The name is not really inspiring I hope we can change that… The ultimate turn off in saving artie is that name change I just lose interest.
You can ofc change it forcefully with console, I just hope we can change it without a need of console.
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Because Jo bloggs is the one that having that power to travel time, this is who MC originally is without interference of certain somebody, even so I hope the name can be changed it just feel so foreign.
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I honestly don’t get the point of it either, it’s not even a symbolic thing where we let go of our only claim to ‘chosenhood’ left to bring him back since he’s named after you, not the other way around AND he also get renamed Joe Bloggs in the process so it’s really pointless beyond giving you both a lame name.
Technically, you can claim the other name is our truest one since we’re the one who picked it, our time traveling buddy didn’t pick the name, we did and he just followed along.
Can’t make a truer name than the name you always wanted even in a completely different timeline.
As the ‘initial’ Joe said ‘I always wanted to be called X’.
In general, the whole ‘Elven Alliance / Bring Back Artie / Supercomputer’ route split feel more like 3 different steps we’d all need to truly fight Karakan and all the stuff going on. We’re still getting our ass kicked by the Slave after all. Same for the Excalibur / Dragon / Newton split, it feel more like 3 steps to be well equipped enough to fight, with the Dragon as the mount to protect us, Excalibur to damage the enemy and the Newton thingy to actually power Excalibur.
Also is there anything we can do with the fragments of our broken Focus thingy yet?
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It agree with you about this lame name😅, seriously, however if we change name the prophecy will fail since obviously we’re called by that exact name we trade in the prophecy.
While this can be seen as symbolic acknowledging we’re not the chosen one, our identity as that name we given up is part of us, we’re not just Jo Bloggs anymore we’re mix between the two.
The name change also doesn’t seem to change anything else beside how we’re called in the story, people still remember it is us that the fake chosen one and other one called Artie.
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With me this cause a confusion sometimes
Honestly it cause confusion to many thing as well, such as the prophecy doesn’t line up or it somehow change to fit new reality.
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To be fair, the game established that both in term of time travel and ‘giving away our name’, it retroactively change stuff, like when our time traveling buddy change Artie’s name for ours, it also changed the name in the prophecy and when we gave away our name, it changed his name again to our ‘new’ one or like the King take our name and our friend is immediately like ‘Oh, you’re not Joe anymore then?’
So it change stuff so the prophecy ALWAYS said the chosen one was Joe.
You can’t see it as that tho, that’s the issue because when you give away your name, Artie ALSO get renamed Joe Bloggs, you can see it in the code.
Our time traveling buddy changed Artie’s name to the initial Joe Bloggs’s desired name so whatever happen to that name also happen to Artie.
It already changed when Artie was renamed from ‘Arthemis Pendergast’ to whatever you called yourself so same rules apply here.
I’ll give props to the game because it make sense and it’s consistent that it’s how this ended up working out but it also make the whole thing even stranger because it really does nothing but force a silly name on the player.
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This is Very confusing with my brain in a state which I cant think too much because here is 23:30(11:30 PM)
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Regardless of what artie still artie even if it’s changed to Jo, but for MC is suddenly Jo😅
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I can’t think of anything other than this because the author got lazy and put that name to save time.
No, Artie always has the same name as you, he is called ‘Artie’ as a nickname based on his second name, Arthemis.
So whatever you called yourself, Artie end up called ‘X Arthemis X’ and when you become Joe again, Artie’s name become ‘Joe Artemis Bloggs’.
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If only this name is not so terrible we probably wont be discussing this😅.
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My head hurts from all this and I have only looked at this for a minute or so…
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I understand its the same with me
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This is inside the story, btw.
The confusion and the comedy is real
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Smh always gotta bring in confusing time travel and changing Prophecies excuse me for a few while I catch up on the demo to understand this insanity.
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Basically: Our character from the last timeline = Joe Bloggs.
Joe Bloggs meet our time traveling buddy and tell them ‘I always wanted to be called X’.
Our time traveling buddy then time travel and change both our character’s name and Artie (who was called Arthemis Pendergast) to X, which is our character’s name, which also change the name on the prophecy about Artie retroactively.
Then we give the name X to the Elf King, which retroactively make us always named Joe Bloggs, which thus also retroactively change Arte’s name to Joe Bloggs, which finally retroactively change the name on the prophecy to Joe Bloggs.
That’s basically it. It’s not really complex, it just doesn’t do anything but make your name silly, which is a weird thing to make mandatory on a major route that most people will probably pick since it’s the one where we go save one of our friend.
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Now I thinking why we cant give half name exemple: Kin bloggs or Joe Valentine/X bloggs or Joe X
Artie with that last name is so inspired by Arthur Pendragon.
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Because it’s decided by author to use that name as default fall back, other than that it can be changed if you use console to change it.
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