/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9004685]

What do you name your guys when you have the option?
Do you use canon names, your name, or make something up?

[Anonymous No.9004694]

If its not narrative based, I use my own name.
If it is, I go with whatever they're actually named.

[Anonymous No.9004701]

>>9004685
Usually named after characters from my favorite books or movies at the time. Kids that used dirty words for character names were uncouth and low IQ.

[Anonymous No.9004713]

>>9004685
Depends on the game but usually my default RPG hero name is Lupin for no real reason

[Anonymous No.9004715]

>>9004685
If you call him "I say" you make everyone in to foghorn leghorn.

[Anonymous No.9004860]

I name him Ass.

I'm 37

[Anonymous No.9004862]

Canon names, sometimes I name them after musicians or actors I like

[Anonymous No.9004869]

If it already has a name filled in I just use that, if not I will just use a word that comes to mind

[Anonymous No.9004876]

Names that produce funny text strings during dialogue sections, my dude.

[Anonymous No.9004892]

Canonical names everytime.
I rename almost all Chrono Trigger characters to their real names, though (Nadia, Glenn, R-66Y...).

[Anonymous No.9004912]

>Zelda games
Link
>a generic profile not assigned to a character
my own name
>a specific character in a game where you only control one
something that fits the setting with a tastefully humorous twist
>characters in a game where you control more than one, like FF
chad medieval names
>games where you control the life of some poor creature, like chao garden
a cuck name like Babydick unless the creature is a chad, then they get a name that is intentionally chad compared to the others while still playing on the same theme, like LargeCock

[Anonymous No.9004915]

>>9004715
You're crazy

[Anonymous No.9004931]

>Why yes, I always name my characters AAAAAAAA, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.9004937]

>>9004685
Always default name. If that is not an option, then 'AAA'.

[Anonymous No.9004943]

>>9004685
When I played Pokemon I used to name my trainer after the version

[Anonymous No.9004956]

>I always use my real name.

[Anonymous No.9004957]

>>9004715
Kek

[Anonymous No.9004963]

>>9004713
Would especially be fitting for thief characters like Zidane.

[Anonymous No.9004978]

>>9004685

[Anonymous No.9005201]

>>9004978
i have been doing this for such a long time but recently had a kid and began deleting these files. i'm sure there will be a game i forget about and will have to explain ANALCOCK at some point.

[Anonymous No.9005797]

>>9004685
I really don't care. The only time I will modify the character's name is when I'm sure I'm going to have a hard time remember who's who like the moment JRPGs venture into Japanese names I haven't heard before.

[Anonymous No.9008172]

>>9004860
This. Except the part about being a kiddo.

[Anonymous No.9008226]

>>9008172
How much would you charge to just hang around me for a few hours every day making sporadic remarks about me being a kiddo so I don't feel old anymore?

[Anonymous No.9008369]

I always just use funny names that make me laugh, ESPECIALLY if there are canon names. Calling link Bepsibop or something is peak comedy and I won't hear otherwise.

[Anonymous No.9008407]

>>9004685
"Nigger"

[Anonymous No.9008408]

>>9004685
growing up my mom would name her characters after me and my brother when ever she played and ill always remember that

[Anonymous No.9008774]

>>9008369
>>9008407
>>9004978
>>9005201
>>9004860
So this is why brain damage looks like. Hopefully we can help fix that in the future.

[Anonymous No.9008791]

>>9004685
I genuinely cannot comprehend what kind of sociopath you'd have to be to use your own name for a videogame character. Utterly bizarre.

I use the character's canonical name, unless the canonical name is stupid (The hero of Final Fantasy Adventure is "Sumo"? Yeah, not on my watch).

[Anonymous No.9008808]

[Anonymous No.9008825]

>>9008774
>im actually a very mature player of children's toys

[Anonymous No.9008829]

>>9004978
>>9005201
Why? It's not even that funny

[Anonymous No.9008832]

>>9008408
Your mom often shouted my name if you catch my drift

[Anonymous No.9008835]

Always using the canonical names unless it's Pokémon, where I use my own name

[Anonymous No.9008851]

>>9004685
I usually go with canon character names, however in game's with a character creator I make a pale white dude with an extremely long nose and chin. He's got teal hair and his name is the Virgin Slayer, which is integral to the story I create in my head

[Anonymous No.9008859]

>God Tier
Original made-up names which fit the themes of the game and the characters

>Okay Tier
Default names

>Highschool tier
Name the hero yourself and the love interest the girl you have a crush on that you never even talked to

>Drone Tier
AAAA, BBBB, CCCC, DDDD

>Shit Tier
LMAO I named the protag Anal and the girl Sex, JUST YOU WAIT at one point maybe after 50 hours it will be funny and I'll share a picture with my phone xD

[Anonymous No.9009057]

>>9008774
>So this is why brain damage looks like.

[Anonymous No.9009080]

>>9004685
For Zelda games I use Link
For RPGs, I use names that my childhood friend and I used, which are actually names from my friend's family and school (we went to different schools). Recently, when I'm playing games with a younger male protag (Pkmn, River King), I name them after my son.

[Anonymous No.9009979]

>>9004685
I have a pool of names I use, depending on the setting and character. Some I picked up along the way from various media, some are real names that I really like, and a few I made up.

[Anonymous No.9010009]

>>9004685
Whatever I feel like at the time. Sometimes I'll just leave the names as they are. Other times I'm in a juvenile mood and will name the MC something retarded like Faget. Still other times I'll make it a pun or something stupid reflecting their superficial character, (last FFVII playthrough I did I named Cloud "Nimbus", Barret "Dr. Dre", Aerith "GonnaDie", etc.).

[Anonymous No.9010028]

>>9008859
>Name the hero yourself and the love interest the girl you have a crush on that you never even talked to
My older brother did this in FFVI with Locke and Celes. I thought it was cool that he named Sabin after me though. Would've worked better if he was Edgar, but I didn't care. One of the reasons Sabin has always been my favorite.

[Anonymous No.9010031]

>>9010028
As for me, I used to always name the main character my own name in all caps.

[Anonymous No.9010069]

>>9004685
When I was a kid, I used my name (the short version). In my late teens-early 20's, I used my online handle.

Nowadays, I just use an anagram of my name. An alias, basically.

[Anonymous No.9010109]

I named him SEXY. Can't remember the girl's name.

[Anonymous No.9010198]

>>9004685

Toilet.

"You're the final hope for this world, Toilet."

keks every time

[Anonymous No.9010280]

>>9004685
Canon names, properly capitalized. Then my friends will come along and write "cum69" on my save or something.

[Anonymous No.9010286]

>name characters with proper casing
>npc names are ALL CAPS

[Anonymous No.9010292]

Ash. Housewares

[Anonymous No.9010327]

>>9004892
>>9004937

[Anonymous No.9010342]

Canon/Default names, i'm not creative
I even chose a female for one of the assassins creed games because it was what was used in the book adaptation.

[Anonymous No.9010450]

Self insert protagonists: own name; maybe something fitting in the setting if atmosphere is important.
Protagonists with an actual personality: canon/default name.
Party members and side characters: canon/default name.

[Anonymous No.9010625]

>>9004978
a man of culture

[Anonymous No.9010628]

Fuck, Fucker, Fucky, Fucko, or Jim.

[Anonymous No.9010669]

>>9004685
I can't be the only person who called Link "faggot" in LTTP, can I?

[Anonymous No.9010693]

>>9010669
I called him "faget" in OoT, does that count?

[Anonymous No.9010706]

>>9008859
I find canon fags way more insufferable
Default name is acceptable, as in, if the name is already inputted for you on-screen and you simply choose not to make any changes and go with it, fair enough.

However, if the game gives you a blank input (meaning it clearly wants you to come up with your own thing) and you still manually type in MUHCANON name, you're a colossal faggot, more so if the canon name is not even written anywhere on the box or manual and you had to dig it up from some obscure ass external source like a japan only manga or some shit, like Persona/SMT fags do.

[Anonymous No.9010751]

>>9004685
Whatever I'm in the mood for.
First playthrough,silent protag? My name
Rpg that lets you name every character? I randomize and then make small edits to the randomized names
Sometimes I name them stupid shit
Named my last protag Richard Ryder. It's not that deep.

[Anonymous No.9010847]

>>9010693
sure does