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so I stream bad jrpgs to my friends and right now I'm doing tales of the abyss. about 10 minutes in we noticed that there are a hell of a lot of made up words in the game so I started making a list of them. This game probably has the most techno-babble ever. I'm going to try and explain what these words mean, if I can. aside from that this thread is to talk about your favorite dumb made up video game words like magitechnology. This list is long and I've only played for like 13 hours. fonon: a particle of sound (um....) that makes up everything Daathic fonic art: an art from the city of Daath Ancient Ispanian: hell if I know dude Cheagle: tiny rabbit things that burned down a forest capacity core: gameplay thing that boosts your stats on level up...maybe Order of Lorelei: order that lives in Daath and controls something or other Field of Fonons: gameplay thing that changes your moves when you stand in it Seventh Fonons: secret fonons that only some people can manipulate hyperresonance: caused by two seventh fonists doing something together fonstone: this word is so loving stupid and I laugh every time it comes up Score: the fate of everything, that anyone can read fon belt: no drat clue fonon frequency: the frequency of each thing made of fonons, what ever that means fonon elements: the periodic table of fonon elements only has seven elements fon slots: I don't know fon verse: parts of the fonic hymns Hod War: a war in Hod but I don't know what or where Hod is. fon slot seal: something that seals your fon slots, of course??? right? Fifth Fonon: one of the elements but I don't know which fonic alphabet: probably only has 7 letters Scorers: people who read the score to you The Sephiroths: trees that hold up the outer land of the world Memory Particles: what the gently caress is this Grand Fonic Hymn: the strongest Fonic Hymn ever spoken Fontech doll: stupid thing that a character you shouldn't use fights with Fon Disc: a CD full of FON DATA Planet Storm: sounds important. no idea tho Fomicry Project: a secret plot to create replicas of things and people isofon: something that has the same fonon frequency of something else. this makes no sense at all. 3.14159265358979: the fonon frequency of an isofon of an aggregate sentience of the seventh fonon, Lorelai Aggregate sentience: when fonons group together they become sentient, but there are apparently only seven of these even though people are made of fonons Shadow: the aggregate sentience of one of the fonons, first I think Rem: sixth aggregate sentience fontech signature: nope Fonstone Fragment: seriously fonstone is a funny word Fontech Blaster II: a robot that blasts fonons into things, mark II. Gnomeday: the second day of the week, I think. intrinsic vibration: the vibration that each living thing makes, complete with corresponding sound fonic arte: a battle move made up of fonons. Demon Fang. Daathic seal: seal on something from Daath fon machine: l o l fonic hymn: a hymn that is sung to cast magic or something. there are 7 of these of course Qliphoth: the inner part of the world, covered up by the outer lands and void of sunlight. the titular Abyss. Sephiroth Trees: the trees that hold up the outer lands passage ring: a way from the Qliphoth to the outer lands. replica brains: brains used to make replicas perfect replica: a replica indistinguishable from the original fonon activator: activates the fonons, man fonon laboratory: a lab for fontech experiments, like fomicry fonimin: the material used to make replicas Yulian seal: a seal from a town in the Qliphoth Closed Score: a secret, hidden part of the Score that only Maestro Rank and above can read Maestro rank: see above fonology: the study of fonons... Personal Score: the Score that is read to you on your birthday that explains what will happen that year. nothing is a mystery. Remday: first day of the week? I will of course update this thread with new words as they pop up.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:18 |
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:40 |
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well ain't this funny, evil eagle, i too stream a tales game to my friends it's vesperia we don't count the words though
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:43 |
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made-up fantasy words loving rule and the quality of a fantasy work is based entirely on how many made-up words and concepts it contains
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:44 |
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Evil Eagle posted:so I stream bad jrpgs to my friends and right now I'm doing tales of the abyss. about 10 minutes in we noticed that there are a hell of a lot of made up words in the game so I started making a list of them. This game probably has the most techno-babble ever.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:45 |
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Mach2 posted:made-up fantasy words loving rule and the quality of a fantasy work is based entirely on how many made-up words and concepts it contains the quality of a fantasy work is actually how anime the characters look, tyvm
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:46 |
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lol
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:46 |
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while I agree tales of the abyss is garbage you're garbage too for thinking 3.141 is technobable and not realizing it's just PI and they were making a math joke
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:49 |
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darealkooky posted:while I agree tales of the abyss is garbage you're garbage too for thinking 3.141 is technobable and not realizing it's just PI and they were making a math joke I just added it to the list because one of the characters read out 20 digits of pi and we thought it was funny.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:59 |
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"Mana"
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 06:59 |
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Fritos and Sierra mist?........mods????
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 07:01 |
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I thought there was a sleeping jaguar on his mattress.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 07:06 |
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Evil Eagle posted:I just added it to the list because one of the characters read out 20 digits of pi and we thought it was funny. gomen na sai evil eagle, gomen anyway my personal favorite made up jrpg word is also from a tales game, gald. because they wanted to be fancy and unique instead of just copying wizardy and using gold, but they were also creativley bankrupt and couldn't come up with gil or zenny or something cool so they just changed a letter. that, or someone just hosed up when making phantasia and it stuck
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 07:06 |
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hearts darkness bonds dreams
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 07:13 |
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Go.D.S.E.E.D.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 07:30 |
Man, fuckin every JRPG is trying to be all gnostic and kabbalic and poo poo When are they gonna make a JRPG with motifs instead from like Australian aboriginal mythology? something different for a change, god drat.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 09:20 |
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digital devil saga is all about hinduism, is that good enough?
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 09:42 |
Yes, I believe that's quite acceptable.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 09:51 |
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Schnedwob posted:Go.D.S.E.E.D.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 11:35 |
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M Rotor
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 11:35 |
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fonon probs comes the greek word for voice, 'fone' (or phone if you prefer)
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 11:49 |
FFXIV makes up its units of measurement. Ilms. Yalms. Etc. It then goes on, for 50 levels of story quest, side quest, levequest, guildhest.... To make endless measurement puns. Using made up measurements. What im saying is FFXIV is a pretty good game.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 13:16 |
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Talkc posted:FFXIV makes up its units of measurement. This sounds cool and good. Just another cool and good thing about Japanese and Korean MMOs: Jargon.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 15:44 |
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Also, on the topic of Tales of the Abyss: Tear Grants is loving hot
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 15:47 |
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Mach2 posted:Also, on the topic of Tales of the Abyss: Tear Grants is loving hot don't you mean Mystearica? god drat this game is funny.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 16:01 |
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thuly posted:M Rotor fun fact: they actually have Tales of Game's Studios in the credits for whatever reason. Charles Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden is actually really great for anyone who finds JRPG jargon (as well as other JRPG poo poo) sort of absurd
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 16:16 |
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I am looking forward to tons of techno-babble in barkley 2.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 16:17 |
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I like dumb JRPGs just fine but one time I tried playing FFXIII and that's a bad idea for several reasons and they frontload the gently caress out of that game with pure, dumbass made up terminology to the point where it doesn't make you curious about the world and setting like it's intended to so much as it just makes you kind of angry.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 16:23 |
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Evil Eagle posted:I am looking forward to tons of techno-babble in barkley 2. Ironically enough, barkley is one of the few jrpgs I really like in terms of gameplay. I think it's because the attack-timing system reminds me a lot of Paper Mario
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 16:25 |
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Gumdrop Larry posted:I like dumb JRPGs just fine but one time I tried playing FFXIII and that's a bad idea for several reasons and they frontload the gently caress out of that game with pure, dumbass made up terminology to the point where it doesn't make you curious about the world and setting like it's intended to so much as it just makes you kind of angry. you are weak
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 17:10 |
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elf help book posted:you are weak Yeah I mean generally that's true but it's unrelated to FFXIII not being very good.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 17:19 |
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Gumdrop Larry posted:I like dumb JRPGs just fine but one time I tried playing FFXIII and that's a bad idea for several reasons and they frontload the gently caress out of that game with pure, dumbass made up terminology to the point where it doesn't make you curious about the world and setting like it's intended to so much as it just makes you kind of angry. I too am angered by made up words whose meanings are obvious from context. And if those words contain apostrophes? Boiling with rage right here.
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 17:27 |
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Gumdrop Larry posted:Yeah I mean generally that's true but it's unrelated to FFXIII not being very good. Have you tried the IZJS version?
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# ? Nov 12, 2014 17:34 |
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New Words fontech weapon: Albert Style: a sword fighting style that does not use a shield dividing line: separates the Qliphoth and the Outer Lands Sounds like I should play FFXIII if it has as much technobabble as you're saying. I thought it was just L'Cie and Fal'Cie or whatever. I do have it on steam...
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:19 |
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half of these things are just the word 'fon' being used for magic 'fontech' and 'fontech weapon' shouldnt count as separate technobabble terms also tales of the abyss is extremely good (though i agree they should have cut back on the words some)
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:43 |
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Endorph posted:half of these things are just the word 'fon' being used for magic it's extremely funny anyway, dunno about good. I definitely like it way more than the last bad jrpg I streamed though.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 05:59 |
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:08 |
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That time when someone pointed out to you that, by Phoenix down, Square meant phoenix feathers. And then you felt like a huge rear end in a top hat because you've seen that resurrection animation a million times before but you've never realized the connection, you idiot.
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:23 |
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imps we should make a game where everything made-up babble term is some variation on slang for cum and see how long it takes people to catch on
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# ? Nov 13, 2014 07:37 |
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Widestancer posted:Have you tried the IZJS version? Wrong FF. 13 is just bad and doesn't have a version that makes it good, unfortunately. The White Dragon posted:imps we should make a game where everything made-up babble term is some variation on slang for cum and see how long it takes people to catch on Lead in with Pearl Jam, 10cc, and The Lovin' Spoonful and you can probably convince people it's just a bunch of music references.
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