Fun with naming your characters.
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I spent ages going through Old Norse names to come up with my Skyrim characters name.
Usually I end up with something stupid like naming my pokemon character 'derp!'. Much hilarity was had. Particularly in Gold/Silver when trainers call you.
Usually I end up with something stupid like naming my pokemon character 'derp!'. Much hilarity was had. Particularly in Gold/Silver when trainers call you.
Probably the silliest thing I've done in naming my character was when I named one of my Fallout: New Vegas characters "Wheatley," and even gave him an Intelligence of 2 to complete the effect. I'm not comfortable with anything sillier than that, though. It just makes the game feel less complete most of the time, like me and my character don't belong there, and that's hardly good for the level of immersion I usually strive for.
On a side note, while you can't technically name the horses, I've taken to calling my horse in Skyrim "Boziik," which is Draconic for "bold." It's less because of how cool it sounds and more in honor of that one time I got attacked by a blood dragon and she ran up and started stamping on its face. Poor dragon didn't know what to do between me, my badass horse, and my companion.
On a side note, while you can't technically name the horses, I've taken to calling my horse in Skyrim "Boziik," which is Draconic for "bold." It's less because of how cool it sounds and more in honor of that one time I got attacked by a blood dragon and she ran up and started stamping on its face. Poor dragon didn't know what to do between me, my badass horse, and my companion.
If it is a male playable charatcher, he will with a 90%, have my name. When it isn't my name, it will probably be a default name. If it's a girl? She'll have a name I consider pretty, or a meaningful name.
I'm boring, aren't I?
I'm boring, aren't I?
I Usually go for "Latiasracer" Because im lazy to think of ones.
Sometimes, when that doesnt fit i go for "Strelock" (Character from S.t.a.l.k.e.r games) which is what i named my Fallout 3 character. Which lead to a very DERP moment.
Some mercs tried to kill me, and on killing them i searched their bodys. One of them had a note that was "Kill strelock" which i made a happy noise, thinking it was a S.t.a.l.k.e.r easter egg (Your first objective in S.t.a.l.k.e.r is to Kill strelock). But soon after i recalled that was my character name, and i was sad.
Sometimes, when that doesnt fit i go for "Strelock" (Character from S.t.a.l.k.e.r games) which is what i named my Fallout 3 character. Which lead to a very DERP moment.
Some mercs tried to kill me, and on killing them i searched their bodys. One of them had a note that was "Kill strelock" which i made a happy noise, thinking it was a S.t.a.l.k.e.r easter egg (Your first objective in S.t.a.l.k.e.r is to Kill strelock). But soon after i recalled that was my character name, and i was sad.
I had an Oblivion character that was a class called Douchebag. I name some of my fallout characters after their main combat style: Blasty, Punchy, etc. I had a WoW character named Douchecannon until I realized that WoW is complete crap... the list goes on.
Lets see, I've had a multitude of Terraria characters whenever me and my mates get bored of our current world/give someone else a go at hosting
Rookie (normal)
Old ****** (Less normal)
GINGERS DO HAVE SOULS! (Pure red head, white clothes/skin for the 'no soul' part xD)
Suicidial Goth child (hehehe)
And a few others which are far too horrible for the eyes of the escapist community...
Rookie (normal)
Old ****** (Less normal)
GINGERS DO HAVE SOULS! (Pure red head, white clothes/skin for the 'no soul' part xD)
Suicidial Goth child (hehehe)
And a few others which are far too horrible for the eyes of the escapist community...
I either made the names personal (like with people I know) Made them so i'd know what the character was supposed to be (Zidane was Thief, Vivi was BM, Steiner was Useless etc.) Although I did have fun, watching everybody praise Ganon in the SNES Zelda game for being the savior of the world.
named my rival in pokemon Gary. after being partially raised by season 1, it's basically a curse word now. :/
I named a DAO character:
Kakapoopoopeepeeshire Cousland.
Now every time someone recounts his story its the tale of Kakapoopoopeepeeshire Cousland, the man who saved the world from the blight and gave his life so hopefully other PCs of that name would not live in shame of it anymore.
Kakapoopoopeepeeshire Cousland.
Now every time someone recounts his story its the tale of Kakapoopoopeepeeshire Cousland, the man who saved the world from the blight and gave his life so hopefully other PCs of that name would not live in shame of it anymore.
Sometimes I go classy with names and put some thought into them
My female Nord in Skyrin was Syn, an actual Nordic Goddess
My FemShep is Amanda (cause it sounds like Commander)
Other times I just ask my husband, some of his best cannot be repeated in civilised conversation
My female Nord in Skyrin was Syn, an actual Nordic Goddess
My FemShep is Amanda (cause it sounds like Commander)
Other times I just ask my husband, some of his best cannot be repeated in civilised conversation
I like to go with:
Officer Nasty
Captian Cockles
Phill Atio
Captian Cockles is great because it's (kind of) appropriate, becuase a cockle is a kind of clam.
EDIT:
In Old Republic, I named my character "Robin" (as in Batman and Robin) and made him look like Robin. I ran around the starting world yelling "Holy Habadashery Batman!", "There's trouble afoot in Gotham!", "The Jokers running amuck!". I got some interesting responses from people. A friend and I are planning on doing the same thing again, but as Batman and Robin.
Officer Nasty
Captian Cockles
Phill Atio
Captian Cockles is great because it's (kind of) appropriate, becuase a cockle is a kind of clam.
EDIT:
In Old Republic, I named my character "Robin" (as in Batman and Robin) and made him look like Robin. I ran around the starting world yelling "Holy Habadashery Batman!", "There's trouble afoot in Gotham!", "The Jokers running amuck!". I got some interesting responses from people. A friend and I are planning on doing the same thing again, but as Batman and Robin.
Is Alone In The Dark the ZP review where those 2 names were used?
OT: In really-serious games like Fallout or something like that, I name my character a common Ordinary Joe name such as Gary. I flat-out fail to take said games seriously at all, and, as I've said before, to me, Gary just has a nice ring to it.
OT: In really-serious games like Fallout or something like that, I name my character a common Ordinary Joe name such as Gary. I flat-out fail to take said games seriously at all, and, as I've said before, to me, Gary just has a nice ring to it.
Usually I just give them my name (if female) or canon names. Unless I'm feeling childish that day.
In FFVII I renamed Barret "Douche", most other characters kept their canon names (including Cloud).
Tidus in FFX was renamed Airhead for no reason.
Marche in FF Tactics Advanced was once named New Kid, just so he could say "My name isn't New Kid! Its New Kid!"
In Pokèmon my main character is almost always named Usagi (except in Black, where its actually male and named Conejo, both mean rabbit in two different languages) and the rival something random or their canon name. I may even have named him Roxas one time. The Pokèmon's name range from normal, to the outright ridiculous. In SoulSilver half of my party got Warcraft-names (Sylvanas the Totodile, Krasus the Charizard and Thrall the Torterra.) When I started breeding Snivys I ended up naming all of them after Slytherin-members (suitably enough my starter's name was Salazar) seeing as I ended up running out of names some were named after the same character, as such I had three called Lucious, Draco and Malfoy, and two named Severus and Snape.
In Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 my friends and I once had fun with giving guests silly names and then killing them/dropping them into the wild, only to get messages such as "A little fish has drowned" or "a man with a map is lost and can't find the park exit".
In FFVII I renamed Barret "Douche", most other characters kept their canon names (including Cloud).
Tidus in FFX was renamed Airhead for no reason.
Marche in FF Tactics Advanced was once named New Kid, just so he could say "My name isn't New Kid! Its New Kid!"
In Pokèmon my main character is almost always named Usagi (except in Black, where its actually male and named Conejo, both mean rabbit in two different languages) and the rival something random or their canon name. I may even have named him Roxas one time. The Pokèmon's name range from normal, to the outright ridiculous. In SoulSilver half of my party got Warcraft-names (Sylvanas the Totodile, Krasus the Charizard and Thrall the Torterra.) When I started breeding Snivys I ended up naming all of them after Slytherin-members (suitably enough my starter's name was Salazar) seeing as I ended up running out of names some were named after the same character, as such I had three called Lucious, Draco and Malfoy, and two named Severus and Snape.
In Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 my friends and I once had fun with giving guests silly names and then killing them/dropping them into the wild, only to get messages such as "A little fish has drowned" or "a man with a map is lost and can't find the park exit".
Huh, I didn't know you could name your body parts in Dragon Age.Adam Grove said:
I pretty much always change the names when it's my second playthrough. This, of course, for games which have a "default" name for all characters (like Final Fantasy). When there's no name, I either make up something awesome or something silly, depending on the game.
Well, in Pokemon I usually put silly sounding names to them, but sometimes I name a Pokemon after another species of Pokemon just to screw with their minds.
Now, in Champions Online, I can't resist getting silly, specially with the huge amount of characters I've made. I have a character named "Bingo Announcer From Dimension Z", another named "Guy Playing This Game As A Girl" and one named "I Ran Out Of Ideas For Names".