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Lambi

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Sometimes I use what my username here is. Sometimes, as of late, I use Landon, or Landon Garth, for my male characters, and Zestia, or Zestia Dakron, for my female characters.
 

thenumberthirteen

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Well in Mass Effect I stuck with John Sheppard since that's the main character in Stargate Atlantis, and would have totally been the name I would have chosen anyway.

In RPG's I tend to go for LOTR characters, or something normal. Though in Fallout 3 my character was called "Liam Neeson Jr".

Also if your character is a big tough guy I find the names they say in MST3K's version of "Space Mutiny" are good.
 

WaywardHaymaker

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I love naming my own characters, it just pulls me into the game more, even if the name only appears on character records. I even nickname all of my Pokemon.

My favorite name has got to be one of my Mass Effect characters, Commander Shepard. It was surreal, people actually called me by my first name!
 

NeedAUserName

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Mike Laserbeam said:
Although with Pokemon I'll always name the rival character something bad, hoho I remember having battles against "Poo" or "Willy" when I played pokemon Red and Blue at the age of 6! Haha... Serves you right!
Yeah, don't do that anymore or anything....

Anyway, my two main characters in Fallout 3 and NV are called El Stupido, and Clive Anderson (named after the comedian) respectively.
 

zHellas

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GiantRaven said:
I always try to come up with a new name. 'Dick Neptune' has been a prominent one lately.
Damn. That's a pretty badass name. Well, as Richard Neptune it is.

So gonna use that name.

OT:

Jack, James, Danny, Lance, Nick, Jane, Jessica, Sally, Alice, Lilly, etc.

Hiro for my Pokemon games(usually HeartGold), as an homage to my Gold version.

First ever time I beat the Elite Four.

I also ran from the fight with Ho-Oh, not realizing I couldn't fight him again.

And I also used the Masterball on a Nidorina. :p

I was like 8.
 

standokan

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Some times standokan some times names I like at the time, like Argus, Wolfgang and Xanxus
 

chromewarriorXIII

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If it's a JRPG then I always leave it at the default.

For WRPGs though I usually go with Axle for male characters and I just make something up for females.

I also have the rule that if it's a Pokemon game my character must be named Golden.
 

Magicman10893

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For my "canon" playthrough - My real name
For a game where I have little to no interest in the story - My very offensive nickname
For a game where I have played through a dozen times - Fagballs
 

EllEzDee

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I can't remember what i used to use, but since i got onto WoW last year and found out LSD was an illegal name, i took my middle name, and i've used it in every RPG i've played since.
Evaristé.
 

Fenreil

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Who hasn't done stuff like that?


If I'm naming a blank character, I use my real name. If I'm naming an established character, I leave it alone. I'm surprised to see that no one here used the name "German" in Mass Effect.
 

Something Amyss

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HG131 said:
Zachary Amaranth said:
Roxor said:
I tend to stick with the default. In Mass Effect, my character is Jane Shepard (which was the default name suggested by the game).
In ME, my character was named "Miranda," because I'd watched Serenity recently. Got amusing in ME2.

I think my male Shep was just the default, though.
You named your character after a planet.
No, the OTHER Miranda in the movie.
 

APLovecraft

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usually my own name but a few years ago all my characters were called Sparta Venoit, which i thought sounded cool at the time
 

Mrsoupcup

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I like using names from mythology or just my real name. Thorir is my warrior character in Oblivion. It means "Warrior or Thor".
 

tahrey

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I really miss being able to change ALL of 'em, like you could in FF6. Give us that, or give us complete unchangeability (like in Xenogears etc), because it's pretty disappointing when you get to do one ... then everyone else is fixed.

Mind you, it can get confusing. By the time we reached a point in that game, me & my bro had forgotten what each character's original name was, and it took a bit more digging to match names to pixelated faces (this was wayyyyy back when zSNES was quite new and the internet wasn't so comprehensive or easy to search). I think this may be what led to him keeping all the default names in his game of FF7...

As for how we chose them ... just whatever seemed appropriate for the character's appearance and manner. EG Locke became the (far less pronunciation-ambiguous) "Indy". This is sort of how I still do it, though occasionally some kind of stupid theme-naming will creep in, or I'll pick whatever the most obvious feature of a new but poorly defined character is and twist it for laughs. The aeons in FFX have a bit of a combination of the two (Flux, Mr Bitey, etc)... and the lead character?

Well, he was pissing me off for quite a while before the naming opportunity arose, and not realising he was going to be the only one ... I called him Bumcakes. I think I might have nicked it from Yahtzee... dunno. The idea certainly passed through ZP-ville on its way thru my brain. It remained fitting for an infuriatingly long time, and only quite a way into the game did he start getting mature enough that I sort of regretted it. Sorta. I'm just going to explain it away as being an Al Bhed cypher-name from now on.

(...SO woulda called Wakka "Pac Man". Yuna "Aerith", Rikku "Yuffie", Auron "Vash", etc. You knows it.)

edit: Next time I think I'll go with highly gender/culture-inappropriate names. Maybe reprise a few from really old RPGs (Onionkid, Jamseed/Ahriman/Zahhark/Genie/Prince (& Princess?)/Saleem/Agmar ;) ). That or just call each one "you" ("he", "she", "it").