Names

unregisturd · Post by **unregisturd** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 6:48 pm

What do you guys name your characters? It's always been a problem for me... I come home with this brand new game that I've been wanting for weeks. I rip open the plastic. I put it in my xbox. It loads... The logos flash before my eyes. The menu comes onscreen. I hit "New Game". Sometimes a cinematic will play first. I sit there thinking, "Yeah baby!" And then... It happens. "Please choose a name for your character/car/etc....) It takes me FOREVER to figure out a stupid name! I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem, or what you guys name your characters. I've had three characters for Morrowind: Rutabaga (original name that I use for most of my games), Avocado, and Kumquat. (Haha, Kumquat...) Just interested in some of your ideas.

UncleScratchy · Post by **UncleScratchy** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:10 pm

Biffle Chump, Noober, Larry....

lifeishell91 · Post by **lifeishell91** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:16 am

Abraxas Deathstar, Vanessa Ashington, Victoria Densington...

Evrion Tir'eir · Post by **Evrion Tir'eir** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:17 am

Evrion Tir'eir

Galak · Post by **Galak** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:18 am

Just

Just add ' it makes name seem origanal

Hoebie · Post by **Hoebie** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:50 am

I always use something that is currently taking my time. At the time I was watching hellsing, in this there is a character named Alucard (anagram since it is Dracula backward) So I named myself Utarefson-san (the san for being a japanese anime imitation

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Sir chris · Post by **Sir chris** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:51 pm

I usualy name them after myself when i cant think up a name.....

Fer'or · Post by **Fer'or** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:00 pm

I like Hoebie's idea... Just turn around a word, add some ' to it and it sounds great.

Monolith · Post by **Monolith** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:08 pm

I always try to give them names which fit to their race/class/whatever. So I always now which race I'm going to take when I start a new game. My current character is a dunmer and goes by the name "Daraeth Tenerym". I don't know if it fits...maybe only I think so, but I kind of like it....

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 2:21 am

I'm terrible thinking up names for characters - so mostly I just use Xandax for all RPG typish games.
And if I need to have more characters - they are also called Xandax in single player games

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(In multiplayer RPG games I range from random names to some sort of Xandax where I changed the first letter to something new like Sandax, Candax etc

- so much for originality

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Bloodthroe · Post by **Bloodthroe** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 9:16 am

uh why dont u use your own name for your own character?
i dont know what the three names u usually use mean but all real names do have meanings like Sarah means princess, Eric means honorable ruler, Caden means fighter, and Dan means gods judgement or something, if u just put letters together to make up names like zargok then u wont make sense, if u are playing an orc go to an orc site and look up common names and their meanings. same with elves and what not. ill edit this later and put up a site u can use. However, i did make up my online/gamer name. It's called Bloodthroe, it means hard to live. Blood meaning life and Throe meaning painful struggle.

Go to here ---> for elven names The Elvish Name Generator my name apparently was Elladan Lossëhelin

Go here for hobbit names The Hobbit Name Generator my name was Fredegar Bramble of Willowbottom *i find this uncommonly intresting*

Go here for all kinds of names http://www.barrowdowns.com/middleearthname.asp According to the Red Book of Westmarch,
In Middle-earth, Eric was a
Bothersome Kin-slayer

*i dont think thats so...*

Here for pirate names http://www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate.php mine be Red Tom Cash

Ninja names Ninja Burger -- Games (of Death?)

Go here to find out the meaning to your real life name BabyNames.com - Baby Names, Boy Names, Girl Names, Name Origin and Meaning

thats plenty to get u started but feel free to use an elven name for a human or something intresting, or use made up names for the name generators.

According to the Red Book of Westmarch,
In Middle-earth, Bloodthroe was a
Loved Orcling

damn my name...

demo27 · Post by **demo27** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:38 am

Hoebie my charcters name is alucard

(yeah...hellsing)

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 3:15 pm

I have a rather eccentric approach when it comes to naming characters. while I have my stock favourites - calling my mage Barry the White, for example - I have been known to stray into mathematical terminology (mantissa) the odd (obidiah knipperdollink III) the random (the avanging sandwich) the stolen (bob-bob hardyoyo) and the downright offensive.

I think I just get bored easily during that bloody introduction.

Twoback23 · Post by **Twoback23** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:24 am

I go with like TwoWordsTogether 'the' something

Such as Quickfist the Unseen
Angerbang the Unstoppable
ETC ETC ETC

hwesta_elf · Post by **hwesta_elf** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:52 pm

hmmmm...

you guys have very cool names but I still have to say that my FAVOURITE name is my wood elf's name : Hwesta (which, as far as I know [in Tolkien elvish] in elvish means: Breeze...) no, I am not one of those people who just go searching for elvish websites JUST to get a name for an RPG but i have downloaded a 174 page Quenya learning course...

okay, this is my first post in the history of my life so don't wonder why it's wierd... I'm new here... how do you go about talking to people? is this an email? there is alot of confusing buttons to push *lol* I'll figure it out... although I will only check this once and awhile...

does anyone else like Lord of the Rings? I LOVE it! it is the reason I like Morrowind alot (besides the fact that it is a good game...)

*TIP: if u want a good name try looking up an elvish dictionary... you can find really cool names there... (e.g. my cat is named "Isilen" which could mean "Moon eyes" and "Isilwen" supposidly means "Moonmaiden" and "Elwen" means star maiden and "Elwe" means "Star spray" and so on and so forth...

hwesta_elf · Post by **hwesta_elf** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:55 pm

Sorry for taking up space with annoying questions but how do you get those cool pictures under your name?

Digitalchimp · Post by **Digitalchimp** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 4:22 am

AH! Hoebie, someone else who watches hellsing! Is the fourth dvd out yet? and I didnt know alucard was dracula backwards, it didnt occur to me!

anyway,

Cos my nickname's chimp i gnerally use something along those lines like "Chymp" or "chiimp", it doesnt vary much though...

either that or I'll use someone cool's name like Musashi (after Myamoto Musashi), or Yammamoto (After the character who wrote the Hagakure, i can't remember his second name)

arno_v · Post by **arno_v** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:51 pm

You really see it as a ROLE playing came dont you. I alway use my normal name. and besides why think that long bout a name when i doesnt makes the game different?

Wopps · Post by **Wopps** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:51 pm

I use Wopps for EVEYTHING

Digitalchimp · Post by **Digitalchimp** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 4:33 am

well...

You really see it as a ROLE playing came dont you. I alway use my normal name. and besides why think that long bout a name when i doesnt makes the game different?

for a start it is a role playing game, secondly why not spend time thinking of a name its boring using your own name, the whole point of games is that they are an escape from the depressing reality of the world in its current state, thats why peopel put in customisation features into comuter game, although it doesn't change the game as such, if NPCs are calling your character by a name that you relate to (i.e. involving you) your more interested and the characters seem more realistic.
you might not agree with this but thats the way I see it.