Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Re: why I could never get THAT into the three kingdoms period

[quote name="curst"][quote name="FABIO"]Can't keep track of all those damn gook names. Lu Bu? Lu Wei? Sun Quan? Sun Xiang? Whenever my brain sees asian names it just lumps all together. Maybe that's why I found the polot to FF:Tactics so convoluted.[/quote] I tried reading the actual RoTK novel. It's pretty cool at times, but holy shit, you're right about the names. Liu Xiu, Liu Biao, Liu Bei, Liu Su, FUCK ALL THAT. Then there's the added fun of the game taking liberties with the novel - Sun Shang Xiang of DW is Sun Ren in the novel and Dynasty Tactics and apparently is Sun Li in some other fucking game and ACK BRAIN HEMORRAGING. Just give me more folk tales of Xiahou Dun (or is it Xiahou Yuan? En? De? Ma? Lol?) eating his own eyeball in mid-battle and I'll be happy. As mentioned by the ironically-goofily-named Tom Chick at Qt3, Lu Bu has got to be the stupidest name for "mightest warrior of his era" I've ever heard. I'm sure it somehow translates into "The Tiger's Claw Extinguishes The Dragon's Flame And Pacifies The Phoenix" in some obscure Chinese dialect, but that does me no good as the most cracker-assed of white boy Americans.[/quote]