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david .
Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: being a smart ass about naming your character |
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I just started Twilight Princess for a second play-through, and I named myself "obviosly" (the correct spelling is too long) just to see how it changes NPC dialogue.
e.g. "You'd better try and help her, obviosly!"
Once in Ocarina of Time, I used the name "Up next," so people would say things like, "Up next, why not visit Saria?"
Anybody do this? |
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dark steve .
Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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In online games, you see things like "your dad," i.e. "you have been killed by your dad" all the time. Good names for this purpose:
Mother
God
circumstances
ebb tide of colonialism
etc. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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When I played FFVII I named Cloud 'fag' and Tifa 'that slag'. e.g. 'Hey fag, Mr. T and I are going to meet up in that slag's bar later on.'
Anyone who names Link anything other than Link on their first play-through is crazy. |
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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In Fallout games I like to use "Bitch" and "asshole".
Military acronyms are good, too: "Do you think you can withstand the enemy onslaught COMBALTAP?" _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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vision .
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 57
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player 2 .
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Naming animals after other animals is fucking awesome. _________________ Wii #: 8749 9109 9732 3653
"It is a peaceful way of understanding life, to play"
_Marcel Duchamp |
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a_plus .
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 3725
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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A friend of mine and I used to do this in Civilization 1. We'd call all of the towns stuff like, "my penis" and "my vagina," so that the game would occasionally give awesome messages like, "civil unrest in my penis," and "women's suffrage in my urethra." It was amazing.
-Wes _________________
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Joe .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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I named Link THIEF and the horse HORSE. I think this was the best thing to do. _________________
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Tim .
Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 54 Location: Millersville, MD
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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In Dragon Quest 8 I named my character "Guv." |
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david .
Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Now I wish I'd named Link "my nigga."
"Only you can save Hyrule, my nigga."
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Hmm, I think I'm over it. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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vision wrote: | After spending too long trying to think of good names for Twilight Princess characters, I settled on Lando for the plucky lad and M.Falcon for his resolute steed. |
That took me a while to work out because I was thinking of Lando from Hot Blooded Family, but even then I thought 'M. Falcon' was a great name. |
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helicopterp .
Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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In Animal Crossing I named my town Dublin and my character J. Joyce. I regret this.
I do not regret telling some of the animals that 'queef' is a really cool expression to use in conversation. _________________ Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one. |
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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When I played through Chrono Cross, I named the unnamed girl "Schala" or whatever her name is actually supposed to be as someone I knew told me about her.
Halfway through the game when they figure out what her real name is, I was rather confused.
"Schala, you are not Schala but you are Schala!" |
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Lackey .
Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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I like "wild animals" or "a bear" for multiplayer games. "So and so was killed by wild animals."
If you want to mess up game dialogue, simply a single question or exclamation mark does wonders. _________________ | Little bird fighting against a bat sect game | |
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Perseus .
Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 56
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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Great multiplayer naming ideas:
Choose a normal name, but mis-spell it to piss off anal-retentive opponents (like me):
Me and a couple friends once played a game of Counter-Strike against a man we know only as The Jascal. We didn't think too much of the name until we realised The Jascal was a sniper and wrote "This is the Day of the Jascal" in the public chat box once a match was over. This was too much for our tiny, 17-year old minds, so we did the only thing we could think of:
We named ourselves after The Jascal. My friend was "Day of the Jascal" and I was "The Jascal Never Dies." We then proceeded to terrorize The Jascal until he/she quit the server.
If you're ever feel like fucking with your opponents, give one of these a try. Totally immature, but great fun.
On another note, my default online nickname for the longest time was perseussux, which for some reason led people on games to assume that I was a newbie. Suffice to say, they were always pretty disappointed that I wasn't (except for that one time where I was!). |
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sawtooth .
Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Harveyjames wrote: | Anyone who names Link anything other than Link on their first play-through is crazy. |
Yeah.
I name most of my RPG characters Link, though.
The last game I got creative with names was Bionic Commando for GBC. I beat the game with Cmdr. DAMMIT and Cmdr. HEY _________________
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OtakupunkX .
Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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My Guitar Hero 2 band is called The Dick and Fart Jokes or something like that. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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I don't even want to tell you all about my naming scheme for Pokemon Yellow. I'll just say that I still have the guide book with all the names written in and reading through it I rolled my eyes at myself. I'll just say that bitch may be the most gentle name in there.
Also, I changed one characters name to "Nigga" in FFVII. I'll let you guess which. Also, one of the banners for the forum is from someone I know who named everyone in FFVII an emoicon. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | I don't even want to tell you all about my naming scheme for Pokemon Yellow. I'll just say that I still have the guide book with all the names written in and reading through it I rolled my eyes at myself. I'll just say that bitch may be the most gentle name in there. |
cunt gum! i choose yoooou! _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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replace gum with rag and you have a weedle! _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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glitch .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 37
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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i don't remember who did this, but i thought it was pretty smart: in a j-rpg where your party members all walk in line after the party leader, call the leader Vic Viper and every other character Option.
also, naming Link Zelda in the first game was pretty awkward. |
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Six .
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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glitch wrote: | also, naming Link Zelda in the first game was pretty awkward. | It'd be neat if instead of starting a second quest mode it just sat you in a dark room and had you wait around to be rescued. |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | Shapermc wrote: | I don't even want to tell you all about my naming scheme for Pokemon Yellow. I'll just say that I still have the guide book with all the names written in and reading through it I rolled my eyes at myself. I'll just say that bitch may be the most gentle name in there. |
cunt gum! i choose yoooou! |
I thought I was the only one to use that particular expletive.
Also I had a friend who would name his character "a girl" in halo so it would say "you were killed by a girl". juvenile, yes, but I like it too.
Whenever I played Actraiser I named my angel "crapola" and the game would call him "Sir Crapola". It was pretty great.
Man you guys probably don't even know what crapola is. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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sawtooth wrote: |
I name most of my RPG characters Link, though.
The last game I got creative with names was Bionic Commando for GBC. I beat the game with Cmdr. DAMMIT and Cmdr. HEY |
Link? I keep thinking of that detective show with the chimpanzees dreesed up in human clothes.
As for CMDRs Dammit and Hey, have you heard the story of shutup and trouble? _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Redeye .
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | I'll just say that I still have the guide book with all the names written in and reading through it I rolled my eyes at myself. I'll just say that bitch may be the most gentle name in there.
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In elementary school there was a "conduct and manners" fill-in-the-blank workbook that my brother and I filled in with every swear word we could think of or make up.
My mother still has it.
Damn funny.
I think there was some art-vandal author back in the 80's or 90's who did a similar thing with Dick and Jane. _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Perseus .
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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So does anyone actually name RPG characters after themselves? I'm boring- I just keep the default names (except Link- he's always something else).
Quote: | Also I had a friend who would name his character "a girl" in halo so it would say "you were killed by a girl". juvenile, yes, but I like it too. |
I have one who names his character "Common Cold" for the same reason. Or occasionally "AIDS", or "Black Plague", or... you can see where this is going. |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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I use "Andy" for RPG's sometimes... I named my Dragon Quest VIII guy Andy. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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sawtooth .
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Redeye wrote: | sawtooth wrote: |
I name most of my RPG characters Link, though.
The last game I got creative with names was Bionic Commando for GBC. I beat the game with Cmdr. DAMMIT and Cmdr. HEY |
Link? I keep thinking of that detective show with the chimpanzees dreesed up in human clothes.
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It's a tradition started by my brother. He got dragon warrior back in the eighties and he named his character Link for some reason. I think he really wanted Legend of Zelda, but never got it.
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As for CMDRs Dammit and Hey, have you heard the story of shutup and trouble? |
ha! _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Given the option I almost always name the main character Shaper. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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Slonie .
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 141
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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I named the horse Agro, but unfortunately link doesn't yell it... _________________ -Slonie
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Redeye .
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: | Given the option I almost always name the main character Shaper. |
How about "mechan".
Or maybe I missed your reference. _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I'm always "Kirkles" or "Kirkjerk".
I'm unclever like that. |
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Persona-sama Weltbeherrschen Mangaka
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: |
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I remember back in junior high, one of my friends named all of his level 100 Pokemon "Caterpie." It wrecked havoc on our matches as we'd always see, "Andrew sends out CATERPIE!" and a Mewtwo would pop out.
Still, it was pretty funny because afterwards his last Pokemon really was a level 100 Caterpie. It's such a waste though. :/ _________________
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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Persona-sama wrote: | Still, it was pretty funny because afterwards his last Pokemon really was a level 100 Caterpie. |
Classic! |
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Swimmy .
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In Suikoden, name McDohl "Baiter," "Bater," "Bator," or some other variation. Hilarity ensues when Gremio and the others repeatedly refer to him as Master. _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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Six .
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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I just remembered! In Dragon Warrior III, you couldn't actually name your character Erdrick. It would mysteriously prohibit you from choosing the name (in the GBC version, the equivalent is Loto.)
Also, even though it was tempting to call him something ridiculous since you typically never have him around for the rest of the game, you had to be careful when naming your merchant whom you send off to help build the town, otherwise you end up stuck with a city called Turdburg or something.
Also also, is it actually possible to have a whole party of characters with four-letter names and not have at least one or two of them sound ridiculous? |
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a_plus .
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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i remember in the first final fantasy, my uncle called his white and black mages WHTY and BLKY. |
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player 2 .
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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That's what I called the two characters in Perfect Strangers. _________________ Wii #: 8749 9109 9732 3653
"It is a peaceful way of understanding life, to play"
_Marcel Duchamp |
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a_plus .
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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don't be redikalous |
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TOLLMASTER nippon ichi PR man
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Thank god for this thread. I thought I was the only person to play Ocarina of Time as "I Stink" so that at the end Ganondorf would be all
CURSE YOU, I STINk!!! |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:38 am Post subject: |
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I remember on the Amiga I would always put rude words for the names of the characters, and I'd be laughing so much it made it difficult to type. That's how my character in Pub Darts ended up being called 'Sqeuaky Bollo'. |
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dizzyjosh .
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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my when-i'm-not-me FPS name: problems
xWBLZxSomeJerk was shot in the head by problems
problems gutted with a knife by JoeMomma!
problems is on a rampage! (that's the only problem, the plural forum doesn't work that well, sigh)
also, in RPGs, while nowadays i tend to play characters (like my orcish mushroom-engineer Rustface or the persuasive charming violent thug with a love of liberty and kittens Max Planck), but i used to name the main character after me and then everyone else after friends. when i was kid, this got really creepy though as i was more or less stalking girls in video game form, building these big imaginative stories about our journeys through the land-of-whatevers and feeling really good every time i kept everybody healed.
i think once i even built a dragon warrior party out of characters from other video games (female fighter named samus, etc). but in most of those RPGs you couldn't really customize abilities or equipment for the characters, it was pretty much 'pick the best' available, which limited that. |
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Kipple .
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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Slonie wrote: | I named the horse Agro, but unfortunately link doesn't yell it... |
Yeah, I did that too. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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dizzyjosh wrote: | feeling really good every time i kept everybody healed. |
That's the best thing about custom names, that you can build attachments to the other characters that you wouldn't normally have. |
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Scratchmonkey .
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My friend and I took great pleasure in naming our Wing Commander character "Asshole" and then imagining all the dialogue as somebody being angrily sarcastic:
"You blew up the enemy base! Way to go, Asshole!" |
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Fred .
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Shapermc wrote: | Also, one of the banners for the forum is from someone I know who named everyone in FFVII an emoicon. |
Oh, yes, I was looking for that the other day.
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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What game is that? |
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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4-D Boxing. _________________
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