Poll: Video-games with nameable characters.

When you get to name the playable character in a video game, what do you choose?

  • The default/canon option (Link, Cloud, Red, etc.)

    Votes: 3 27.3%

  • Your real name

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • Something ridiculous

    Votes: 5 45.5%

  • An original name that you find fitting

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    11
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Some video games allow you to name the main playable character to help create a connection between them and the player. It's a small and not super important feature, but I still like when it's included. There are a few philosophies people have when it comes to naming characters, and I'm curious what people's thoughts are on this.
 
I voted for canon name. I think you voted for original name. So it's 50/50 right now LOL. Now we need one more person at least to vote and the scales will be balanced more toward either way. ⚖️

Oh yeah you wanted people's philosophies on naming characters. Mine is pretty much, if a character you create in a game has an official name like Sora from Kingdom Hearts or Link from The Legend of Zelda, I name them the official name, otherwise to me it doesn't feel really-what's the word?-authentic, if that makes sense. However many games let you start out with a character that does not canonically have a name so you have to name them. In those, I choose whatever name I want.
 
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Wendy O. Koopa said:
I voted for canon name. I think you voted for original name. So it's 50/50 right now LOL. Now we need one more person at least to vote and the scales will be balanced more toward either way. ⚖️
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I predict that canon name will be the most popular option. The names are usually iconic to the characters, I just like coming up with names myself when the option's there.
 
@Evil Captain Odyssey Despite the fact more people have voted for canon naming, I have no problem with being non-canon and choosing whatever name you want-whether or not one wants that is an individual thing. Like, I do what I want with my games but everyone else can do what they want. And probably just as many people want to be non-canon with naming in RPGs as canon, statistically and realistically.
 
May not be exactly what this thread is focused on, but when I play Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and name the Yoshi Kid I usually make references to other media I like such as Kingdom Hearts and Love Live.
 
Nightwicked Bowser said:
May not be exactly what this thread is focused on, but when I play Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and name the Yoshi Kid I usually make references to other media I like such as Kingdom Hearts and Love Live.
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I like doing things like that too-in a way. I mean, in Tomadachi Life, I made a ton of Miis of celebrities and actors and also characters, all taken from MiiPedia.com. I have Mario and Luigi from the DIC Super Mario cartoons in there and I also have Riku, Kairi, Sora and Axel from Kingdom Hearts as Mii characters on there. I have the three main Golden Girls characters in there too not because I'm a fan but because I thought it would be cool and funny.
 
The Sims 4, the first guy my sis and I made was literally "Wario's Friend" in a house named "The Sadsy!!!" and in Animal Crossing, our city is called "Wariot" (with a lot of random symbols) and I was called "Thing *symbols*"

You can kinda guess the trend.
 
Heck my own username is ridiculous.
 
Oh wow more options have been added plus the voting statistics have shifted since I was last here. Interesting.
 
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