/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5581454]

how do you guys name your characters

I just think this guy looks like a Ray.

[Anonymous No.5581461]

>>5581454
Default names. If the name is blank by default I check online to see if the character has a canon name in other media. I am not a creative person.

[Funcoland Clown No.5581463]

>>5581454
Usually whatever I think fits the story best or the developers have suggested. Otherwise I'll use something funny like "Cocksucker" on a game like Pokemon.

[Anonymous No.5581474]

>>5581461
>when you're on a date with a guy and he uses default names in a video game

[Anonymous No.5581493]

>>5581454
I always use default names, but on FF7 I rename Aeris to Aerith.

[Anonymous No.5581616]

>protagonist
"Me"
>male party members
"Him"
>female party members
"Her"
>anything else
"It"

I hate getting confused in games, I always want to make sure I know who they're talking about ingame.

[Anonymous No.5581620]

>>5581461
Absolutely based and canonpilled

[Anonymous No.5581625]

>>5581616
>I always want to make sure I know who they're talking about ingame.
This seems very easy to accomplish by simply using the names given to each character by the developers.

[Anonymous No.5581626]

>>5581461
Same mostly. I don't want to take the chance of accidentally naming them the same as a fixed name character.

[Anonymous No.5581628]

I always name the MC "I say", so that I can pretend that everyone talks like foghorn leghorn.

>I say, my son, you have learned well.
>The gem has been stolen, I say!
>I say, we meet at last! Your quest ends here, I say!

[Anonymous No.5581629]

>>5581625
That's all well and good, but then I don't know who I'm controlling. If my guy is named "Me", and they say "Me is dead!" I can instantly recognize that I'm dead.

[Anonymous No.5581635]

Every Ray/Raymond I’ve ever met has either been exceedingly boring, a wife beater, or old and obese, or some other combination of white guy stereotype. Definitely not a JRPG protagonist name. I’m not a custom name guy, but I’d have to go with something more youthful and/or timeless like Zach or Luke if you forced me.

If a game literally has no canon name I have no trouble choosing but you know what ticked me off? In Suikoden I named the guy after myself, but then in Suikoden II it made me feel like maybe I should have waited and named *that* guy after me. Because now my original guy, although playable, is now just sort of an afterthought.

[Anonymous No.5581645]

>>5581628
This reminds me that I want a Looney Tunes version of a Kingdom Hearts-style game where Foghorn Leghorn is like a brawler-type class of fighter.

[Anonymous No.5581671]

>>5581628
Based and I say pilled.

[Anonymous No.5581757]

The only RPG where I routinely rename the characters from the originals are Mother and EB. Ninten and Ness are both Mikey. Ana and Paula are both Sandy. Lloyd and Jeff are both Isaac. Teddy is Teddy. Poo is Tnzin. The dog is Shmoo. Fav thing is Kaboom! Fav food is FOOD.

In SNES FF3 (IE FF6) I rename characters so the names aren't ALLCAPS cuz that's stupid. I do the same thing in Shining Force 2.

In RPGs where parties don't have set names, I name the team Unus, Zwegen, Trayas and Czork.

[Anonymous No.5581770]

>>5581461
same for me on my first or second play through. after that I just name people dumb shit like "penisfart"

[Anonymous No.5581774]

>>5581628

[Anonymous No.5581970]

>>5581635
The Rays I tend to meet are laid back af, the kind to cut you a deal or do you a solid.

[Anonymous No.5582043]

>>5581454

[Anonymous No.5582050]

>>5581628
I say, Foghorn Leghorn is surprisingly overlooked relative to the other Looney Tunes

[Anonymous No.5582060]

>>5581463
>>5581493
>>5581616
>>5581770
>>5582043
"gamer" """humor"""

[Anonymous No.5582098]

>>5581454
>I think this guy looks like a...
That's how it's done OP, I see you've already mastered the art

[Anonymous No.5582119]

>>5581626
I've done this before and it either improves the game or, at worst, it's the same

[Anonymous No.5582162]

>>5581461
Based and autismpilled. Tip: if the name field is blank, most games will fill in the default name if you press start.

[Anonymous No.5582390]

>>5581454
Frono
Fucca
Farle
Ffrog
Fobo
Fyla
Fagus

[Anonymous No.5582416]

>>5581461
Same. In Square games I just go with default names and in Persona I just google the canon ones.

[Anonymous No.5582419]

>>5581461
>I am not a creative person.

then train it

[Anonymous No.5582429]

You’re supposed to name them after yourself so you really feel like your playing a game where you are in the role of this character.
Hence the term rocket propelled grenade

[Anonymous No.5582436]

>>5582429
You don't name your pen and paper rpg chars after you, do you?

[Anonymous No.5582604]

>>5581970

[Anonymous No.5582625]

>>5581454
Favorite food is where the real creativity comes in.

[Anonymous No.5582653]

>>5582625
Imagine the smell...

[Anonymous No.5582862]

>>5582060
>literal no quotes, of any number, faggot with no sense of humor

>>5582653
>incel who can only imagine

[AAAAAAA No.5582908]

I do >>5581461 when I'm making a serious attempt to finish the game. Otherwise I'm naming them all AAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.5582914]

>>5582908
Based and AAAAAAApilled

[Anonymous No.5582950]

>>5582436
I don't play pen and paper rpgs