Poll: Video-games with nameable characters.

[Evil Captain Odyssey]

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.

 

[Wendy O. Koopa]

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.

 

[Evil Captain Odyssey]

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.

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.

 

[SparksMarioWiki]

I vote default/canon. Don't get me wrong, naming characters is good, but playing as a protagonist that everybody knows is better overall and doesn't require much thought.

 

[Wendy O. Koopa]

@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.

 

[Nightwicked Bowser]

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.

 

[Wendy O. Koopa]

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.

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.

 

[Ray Trace]

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.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

Heck my own username is ridiculous.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

My go to name is "idiot". After all, people always say I am one.

 

[Wendy O. Koopa]

Oh wow more options have been added plus the voting statistics have shifted since I was last here. Interesting.