Do you miss naming your characters?

[Excalibur-king]

Yeah. I usually change the names of people I know or like for the characters that suit them. For X, I just changed the names of the summons to random people.

i only did that with Final Fantasy 1 back in the NES era i remenber naming all characthers after my 3 best friends hehe and me.

 

[Valvalis]

I have seen a lot of really funny/great custom names given to FF characters, but I've never really liked renaming the characters myself, because I always feel like it takes away a little from their identities when I play through the story. I dunno, I just feel like the game writers probably gave them the names they did for a reason, and interfering with that kind of feels weird to me. I guess it's like, if you think about something like Lord of the Rings, for example--if you had been able to change Frodo's name to something like "Bob Boblets" or "Dingleberry" or something while watching the movie/reading the book, I think the story would have lost a lot of its emotional impact, especially the first time through. But then if you're already familiar with the story, it might not matter as much anyway.

 

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

No, not at all. I've I've never renamed any of my characters, and chose to keep the original names instead. I just generally prefer the characters to be named how they originally were. Simple really.

 

[Amizon]

I don't really miss naming them at all. In fact, it's nice to have some set names down and it saves me having to think of good ones instead.

 

[JigoKuu]

It depends on the game I guess. But in general I like the default names especially when I don't have the opportunity to change the story. I mean in FF games there are one story which we play through and don't really have the power to change what will happen (or at least in the games I played/I'm playing). But for example in visual novels and some other games you get more endings, and then I really feel I would like to customize the whole game and name the characters myself (or at least my character). But in FF games I just would like to get to know the characters better. They are the protagonists, not me (or I feel so, but it's definitely not an impersonal experience!), and I really would like to see their legends.

 

[redgrave]

Ew No. I have never renamed characters that already have established canon names. A name is basically the identity of a character so the original name is the only option. Generally, I dislike games that don't have a default name esp if your character has some sort of personality to them. I want to experience the story as the creators envisioned it. I see no sense in changing them otherwise n always thought that that option was stupid n fkng pointless.

I will mention that I absolutely loved Legend of Mana's small pool of cute default names; Aura, Aurora, Luca were my favorites of the pseudorandomly generated name options.