Poll: How do you name your game characters?

[DementedSheep]

I usually either use the defulat or just go to a name generator and keep clicking randomise until I find something that sounds decent and semi lore friendly.

 

[StormShaun]

I use a mixture of my name but make it sound good like a normal name in the surrounding lore, for Oblivion I used Shaun Stormeth. Was awesome.

 

[loc978]

Depending on the game...

Like some others, I tend to use the default names in RPGs where you play as established characters (most Final Fantasy games, et cetera)... I use lore-friendly names or funny names in online RPGs, depending on the theme of the character... and I use Referential or funny names in single-player RPGs with customizable or faceless characters.

So, every option except my actual name or ordinary names (except in online games where ordinary names are lore-friendly).

 

[Sacman]

Usually I throw a dart at my poster of U.S. Presidents... but sometimes I just use what I think picks... which is what I do for a girl character...<.<

 

[Susurrus]

I tend to use stock names I've created over the years, most of them either having classical or medieval origins, or having been created by the bastardization of the spelling of a certain virtue/characteristic/vice that I want to be a significant element of my character.

 

[Ghonesis]

I almost always use Ghonesis as a nickname in games, combining Ghostfire (a nickname I made up earlier but was taken), and Genesis, meaning Origin.

But when I have to create a character to role-play, I usually just make something up, referring to the default names sometimes.

Maybe I'm referring to stuff I don't know about.

Latest character names I came up with were: Malyk Gelemnos and Jake Doblis Drimsby.

Do they refer to anything?

 

[Zeema]

My fallout characters are

Multiplayer is Awesome-- uses energy weapons and Gun's

A Ps3 then Most-- Melee and Unarmed spec

i name Stupidly and funny

 

[Hawk eye1466]

Usually I either use the default name or come up with a very silly name but a few years ago I started using Raoul Duke as my go to name just kinda fit my play style in many of thoes games. Cookie for the refrence.

 

[AngryNerd]

Depends on the game. If it's a fantasy game, I'll use a lore friendly. Anything else, I'll use my real name.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Usually referential, however, I once named by Commander Shepperd "Commander", so it would make sense when everyone called him that.

 

[Taldeer]

I almost always name my character Amarok, after the Mike Oldfield album.

 

[BrotherSurplice]

For some inexplainable reason that has been lost in the mists of time, my first character in any game that lets you set your own name, is always called Delboy.

 

[Torrasque]

It really depends on the game, and what I feel like, so I picked (Other)
I have named toons after anime characters, mobs in other games, IRL people that I like, my own name, a varient of my own name, something lore-based, or something for the sake of lols.

For RPGs I usually go with someone's name (anime/game/etc.) that suits the character, or I will make something up on the spot (especially elf names).

 

[Hugums]

In games like pokemon and zelda where the name is spoken in text but nowhere else i usually name him "I Say I Say" that way they all sound like foghorn leghorn. But in something like Fallout or Dragon Age i usually name him something related to the game itself, Fallout would be a common 50's name eg. Jimmy and dragon age would depend on the race i play as.

 

[Madara XIII]

Hey guys, just wondering what you guys usually do when a character name screen pops up.

Do you click the default name?
Do you use your own name?
Do you just use a regular name? (like David or Kelly)
Do you use a name to fit the theme? (like Evelyn or Aden in a fantasy)
Do you make a stupid or funny name? (like Fagballs or Professor Titty Wiskers)
Do you choose a name that references a different game or other media? (like those annoying "xxxSephirothxxx" names)

Feel free to share the names you use most. I personally just go with the default on pretty much everything.

I usually just go by Madara all the time. It's been my alias in gaming for a long time now and seeing how it's my Escapist and Youtube name I'd prefer to go by the same title while playing a game seeing as how most of my friends rarely call me by my real name.

So either Joey (My name) or Madara (My Alias)

 

[RainingCobalt]

I usually use default or lore-friendly. Anything else causes me physical pain. I was trying to get my brother to FINALLY play FFVII, and he insisted on naming Cloud "Bob", Tifa as "Harry", and Barret as "Betty".

He lasted longer than I did. -.-