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How do you name your characters?

Usually Ravelle or Allison if it's possible, if not I have to get more creative and come up with alterations of the names or think of other names.
 
I usually just pick one of the same 4 names I always use.. the names tend to have their own personalities so I pick the name based on how I am planning on playing that character.
 
What about the other party members though? Thinking for the main character is hard enough. Though I do have an easier time if there's a default name.
 
As of late, I use a random name generator for certain words then slightly alter them. Honestly they do pretty well.

For usernames on websites that's different.
 
Depends? It changes.

Custom characters are usually just my name.

Already made characters i choose between my name and Josefumi, depending on which sounds better.

For girls I go with Cybil.
 
Depends on the game. Sometimes it's lore-friendly, based on a movie or something, usually something along the lines of the character type. For example, in Fallout 4, I made a pistol-based character named Roland.

Other games, like Diablo, it's just goofy stuff, usually still related to the character class. Off the top of my head, I've got ThinWizzy, HulkSmash, OogaBooga, and DedBob. You can probably guess which one is which.
 
I go lore/world matching names most of the time. If the game already has a named character I just use that. For a modern setting, for some reason I go with a russkie-sounding name. Greek names for females fits almost any genre.

When all else fails (and a male character), I go for Doofeus and/or add titles to that name like "Doofeus who Piss a Lot" when allowed.
 
Lore friendly if the name comes up in text and/or can be seen by others (like in MMOs). I'm very picky about it and research names in the game to find something proper to use.

I usually choose something sorta fitting even if it rarely or never comes up but I don't really care as much then. I had characters in Dark Souls named Katla (a proper name), Mienfoo (a pokémon) and Quip (the name of a silly weapon in a game) for example.

I very rarely use the same name twice, and never my real name. There are so many cool names to use!
 
I make all my custom characters female and name them Naomi after the Sega Naomi since a lot of my favorite arcade games ran off it. I'm a also Sega fan. I make her with orange or red hair because of the colored O in the Naomi logo and the Dreamcast swirl.
 
Spyware said:
Lore friendly if the name comes up in text and/or can be seen by others (like in MMOs). I'm very picky about it and research names in the game to find something proper to use.

I usually choose something sorta fitting even if it rarely or never comes up but I don't really care as much then. I had characters in Dark Souls named Katla (a proper name), Mienfoo (a pokémon) and Quip (the name of a silly weapon in a game) for example.

I very rarely use the same name twice, and never my real name. There are so many cool names to use!
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I do this too but then you run into someone called xUchihaSuske2006x and wonder why you went through the trouble.
 
My cousin and I used to play games together throughout our lives and we always named our characters after Star Wars characters. Just kinda stuck. I still do it tbh.
 
I name them the most majestic name I can conjure.

...Steve.

Something about a fantasy world being saved by a guy named Steve amused me lol

Edit: oh and usually something Sailor Mercury related for female characters. Wonder why?

Mercurius Sophia is my FFXIV character name.
 
A lot of my characters are named Somting. And my village in Animal Crossing is always named Nowhere. My first D&D character was Somting and when he died I named my next one Somting Else.

I'm very creative.

Edit: I recently started using Nick Dipples also.
 
When i get to play a female character, she will mostly be named Skili. If i need to create other females characters for the same game (second playthrough, mmos of whatever) then it will be, in order : Korydwen, Helen, Alice, Jillian.

For a male character, it will usually be Skade, Skaden, Oloos or Loki, with no real preference (and i usually play females, so the occasion is relatively rare).

If there is need for a surname, it is always be Skade. Therefore, it removes Skade and Skaden from the male name pool and Helen gets bumped to second place in the female pool.

For games taking place in modern settings, the female order becomes : Helen > Alice > Korydwen > Jillian > Skili and the male get's stuck with only Loki.


And the females names comes with specific looks and roles. Skili is the small dark haired rogue, Korydwen is the sage tall redhead, Helen is the colorful punk girl, Alice is the white hair young mom and Jilian is the dumb blonde warrior.
 
If there's a default name, that. If I have to make my own character, I try to make a olive-skinned, long haired Jesus looking guy with a beard with a name like Ali or Saladin. If that isn't an available option (for some reason facial hair options suck in Japanese games a lot of the time), I pick a girl and give her a lore friendly name.

For games like Persona where there's no canon name at release and you can't change the character design, I just give them a lore-friendly name.
 
I use my real name for the most part. My first name is 8 letters long so sometimes I have to go for a nickname instead due to space issues
 
In RPG with namable party members: Own name for MC, friends and such that I think match for party members.

Bethesda style: whatever matches the character I'm going for.

Other games like MMO: Names of rappers or other misc. cool names I like. Ghostface Killah is a fave of mine to use.
 
It depends on the game and setting, but the fact that my name is pretty much a "one size fits all" makes it easy for me to twist it into different aliases based on the context of the story. For example: if I'm playing Pokémon, which has a pretty modern setting, "Nicolas" can become "Nick", and it works regardless of whether I'm playing male or female avatar. If I'm playing Fire Emblem, which is closer to a medieval setting, I can just use my full real name or "Klaus" for male avatar - which is a short version of "Nikolaus", german form of my name - and "Nico" for female avatar.

I don't like changing certain characters' names though. Like, I will never name Link anything other than Link (and I'm glad BotW doesn't even let us change his name, thank the heavens). Just feels wrong renaming characters in some games.
 
Pup or something dog related > Beard, scruffy or something related to body hair > some other animal like a Mouse or Otter.

I leave the default in single player games. In a second playthrough I do change it.
 
I like to come up with a word that's thematically meaningful to the character and/or world of the game, then translate that word into a nice-sounding synonym from a language that the game's world/lore/inspiration is tied to.

For instance, for the Final Fantasy XV multiplayer demo, the idea is that it's all happening during the 10 years of dusk/night, so I wanted to name my character after "an artificial source of light," and the game is heavily Latin in its naming conventions, so I went with "Lychnus," meaning "lamp."

If I can't think of anything I'll just fall back on "Unison."
 
Outside of the Persona games, where my character is always called Ringring Ahoy, I tend to just go with what I feel like in the moment. I usually try to keep it appropriate to the gameworld, so I'll dip into names from other games, or movies, books etc. where I'm not familiar enough with the language/culture to pull a name out of thin air.
 
I hate it with a passion. I just want an "official name" of sort. Like Link in Zelda or Minato/Yuu/etc in Persona.

But when i REALLY CAN'T find a "somewhat" official name, i try to find a name generator.
Seeing MY name in a game with a character which is nothing like me immediately break the immersion for me.
 
I always go with a name of a character in a book. Right now I always play as Fess, the main character in Nick Peromov's awesome fantasy serie Keeper of the Swords.
 
Usually go with the official or default name. If I'm working from scratch, I use the names of random NBA players i.e. Kobe and Justise.
 
- Jordan (my name) if it's a silent protagonist.

- Original Name in the case of an established character with speaking roles.

- Jackyl for more western-styled RPGs with character creators.
 
I've named every character off my GAF username since first witnessing the greatness of the character in Harvey Birdman.
 
For Fallout New Vegas, I literally had a character family with the same last name....Snuggletruck. Whether their name was John or Rob, their last name was always Snuggletruck.
 
Budi is pretty common for me, it's my nickname and internet username for almost 20 years. And I think it fits in many games. Though I've also started using my NBA 2K character Tyrone Jamal in some other games too, I like to imagine that he's the same character =D For World of Warcraft I tried to come up with names fitting to the world. Same with other online games if they are fantasy or scifi based and I have multiple characters. I also hate joke names and names that straight up mean something like "Dragonslayer" or something.
 
Default or my own name. I can't come up with any decent sounding lore-friendly names without thinking how goofy the name sounds when I say it in my head.
 
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