Let's talk about Lord Hauchefant.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

^ This! I tire of things being dumbed/toned-down, changed, or outright omitted by the English localization team and have complained about it in other threads here as well; however, the White Knights always come out and defend it as if there isn't an original/intended script to follow from the Japanese version. I do not care to hear the limitless excuses such as "our culture wouldn't understand it" or "it was implied in a different manner", etc.

I and many others play a Japanese created game because we want their style of story-telling, cultural influence and yes, even eccentric characters... it's no different than why Anime is so popular here in the US.

PLEASE STOP DRASTICALLY ALTERING THE MATERIAL DURING THE LOCALIZATION PROCESS!!!

You must reallllly love Tingle...

[Mere]

Great, now I'm wanting storyline companions to replace the chocobo.

Apparently in FFXI, you can have NPC's in your party. http://ffxiclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Trust

I don't know more details, stopped playing it long before that was an option, but I know the adventurer fellow works pretty much like our chocobo companions.

[Balipu]

He looks very cute here

NOw this really looks like a Kingdom Hearts poster. Top row left to right Rikku, Master Xehanort and Namine. Hmmm, bottom row Roxas, Sora and Kairi. Now that leaves us with Aymeric, Lucia and Iceheart.

[TamiTaika]

I remember that April's Fools joke about being able to romance NPC's..and honestly if we could, I could see Hauchefant being a popular choice at this point regardless of gender.

I'd run all the way to Coerthas in nothing but a speedo for max glistering muscle points no kidding o.o

[StrejdaTom]

Yep, he is definitely one of my most favorite characters.
Brochefant.

[SpiritMuse]

Great, now I'm wanting storyline companions to replace the chocobo.

Could do it the way WoW did with bodyguard followers, so in this case if you had Iceheart following you, if you ran into another player that also had her as a follower she wouldn't look like Iceheart. Instead you'd see that player being followed by a "Honorbound Harrier". Likewise, that player would see an Honorbound Harrier following you.

On the quest to unlock Thornmarch you have to escort a specific named moogle. Other people see this moogle named as simply "tremulous moogle". So yeah that's definitely something that can be done.

[Hypie]

You know i was like "is he gay....he's gay right?" (cuz i have male character) and after some seconds i was like "he's damn creepy!!! can he die pls? i dont want him to sneak in my bed or shit..."

So no i don't like him. He get's me creeps and i don't want to work with him as far i can do...

[Thandronen]

It's also worth noting: localization for XIV isn't always "the japanese is written and then it's translated over" like people expect. According to the lore teams themselves, they meet up and discuss things like plot details to be conveyed, general script flow, etc, and then write their own versions individually - it's not the same thing as "there's one original sacred script".

I understand it has been said before but honestly, I don't believe them. Every single time someone brings to light a deviation or variation, the Japanese version always appears to be the most accurate with regard to either an NPCs deliverance of information to the player and/or their visual actions seem to marry up much better with their message, as if that was in fact how it was intended to be. I guarantee you there is a blueprint which every team is getting about what is supposed to happen.

Perhaps the Japanese team isn't doing a good enough job of explaining sequences and NPCs to the English team. For whatever reason, the English localization from time to time is completely missing something, either in terms of dialogue or in the overall behavior of the NPC. I don't really care where the error in judgment lies on the English localization, the whole team needs to just GET BETTER PLEASE!

[lololink]

I'm not sure I ever read that the english team was writting dialogues, only thing is sure is that Koji is giving the name of the place and characters, that kind of things, he also write the stories of the places because that's how he create a name.

That wouldn't be very efficient, and you can see by comparing translations that usually they are direct translations or close, so I don't by the "each team write their own dialogue based on a main script"

[DarkDedede]

Apparently in FFXI, you can have NPC's in your party. http://ffxiclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Trust.

Lord Hauchefant strikes me as one of those NPC companions that show up even when you do not invite him (or watch you from the bushes). He could play a key role in Tam-Tara Extreme, after he feels you haven't been paying him enough attention.