Naming Your Character

[Facey McFace]

Well, i wanted to ask everyone what do you usually call your characters in games such as Legend Of Zelda, Mass Effect, you know games like that. Just out of curiosity.
Myself i call them by my name, because i'm sad like that

 

[[HD]Rob Inglis]

Do you mean in games where it actually matters? Where others will see it? or is it just personal? In games where I have my own tag, I make one up, or use the immediate surroundings to help me.

 

[Necrohydra]

I tend to use the names given to me by the game. Otherwise, I have a small list of names I'll use for a character. As for online tags, I've been bouncing back and forth on a few tags. Think I'll stick with Necrohydra, though.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

If this is a single player game where I'm the only one who ever sees the name, I tend to use the defaults. If it's a multiplayer game that's short term (a deathmatch or LAN party or something) I tend to use tiredinnuendo. If it's an MMO or something similar, I don't play it. (rimshot!)

But seriously, I generally try to give myself standard and "meshing with the world" type names in MMOs and the like. I've often been of the opinion that if you think a name is clever or funny... it isn't. Or at least it won't be in three months.

- J

 

[usernamed]

When I play that type of game (RPG's) I call my character Ceestuff Engrabbit.

But I've never admitted that publicly before...

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

It varies for males, but for females, Hystaene.

 

[Facey McFace]

Just to clarify i mean both, singleplayer and multiplayer. Thankee for the replies so far by the way.

 

[John Galt]

Normally it's John Galt for males and Dagny Taggart or Ayn Rand for females. I prefer to have NPCs know my philosophical views during ahead of time.

 

[00exmachina]

Personally I go with nouns, or noun forms of words,
Fustigus,
Tibia,
Risotto,
Sardonicus,
Though I do have a city of heroes character called Disco Biscuit.
for non mmo games I usually just use the default names.

 

[Thaliur]

Do you mean in games where it actually matters? Where others will see it? or is it just personal? In games where I have my own tag, I make one up, or use the immediate surroundings to help me.

Behold! The mighty warrior deskchair, and his faithful sidekick, the witty bard teaspoon ;-)

I call my characters Thaliur, usually. Female characters (if I play them) mostly end up being called Khorena.
I use other names occasionally though, whatever comes to my mind.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Wow. Now that I think about it, I've used a ridiculous amount of names.

Multiplayer Usernames - Rockman, Tallgeese, DuckSandwich

Shadow Over Mystara
Cleric - Smite, Bishop, Khufu
Elf - Lilith, Ariel
Thief - Raven, Jill (In that game, the Thief is the Master of Unlocking)
Dwarf - Brutus, Skrunk
Fighter - Crassus (default name)
Mage - Cyrus, Magus

Knights o' The Ol' Republic
Lightside Male - Kerrek, Captain Kickass
Darkside Male - Darth Kickass
Female - Raven

Diablo 2
Paladin - Redeemer, SabreFrost (Holy freeze + sword user)
Amazon - Venom Huntress

 

[clericalerror]

Whole bunch of Diablo II characters are springing to mind.

Barbarian - Slaughter, FireCore
Amazon - Charisma
Mage - Kya
Assassin - IceHale (I had two copies of the rune word claws for you people who remember those)
Necromancer - Styles (Because I thought necromancers were only good for one thing... looking cool)
Paladin - Lightforge (Been using this name for years, only to have Blizzard name a set after it in WoW. I wish it was named after me. lol)

And I used to play a MUD years ago in which I had a humanoid spider wielding 4 swords called Blits.

I'd go on listing more... but I have to go to work.

 

[josh797]

generally i like to name my rpg chars my own name. naming them something thats dumb kinda ruins the illusion for me. usually after i beat it, if i go back to it,(and thats rare) i name myself something that makes the npcs say dumb things like yahtzee says "fagballs" or w/e.

 

[Anarchemitis]

I always use Anarchemitis everywhere. It's orginal, long and elaborate enough to be recognizable and ludicrous to be repeated by someone else. I have yet to see an "Anarchemitis1" or equivalent. In this way I never have to put numbers in my name.
Please no one steal my style.

 

[Natsu_Blaze]

Hmmm... I usually just pick the names the game offers me. Pokemon games I'll either use Ash or name it after the version color (except I used Natsuko for my latest Sapphire file). I don't play MMOs much (=at all), so there's not much there. As for online tags, it's usually whatever I happen to be into at the time. (Example would be this username: I was working hard on said Sapphire version file when I registered, and natsu=summer, so blaze seemed appropriate.)
Of course, then we get into how I name the characters in my stories... and that gets pretty fun. Anyone else out there make up new characters, and names for 'em?

 

[FormanGreenman]

Depends on the game - Mass Effect i used Bengy. Close enuff to my name. But other games where its visable to other people, something much cooler is required. In a prev life I used Kergen. Which then got ripped off into Kermit (bastards!)

Most recently i got thru Ian M Banks books for cool Sci Fi names. Just about all of his AI names are brilliant, ie: Fate Amendable to Change, Ethics Gradient, Problem Child, Sleeper Service, Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence.

Awesome stuff.

 

[Larenxis]

I made my name 'I am' once, expecting something funny to come of it, but alas, it just made it seem like Pokemon had really bad grammar. "I am picked up a widget" sort of thing. Not that great.