Ohh hahaha, thanks. I've never played a Final Fantasy game, despite having them constantly recommended. There are just too many good games and not enough time.
Give the first couple of hours of Final Fantasy X a try; it is definitely the one classic-era title that has held up the best.
If it doesn’t click for you by the time you first meet Yuna, it’s not for you - and you can safely give the series a miss (beyond maybe checking out some retrospectives on YouTube).
I'd recommend IX for a newcomer, the style has broad appeal and the first few characters are instantly likeable. X has... a lot of clunky dialogue that was absolutely groundbreaking (Fully voiced! Expressive faces!) but shows its age more obviously.
As torture method? Don't follow you!
Are you thinking along the lines of iron age -> bronze age step up? If so what's the link of maiden to bull?
Edit - I thought I'd double check my understanding of the use of maiden in the name and found this, ahem, interesting article, including mention of the Greek Brazen Bull, which I now recall. So I understand you now!
Edit: BTW, after making this comment last night I had an epiphany that "The Beatles" is a pun name. Beetles is misspelled as Beatles because they are referencing the beat of the music. It never occurred to me before.
a major woodland
enterprise markie
dollar ten
abyssal ultraviolet
completely japanese
glacier-T
mor paul
orchestral manoeuvres in the moonlight
public-private partnership enemy
sir mix-the-most
cubeshover
suicide attempts
faintly discernabl skratch piklz
the overripe peaches
wiry lizzy
zz gallant
Better than Better than Ezra
Lake
Deltron 3031
All the books in the bible
The presidents of every country
Black Weekend
The Vehicles
All the kids from Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Johnny T-bill
Stone temple flight crew
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Duran Duran Duran
The Entire Front-of-House Staff
Weezest
The Spice Communities
Aces of Several Bases
Green Fortnight
Radiocorpus
Still The Tallest Man on Earth But Now He's Put On a Little Weight 'Round the Middle
Jimi Hendrices
Edit: thought of some more:
All the Keys on the Whole Piano
Lengthy Meandering Diatribes to Cleo
Mouse with Newfound Self-Confidence
The Curaga
Fuck you for making me laugh at that. <3
Arcade Firaga
I've been puzzling over this one for a few minutes now and I can't make heads or tails of it.
It’s a Final Fantasy reference. Healing spells are Cure - Cura - Curaga
Ohh hahaha, thanks. I've never played a Final Fantasy game, despite having them constantly recommended. There are just too many good games and not enough time.
Give the first couple of hours of Final Fantasy X a try; it is definitely the one classic-era title that has held up the best.
If it doesn’t click for you by the time you first meet Yuna, it’s not for you - and you can safely give the series a miss (beyond maybe checking out some retrospectives on YouTube).
I'd recommend IX for a newcomer, the style has broad appeal and the first few characters are instantly likeable. X has... a lot of clunky dialogue that was absolutely groundbreaking (Fully voiced! Expressive faces!) but shows its age more obviously.
Nostalgia trip engaged
Jimi Hendricies! Amazing
Weezest made me giggle.
Radiocorpus sounds like something Thom Yorke would actually do
You had me at Duran Duran Duran.
Wet wet wet wet
I would have gone with radiohead, shoulders, knees and toes
What's the second one?
The Waitresses
The only song of theirs I really know is Christmas Wrapping and it's a bop.
Duran Duran Duran exists, it's one of the monikers of breakcore/gabber producer Ed Flis.
Fullyclothedladies.
How about The Spice Harem, Ace of Homerun or Ace of Cycle
Jake
Extremely Large Fish
Sum 82
Mu 660
"Jake" gave me a genuine laugh
Same
Streetlight Manifestwo and Catch 44
I see you are also a person of culture who is still waiting for a new album a full year after it was announced
Hey, at least we have part of the album after 13 years! By Tomas Kalnoky standards, that's a miracle in itself.
..huh?
Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Sum 41, Mu 330.
Fun story; crowd surfed a guy in a wheelchair at a Less than Jake show. Worth leaving Iron Maiden for.
The pits at ska shows are highly underrated
Damn you were in Iron Maiden!?
Paul Di'anno spotted
Only Rob
You forgot Blink 183
Two direction
Return? Both Ways?
They Might Be Gargantuans
They Might be Giants. But the "they" is referring to one additional person.
All Might Be Giants
All Must Be Titans
Would you like a glass of wine, perchance?
Your Mama An’Em Might Be Giants
Guys What If We Are All Nephilim
(tsoukolos insane hair image)
It's Marty on the drums.
They're Definitely Giants
Biggest Smalls
Standard Wayne
Biggie Bigs
Threepac
The Most Notorious G.I.A.N.T.
Big F Bigs
The Notorious H.U.G.E.
Ultratramp
5 Non Blondes
Ben Folds Twelve
Twenty-Two Inch Nails
Why 22 inch? That seems like an oddly specific size to one-up.
1 dollar
51 Cents would have sufficed. I say keep the extra $0.49 and treat yourself.
Blink364
That's too much blink
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Peanut eminem
Slim Fully-Shaded
Husky Shady
Jimmy Eat Universe
Linkin National Park
Linkin Drive
Some Doubt 😂
Bruno Martian Colony =P
Empress surely?
If you're referring to "King" on the assumption that it's a reference to Queen, then no.
Ah, fair.
36 Doors Down
Dinosaur Sr.
There's a band in Auburn California that has that name lol
Britney Harpoons
Britney Pikes / Halberds / Bardiches / Fauchards / Omi Yari / Naginata / Qiang / Ji
Jefferson Dyson Sphere
SomeFX
I really like So Long and Thanks for All the Boots
That was great album. I've always been partial white trash, 3 heebs and 2 beans
Fourth Eye Blind
Gigadeth
Mo-mo-mo-monster
killdethEmineminem?
Yes, but just the green ones.
Eninen
Eminemenineminems
Sum of {Emi + (neminem^(k)) + s}, over k through 0.
Real slims shadys please stand up
Rotund Shadys can't stand up.
lemmy remains seated
Peanut Eminem
Linkin Reserve
Alivemau5
Deadmic3
Deadmau6
Deadca7
Deadra7
LiveRa7
The black cardiome galy
Fall out man
Life mansion
Rat rat
John Colorado
In kitchen
Dimeback
Uranium Zeppelin
Osmium Zeppelin
The Chemical Family
Livestock Warehouse Men
Hot Potato
"El Tonne" John
Bloc Festival
Fat Man Fat
Horses
Tame Elephant
deadrhin0
Wayne
Ten Inch Nails
Aphex Triplet
Thievery Conglomerate
Groove Navy
Bunker Jaxx
Jefferson Starship (....wait)
Apex Triplet is sweet
Jefferson Space Station
Jefferson Star Fleet
That was fun, y'all are creative
Miles are longer than kilometers, but Aesop Paper fucking sent me.
Yes, however, for many cases metric is better than imperial. It could go either way.
I use both and find both have virtues situationally, but I see your angle and see no need to argue.
All good, homey below me.
OLED Soundsystem holyshit lol!
... Kilometers Davis.
... thats a fucking Fallout New Vegas ass character name goddamnit lol.
CATHVDRALS
Imagine more Dragons
A Colony of Seagulls
I'm sure there are others I'm missing.
"Incutrain" made me facepalm lol
Paramost.
God fucking damnit lol.
Is it a laden or unladen swallow?
Green Month
Rammfels
About the same as Jake
Ten inch bolts
The mass murderers
deadmau6
livemic9
Tools
The Beach Men
150,000 Maniacs.
Simon and Garfunkel and Oats
All my life, I've been good
Do what my mom and dad and God say I should
Go to church and neon school
And don't disturb the sound of silence
They Are Certainly Giants
Shatter, dds (Smash mouth)
Ocean (Aqua)
White-hot Chili peppers (up from red-hot)
Make-out (kiss)
The Colony (group of beetles - The Beatles)
Green Month (Green Day)
The Royal Family (Queen)
Red Hot Ghost Peppers?
Rifles & Roses, Black Weekend, Rage against the factory, Audiovisualslave
Guns & Bouquets
Armory & 1-800-FLOWERS
Uncaged the Elephant
Red Hot Ghost Peppers
Lime
Third one took me a sec, but I love it.
I need someone to splain.
Sublime
Sub^lime^Emeritus Professor Teeth and The Electric Apocalypse
Green Month
24 hours to Mars
Positive Milk Hotel
Counting Murders
Highway Men
Black and White Keys or Stripes
Six Finger Death Punch
Adolescent Gambino
Duke Sweatshirt
Great Charlotte
Here she is:
Bigger, not better.
... I may have deviated from the prompt on some of these, but:
Nine Hundred Million Inch Nails
Aesop Tectonic Plate
Sound Rainforest
Black Passover/Pesach
Neutral Milk Hotel Chain
The Grand Mal Seizures (The Strokes lol)
Vanilla Ice-9
The Beastie Full Grown Adult-Ass Men
Johnny Bank Vault
Led Aerostat Armada
Chuck Bramble
The Mama's Mamas and the Papa's Papas
Neil Eternal
The Dead Kennedy-Fitzgerald-Bouviers
Judas Clergy
Iron Harem
Motörhydra
Insane Clown Sheriff's Department
I tried to think of an Iron Maiden one, but as a worse way to be tortured to death. Maybe Iron Acid Bath?!
Bronze Bull?
As torture method? Don't follow you! Are you thinking along the lines of iron age -> bronze age step up? If so what's the link of maiden to bull?
Edit - I thought I'd double check my understanding of the use of maiden in the name and found this, ahem, interesting article, including mention of the Greek Brazen Bull, which I now recall. So I understand you now!
https://allthatsinteresting.com/iron-maiden-device
Yeah it's an awful torture method, definitely an escalation from iron maiden for sure
Faith Once More
titanium steel alloy maiden
Peanut Eminem
Quite Shady
Insane Clown Restricted Covenant
Toolbox
Exodus
John Lion Mellensettlement
Fleetwood Tarp
Neil Middle-Aged (& Rehabilitated Horse)
Significantly Improved Straits
Venga Men
Kate Topiary
Upvote for Significantly Improved Straits.
The sex cannons
Jon Mieux Jovi (for the Francophiles)
The Queens of the Antropocene
Frank Conatra
Kilometers Davis
Vanilla non-paramilitary immigration office
Not to harsh your creativity, but the last 3 of these are not embiggened.
Euro Knopfler
Powerman Over 9000
Elmegaton John
Manatee (as opposed to Seal)
John Colplane
Imogen Pile
The Week
Bruno Earth
Ludwig van Beethautoclave
Upvoted for Beethautoclave. That's tasteful embiggening.
Edit: I might be more of a Beethforge guy myself.
Ludwig van BeethautoclaveLudwig truck BeethautoclaveOh my god. "Truck" was RIGHT there!
You could have also used "lorry"
As a Britisher, I would have indeed used lorry. Or Ludwig man with a van Beethoven
Ludwig lorry Beethkiln
The The The
Gigadeth
6 Doors Down
Pond of Mudd
+88
60 Seconds to Mars
Matchbox 21.7
snoop horsey horse
canons and trees
def Liger
Smashing Planets
Hugey mids
Big Wayne,John,pimp,etc.
stone templa captains
funny thread!
john tiger beachballcamp
def liger had me
The Curaga
Hallucinate Dragons
The Inseacts
Edit: BTW, after making this comment last night I had an epiphany that "The Beatles" is a pun name. Beetles is misspelled as Beatles because they are referencing the beat of the music. It never occurred to me before.
Toad the Soaked Gearbox
Cubepusher
World
Skeletoncoven
Emperor Missile
Devin Citysend
The Men
Grapefruit Satan
Is "World" supposed to be Kansas, Boston, or Asia?
Underworld
And The Men is The Protomen
Johann Sebastian Fluss
Jimi Cockdrix
Ginormous Attack
Bar Fighters
Muddy Summerplain
Cornermall
Nordic Mansion Crime Syndicate
Kate Tree
DVD Dreams
David Balistaie
Fury Against The Factory
Parsecs Davis
Tenacious E
Shiny Real Guns
Death From Above 1980
$oonish Rocky
Tyler, A Creator
Tokyo Police Brigade
Bombay Bicycle Brigade
My Chemical Polycule
Glass Phylum
The Coleopterida [The Beetles >.>]
Eternal Winged Victory for the Sullen
Exponent 41
41!
The reason I was sticking to the usual arithmetic operations is that this could've been
tree(41)and beaten everything finite here.Eureka (a-ha)
Elementica
Jefferson airline
System of six axis
Foot long nails
Gigadeath
The Rolling Boulders
Blondies
Matchbox 200
10001 maniacs
now you've gone too far.
TODDLERMETAL
Fourth Eye Blind
EMPEROR (PRESIDENT)
Sleep Monthly Pass
Anika Danubes
622
6 Months to Mars
Powerman 6000
Rob Necromancer
Hard Bizkit
Toolshed
Mixed Vegetables
Dollar back
Static - Z
Bowline and Anchor
Avenged Tenfold
Pulverizing Benjamin
I'm one upping so hard that I'm doing song names, too.
System of an Up - Toximetropolis
System of Downs - Whole Suey
System of All Downs - Tarantulas (or Clock Spiders)
Found in Hollywood
Landings
Open Bomb Bar
Deer Semi-Formal
Greenweek - City of Repaired Realities
Stone School Pilots - The (Male) Goose
Tool and a Skilled Worker - 46 and 3
Eightdust
i don't know how but they found me again
Infinite Gecs.
Mc 900 meters Jesus.
Awesome throwback! I was never sure if Ft meant "foot", or "featuring".
010 Sound System
OLED Sound System
Stone Temple Astronauts
Iron Cathedral Astronauts
Barenaked Fat Ladies
Spain. The Man
North America
Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area
Videohead
Alanis Mostette.
That suggests Mostissey, ex-frontman of The Manufacturers, known for such songs as "Polyamorous Wife On Life Support".
Fallout Boy -> Fallout 76
4 times bigger, 16 times the detail.
Turgid Bizkit
If your Bizkit is Turgid for more than 4 hours, please see a doctor.
Blink 183
Steel Virgin - Iron Maiden
Kevlar Jet - Led Zeppelin
Narrow Gays - Dire Straits
Serious Hating Cops - Fun Lovin' Criminals
Vast Red - Deep Purple
Cannons and Cactus - Guns and Roses
Edit: Formatting
Jets are definitely not bigger than zeppelins. The Hindenburg was 240+ meters. No jet has ever come close to that size.
Questioning whether virgins really are a step up from experienced if you aren't insecure.
Metallicb
Deadr4t
The Harambaez
TREE(Panic) At The Disco
Katrina & The Tsunamis
TODDLERMETAL
MicrowaR of Steel
Scott Bradlee's Futuristic Jukebox
GUID PARTITION TABLE
Pat the Capybara, Weeks 'N Stupor, Armed Robbers of the Acoustic Civil War, Reel Really Big Fish, One Doubt, Jake
The Panacea
M101
Radiotorso
Talking Torsos
1,000,000 Maniacs
10,000 Homo DJ's
Proletariat Funkadelic
Alloylica
Sevenpence and a stock option
The Entire Zebra
Barenaked Harem
Radiostation
Rage Against the Factory
City of Maniacs
The Smiths Family Reunion
Nancy Sinatra and Her Dad
The Caravan
The Righteous Brothers and Sisters OR The Righteous Family OR The Church
Adultmetal
The Legs
I loved City of Maniacs when they came out with, "These Are The Decades", but things really fell apart when Natalie Multinational went solo.
Bruno Jupiter
Eisindustrie (Eisfabrik)
Mr. And Mrs. Kitty (Mr. Kitty)
Stereoking (Monolord)
Hacker (Modder)
MiraLAX (Gutalax)
Vault 114 (Vault 113)
City people
Full suit of armour
Jefferson Air force
The Kennedies
The Insects
The Convulsions
Electric Order of Wizards
Britney Phalanx
Samsara
Brittany Harpoons
Led Zeppelins/Led Fleet
The The The
Wu tang tribe
Big insert generic trap or rap singer name
The notorious E.N.O.R.M.O.U.S
Warmplay
Aesop Mountain
Blink 183
Alkaline Quartet
L.S. Mountains
Circa Thrive
Soundfarm
Her Grace Gaga
It just occurred to maybe Ariana Grande's NAME gives her some sort of subconscious big-fatness complex, contributing to her anorexia.
Harley Big Poe
FEM&M&M
MAXI Bunny
Stomach Library
Milkypassel
Ultracell
Moon Runner
Global News Legend
Petaday & Paralyze
kornfield
51 cents
Wu tang nation
Huge Jesus
Dabrusque Hallucinate Dragons Aviciv Medium Big ABBA select start Thomas Ca$h Månepelt
Stereolord
They're Definitely Giants
Stack
The Brian Jonescountry Genocide
GloryMallet. AleHurricane. Blink 183. Sum 42. Fourth Eye Blind. Quarterback.
Pepper Wolf
Eurasian MMA Dynasty
Legendary Americans
Dead Presidents
Billy Cult
Crush 52,601
Electric Light Academy of the Arts
Caravan Kingdom
This is fun. I could do this all day.
Battle Ax and the Hatchetmob
The Five Heartbeats and One More Heartbeat
More Paul
Vertigo Gillespie
Quarterback
The Whom
Four Dog Night
The Beach Men
Apes of the Nation.
Them3
The Avalanching Boulders
Bruce Summeradult.
Simple numbers: Ludovico Zweinaudi Shed 8 Ben Folds 6
Word based: Queen (think about it!) Arguing Heads Cinema on the Podcast Bungeeropica Seeing Melon The Vaccine Red Week
Not so clever word based! Faith for a little bit longer Tom stays put
Greater White
Icestorm
Dimeback
100,000 Mentally Stable Patients
4 Natural Blondes
Normal Al Yankovich
Bus Halen
Chilledio
David Lee 401k
Presidents of the United States of America who aren't pedophiles
Opal Marmalade
Tom Momentous and the Heart Consolationers
SATB
Attaque cerebrale
-90
Yes -> Absolutely
Cardi DD
Soul Gasping
Flesh Puppets
Eight Mary Four
Citizen God
Local I
Ben folds 6
Sabatons, Powerwolves, Brothers and Sisters of Metal, Glory Hammers. Aight I ran out.
Edit: Credance Clearwater Revival Revival.
BCCB
Megalomaniacal Punk
720 Mumford and Fathers Backstreet Men Britney Tridents Bad Jackrabbit Toddler Sorrow Big Town
Four Door Cineplex Association
Toolbox
Better than Better than Ezra
Lake
Deltron 3031
All the books in the bible
The presidents of every country
Black Weekend
The Vehicles
All the kids from Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Johnny T-bill
Stone temple flight crew
Darkbench.
Brian Jonestown Genocide The Chemical Family Obeseboy Slim The Beastie Men Black Rebel Motorcycle Agency Fact of a Deadman
Fentanyl (Morphine)
Without meming, largest band I know is Itchy-O
The VW Vans
Drag Queen
Carfemtanyl
FUCHS!A
Iron Panthion Commanders
Stone Temple Montblancs
DMXZ
Johnsin Park