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Renaming characters in video games...Why give us the option
lunaris
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So, I just started playing Phantom Hourglass and rather than be typical and name Link...Link, I named him Jesus. The game is about 1000% more hilarious because of this. Here's a sample, on the
"Could you be the legendary Jesus?" (Answer: Yes or Not me!)
followed by "You finally came!" "We've been waiting on this boat to be saved! But... everything is fine now that you're here to rescue us, Jesus!"
Everyone keeps talking about the dangerous path I walk and the noble quest I'm on, it's pretty perfect.
Had any interesting shit go down from renaming characters?
ghost ship with the creepy girls
:"Could you be the legendary Jesus?" (Answer: Yes or Not me!)
followed by "You finally came!" "We've been waiting on this boat to be saved! But... everything is fine now that you're here to rescue us, Jesus!"
Everyone keeps talking about the dangerous path I walk and the noble quest I'm on, it's pretty perfect.
Had any interesting shit go down from renaming characters?
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The fullname is Yutak the Unfortunate.
In Privateer our name was "Yutak", our callsign was "Unfortunate". This led to all sorts of hilarity with old peanut butter lip (if you recall the lip synching of privateer). Things like:
"Unfortunate, you look just like your picture!"
"The name is Yutak, but you can call me Unfortunate"
In an introduction:
"Ah, I see you have arrived..." *turns to person we are meeting* "This is Unfortunate".
There were dozens of them that kept us laughing all game, but I have forgotten most of them
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If I do a second playthrough, I tend to go with the originally intended name.
On a third playthrough, I often go with "Hero", because I thought it was really funny when one of the FF Gameboy games actually gave you that as a default name.
How can you play FF7 WITHOUT renaming Barett to "Mr. T"?
Edit: Beat hard while reading the topic. :P
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Alternatively, just name him "Mr." or "Mister" and you end up with her calling him Mr. Mr.
Man, I hope people see what I went for there.
Birores Mendez from Resident Evil 4 jgot gunned down by a rogue alien while raiding a UFO with Patrick Stewart before Coop from Megas XLR avenged the death of Pheonix Wright during a terror mission after Sargent Krauser from RE4 failed to cover the rookie lawyer's ass. It's quite apt that Coop is my man with the most alien kills under his belt.
Skeletor is fucking unstoppable with an autocannon filled with explosive rounds and my city of Heroes character, 'Tourtettes ninja' always seems to naturally sneak up behind aliens before gunning them down. I really need to give that dude a stun rod. Being aboe to shout 'It's a miracle YOU'RE STILL ALIVE!' while Jesus fires a sniper round at an alien is also fun.
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I'm a big fan of giving the ladies a female avatar when it makes sense -- I'm convinced that half of Pokemon's success comes from being very even handed when it comes to gender.
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"I'm not Darth Revan! I'm DARTH REVAN!"
"Could it be that Darth Revan is actually Darth Revan?"
and so on and so forth.
We tried to call him NotDarthRevan, but I don't think we have enough letters for that :P
I've just recently started using my own name in video games when given the option. It's just such a...weird experience for some reason.
It took until crystal for Pokemon to let you play as a girl, and until ruby/sapphire before it was implemented at the BEGINING of a generation. Pokemon was already cemented long before then.
I have nothing against female protagnists, but it feels forced to take a classic series, and swap it so thatthe lady is rescuing the dude. It's just pandering. Also, the one time I can think of "(Super Princess Peach) it devolved into horrible stereotypes andgender roles, with the game itself trying to look "girly", and Peach's powers being based on her emotions.
For a main character I go with "Ice Burner", or "Ice" if that won't fit.
If there's no real main character, I tend to leave the names alone. If I've played a game through many, many times, I'll start giving people silly names, such as my last game of FF6 wherein I named Cyan "Pink" and Terra "Dirt", among others. It enhances the entertainment value
A good friend named all her Chrono Trigger characters after foods, which still makes me smile. Sometimes, I'll name my main character after her cat (and actually, in Graffiti Kingdom my main character was her cat.)
Back in the day, my younger brother once called me over to see something from his friend's file on his Ocarina of Time cart. His friend had named the hero "MyButt", which probably was the cause of the laughter I'd been hearing from my brother's room all of that week. At the time I was called over, Ganon had been defeated and was going on his spiel cursing everyone, eventually yelling "Curse you, MyButt!"
I have to admit, the thought of Ganon damning his own rump got me to laugh, too. Making people say and do ridiculous things will always be funny.
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Totally. If they're going for the whole gender equality thing then it needs to just be the equivalent of a pallette swap. There's no reason there can't be a female Link in the Zeldas, for example. The story doesn't have to change one iota. Not that I'm pushing that idea, I'm fine with established characters sex not changing.
I'd like to see more fat, ugly female playable characters but that's about it.
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or if I was feeling really risqué
shit.
Seeing Mr Bum meet Prof Shit whilst Sir Fart was holding an assembly always made me giggle.
I was about 7 or 8 at the time though.
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Oh I had forgotten about that. God that was an awful idea.
"It's... HIM!"
"Who?"
"HIM!"
"I don't see anyone except Tidus."
"Exactly! HIM!"
"Uh..."
Speaking of God, when I played FFT:A, I'd name my main character 'Master', 'Boss', 'Lord', or 'God'.
It made the game truly amazing.
Only if there are also more fat, ugly, male playable characters. Seriously, most video game characters tend to be fairly pleasing to the eye.
Yeah, I HATE that. It's the result of stupid people reading research about gendered gaming preferences (which vary so much across both genders that you can only talk in the broadest possible terms anyway).
I have stock names that I tend to use for my male characters. The "mysterious/exotic" guys are named Ambrose after some dude in a book I read a long time ago. The kind or sensitive looking guys get named Simon after the poor kid in Lord of the Flies. The over-muscled stupid looking guys get some over-muscled stupid name, if I bother to play a game starring one of them at all.
On the rare occasion that I get to play a personalized female character, I usually think more carefully about the name, since female characters feel more personal to me.
I love naming characters in Disgaea and the like. My husband and I compete for the silliest names. Bandaide the healer is one of our favourites.
There's a LOT more fat ugly males then females. I can't even think of a fat, ugly, old woman character AT ALL except for the steretypical "wise old woman" most RPGs have. You see fat, ugly guys in almost every game tho.
"The SHIT! Its flying!"
Ravel?
Seriously though, games always have been awful to women. And always will be!
At least the prince of persia exists. Sigh, he's dreamy.
And he gets nakeder, at least during SoT. Do you know how much trouble SoT would have gotten into if he had been a girl?
On the up hand, naming Aramant in Final Fantasy IX 'Homo' or the like will eventually have him introduce himself as 'The Flaming Homo'.
Hell, I'd just be happy to see warrior women who didn't have toothpick arms. Gimmie a playable character with hips and thighs and muscles, thank you. Give her big boobs if the rest of the body matches, just don't stick balloons on a toothpick.
Unfortunately, the Blizztard portion (male AND female) of the gaming market isn't mature enough to handle female characters that don't look like Paris Hilton. It was always fascinating yet depressing to read reactions to female dwarves, tauren, and orcs on the WoW forums.
Chrono Cross had a couple of less-than-attractive looking female characters, although honestly, the big island mama could deal a shitload of hurt out with her frying pan. I'm also trying to think of fat, old, ugly PLAYABLE characters, who tend to be in short supply, I find: That one dude from *shudder* State of Emergency comes to mind.
I'm less concerned with the lack of less-than-attractive female characters, though, and more concerned with the highly improbable costumes they tend to wear. Compare Jankowski and Jin from F.E.A.R: Jankowski wears a fairly believable assault vest, and Jin's prancing around in tight leather. I think one of the few female characters I can think of who wore believable looking costumes was Konoko from Oni: sure, she wore a tight fatigues, but everyone else did too, and she didn't forget the bulletproof vest, either. Her other outfit is also suitable for asskicking: leather jacket, jeans and boots. And don't even get me started on the Dead or Alive girls.
I would be uncomfortable with a female link, but for the record I am ALSO uncomfortable with a blonde link.
I dunno, my girl went nuts for Super Princess Peach. I thought it was refreshingly not 'girl power' -- just comedic and cute. I just think Nintendo has a special opportunity with Zelda, because the whole franchise is set up around your character being a blank -- Link is supposed to be *you*. I know that's a little true of every game avatar, but it's especially true in Zelda games.
I don't think it would be pandering, I think it would be acknowledging that the franchise is popular with women. And it wouldn't really intrude on your normal gameplay at all.
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Also, in Civilization or any other RTS that lets you name characters, I usually give some soldier the name of someone I know, just to see if he can survive. Also, I name the ships.
As was mentioned earlier in the thread, I've been inspired to name the next renameable character I play to "I say" so NPCs will sound like Foghorn Leghorn. Thanks, Yahtzee!
In Nethack I always name my pet cat "Mewmaster" and my dog "Pooch McMooch." And there is a kind of food that they let you rename, it's normally "slime mold" but I always change it to "stupendous nacho." Then you drink a potion and "This tastes like stupendous nacho juice!"
I really wish games would take note of naming more often. Like naming Frog "Glenn" or calling Red 13 "Nanaki."
"Nanaki? Who's Nanaki?"
"Nanaki is Nanaki."
"Oh really? Nanaki's real name is Nanaki? Hey Nanaki, is that true?"
It'd just take like 3 seconds to change the text a little to show surprise when you first name him and modify that scene a little.
I don't really like when games (usually RPGs, like Golden Sun or Earthbound) have you name virtually every main character. I mean, I appreciate the option, but I just end up running out of names and naming them all after people in my life. This works fine for me and my best friend, but can get weird after that.
Note: Never name a female character after your sister. It could come back to haunt you.