Request: Limiting the number of blatant Game of Thrones references in future?

[Abriael]

I honestly am more bothered by the liberties taken by the localization team overall.

There are several parts of the dialogue in which the Japanese dialogue and the English text say entirely different things. In Stormblood there are moments in which a line is literally cut in half (in meaning, not just in length) in the English dialogue compared to the Japanese.

It's not Sega-levels of bad, but it is pretty disconcerting is you understand some Japanese.

[Saito_S]

Huh. If true, that seems like kind of an odd choice to weight the references so heavily toward one particular property. Feels like in 2.0, there were many different shows/games/movies/pop culture things being referenced. On the other hand... no one player is familiar with EVERYTHING they might reference. So if you know GoT well, then those references would stick out, and it might seem like there are more of them then other things, whether there are or not. Hard to say for sure.

Of course, I can't weigh in on the actual number of GoT references, since I wouldn't be able to spot them. I found both the books and the show to be dreary, bloody, overly convoluted, dark-and-edgy-for-its-own-sake rubbish. Didn't get very far before figuring out it just wasn't for me. So most references to it will just go over my head, and I'll have no idea it even is a reference unless someone told me. Until I read this thread, I didn't even know there were any references to it in the RDM storyline.

[Ferrasper]

The Ruby Sea is all little Mermaid songs.

[Mikhaill]

The localisation team is out of control. There is a side quest called amber alert about child kidnap. So tasteless. That was a real tragedy there's a reason we have amber alerts here in the US.

Don't forget the "It's not Lupus" one and then the crab called Cancer in Costa.
I dunno, back then it started up a shtstorm, I feel like that one was a little much but yeah.

[Lukha]

And I was looking forward to trying Red Mage, too. Not that I don't like GoT, but the endless pop culture jokes inserted by the localization team have bugged me since the start. I could put up with them in side things like Fate titles and levequests, and even in the Hildebrand stuff that's just silly fun anyway, but they really, really need to keep them out of the MSQ.

Though if it were ANYONE ELSE, I'd question whether small things like 'Ser' and mentions of 'Little Birds' were actually direct references, since GoT isn't the first or the last fantasy series to use those terms. Given the team we have, though, they can be anything else. I'd probably keep 'Ser' anyway, it fits well enough, but 'Little Birds' should be Little Moogles or Little Moombas or, I dunno, pick a cute FF creature, it's not like there aren't plenty to choose from.

And Lolorito's minion calling the events of 2.55 the 'Bloody Banquet', on top of Edda's 'Red Wedding' attack really turned my stomach.

[missybee]

I love A Song of Ice and Fire and I pretty obviously love this game, but I completely agree with you.

Every time there is a Game of Thrones reference in dialogue, it makes me cringe.

Here's a list of a few references made by Hillo back in 2015. I am sure it has more than doubled by now...

*Tam Tara HM boss attack called "Red Wedding"
*Levequest called "Storm of Swords"
*A character named Eddard in the Lancer questline (and an NPC named Neddard in La Noscea)
*Quest "The Mountain that Strides"
*Quest name "Taking the Black"
*Achievement "Stick Them With the Pointy End"
*The Direwolf mount...and its description (found in a litter with its dead mother)
*Halloween NPC said "The night is dark and full of delightful terrors"
*You must say "High as Honor" for an Ixal quest (the phrase of House Arryn)

Please stop with the "sun and stars," "seven hells," "words are air," etc...I get it, I too have a raging boner for GoT, but

[Maku]

First Halloween event "For the night is long and full of terrors."

I literally squeed at that cause I thought it was such a clever localization.

I am a professional translator/localizer though so I appreciate those things more I guess.

[Texa]

I'm glad I don't know the first thing about GoT so I'd never notice any of those things.

[Lelila38]

Haha I didn't even notice many of these things til now, the only one that sprang at me was the "are you my moon" thing xd
Gotta say, some of them are really clever, I like that.

[TouchandFeel]

The whole "a bird/little bird/etc. told me" thing existed well before GoT, just saying.