REAL TALK! character name change?

[Anonymous No.1918627]

I love when you get to put in a name. makes the game seem more personal since i use my own name.

So what kinda name do you go for? Keep it as is? Make yourself the hero? Have fun with a name like "Ass Face"? What about your party members, what do you do about them?

[Anonymous No.1918640]

sabino

[Anonymous No.1918643]

I used to give characters my name and my friend's names, but once I started browsing the internet it became hard to discuss games because I didn't remember the character's original names, so I decided to leave it as is.

[Anonymous No.1918646]

>>1918640
Good name :^)

[Anonymous No.1918650]

AAAAAA

[Anonymous No.1918660]

>>1918627
default name master race, reporting in.

[Anonymous No.1918661]

I usually go with the given name.

It's funny that you posted a pic of Sabin on the enter a name screen because I always name him after myself whenever I go on with another play through of FF III.

[Anonymous No.1918663]

>using your own name

[Anonymous No.1918674]

I used to name the main character after myself. Not in FF6, but something like Chrono Trigger, yeah.

I stopped doing this when I got to Persona 3 since I was playing in a college dorm and didn't want my roommate/floormates to walk in on anime girls getting wet over some long haired dude that shared my name.

This was the turning point for me. I just can't rename the characters after me anymore. I go back and play games that allow you to rename the character and I just can't do it anymore. I mean, fuck, I fire up Harvest Moon SNES and I just can't do it because it would be weird as fuck explaining why virtual women want to fuck me.

Though I do have an exception. Dragon Quest and Zelda. Dragon Quest because...well, I don't know. It just feels right. And Zelda because it was the way I used to differentiate files with other people.

And as an aside, I fucking love that Bahumut Lagoon encouraged you to name the characters after yourself and a girl you had a crush on. I discovered the game a bit after my revelation and laughed for about 5 minutes straight. They fucking knew, and I love it.

[Anonymous No.1919097]

As a kid:

>Name protagonist after myself
>Name female lead after girlfriend/crush at the time
>Name supporting cast after friends

Now:
>Off and on with naming protagonist after self
>Keep everything else the same

[Anonymous No.1919110]

>>1918627

Never was nuts about the feature. In a game with established characters, why not use the established names?

When forced by Moon games, I usually just name the hero Eiyuu, Yuusha, or sometimes Shujinko or Shu if that's too long. Which is really dumb and unimaginative, but whatever.

[Anonymous No.1919129]

I'm a /lit/fag so all my names are derived from literature.

>Finnegan
>Ephraim
>Ishmael
>Huckleberry

[Anonymous No.1919136]

Usually if characters have names I just leave them as is, unless I'm feeling weird. One time I did a playthrough of FFIX with most of the characters renamed as people from the three musketeers

When I'm playing something where the hero has no canonical name or anything, like Dragon Quest, my usual go-to is "Alex" for some reason.

[Anonymous No.1919146]

On FF7 I named Barret as "Dorner" ;^)

[Anonymous No.1919164]

We had this one kid who always gave his characters his own original names and that's fine however you want to play is cool

but whenever we talked about the games he would insist on his names in the conversation. So we'd be talking about where to find this or that and he'd chime in, "Where do you get Cindy's best weapon" and we're all who the fuck is Cindy

Cindy was Yuffie if you where curious

[Anonymous No.1919251]

>want to replay an old game
>your own name is too long to use and you wouldn't want to use it even if it wasn't
>game has no default names
>can't think of names
>stare at the enter name screen for 30 minutes and shut off the game

Am I the only one with this problem?

[Anonymous No.1919260]

>>1919251
>>your own name is too long to use and you wouldn't want to use it even if it wasn't

Did you just not have a nickname?

[Anonymous No.1919285]

Obligatory

[Anonymous No.1919304]

>>1919136

My brother and I ran though that game when we where younger, I was really young so I would copy his save sometimes when I got stuck. Long story short I thought Garnet changed her name to Jill.

[Anonymous No.1919307]

>>1918627
>real talk

As opposed to the kind from concentrate or something?

[Anonymous No.1919310]

>>1919285
He was generic, but he wasn't really that bad.

[Anonymous No.1919325]

>>1919146
First play through when I was 15 I named him bubba with out thinking of the possible racist correlation.

[Anonymous No.1919328]

I just stick with the default names when possible, or my usual game handle otherwise.

4-letter limits and having to pick both a first and last name is hell.

[Anonymous No.1919362]

>>1918661
I always name Cyan, Ramirez the guy looks like the mentor of Duncan Mcleod

[Anonymous No.1919380]

>>1919146
>>1919325

>Not Mr T or Clubber L

Plebs

[Anonymous No.1919390]

>>1919328
>last name is hell.

I really hate when they want a last name, and a nickname

[Anonymous No.1919393]

>>1918627
used to name all the characters after my friends, now I don't bother renaming anyone. Except pic related, did that for a laugh

[Anonymous No.1919709]

I think, I only renamed a character once or twice. I didn't like the sound of Levant so I changed it to my name. Obviously, Harvest Moon also gets to have my name (if it fits, if not I shorten it a bit), every game else I respected the default name because that's what the developer had in mind to use otherwise they wouldn't put it in there.

[Anonymous No.1919756]

>>1918627
I keep the names of actual characters and name player stand-ins.

In Zelda, I always rename the main character. I also do in Dragon Quest. In all Final Fantasy games sans the first one I keep the names, although when i first played FFVII as a 12 year old, I renamed everyone and had a blast.

[Anonymous No.1919775]

[Anonymous No.1919781]

>>1918627
I named Robo R66-Y because that's his name and also to spite Marle who immediately shouts DATS NO GOOD. (probably has some issues about her own naming scheme)

[Anonymous No.1919905]

never changed default names
if they didnt had one i'd put something short like bill or ted
i just wanted to start the games quickly

[Anonymous No.1919934]

>>1918627
I usually always name my characters after myself and friends/brothers.
I refrain from female character naming sometimes cause it'd be weird if someone noticed a correlation at college.

Personally FFT is my favorite game to do this, name Ramza after my closest friend and a team of generics after me, my brothers, and a friend. Makes it more enjoyable for me.

[Anonymous No.1920006]

>>1919905
I bet you had some excellent adventures.

[Anonymous No.1920043]

I use the canon name (or the popular fanon name for shit like DQ) every single time because I am a boring human being. But

>character has a canon name
>it doesn't show up when you type the character's name

[Anonymous No.1920050]

>>1920006
I bet he also had some bogus ones.

[Anonymous No.1920056]

AAAAAAAAA, BBBBBBB or FJAKJEWAEHKFFAK

[Anonymous No.1920060]

>>1920006
>>1920050

And together they make WYLD STALLYNS!

[Anonymous No.1920076]

>>1919934
Being so beta that you name the protagonist after your friend and make yourself a disposable generic. Sad.

[Anonymous No.1920096]

>>1918627
Any name I want. Usually curse words because I need something to make JRPGs more interesting. My favorite was the following from Azure Dreams (on GBC):

>Mom: What should we name our new baby boy?
>Dad: Hmm....
>I don't know, how about something like Douche?
>Oh, that sounds like a name decided by the gods a long time ago!

[Anonymous No.1920101]

>>1919251
Yes, yes you are. Just use a nickname or something, goddamn.

[Anonymous No.1920106]

>>1919310
But you just had to fuck with him because of how he introduced himself.

[Anonymous No.1920121]

>>1919390
Are you kidding? There's comedic gold in those hills!

>give yourself very short name
>last name is idiotic to match stupid first name
>nickname longer than both names combined

And more like that.

It would be even better if the characters could react to your name when you first give it.

[Anonymous No.1920147]

The only character I really change from the default name in games is Link, depending on the iteration.

>OoC and MM = Link
>TP/WW = Scott
>LOZ/LOZ2 = Sisyphus
>LttP = Hans

Occasionally I'll just use a variation of his name, too.

[Anonymous No.1920148]

In any game you should always name yourself "Mah Nigga"

[Anonymous No.1920153]

>Capture Caterpie
>Nickname Mewtwo
>???
>Profit!

[Anonymous No.1920187]

Lately, if the game doesn't give a name for the character I'll usually hop over to Google Translate and plug in descriptions of the character until something that sounds good comes out. For instance, I've been calling DQ hero's "Shujinko", and I named a recent Monster Rancher mon "Conejito".

[Anonymous No.1920229]

>>1920076
I wouldn't call it beta. He's also a role model. Stay mad that I have admirable friends.

[Anonymous No.1920576]

>>1920229

so how does his dick taste

[Anonymous No.1920980]

He's Mash in the jappo version but i recently learned it was shortened from Macias.

He's supposed to be named Macias Rene Figaro. So canon wise you should named Sabin as Macias...but i never do because Sabin is a super kewl name.

[Anonymous No.1920983]

>>1920147
>Scott

gross

[Anonymous No.1921081]

>back in the day
>MC (Ryou), Female/Love Interest (Melody), Best Friend (Spike), Other Female (Sarah)

I mainly had Final Fantasy Legends growing up, so I was used to just rolling with these names. Was based after this live action roleplay stuff we did as kids.

[Anonymous No.1922549]

>>1920983
Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.1922558]

i always name male characters after members of wu tang

this got especially interesting when i started playing roguelikes... i tend to spend a week on a RL at a time or so, and i'll generally keep the main character named after the same ninja, just with a generational suffix attached

so my typical high score table would look something like this:

Ghostface IX
RZA the Rad
GZA XIV
Raekwon the Chef

etc

[Anonymous No.1922584]

i always name my main character 'butts' after playing final fantasy v for the first time.

[Anonymous No.1922595]

>>1922558
You are my hero

[Anonymous No.1922714]

if I like the character and/or use them a lot, I'll leave their name default

if I'm never gonna use them or I don't like them or their name is stupid, I'll rename them

if I've played the game several times before and I know the story already, I'll usually rename the whole cast

[Edgar !!a5B2kIm0Pwl No.1922727]

>>1918627
I don't get people who name themselves joke shit. They're usually the normal people who are scared to engage in a game and really immerse themselves in it so they break the ice with lowbrow humor. Like as if you ever been to the theater and people chuckle louder than they normal would if a serious drama includes the slightest hint of comic relief because they would feel safer with the film disarming itself than to bare any teeth. Its casuals being unable to cope with earnestly engaging in something.

[Anonymous No.1922775]

>name Cyan 'Imp'
>cast Imp on him
>give him all Imp gear

THIS IS YOUR NEW LIFE NOW

[Anonymous No.1922782]

>>1922727
>I don't get people who name themselves joke shit
most people do that to screenshot "funneh" things
i doubt someone actually invests a lot of time and goes after secrets, extra bosses and shit playing FF7 with Cloud renamed as MY DICK

[Anonymous No.1923541]

>>1922558

Play The Sewer Goblet.

[Anonymous No.1925068]

>Play FFVII back in the day
>Name all the characters after people I know IRL
>Know no black people
>Panicking, rename Barrett "Doughnut"
>Still call him Doughnut.

Also, FFI characters are all named after the Beatles.

[Anonymous No.1925083]

>>1918643
This. Plus, I don't have any friends to name characters after anymore.

[Anonymous No.1926213]

>>1918627
I name the entire roster after me and my friends.

[Anonymous No.1926512]

>>1918627
RedXIII = Nanaki.
That's about it.
I want to sympathize with the chars, not be like them.

[Anonymous No.1929293]

>mfw people refer to my character by their canon name

but... that's not his name...

[Anonymous No.1929319]

>>1925068
>not naming Barret 'Mr.T'

[Anonymous No.1929348]

>>1919251
your not alone anon

[Anonymous No.1929401]

>>1918627
Generally default names. If the MC is a blank slate self-insert, I use my name. E.g. most SMT games. In retrospect I should've used close friends for the Chaos/Law heroes so I could really kill all my friends.

>>1929319
I did that; he gets called "Mr Mr T" at least once.