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[chalkitdown1]

Ooh-be-soft or you-be -soft

Snez or es-en-ee-es

Mah-rio or maw-rio

Four-za or Fort-za

Eye-co or eek-o

Blast core or blast corpse



Fight!

 

[Teknoman]

Gradius and Darius?

 

[Ken]

fonza

 

[cafemomo]

buhlaysbloo
blaazbloo

 

[Finaika]

Lara Croft or Laura Croft

 

[L Thammy]

jiff

 

[Shun]

IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEEE

 

[May16]

Jee-ay-ef

 

[FaidSint]

Nah-sus or Nay-sus

 

[thekonamicode]

Ree-u
Rhy-u

 

[Toxi]

jiff

giff

 

[Cannon Goose]

People who say Oak-arina instead of Ock-arina when referring to OoT are weird.

 

[Soulflarz]

buhlaysbloo
blaazbloo

Blayzblue is more than likely proper. The parody game on the DSi kept the way the pronounciation would be the same even though the spelling was diff

 

[L Thammy]

Ninja gay den
Rye ooh

 

[NinjamicWZ]

you-be -soft

es-en-ee-es

maw-rio

Four-za

Eye-co

blast corpse

/thread

 

[jackissocool]

Ness
Sness

 

[Princess Viola]

Snez or es-en-ee-es

i say super en-ee-es

 

[Wishmaster92]

Metaru Gira Sorrido or Metal Gear Solid

 

[Slamtastic]

people who pronounce MGS Raiden like MK Raiden

people who say Ninja Gayden

 

[Sanctuary]

Ryu - it's fucking ree-you (*at least if you are trying to say it without Japanese enunciation), not rye-you. And hell, all of the SF2 and beyond games have been pronouncing it forever, and until SF4 the majority still said it incorrectly.

Sagat - it's Suh-got, not Sagat like Bob.

Kage from the Virtua Fighter games. It's Kah-gay, not Cage.

 

[injurai]

Sephiros
Aeris
these are correct

Arukado
this is wrong

 

[MormaPope]

Ooh-be-soft or you-be -soft

Snez or es-en-ee-es

Mah-rio or maw-rio

Four-za or Fort-za

Eye-co or eek-o

Blast core or blast corpse



Fight!

Ooh-be-soft. Never thought to pronounce the U differently.

es-en-ee-es. Snez sounds fucking stupid, sounds like a category of sneezing or a future name.

maw-rio. Self explanatory, Mario isn't Merry-o.

Four-za. Where the fuck does the T come from that people use?

Eye-co. Sounds better and cooler.

 

[Benzychenz]

swee coon
soo ee soon

 

[Con_Smith]

Mary-o
Doose-ex
Al-tear
Splunky
Pogeymangs

 

[Alligatorjandro]

how do you say suikoden

 

[thekonamicode]

how do you say suikoden

soo-ee-ko-den

 

[Finaika]

how do you say suikoden

su-i-ko-den

 

[Toxi]

swee coon
soo ee soon

gai-air-uh-dos
gare-uh-dos

 

[Haeralis The BRave]

I've always just pronounced NES and SNES exactly like they are spelled (think "Ness" or "Sness")

 

[Ogimachi]

"Dee-us" Ex and "jem-ineye"(gemini) are annoying.

 

[StreetsAhead]

Pokey-mon, Pokamon, or Po-ke-mon

Spoiler

Or Pokemanz

 

[TheYanger]

su-i-ko-den

Don't care what it's supposed to be, in Murica my friends and I always called it Sook-Oh-den. I still do cause it's just easier to say.

 

[-Deimos]

Four-za. Where the fuck does the T come from that people use?

Ezio?

Pizza?

 

[Schrade]

Lara Croft or Laura Croft

I've heard these three different pronunciations:

lair-ah (This is what I think is correct, like how Marlon Brando pronounces it in Superman)

lah-rah (like rah rah sis boom bah)

and then finally, the Garnett Lee special:

Laura (most definitely wrong)

 

[XANDER CAGE]

how do you say suikoden

sudeki

 

[Princess Viola]

genesis or mega drive

 

[Night Hunter]

Four-za. Where the fuck does the T come from that people use?

Italian language? Not everybody pronounces a z like english speaking people do.

 

[Coxy]

Tee-dus
tide-us

 

[Coolbgdog12]

I hate when I hear people say Super Mary O instead of Super Mar-eo.

 

[Finaika]

I've heard these three different pronunciations:

lair-ah (This is what I think is correct, like how Marlon Brando pronounces it in Superman)

lah-rah (like rah rah sis boom bah)

and then finally, the Garnett Lee special:

Laura (most definitely wrong)

Personally I think its the second one, but I might me wrong.

 

[Yagharek]

See-gah

 

[t26]

Ys
ICO

 

[MormaPope]

People that call the Super Nintendo SNES as one word is some weird shit. Call it the Super Nintendo or say each letter, its four letters. Would be on the same level of dumb as calling the Dreamcast "DCast", or the Playstation "Pstation" which would sound like piss or pee station.

 

[Sanctuary]

I've heard these three different pronunciations:

lair-ah (This is what I think is correct, like how Marlon Brando pronounces it in Superman)

lah-rah (like rah rah sis boom bah)

and then finally, the Garnett Lee special:

Laura (most definitely wrong)

Ironically, the latest Tomb Raider pronounces it two different ways. Depending on who's saying it. Laura being one of them (and wrong).

 

[Uncle Rupee]

Mah-rio or maw-rio

Neither of these bother me, it's the people who say Merry-o

 

[ohlawd]

how do you say suikoden

soo-do-koo
sep-poo-koo

 

[Oublieux]

Four-za. Where the fuck does the T come from that people use?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forza

The word is from an Italian root.

 

[PaulloDEC]

Ooh-be-soft or you-be -soft

Snez or es-en-ee-es

Mah-rio or maw-rio

Four-za or Fort-za

Eye-co or eek-o

Blast core or blast corpse

Fight!

Used to say Ubisoft as "You Be Soft", now say it as "Ooh Be Soft".

SNES has always been "SNEZ", like "Pez" over here.

Mario as "Mah Ree Oh", with the "Ma" said like "Far".

Forza as "Fort Za". It's just more fun to say.

Used to say Ico as "Eye Co", but I've been led to believe "Eee Co" is more correct.

Blast Corps as "Blast Corpse", which is probably wrong.

And for the love of god, Lara Croft's name is pronounced "Lah Rah", not "Lore Ah". We already have a name for the second option, and it's called "Laura".

 

[Alfredo]

From Final Fantasy VII:

I don't know why people pronounce Barret's name as "BEAR-ett."

I say "Ba-RETT."

 

[Crayolan]

The one negative to learning Japanese: it becomes really annoying to listen to people pronounce things wrong.

It's ee-co, not eye-co.