ssillyssadass@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWhat's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square102linkfedilinkarrow-up1313arrow-down17
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minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·4 days agoIn Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, the NPC who asks “where are you from” and we get the options “yes” and “no”. (He has not heard of yes town, nor does he believe we don’t come from anywhere at all.)
minus-squareCyanogenmon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·4 days agoIirc this is an inside joke by the devs. In Japanese, it’s Hai (yes) town, which evidently was the name of the building they spent a lot of time in during development. I can’t find any real credible source, but some mentions of it going back 4 or 5 years.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoAnd for the translation, they probably just made it a reference to how your only dialogue options in the game are ever yes or no, so when the one NPC asks you an open-ended question, you sound like a weirdo.
In Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, the NPC who asks “where are you from” and we get the options “yes” and “no”.
(He has not heard of yes town, nor does he believe we don’t come from anywhere at all.)
Iirc this is an inside joke by the devs.
In Japanese, it’s Hai (yes) town, which evidently was the name of the building they spent a lot of time in during development.
I can’t find any real credible source, but some mentions of it going back 4 or 5 years.
And for the translation, they probably just made it a reference to how your only dialogue options in the game are ever yes or no, so when the one NPC asks you an open-ended question, you sound like a weirdo.