the way I say it)

 

[Tennyo]

I also said Rah-moo

 

[JechtShotMK9]

I say "If-rit," as opposed to "ee-freet." Because the former makes him sound cute, like a gremlin.

 

[lithiumkatana17]

I always said Rama.

But whatevs. Rama, Rahmoo. May-ko, Mah-ko. Tee-dus, Tie-dus. Tomay-toe, tomah-toe.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

I always said Rama.

But whatevs. Rama, Rahmoo. May-ko, Mah-ko. Tee-dus, Tie-dus. Tomay-toe, tomah-toe.

I say it with a question mark.

"Ram....uh?"

 

[ForceStealer]

It is of course ramoo in Japanese. But if that's what they wanted it to be, they shouldn't have put an H on the end. Ramu looks like a long u. "Uh" does not. I'll just call him Indra.
It's like Yuffie, if you didn't want it to rhyme with "fluffy," why didn't you spell it Yufi?

And interesting Lex, knowing that you said ramoo, I would have guessed that you said bahamoot

 

[Tennyo]

I admit I have never known how to pronounce Bahamut. I've done both ways.

 

[ForceStealer]

It's easier to say with the short u, so I usually go with that.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

I admit I have never known how to pronounce Bahamut. I've done both ways.

The games do it both ways. XII does the "Bah-hah-Moot" thing, while XIII does the "Ba-Hah-Mutt" thing, for example.

 

[Tetsujin]

Ramu looks like a long u. "Uh" does not

"uh" is precisely why it is a long u to me. The h stretches the vowel.

Basically, English pronunciations are all over the place and not very consistent whereas most of these names have a more consistent rule of "a is always ah/uh" "u is always oo/ooh" and such (meaning, they were not meant to have an English pronunciation applied to them)

Yuffie surprised me though. I pronounced it with a short "oo" because the "ff" would shorten the vowel. But the intended pronunciation is Yoo-fie, so...I don't know what they were thinking. That is not a proper romanization

 

[ForceStealer]

So when any of us type "Uh...." you're saying "oo?"

But yeah I dunno how they got that spelling for Yuffie. The Japanese doesn't even have the "small tsu" before "fi" which would double the consonant. It's literally just Yu Fi and they added an f and an e for some reason. They got Tifa right...

 

[Tetsujin]

So when any of us type "Uh...." you're saying "oo?"

Not sure if serious

 

[Lex]

So I finished the game.

Spoiler: Image of a thing

Spoiler: Thoughts

I suspected they were going to use the photos in exactly the way they did, and it was quite impactful.

It was a fairly beautiful ending, if a bit "slow" by normal FF ending standards XD. I mean, it got me in the feels for sure. My only real issue is the scene with Luna, though her being the logo was actually a phenomenal touch. And when you go back to the main screen and Noctis is incorporated into the logo with her - that's pretty amazing tbh. You can't take a screenshot or record it because it's blocked (as is the ending). To clarify my issue with the Luna scene is mainly because I don't care about her as a character, which is a real shame because it would have completely destroyed me if I did.

I mean, I'm emotionally exhausted anyway just from all of the Noctis dying and all that jazz. This is maybe the first time an FF twist has then just kind of been straightforward after the "twist reveal"? idk if I'm making any sense but usually you're a bit clueless as to what's going to happen even though you can make guesses, whereas in this case the most obvious thing happened (i.e. exactly what he was told would happen from Bahamut).

Some of the fights were amazing. The Leviathan, Ifrit and Ardyn fights all being absolute standouts.

And I loved the moment during the ending where Noctis was standing with the kings and they destroyed Ardyn through him.

idk my thoughts are all over the place help me

 

[Flintlock]

Bahamut's Law: As an online discussion about Final Fantasy grows longer, the probability of a pronunciation debate approaches 1.

 

[Kai Schulen]

I'm trying to figure out if it's faster to travel by car, or by Chocobo, when I'm doing sidequests.

Thoughts, or would this be too spoilery? I'm still on chapter 3...

 

[Lex]

It depends where it is. The car is faster but is restricted to roads so chocobo is quicker if it's kind-of nearby but off-road.

 

[lithiumkatana17]

I'm trying to figure out if it's faster to travel by car, or by Chocobo, when I'm doing sidequests.

Thoughts, or would this be too spoilery? I'm still on chapter 3...

Depending on where it is sometimes I'll take the car as far as I can and then take a chocobo the rest of the way.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

I like doing long car rides so I can wash dishes.

#adulting.