Do you name your MC after yourself, give them another name, or use their default name?
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Do you name your MC after yourself, give them another name, or use their default name?
Depends on whether I actually get to make decisions in the game, if not then I use default since I don't care to see people doing stupid shit with my name.
AAAAAAAA. Classic.
If they have a very recognizable canon name, like picrel, then I leave it as is. If they have an obscure canon name like the Persona games, or they don't, I name them something generic like Mark, John, Roger, etc.
I usually go with canon in Persona because not having a Japanese name would ruin the immersion for me.
Just pretend you're a foreigner. Works with the transfer student shtick
I guess it's possible. But in 4 you're living with your uncle on your mom's side which implies you're Japanese pretty heavily. But I guess you could cope by saying one of your parents was foreign.
>try to self insert
>last name is one letter too long to fit
rip
But the character is not a foreigner. If you're going to start pretending, why not pretend the whole game is good while you're at it?
I used YOJIMBO MASHIMUSHI in all caps for persona. Making it all caps was convenient so I knew they were talking about me because all Japanese names sound the same to me.
When characters don't have a default name
I don't know what to do
Default
if there's no default I call him "Hero" or whatever title fits best
Same. Except I'm a bit more thoughtful about it. If the main character seems to be an actual developed character, I'll go with the default canon name. Like Cloud. But if the main character is a quiet pseudo-character you simply control, I might change his name to "Hero" too or something else.
Just call him Hiro.
>Hiro
Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a role model. This is America. People do whatever the frick they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fricking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
>music
>movies
>microcode (software)
>high-speed pizza delivery
The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator's report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills."
So now he has this other job. No brightness or creativity involved -- but no cooperation either. Just a single principle: The Deliverator stands tall, your pie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car, file a class-action suit. The Deliverator has been working this job for six months, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes.”
based Snow Crash enjoyer. only real Chads have POOR IMPULSE CONTROL tattooed across their foreheads
>tfw a giant mongol throws a glass harpoon through your face
I prefer to keep the default name whenever possible.
In cases like Pokemon and Persona that don't have a canon in-game, but have one in supplementary materials like anime and manga, I look up those.
If that is not a thing either and/or the character is completely customizable, I have several names I tend to use, depending on the kind of character and the setting. In things like SDV and MonHun (I know, not RPGs) I have my usual default nickname.
If there's multiple random characters, like handling a full custom party/guild in a DRPG, I use either the nicknames of my friends/acquaintances, or of our TTRPG characters, or something random.
The first time I played FF4 as a kid, I did. But after awhile the characters just didn't feel like the type that should be renamed.
Default if the name is cool like Cloud, Squall or Zidane. Custom is the name is some lame shit like Tav.
Default
If there's no default I name all the characters as 3-5 letter animals or colors
If I end up really liking the game I retire a couple of the names
Default, especially in games where the text prompt already has their name punched in. Games where I have to look it up are less so, especially if the name is too long and I have to fudge it or I don't like how the name sounds.
Default. I like going with the intended way.
FFX has an alternative character progression, that allows deviating from the intendes roles. I regret picking that, since it feels off. FFX did a great job making every character unique and useful.
use cannon name evertime. otherwise, i use Zayon for male and Saya for female.
I go with the canon name if they have one, if they don't then I name them Rance or Dalton.
Alternate between my name, Dart, or Pepito
Dart is a good name
when i was a kid, i named the male characters what i thought cool male names were & female characters after girls i liked. when i got older i started using vulgar shit. as an adult i spam confirm on defaults.
If there is a default name (Cloud Strife, John Shepard, Aedan Cousland) I always take that. In the event that there isn't one, I take a lore appropriate name (Elder Scrolls, Mount and Blade, Baldur's Gate). If the setting has no established naming conventions then I pick something that suits the character. Like with Encased if I'm going white wing nerd, I'd name him something like Archibald. Or a blue wing engineer maybe something like Hank.
Using joke names, your name or the names of people you know is reserved for moronic homosexuals.
Anybody name their dq characters the number? I did my name for a few but I just started VI and called him 6
Barack, Incel, Chud, Sneeder or Anon
MC is always GROND
In good stories I leave it as is. Else I use either a joke name or my nicknames.
name them after myself
no thats cringe. if theres no default option i just name him Zanzibart
If it’s a game with an involved story I keep the canon name. If it’s a game like Legend of Zelda where the story is basically window dressing, I go for timeless classics like ASSFACE, b***hbreasts, URMOM, or the ever amusing UFRICKINGASS,U
Naming my MC my own name just feels self absorbed.
It's pointless to rename a character in most JRPG because they already have a name and backstory picked out for them, I don't even know why it's an option.
Depends on the game. Like Persona I name them, but FF games I do not.
In japanese RPGs the protagonist is a character you play rather than being you mostly. So I look for a canon name sometimes but gnerally don't care, except in cases where I can customize the protag.
I don't really play western RPGs
I used to name barret Black person.
As a kid I named Barret God, and named Cloud Black person
When I was a kid I would name cloud after me and I wold name tifa and aeris after girls at school I liked
I sometimes do theme naming if not I go default depends on the mood I'm in
I take an adjective that describes my own perception of the character and twist it until it sounds like a plausible name for the level of fantasy the game sits at.
I use the characters name. If there's no default name I use my own.
Anyone that doesn't is a moron and doesn't understand you're supposed to self insert and use your imagination.
I use the defaults on my first playthrough, otherwise I just name them the first random name or namelike word that comes to mind with no quality control.
I use a random name generator
Depends, lately i mostly name after my internet nicknames
I take whatever the protag's canon name is and slightly change it to something that makes me laugh. Cloud becomes either Clod or Clown.
Been going through the FF games and the only time I changed a characters named was in 4. I was not gonna play as someone named Cecil.
It's even annoying to say Cecil in my head, annoying ass name.
>delete NAME
>rename them Name
I fricking hated that all caps shit.
used to do this with all my pokemon, but it got so annoying with evolutions
Name all characters as curse words, investives or slurs, game suddenly is much funnier.
i name them after howard philip lovecraft's pet feline
Default
>Your parents named you after an RPG protagonist.
You know they exist.