Do you use your own name when naming characters?

[W65]

In Japanese RPG Maker games, I tend to use four stars or other obvious symbols as my name so that it stands out among the rest of the runes. Like in real life, it's nice to kinda ignore everything until someone mentions my character's name.

If there's more than one character I need to keep track of, like in an eramaker game with offspring, I have a small stable of name-like gender-netural non-connotative character compositions that I can arbitrarily assign. Most of them are real names with one letter changed, like "Teb," because I'm lazy and creativity is hard.

In other games, I'd almost always rather use the default unless it's something really stupid. So I'd rather there actually be a default name, and it's a nice bonus to be able to change it if I think it's asinine. If the dev really wants to have a character named Qeef Ravenlord or Dongy Jim Autumnbottom or Ishmael Mobydick that's their business, but it sure would be nice to ignore it.

(Too, I rarely play games that actually use real, modern names in English, because that setting bores me tremendously.)

 

[vir_cotto]

I was sure you were going to say MC Vir cotto, I was never so disappointed in my life

I sincerely apologize. Next MC will be Vir Cotto.

 

[Volta]

I never use my real name, ever, i much prefer a character than a half arsed self insert and generally use the default provided name where there is one ,when forced however i go for a "normal" first name, say Dave or Josh and if they really want to piss me off and expect me to give a surname as well it often becomes something like "JustDaveFFS!", which can be interesting if it blindsides you late game when a character says something like "this way Mr JustDaveFFS!".

 

[freedom.call]

Nah, but when the option is available I tend to pick something I can relate to language wise.

 

[Uncannycopycat]

I didn't take porn games all too seriously when I downloaded my first one, so when I was presented for a name I thought it would amusing for the NPC's to gaze into my characters eyes, and profess their love to Sock. So now every time I must name my character I name him Sock. I actually get peeved when I can't name him as such and must use a predefined name. I suppose I feel like every game I go into, Sock's spirit follows, as he has been for the last two years.

 

[Namco15]

Never , Aeris - Alina - Max - Rinoa , surname Connor are always the names I choose for my poor characters If I played with my real name I would think twice about entering a dungeon with the danger of being raped in the ass

 

[Game Reviewer]

Yes so i could feel like i am the mc while playing it

While other characters ill go default

 

[Game Reviewer]

Never , Aeris - Alina - Max - Rinoa , surname Connor are always the names I choose for my poor characters If I played with my real name I would think twice about entering a dungeon with the danger of being raped in the ass

What is the name of girl of your profile pic?

 

[recreation]

I always use a nickname

 

[Namco15]

What is the name of girl of your profile pic?

Arah Yoonseul from manhwa Perfect half

 

[Game Reviewer]

Personally, I never do this. I find that it actually breaks immersion when you try to self insert on a character that looks and acts nothing like you. You should take on the role of this character within the framework of the plot, instead of the character becoming some kind of projection of yourself into the game world.

There is also a slight pet peeve of mine when I enter a blank on the naming, and there is no default name for the char. Now I have to come up with a name that may or may not fit this character's personality, and it might even be a duplicate name of some NPC. I had an interesting time once when I named my char John(i think) and there was a NTR rival with the same name.

That is why there something called CHOICES so youll chose to react/act and how you want the story to end which is lacking for most Western Visual Novels

 

[FacelessVixen]

In Pokemon, yes. In literally every other game, no.

 

[Fliptoynk]

Wonderful idea.. especially if the game is about cuck and sissificashun

 

[saintvermillion]

Always use my name and have some of my own defaults for girls if I can name them because immersion.

 

[WICKEDp4th]

Not my first one, but the second. I never use that name, so it's just my "alter ego" in porn games. And like @saintvermillion wrote, i have a default set of names for the woman too.

 

[recreation]

I never really understood why people name the npc's too. What's the reason for that?
I mean, if it's family members I understand it somehow (well I wouldn't do that, I mean banging the mom of the mc who has the same name like my mom...but I understand the reason behind it), but the rest of the npc's? If you played the game already and know "hey this one girl is exactly like [input name here], well okay, I understand that too, but if you've never played the game before? Why?

 

[saintvermillion]

I never really understood why people name the npc's too. What's the reason for that?
I mean, if it's family members I understand it somehow (well I wouldn't do that, I mean banging the mom of the mc who has the same name like my mom...but I understand the reason behind it), but the rest of the npc's? If you played the game already and know "hey this one girl is exactly like [input name here], well okay, I understand that too, but if you've never played the game before? Why?

It's not uncommon for players to be able to get a general idea about what girl x will endure in a game or what her relationship to mc is before they've played the game. maybe they want to project an ex maybe their wife maybe their nemesis or maybe they'd like to relate with characters with names they like. I will agree though overnaming npcs and naming npcs which you know nothing about is irritating.

 

[jamdan]

I use my first name if possible, but thats it. I feel like it helps me follow the dialog, I have a habit of quickly skimming through (speed reading?) and putting my name in the dialog helps me stay on track and pay attention to the more specific things in some games.

I use the default names for everything else though, Im not creative enough to come up with good names for other characters and dont want to name them after people i know.

 

[Game Reviewer]

Nah i dont i just rename mc name or they dont like the name or for them its fantasizing someone similar they know with that name

Its like a fetish of someone youll never understood unless you are similar with them

Some players just become one with the mc when playing visual novel

While others like you just read it for the story

I never really understood why people name the npc's too. What's the reason for that?
I mean, if it's family members I understand it somehow (well I wouldn't do that, I mean banging the mom of the mc who has the same name like my mom...but I understand the reason behind it), but the rest of the npc's? If you played the game already and know "hey this one girl is exactly like [input name here], well okay, I understand that too, but if you've never played the game before? Why?

 

[W65]

Hm. Yeah, some people apparently want to project reality onto their video games.

There's nothing really wrong with that, I guess. Me, I'd rather keep my reality as far away from my video games as possible. It'd be creepy as hell if a porn game character happened to be named after a family member, or that girl I was into in school.

Then again, that's totally personal, and it sounds like a bunch of folks are actually looking for that connection. I guess it's a turn-on/turn-off thing like fetishes.