Do You Still Call Them by Their Old Names Even When They Change?

[SparTonberry]

I've never heard of Squall being called Leon. Unless we're not talking about the Squall from FF8...

Squall was called Leon in Kingdom Hearts. At least the first one, which I only played random parts of.

[Edmond Dantes]

Was that some sort of translation error, or did KH give a hint that he may have been going under another name for some reason?

Cuz on the PS2, it seems odd that they'd just randomly give a well-known character a different name. Might as well call Donald Duck "Gorky Goopenhymer."

[ColecoFan1981]

It's the same as debating over what to call certain countries (and their cities) around the world; you know, like:
Burma or Myanmar?
Peking or Beijing?
Bombay or Mumbai?
Siam or Thailand?
Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City?
Tanganyika and Zanzibar, or Tanzania?

~Ben

[Nz17]

It's the same as debating over what to call certain countries (and their cities) around the world.

You're right. So then, everybody, which do you prefer: New York or New Amsterdam?

[Daria]

It's the same as debating over what to call certain countries (and their cities) around the world; you know, like:
Burma or Myanmar?
Peking or Beijing?
Bombay or Mumbai?
Siam or Thailand?
Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City?
Tanganyika and Zanzibar, or Tanzania?

~Ben

No Istanbul or Constantinople?

Or do you feel that's nobody's business but the Turks?

[Ozzy_98]

No Istanbul or Constantinople?

Or do you feel that's nobody's business but the Turks?

No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople

[BlastProcessing402]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

"These prefixes are now part of the International System of Quantities. The IEC further specified that the kilobyte should only be used to refer to 1000 bytes..."

Then the IEC can suck it, because these stupid ibi bibi nonsense terms didn't even exist until stuff like KB = 1024B had been around for decades.


I don't mind if someone calls Mario's lady Peach when talking about recent games, but when you're talking about SMB2 or something, you best be callin her Toadstool.

Bowser is always Bowser, he's the King of the Koopas, not King Koopa


The FF games get the old number if talking about the original US release, the other number if talking about a later release. So it's FFII if you're talking SNES, but FFIV for PSX, GBA, DS, etc. If somehow that gets ambiguous, add a j or something to clarify, like FFIVj.

Super C is a weird one. It was Super Contra in the arcade, wasn't it, and just changed for the home because of that Iran Contra stuff in the news at the time, right? I would just say Super Contra, probably.

I will always abbreviate Playstation as PSX, that was in use in magazines even before the system launched (and one magazine even used it as their title!). I will only use PS1 if talking about the PSone redesigned system model.

Dragon Warrior sadly I pretty much have entirely converted to Dragon Quest. I really wish they would have called the Dragon Quest Heroes game, based on Dynasty Warriors, Hyrule Warriors type gameplay, Dragon Quest Warriors. Would have kept in line with the type of game it is, and also been a nice wink to the old American name of the game. Oh well, at least the translations went back to using Erdrick instead of that abominable Loto/Roto garbage that sounds nothing like a proper legendary hero's name.

[Flamzeron]

Raiden from Mortal Kombat was changed to Rayden (with a y instead of an i) when ported to the Genesis and SNES. Probably because of Raiden the shooting games? Raiden from Fatal Fury? Not sure why it was an issue for the home consoles when it didn't matter in the arcade? Anyway, he's back to Raiden nowadays, but I've always preferred it as Rayden. Looks cooler even if it sounds the same, lol. Plus, childhood memories of playing the SNES ports to death and seeing it spelled as Rayden!

I agree, especially since they pronounce it more like Ray-den anyway.

I don't know about name change but I still spell Soul Calibur like that. I refuse to use the new spelling of SoulCalibur that Bandai Namco want us to start using. When it started as Soul Edge it separated the two words so I continued doing that for all the Soul games.

Same here. I still find it weird to spell it otherwise.

I still occasionally call Bowser "King Koopa" as well. I switched over from Toadstool to Peach pretty easily, though. Not sure why lol.