sandlog of video game character naming habits

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anglo saxon would be more along the lines of Hakon, Clotilde, or Dagobert.

I always go for default :\

named the female-only character in old school rpg i was playing 'tristram' to try and ironise or undercut the fact i had automatically chosen the female character, felt maybe 0.2% better about myself

if it's an rpg i always name the guy valdiev. no idea why.

sim cities are always called Narnia. no idea why.

i named the horse in zelda "MY PUSSY" so everything the other characters would say about it would be dirty

"Valdiev played MY PUSSY's song"

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used to name male characters my real name - helped set the 'mood'
sometimes would name them after my characters in FFIRC (final fantasy themed irc version of ad&d). two that I can remember are serpenthor (I think?) and nepenthe (after the river)
like thomp I would choose the female character when available. I remember I had a golfer in mario golf named marian, after marian the librarian in the music man.

I took my video gaming pretty seriously as a child! nowadays I would probably name them something like 'buttcheeks'

I tend to dump all my hate and aggravation and dumb jokes into character names. Heroes like Beavis, Whoremonger, Cuntkicker, Fartknight, Sir Beavis D'Azzmonch.

Having 4 letter slots works much better in Japanese, I'm assuming.

started naming all my dudes dobbs back when i was really into the church of the subgenius and never stopped

i named the horse in zelda "MY PUSSY" so everything the other characters would say about it would be dirty

every time I start a new Zelda game I get a distant-fog-of-the-past giggle remembering how I played through the entire Ocarina of Time back when with a character named FUCKNUTZ

Constant customizable naming of things in Kairosoft games has led to many, many horrible creations.

Haven't played a game for a minute but I was in the habit of using New Jersey town names. I used these for Chrono Trigger, e.g.

Ewan
Elmer
Erial
Hobkn
Buena

and I forget what else. I wanted to use Ho-Ho-Kus but couldn't get it to make sense in 5 letters.

Looking back I was probably just ripping off Gargolyes

I always name characters after the cats.

I tend to name them after b-list celebs or out of date rockers, only slightly tweaked. So I have a skinny elf in Skyrim who has too much eye makeup named Elvish Cooper and a big headed Norn named Wank Martindale.