People keep calling Marty the wrong name
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This has been bugging me to no end. When episode one came out I played and beat it; at the beginning I picked Michael Corleone as Marty's fake name.(Godfather ftw) About a week later a friend came over and played through the game except he picked Harry Callahan, and bugger all if I can't get everyone to stop calling me that in the later episodes.
I've tried playing through episode one in it's entirety multiple times; I've even delete my friend's save file so the other episodes couldn't read from it. Yet people from the past continue to call me Harry, fricking, Callahan.
Is this a bug that Telltale has yet to fix? It's really getting on my nerves because I feel like I'm playing my friend's file and not my own. May seem like a trivial thing but it was a nice touch that made the game a bit more personal.
This has been bugging me to no end. When episode one came out I played and beat it; at the beginning I picked Michael Corleone as Marty's fake name.(Godfather ftw) About a week later a friend came over and played through the game except he picked Harry Callahan, and bugger all if I can't get everyone to stop calling me that in the later episodes.
I've tried playing through episode one in it's entirety multiple times; I've even delete my friend's save file so the other episodes couldn't read from it. Yet people from the past continue to call me Harry, fricking, Callahan.
Is this a bug that Telltale has yet to fix? It's really getting on my nerves because I feel like I'm playing my friend's file and not my own. May seem like a trivial thing but it was a nice touch that made the game a bit more personal.
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No, that's just incorrect. The game makes mistakes, but it does try to remember which name you chose.
He could have picked Sonny, y'know.
I have an odder case. I played through Episode 1 picking Michael, picked Sonny on a second playthrough, they called me Sonny in Ep 2 and Michael in Ep 3.
Well...I am called Michael Corleone in all the eps.
I'm sure it has something to do with the save game just before you install ep2 (same with ep3).
When i choose a different name in ep 1, the name changes accordingly in the other eps, as long as I start a new game of course.
I never save my game though, I only use the autosave feature. maby that has something to do with it? I'm just guessing though.
Actually, it's random. I picked Callahan in Episode 1 and he called me Michael in Episode 2. And it was something else in Episode 3. But I uninstall after every game.
Yeah, I've actually played through the first episode in it's entirety at least 4 or 5 times picking Michael each time and saving constantly. From the other responses here it sounds like I may just need to reinstall and get a clean start for all 3 episodes.
If it messes up sometimes, there might be two entries for it in the registry.
Wow, thanks for that. Yeah the registry value is set to Harry Callahan. Suppose I can just change it to one of the other two names then. Thanks a ton Puzzlebox.
-EDIT-
Worked like a charm; it's using the right name now.
Yeah, I had one time, right after I chose the name in episode 1, in episode two, TWO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS CALLED ME DIFFERENT NAMES, lol.
Edna called me one name, and Young doc called me another.
He definately didn't do that, which I thought I'd implied pretty obviously by the simple fact that I commented. ^^; As he was playing Ep2 for the first time, he actually said to me "Why do they keep calling me Sonny Crockett?", because he'd picked something else.
Same here! Edna called me Mr. Crockett, and Emmett called me Mr. Corleone.
Because the fix is for windows registry, which aren't files actually.
I can't believe other people actually experienced that too. Edna called me 'Sonny Crockett' while Emmett called me 'Harry Callahan' during Get Tannen.
It was sort of funny since it was during the first cutscene of 1931 where Edna stops you while on your way to the speakeasy and Emmett recognizes you with your costume on.
"Hello Harry."
"Sonny? Mr. Crockett!"
It's fixed now but it was certainly bizarre because every time I started a new game, I used 'Harry Callahan' as my alias.
I have no idea how Macs handle it, but a clever Mac user might know.
Happened here too.
There is just a bug in the game that makes Edna call you Sonny Crocket when you get back to 1931 the first time in Episode 2, if you chose Harry Callahan before.
If you chose something besides Harry Callahan she probably says the correct one.
And she only does it at that one dialog.
This happened to me with Michael Corleone. I can only assume there's a bug with that one line.
I think it must be a bug with that one line, because it happens to me as well and I'm playing on a PS3. I would assume the PS3 doesn't have the same registry issues as the PC. I think Young Doc called me the wrong name once, too.
Of course, having said that, Edna has taken to calling me Corleone by the end of the game, after I introduced myself to Kid as such in the speakeasy.
I love these games, but they sure are buggy.
After reading this I went into the registry and sure enough, "Sonny Crockett" was in as the Player Alias. I went through the first episode again, picked Michael Corleone, and finished the episode with auto-save turned on. All through Episode 1 they called me Michael/Mr. Corleone. When I went back into the registry, it still says "Sonny Crockett". I'll go on to episode two and see if they call me Sonny.. if they do, I'll manually change it and go back in to see if that makes a difference. I'll report back when I do this.