Titty Shepard

[Fenreil]

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]

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.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Nutsack McGee is what all of my characters are. Best name ever.

 

[APLovecraft]

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]

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

 

[tahrey]

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").

 

[swenson]

I tend to use the same batch of names that I've used in various stories over the years (although, oddly enough, I never actually end up playing them anything like the real character) and when I get bored of that I use whatever name comes to mind.

I kinda wish I could rename my ManShep to Sheploo, though, because unfortunately I was boring and left him with the default appearance.

Also, wouldn't calling yourself Revan in KOTOR

Spoiler

be a little redundant? Hi, my name is Darth Revan Revan, folks!

 

[UltraDeth]

In Mass Effect I kept Shepard on default. I only make changes when a game asks me to make a character from scratch

 

[Booze Zombie]

I name my main character after the Kane of the biblical myths, which seems quite fitting as the main character in almost any RPG is a very angry man who kills everything.

 

[Demongeneral109]

I usually use Aura or some other name referencing whatever I'm currently obsessed with. my last character was named Aura Nyoroza. If you get all 3 refrences in the name you get a cookie
HINT the last name has 2

if im lazy i name my female characaters Mara. I could never find a good default male name though ^_^0

 

[Woodsey]

Well, I named my Shepard Jack after Jack from Lost.

Normally I generate random names until I find a first name and last name I like, then put them together.

 

[TheMetalGuy]

I call my characters silly names like: MegaMums, (Which means Mega Yummy in english)TheMetalGuy (If i play a MMO) and i once named my uarmed girl in FO2 Coconut_god_punch.

 

[IndianaJonny]

I name my main character after the Kane of the biblical myths, which seems quite fitting as the main character in almost any RPG is a very angry man who kills everything.

Isn't the biblical name 'Cain', as in 'Cain and Abel'?

I tend to pick Scottish-sounding names like 'Ewan' or 'Fiona', they're great for fantasy gaming and you can get away with them in ME given the traditional-sounding surname.

 

[Christian Lerche]

Renegade Kane Shepard. What's not to like?

 

[Christian Lerche]

I name my main character after the Kane of the biblical myths, which seems quite fitting as the main character in almost any RPG is a very angry man who kills everything.

Isn't the biblical name 'Cain', as in 'Cain and Abel'?

Well yes, but if you're more geek than actual historian, you'll use the name Kane from the command and conquer series. They're the same person, but Joe(the actor) is too cool to not use the typo. Like Mortal Kombat.

 

[Draconicfeline]

I like making up names, but once i get used to the character, I always ALWAYS think of a better name. Its games like Oblivion and Fallout NV that do this to me.

Or, in a storyish sort of game like Final Fantasy, I just use the default. I feel like I'd be ruining the game otherwise.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Isn't the biblical name 'Cain', as in 'Cain and Abel'?

I tend to pick Scottish-sounding names like 'Ewan' or 'Fiona', they're great for fantasy gaming and you can get away with them in ME given the traditional-sounding surname.

I really like the Kane from Command and Conquer.

 

[Xearin]

I mostly use my self made alias. For pun names: Ben Dover. Great name XD.

 

[mocruz1200]

"this is my grandson, what was his name again?"
"PENIS"
"oh thats right, his name is PENIS!"

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

Jasper, or Jeffs, or Jasper Jeffs. The "s" on "Jeffs" is important, it loses it's charm without it. I have a load of other ones too, but I'm not giving them out, because they're mine! I like my brothers though; Senor Bum.