I've always just picked a random name for my characters. In Pokemon its usually CJ, while in Skyrim its been names like "Legion Solless" and "Zov"
when you name a character in a game?
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Posted 30 March 2012 - 04:14 AM
Depends on the game, most of the time if I feel like playing a girl, I'll name her my name. When I want to play a guy, I end up naming him either Twig or Ein. 8D
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Posted 30 March 2012 - 05:36 PM
That depends on a few things. For Dragon Quest games I always go with Mythological names for my main characters, but usually I go for a few that I really like. Brunhildr, Freyja, Siegfried, names like that. For Pokemon games, I usually give them names of people I used to know. For any other game, I would probably just not bother with the names and just go with the default.
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Posted 01 April 2012 - 07:58 AM
I sometimes use my own name but then I prefer using another name which I pick so that it'll be unique. Its like having the name that I want to be named.
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Posted 17 April 2012 - 01:57 AM
I always name the character after myself and if there is a rival I usually name is after the person that closest to me when I name it.
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 11:00 PM
I used to use my actual first name but for some reason I always name them Butch now 
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 10:20 PM
i give it my real name, and my rival a bad name
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Posted 18 August 2012 - 02:18 PM
my name or my nickname
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Posted 28 August 2012 - 04:49 PM
I use my name if the main character is female, if it's a male I always name him Draco (yes, I'm a Harry Potter fan).
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Posted 07 December 2012 - 04:30 PM
I just use my name. I name them Isaac.
Handy when playing Golden Sun then!
I like to pick a different one each time.. something badass. Don't know about anyone else but when it comes to naming the bad guy (for instance ??? in the Pokemon series) I always try and give him a name that will make me laugh the next time I bump into him.
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Posted 25 December 2012 - 10:20 PM
I use the present name but if not have one (which are some out there) something random but I try to make it funny or so it can follow the storyline & make sense like pokemon the saying "Your name, caught ______""
"Darn, I caught a Marshtomp" or "Darn, I saved the game" -- Change Darn to a swear word and see what happens 
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Posted 02 January 2013 - 02:35 PM
in pokemon i usually name my char Zuke if boy and Zia if girl
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Posted 05 January 2013 - 06:47 PM
It truly depends on the game for me. If i'm playing a pokemon game I'll usually use my name except in the first generation games, i'll use Ash/Gary's name. When I'm playing a game like Skyrim, (although not a handheld game it comes to mind), I usually try to come up with a unique name for my character that reflects who they're supposed to be.
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Posted 10 March 2013 - 06:01 PM
When I was a kid I usually made up names. When I got older I stopped caring and just used the default name. Now that I have a two month old daughter I use her name, my main character in Fire Emblem Awakening is my daughters name. :-)
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Posted 11 March 2013 - 08:41 AM
It really depends on the game. When it's a game like Pokémon I just use my first name. With the more 'epic' games I usually make one up, or epicify my own name.
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Posted 17 March 2013 - 05:32 AM
If female, my own name. If male, Seth (idk I just like that name).
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Posted 18 May 2013 - 05:12 AM
I like coming up with unique names, like Daemoniica, Caerenya, and Kaerea. It's fun hearing others try to pronounce the names right. When I'm not coming up with confounding names, I name them either Mysterie or Miserie.
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Posted 16 June 2013 - 01:48 AM
I usually end up using the preset name, like Link for example. Or sometimes I end up stealing stuff from the Koholint shop and end up being named THIEF!!! Both work I guess.
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Posted 31 July 2013 - 09:41 PM
I have a few names that I like to use (like the one I have here), but in the case of TLoZ I always go with Link
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Posted 24 September 2013 - 12:24 AM
This depends on whose company I am in. If I'm alone and can't think of anything specifically fitting, I'll use the name Ryuzaki or Zephiel. Or, I will go so far as to search "list of interesting names" on yahoo and settle on something like "Xavien Raith."
But oftentimes I'm in the presence of a friend or sibling whose sense of humor I feel I can pique by entering names like "May Kadoody" or "Dixie Normous".
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Posted 26 September 2013 - 04:59 AM
I use the names of my own characters and even customize them to match the names if the option is available. If it's only one, then I go with my own name
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Posted 22 October 2013 - 11:09 AM
The easiest for me is to just choose the default name that the character should have. If that does not exist, then the random name generator is the go to or I either go with Ace or Zero, depending on the mood at that time.
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Posted 06 November 2013 - 10:47 PM
I always name the charachter based on what kind of game it is, I usually try to name them what their name is supposed to be. So like in Zelda I'd name my guy Link. If there is no real name avaiable, I spend at least 30 minutes trying to think of a really cool name. 
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Posted 10 November 2013 - 01:36 AM
Usually I name them after myself and my friends. Sometimes I come up with whole new names. In Persona 3 and 4 I gave the Brotag a Japanese name. In P3P, FemC has a double-reference-combination name. In N1 SRPGs, sometimes I make my friends into generics, but I do also come up with reference names and stuff like that.
I also name myself after the MC in Super Robot Wars. Fat lot of good that does me; the games are in Japanese. But I am a dood in a robot! ...I'm sorry, I'm a genuinely-awful person.
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Posted 23 February 2014 - 12:36 AM
I use my real namr
