Say my name!!!!!!!!!!

[TheAbominatrix]

I found that out right away Yuna fell in love with a guy she doesn't even know the name of.....

They'll say his name in text, because that doesnt require voice acting. But during VA scenes, they'll use something else.

[feioncastor]

The only time his name is mentioned is at the start in Zanarkand, though it is not a speaking part. Talk to various people on the bridge and they will say stuff such as "You're the best, Tidus!" or if you guarantee the girl running around tickets, she will say "They'll let me in if i say Tidus and I are buds, right?"

Nobody would say his name in Spira because they don't know his name. He is famous in Zanarkand, so everyone knows him.

I think you're missing the point. The point is that they never speak the name "Tidus" because since you're givent he option to rename him, the voice actors would've had to record pronunciations of every possible combination of letters. What if I named him "Feion" at the start of the game, then Yuna called him "Tidus" later (in a voice, not text, dialogue)? That wouldn't make much sense, so they found ways around actually saying his name by using terms like "Star player of the Zanarkand Abes" and "the New guardian" and so forth.

Feion

[Barney]

wouldnt it have been possible to say his name if you choose not to change it and then if it was change not say it, I guess that would have required a lot more extra script though, but could be possible for future FF games

[bakabakabaka]

i never really change the name of characters...i get too confused when trying to talk about them!!!
wouldnt it be cool if you could record you sying the new name??? or can you do that anyway???

[TheAbominatrix]

i never really change the name of characters...i get too confused when trying to talk about them!!!
wouldnt it be cool if you could record you sying the new name??? or can you do that anyway???

You cant, and I dont think it'd be cool. It's sound very out of place if, everytime the other charatcers said the name, it switched to a different voice. Especially when the speaker is a different sex than the player.

[bakabakabaka]

i think i would be cool. it'd put your own personal touch to it.

[TheAbominatrix]

i think i would be cool. it'd put your own personal touch to it.

I never said you werent entitled to your opinion, did I?

[kikimm]

Bah. That was one of the things that really bothered me. It's different with text, since it doesn't matter what you name you're character, but with voice acting....it was just annoying. Although I'll admit, it was sort of entertaining to see how many ways they could avoid saying his name. I'm glad that in 12, they actually say "Vaan".

You know....typing all that up made me realize that this isn't really a big deal. Feh.

[XxSephirothxX]

This is the reason I think we should do away with the naming of characters altogether. They come up with the names for a reason--why not leave them that way? In FFIX, one of my friends played through the game after changing Vivi's name to "Slick."

[ShivaBlizzard8]

I agree - I think renaming the characters, especially after yourself, is egocentric, and just. . . dumb. They should have forced everyone to call him Tidus. And not pronouce it Teedus. lol

[Sephex]

I saw his coming as soon as I learned that you would be able to name Tidus. It didn't bother me though. It's as funny to me as watching the "silent protagonist" in other RPGs. I like to see how writers get around stuff like that.

[Old Manus]

I think you're missing the point. The point is that they never speak the name "Tidus" because since you're givent he option to rename him, the voice actors would've had to record pronunciations of every possible combination of letters. What if I named him "Feion" at the start of the game, then Yuna called him "Tidus" later (in a voice, not text, dialogue)? That wouldn't make much sense, so they found ways around actually saying his name by using terms like "Star player of the Zanarkand Abes" and "the New guardian" and so forth.

I think you're missing my point. My point was that you only hear Tidus' name being said by NPCs in Zanarkand because he was famous. Then you never hear it being said by random NPCs in Spira because they don't know his name. I was just bringing up another explanation.