Trivial Yet Embarrassing Confessions

[Griffolion]

Hello everyone. I'll just explain this one. Have you ever had a time in your life as a gamer where you've understood something (this can be anything at all) one way, only to have it completely revoked when you come into contact with a wider group of fellow gamers that understand said thing as something totally different? Has this ever elicited covert (or even overt, if you ever admitted it) embarrassment?

Case in point, for about 10 years I pronounced "Deus" in "Deus Ex" as "duh", because I read it as the French word for "two". It was only until chatter started up again regarding Human Revolution including YouTube vids about it that I realised that literally every one else in the world pronounced it "Dey-Uss". I was pretty embarrassed about it, mainly due to my stupid misconception; but also due in part to the fact that not only was it correct, but "Dey-Uss Ex" sounded way better than "Duh Ex".

So, does the community have anything to share in this respect?

 

[ReadyAmyFire]

I used to get Halo and Ico mixed up, and I thought Metal Gear Solid was a racing game.

 

[Rascarin]

Can't think of any of my own examples, but this thread reminds me of the release of the first Halo game, and my brother being adamant that it was pronounced "Hallo".

 

[Scarim Coral]

Well it's thanks to my bro that I keep pronucing that awesome puzzle game "Lunmines" as Lu- Mines. However when I watched some review videos it was pronunce as Lu-Min-Es. Even then my brother doesn't believe me and insist that it's pronunce Lu-Mines.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Well, I used to think that Knuckles was female on account of his long hair. And then there?s the usual misconceptions of Samus Aran being called ?Metroid? and Link being called ?Zelda? (seriously, why isn?t the series just titled ?The Legend of Link??).

 

[Sean Hollyman]

As a kid, I could never pronounce Vice City properly. I pronounced it 'Viss-City'

I always thought that it would be game over when I was seen in MGS2, so I panicked like shit

I thought Master Chief was a robot angel named Halo

I thought Brendan's hat was his hair.

I STILL THINK IT LOOKS LIKE HAIR.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I used to get Halo and Ico mixed up, and I thought Metal Gear Solid was a racing game.

Oh, but it is a racing game.

The system just makes you think otherwise.

 

[Jjtricky]

As a kid, I could never pronounce Vice City properly. I pronounced it 'Viss-City'

I always thought that it would be game over when I was seen in MGS2, so I panicked like shit

I thought Master Chief was a robot angel named Halo

I thought Brendan's hat was his hair.

I STILL THINK IT LOOKS LIKE HAIR.

THAT'S NOT HAIR?? SERIOUSLY?

OT: I was a kid at the time, but I would always just power level my starter pokemon and preach that he was the best no matter what. I was quite young.

 

[Maeta]

Link being called ?Zelda? (seriously, why isn?t the series just titled ?The Legend of Link??).

This, and that I'm too much of a coward to play Amnesia and Penumbra (because I usually start playing them in the pitch dark around 2 a.m. after about 30 pints of coffee with no sound other than the game, and the cats erupting through the door with a loud clash through the darkness and AAAAH! THEY'RE COMING FOR ME! It's just the cat... stop playing this and go on G-Mod and hide from the terrorists/detectives

 

[GodofDisaster]

As a kid, I could never pronounce Vice City properly. I pronounced it 'Viss-City'

I always thought that it would be game over when I was seen in MGS2, so I panicked like shit

I thought Master Chief was a robot angel named Halo

I thought Brendan's hat was his hair.

I STILL THINK IT LOOKS LIKE HAIR.

I think every Pokemon fan thought like that, I know I did.

For everyones interest and to sort this problem out once and for all.

Spoiler

A colour page from the Manga of Ruby aka Brendan showing his hair.He got the Scar from a Salamence attack, when he was a kid.

Also I just noticed that Regirock, Regice and Registeel represent the Stone age, Ice age and Iron age.

 

[FootloosePhoenix]

I used to think that Kingdom Hearts was called Kingdom OF Hearts. And that Sora was a chick, but he should be more embarrassed about that mix-up than me.

 

[NLS]

Before I actually knew how The Internet really worked, I remember installing Internet Explorer on my mom's old Macintosh (OS7.1). Something must have gone wrong, since it obviously didn't work, and I uninstalled "The Internet".

 

[sextus the crazy]

I thought Brendan's hat was his hair.

I STILL THINK IT LOOKS LIKE HAIR.

This. I thought it was his hair, too. Granted, in the context of the manga, it's supposed to trick people into thinking its his hair because his hat hides his hair (a rejection of his father) and a plot important scar.

also, just mispronouncing things in general.

 

[Innegativeion]

Yeah I thought Brendan's hair was white for the longest time too. His hair looks so much cooler white

Another pokemon related one; I didn't know that special and physical was associated with specific pokemon types until GENERATION FOUR, where it was pointed out to me to explain just what they were doing with the new physical/special system.