Misunderstood video game vocab.?

N1nja · 07-09-2008, 07:53 PM

So, I was playing Sonic Adventure 2 Battle the other day, and I played against the first boss in the game. When the little robo-chao said "aim for the cockpit", I remembered that when I was younger, I didn't know what "cockpit" meant and had to resort to the dictionary. xP (3rd-4th grade, mind you.)

I got to thinking, and I remembered a similar incident while playing Kingdom Hearts around the same age. One of the intro questions is "What are you afraid of?" and one of the answers is "Being indecisive" and I used to not know what that meant, so I had to look it up.

Any vocab in any video games that you didn't understand as a kid? (Not in books, of course it'll happen in books. That's why teachers make us read large books three grade levels to high... so we have to use the dictionary.) x3

**Li-Shun** · 07-09-2008, 07:59 PM

They had some japenglish in the videogames (well still do all the time) but I didn't know what the hell they were saying a lot when I was little because the japanese accent was so thick as they yelled out an english battle cry.
I remember I played a game called "Tales of Destiny..2? 3?" ( I dunno xD) and one character yelled out "AISU NEEEDURUUU!!" and it took me like, 5 times hearing it before I figured out she was saying "Ice Needle" D8

N1nja · 07-09-2008, 08:06 PM

Ok, that's hilarious. xD I had to bite my tongue, because I don't want to laugh and have my mother come up here and catch me on. o.o

But uh, yeah Aisu = Ice in Japenglish then I suppose. I hate poor "being able to understand what's really coming out of their mouths" quality in gaming. I think I remember playing some arcade game at an old movie theater a few years ago, and it was Tekken... 2 or something, and I KNOW they were saying actual words, but I just didn't know what they were saying.

It may have been real Japanese though.

%Access Denied% · 07-10-2008, 04:10 PM

I dont really care what it says...i skip most of the text...it gets boring to read after a while...

**oneone** · 07-10-2008, 04:19 PM

I don't read a lot of the text either since it's all japanese so I just skip it. Though whenever I play a game where two people fight and one of them wins, they always say: "K.O. you win!" I never understood what 'K.O.' meant even til this day.

Badger · 07-10-2008, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by oneone

I don't read a lot of the text either since it's all japanese so I just skip it. Though whenever I play a game where two people fight and one of them wins, they always say: "K.O. you win!" I never understood what 'K.O.' meant even til this day.

Knock out.
I'm pretty sure that's the only problem I've ever had with reading text.

%Access Denied% · 07-10-2008, 05:02 PM

Click here to see what KO means:
Knockout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Enjoy.

Sugar Seizures · 07-10-2008, 10:59 PM

When I played the first Super Smash Bros. game I couldn't figure out what CPU mean so I made up my own definition. It was an educated guess though. =P Oh and Conkers Bad Fur Day.. I played that when I was about seven and didn't get anything, I just liked to laugh at the swears.

**Saiyukii** · 07-16-2008, 07:34 PM

Not that I am aware of,I thought game language was quite simple to be honest o.o

**Fewmitz** · 07-16-2008, 07:37 PM

Would you like to play a game of lucky hit?