the lamest names in a video games.

[Ashcrexl]

Freaking squall. I know square loooves naming its protagonist after naturey stuff, but squall always sounds to me like the sound a baby makes when you steal its candy. i think his name is 80% of the reason people claim he's an emo (he's not).

leon is way better. they should've named him leon.

 

[Fishehh]

Hurp'Derp

A boss in WoW Cata's leveling coliseum the "Crucible of Carnage" in the Twighlight Highlands
You have to fight a couple of people before he comes out but he looks like:

(He's the big huge guy)

 

[repeating integers]

OT: STARKILLER. Smacks of trying too hard to make something badass.

STARKILLER is just his code name, his real name was Galen Marek. Or are you talking about STARKILLER the clone in The Force Unleashed II?

(just realised what an utter geek I am for knowing all of that!)

Didn't know that, huh.

Honestly, I've not played Force Unleashed, I just thought the name sounded a bit... stupid.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I see a good collection of "lamest names in video games" whenever i join an mmo server.
These kids try sooo hard to sound badass and cool i just can laugh. I just give my characters...names. Well but i am a freakish roleplayer.
But sometimes developers behave just like the average 12 year old shad0wa55a5in in wow with trying to beat themselves in "creative names" why i ask? why cant a villain not just been named like a regular person? or are villains always born with an evil birthmark so the parents can give them spooky names?
but the worst usually is when names out of literature or mythology are completely misused just because they seem cool, yes i am looking at you japan. be ashamed of yourself.

Would you really want to fight a guy name Carl Davidson? "You must now pay for your insolence and face the wrath of...CARL!

OT: Gordon Free-nah, just kidding. Let's see...Jet Brody from that God awful game Fraction.

if it fits the character and the setting? of course.For a human it would be ok. While in Warhammer online it should be rather Karl Davidsson. The games lore give you good impressions what appropriate names would look like, WOW uses telling surnames, Warhammer uses olf fashioned german ones, DnD likes complicated ones.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Oh and no one mentioned the ingenius name-generator of Diablo 2?
With classics like "bowel-thunder the terrible"

 

[SoopaSte123]

Hot Coldman. And that's his real name, not a pseudonym. Seriously, fuck peace walker.

 

[bullman422]

My Runner ups:

Rico Rodriguez - Just Cause 2 (PS3)
Queen Margreta - Decpetion 3: Dark Delusion (PS2)
Jaster Rogue - Rogue Galaxy (PS2)
Um Jammer Lammy - Um Jammer Lammy (PS1)
Boogerman - Boogerman (Sega Genesis)
Cait Sith - Final Fantasy 7 (PS1)
Fayt Leingod - Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PS2)


My pick for the Win:

Seaman - Seaman (Dreamcast)

 

[DirgeNovak]

Definitely Culotte in La Pucelle. It means "pants" in French.

 

[Wintermoot]

pretty much any unimportant NPC with a name like [city name here] citizen it has Red Shirt written all over it.