How do you name your character?

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I use the names of characters from my stories, and then play according to those characterisations. Morally ambiguous characters are played bad or neutral, good characters are played good etc

 

[Jenova65]

I use very stupid names for Sims, obtuse names in KOTOR, Jade Empire et al and in RPG's like Shadow Hearts I leave them as they are.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

I name mine Alex, Mike, Max or something else, but it doesn't matter, no game will actually say your name it will only stand for a Save Game name. (that rhymed)

 

[brunothepig]

I usually go for brunothepig or, if I wanna be impressive, Vassago. I did once call my guy in Legend Of Zelda : Ocarina Of Time "a slut." Then, when I met the gordon kings son, who was named after me, he said "I am hero of the gordons, I am a slut." It was epic. I need to do it again to take pictures...

 

[Arawn.Chernobog]

Think about 3 different IRL names, split each into 3 parts and then use the 1st part of the 1st name with the 2nd part of the 2nd name and the 3rd part of the 3rd name, if it doesn't sound good try the 1st part of the 2nd name and so on and so forth untill I get a nice name for a fantasy/space-opera character

 

[TJM8]

Thomas (my name) I use when I'm being uncreative. I have defaults for fntasy games that I created in my WoW days: Alturis and Vanskylin. Skeetles is a new name I"ve been throwing around which is basically a joke name haha.

 

[Ghadente]

I tend to use the same few names for most games i play. all depends on the gender, race, and type of game i'm playing.

 

[Usurpurus]

I go through phases of loving a word so I change a few letters here and there to make a decent name.

e.g Solar = Solarius/Solaria

EDIT: oh and of course, this name.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

Any name that sounds badAss or funny

 

[Ernie Devlin]

If it's a male character i'll usually use Corso (Italian for run) which was shamelessly taken from a film called The Ninth Gate.
If it's a female character i'll use Jade. Which was shamelessly taken from Mortal Kombat 3 (or 2 if you unlocked her).

Original? No.

 

[Ziggy-Stardust]

When playing Final Fantasy X, I used the name You *****.
"attack you *****!"

 

[trog08]

I use one of my pet's names.

 

[MassiveGeek]

I pick mythological or fancy names like "Brynhilde", "Keicha", "Pandora", "Aphrodite" and such. Goddess names are something I really use alot, mostly because I assosiate it with the character I'm playing. If I'm going with a character who's specialised in meele, I go with names like "Athena". If I pick one that uses dark magic, then "Nyx". Simple as that.

Of course, sometimes I just go with names of celebrities or people I know for the lulz.

 

[CruelSpider]

I'll usually use my handfull of names that I do use for pretty much everything.
But, for fear of having said names stolen from MEH, I shall post none of them!

 

[Shambl3s]

ButtonMasher or Yahtzee. I've been using Yahtzee way, way before I knew about Zero Punctuation.

 

[Legion]

It is either my name or a name of a character I particularly like from something else.

That said, I don't play many RPG's at all, so I very rarely name characters anyway.

 

[EliteFreq]

Actually I've started to name some of my female characters 'Pumpkin', especially if they're redheads(I have nothing against redheads if that's what you're thinking). I named my singer on Rock band Pumpkin and purely chose a female character because most of the songs are sung by men which looks rather funny.

 

[Robert632]

whatever name floats into me haed at the time i play the game is the name i ive my charectors. i never use a name twice.

 

[quiet_samurai]

It depends, sometimes I will take it seriously and give my char a genuine sounding name appropriate to the game. But sometimes I just make up something silly on the spot, especially for online games. Actually now that I think about it, I'm more likely to take naming my char seriously while playing single player. One of my favorite silly online char name was ImaKeeperor LazerEyes-pewpew kinda lame.... but I like them.