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Naming Your Character In RPGs?
Thanks to InsertCredit for their feature discussing the player-inputted choice for character names in videogames. They discuss some of the joys of DIY character naming ("Some people will buy an RPG, only to name the characters after their favorite profane words"), as well some more unlikely pleasures ("I became obsessed with buying used Final Fantasy VI cartridges for 100 yen at a certain game shop in Akihabara, just to see what all the characters had been named.") Taking a lead from this distinctly unconventional article, what names have Slashdot Games readers entered for characters in their favorite RPGs, and why?
Quake : cereal
/tell Azbywnwefcxxyx-III I'll buy that cloak for 5g
/tell Azbywnwefcxyxx-III I'll buy that cloak for 5g
/say sod it, I'll go buy one from the vendor for 10g
Half-life : King.Robo
Everquest : Cmunthen Alnawyer
DAOC : Urt Vert, Rong, Ryte
SWG : Bennt, '-'
A wise only RPGer will chose a short uncomplicated name
Azbywnwefcxxyxx-III Auctions 'Cloak of Thorns for sale'
Azbywnwefcxxyx-III is not in game
Azbywnwefcxyxx-III is not in game
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
The only proprietary MMPOLRPG I have played was Ultima Online a year or two ago. My heroine had a greek version of my real name, but when I tamed a wolf, I named my beast "Assassin." Then, after clicking on my wolf I kept seeing "******in!" or something like that and I had no idea why. After few hours of playing I kept wondering why on Earth my other wolfs, namely Killer and Murderer, had no such problem with their names whatsoever, only to realise that Ultima Online was censoring vulgar language... I remember that I was really asshamed that someone could see me while calling my wolf and I stopped playing for few days.
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
of PKilling MUDS...
my favorite has got to be mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm.
[hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm has walked into room.
> kill mnmnmnnnmnmnmnm
[hh:mm:ss] player is not in room!
> kill mnmnmmmnnmnmnmm
[hh:mm:ss] player is not in room!
> kill mnmmnm
[hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm D - E - S - T - R - O - Y - S you with his backstab.
you are dead!
>FUCK!!!!!!!!
I named my DAOC char "CarpelTunnelSyndrom". I know it's spelled wrong, but I was drunk when I made the character, so lay off :). The reason I named him that is because the way DAOC displays kills. Whenever a I kill another player in combat a broadcast message is sent saying:
"XXX was killed by CarpelTunnelSyndrom."
Everyone gets a laugh on that one.
Johnkoerner.com
My younger brother named Link 'Zelda' when he played Ocarina of Time, just so that he could see the princess say "Zelda... that name sounds familiar..."
When I was Everquest Online Adventures there was this guy running around shouting "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?"
His name, of course, was Verizon.
I just called my game Schnark. No good reason...just liked it.
Curmudgeon Gamer: Not happy
Back int the day when FFIV came stateside as FFII, i thought it'd be amusing to name all the characters after Star Trek:TOS characters.. esp since the airship was named enterprise. surpringly, then names -sorta- worked.. cecil : Kirk Kain : Spock Rydia : Uhura Rosa : Carol Tellah: Sybok(sp?) Palom : David Porom : Savik Yang : Sulu Edge : Checkov Cid : Scotty (oh yeah, that was obvious :P )
FuSoYa: Bones
I cannot remember what i would name Edward since i'd usually forget to name him before he'd get crippled.
In Ultima VIII it was quite refreshing to name your character God.
"Hello God, it's been so long since we've spoken..."
When I'd wasted hours and hours in Bard's Tale II on my old Apple ][c only to have all 7 characters die of a poison trap, I'd go back to the beginning to blow some frustration by trying to get the silliest party combination I could think of out and fighting.
The best I ever came up with was a party of seven dwarves. They were Deadly, that bunch. They were the Seven Deadly Dwarves. Lusty, Slothful, Gluttonous...the whole crew.
Of course, you can't get past the second dungeon with a full party...but it was fun anyway.
The Humblest Mollusk on the Net
Was on SWG. This guy was running around with "Cantsleep WookiesWillEatMe". THen theere were the more crude ones....
Rule # 1 - pick something you can remember
Rule # 2 - pick something your team can remember
Rule # 3 - Rule # 1 is not necessarily equal to Rule # 2
Rule # 4 - Rule # 1 is not necessarily greater than Rule # 2
Rule # 5 - See Rule # 1
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