It's freaking annoying. It's also annoying when the names are in the instruction book that aren't usually sold with used copies.

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well, the original zelda enemies i always knew, and remember to this day. quite possibly due to the zelda rap commercial. l-l-l-l-l-l-leeeeverrsss!

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I have a bit of trouble remembering names of enemies if I don't fight them often (unless they're either main characters or mentioned in the game's story). It's easy to remember what a red chuchu is in Wind Waker because quite a few of the enemies are chuchus and they drop chu jellies.

I can never remember which boss is which in Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask, though, because their names are pretty much only seen when you begin battling them. I mean, how am I supposed to remember which one is Volvagia if I only ever see the name once?

Despite not seeing the names of various other enemies constantly, they become easy to remember if I say them a lot (and I do, because I'm basically a talking strategy guide for my sisters).

In most recent Castlevania games it's really easy because EVERY TIME an enemy gets killed it displays the name. Furthermore, a skeleton looks like a skeleton, a ghost looks like a ghost, and a zombie looks like a zombie. How could anybody forget that?

I don't think anybody knows the names of various enemies throughout the bomberman series (with the exception of Barom, as Baroms are featured in a multiplayer level in Bomberman for the DS). Do most of those creatures even have names?

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The Bomberman games were always great for making up enemy names...

My sister would always play as "condom man" (i think his official name was Rubber - it's in Neo Bomberman multiplayer).

The other names we came up with for enemies were not as imaginative, and tended to involve swearing.

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Those were the one of only minor enemies I knew off the top of my head from the original Zelda. Those and wizrobes. And octoroks. Those two are pretty easy though.

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Not all the names in Castlevania are so straightforward, like the other day I needed a Decarabia (or something like that) to upgrade my spear, and who would have known that a bugbear is a giant eye with an electrified tail?

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haha,making up names is part of the fun! i loved calling the hammer bros from mario knunchukas!

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I usually remember the names of various baddies from varioius games. Not all, but some. And you're wrong about Castlevania. It has some pretty weird to remember names for it's bad guys. I was just playing a little of Portrait of Ruin yesterday. WTF is an Une, Ukoback, Forneus, Andras, Lerajie, Catoblepas, Elgiza, Dogether, Treant, or a Glasya Labolas? Think you can memorize those?

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in the old super marios (1-3 iirc) we didnt know what those damn brown thingies with eyes. didnt even know what was those twins who threw stuff and made me loose my fire flower >:O i didnt even know peach was called peach (gaming in the middle east in the 90s never was about reading stuff...)

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C'mon, naming is hard, and when you have to name a lot of things, it is harder.

On an unrelated note, Alisha really likes kittens, huh?

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I think I got in a playground debate over Princess Toadstool vs. Princess Peach... the debate was fierce;
Thus on, I devoted myself to forgetting names of many things and implements in the game/real world.
Who knows when somebody's just going to up and change the name?
(Actually, I usually good with all other icons, but I'm hopeless with the names of baddies. If it's a Koopa Troopa, and it's not a turtle, why can MarioKarters everywhere intelligibly say "I'm going to *&$# you up with my Red Turtle Shell!," and nobody gets all anal and corrects them to the "Red Koopa Shell?")

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Well, I read manuals religiously but I guess crossbowgurl is right... Growing up in the Middle East meant that you generally didn't use the official names when talking to each other. Having said that, I took out my N64 and Mario Kart out the other day for some fun with my housemates and kept saying names of all the creatures rather than my friends who were saying things such as stupid penguin thing and so on...

The Castlevania series is definitely the easiest of the lot to remember seeing as they're (pretty much) all mythical creatures and if you know your lore then you won't have any issues. Having said that though, I do like names of creatures that aren't too obvious.

Then again, I think the best and most obvious example of having to remember names needs only one word.

Pokemon.

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Regarding renaming, It bugs me to hear them call Dr. Robotnik "Eggman". Dr. Robotnik is a much better name.

And it doesn't help when the official sources come up with the names after the fact.

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