For example, when I play RPGs that allow you to rename characters (like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy), I usually keep the default name.
Why? Well, I don’t want to think of a name in first place. But it also gets confusing when looking at guides.
On third place, and this is more how I like to play games, I don’t feel it is fair to take their name out of these characters to replace it with one that represents them less.
Do you do this too, or am I the odd one?
I think that there is a time factor and a complication factor. Like the longer the game lasts and the fewer characters available to name, the more people who will name and customize characters.
I wonder how many people completed Skyrim with the name “Prisoner”, though.
I am using a german keyboard layout and if i have to name a character and dont have a name in mind they’ll become Qwert Zuiopü.
it was the nerevarines name, it was the name of the hero of kvatch and it is the name of every Dragonborn that’ll never finish skyrims main quest.
Similar to the classic, Etaoin Shrdlu.
i am stealing this to use it as a name of a fiend or something in my ttrpg campaign, thank you :D
There’s of course also ‘Lorem ipsum’, which might be too well-known, and rather obscure ‘Hamburgevons’.
L’orm Ipsu’mlies is a well respected librarian and only got mininal eye rolls. He claims his name is old elvish, but he made it up.
It doesn’t actually appear anywhere in game but Oblivion’s main character has an internal name in the editor. “Bendu Olo”. Very Geoge Lucas kind of name.
That is different, the player is seldom refered to by name in games.
Though to keep it classic, I often use AFGNCAAP