In games like, for say, most RPGs (such as Oblivion, Dungeon Seige, Diablo, World of Warcraft, bla bla etc), where you get to create a custom character and come up with a name of your choice, out of curiosity, how do you think when naming your character?
I've noticed, playing online games such as WoW, that there's a huge gap between how people chose to name their characters. There are people who name their characters after themselves, people who stay very "RPG-ish" in their choice of name (among which I count myself, to a large), people who come up with witty names (such as a priest named Learntopray (which really made me laugh the first time I saw it)) and people who name their character after the first thing that pops up in their head or just something ridiculous in general (names such as Trampman, Drugface, Coffeecup)
- Some of my characters names refer to;
Illion - is a reference to the city of Troy, also known as Ilion
Azaradel, Arakiba - names of fallen angels
Umbrielian - means "shadows" in latin (as a show of what a dumb choice of a name this is, people think it has to do with umbrellas)
Magatsuhi - named after a bad guy from a manga, the name was translated to "God of Death"
Though the name I'm the most proud of will always be my Diablo 2 barbarian named Barbarpappa, after a cartoon figure called Barbapappa
I've noticed, playing online games such as WoW, that there's a huge gap between how people chose to name their characters. There are people who name their characters after themselves, people who stay very "RPG-ish" in their choice of name (among which I count myself, to a large), people who come up with witty names (such as a priest named Learntopray (which really made me laugh the first time I saw it)) and people who name their character after the first thing that pops up in their head or just something ridiculous in general (names such as Trampman, Drugface, Coffeecup)
- Some of my characters names refer to;
Illion - is a reference to the city of Troy, also known as Ilion
Azaradel, Arakiba - names of fallen angels
Umbrielian - means "shadows" in latin (as a show of what a dumb choice of a name this is, people think it has to do with umbrellas)
Magatsuhi - named after a bad guy from a manga, the name was translated to "God of Death"
Though the name I'm the most proud of will always be my Diablo 2 barbarian named Barbarpappa, after a cartoon figure called Barbapappa
