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Let's see: I don't think you get to name Locke "Capture", Cyan "Swdtech", Setzer "GP Rain", Relm "Sketch" or "Control". So what did you name Cyan, Relm, and Umaro?

Cyan: It was either SwTech, STech or Sword... something like that
Relm: Sketch (Characters can have up to 6 letter names)
Umaro: I don't remember, but probably Fight
Locke: Steal
Setzer: Slot

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Tauu the Windurstian Tarutaru!
White Mage & Paladin

I sometimes just randomly pick animals and name then that.... For example, in my current game, Locke is now named 'Frog'....

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Shhhh! I'm trying to hear the voices!

I always keep my characters names on default. I like the names that Square Soft gives them.

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I will be the mustard of your doom!

usually in my first game i will leave names alone to scope out personalities. However I rarely rename all of them. I just pick a name to best suit personality.

However I really dislike it when you cant rename all characters (like in ff8)
but one that i didnt like the most was when you could rename frog in Crono Trigger but not his real name, which was of course Glenn.
no offense to anyone who is named Glenn, but all of the people in real life named Glenn that I know so far have been @$$&*!^$, which stinks for it ruined a perfectly usable name for me

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"Have you ever seen a baby do that before?"

Sidenote about the "Glenn" issue: my "first name" in my screen name is actually taken from that particular "Glenn". (Note: not the one from CC!)

It's more like since I keep the names that the game gives me, I tend AFTERWARDS to associate the qualities of the particular character with that name, rather than associate a name with the character beforehand. For example, that's partially why I think the name "Setzer" is so darn cool.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 19th November 2003 23:48

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I cant bring myself to rename characters, makes the story so much less interesting IMO. But that's just my humble opinion

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And there ya have it. Now ask me what I named my chocobos in FFVII. *giggle*

I just am too curious. What did you name your chocobos in FFVII?

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Well, one website that I was looking at for help on how to raise chocobos recommended giving them names based on their type and gender, so they'd be easy to tell apart. So I thought, "That's a fine idea," and here's what my collection looked like:

The Great Male: Grey
The Good Female: Guri
Their first child, a Green Female: Jade
Their second child, a Blue Male: Skye
Jade and Skye's child, a Black Male: Jet
The Wonderful Female: Wind
Jet and Wind's first child, a Gold Female: Aura
Their second child, a Gold Male: Helios

I was so proud of my chocobos. I got way too into that part of the game, for some reason.

For every FF game I usually keep the original names except for ff7's red 13 thats just a terrible name I call him Tony or something terrible corny. In ff3 so far I have named Terra TERRA and Locke LOCKE but i do nickname them like Gau is ratboy and Locke is that darn thief and terra the insane one, this is fun to do and it doesnt confuse ur friends when they come over like when you name terra jennifer and locke george that just messes up every single players guide you try to read.

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*When all else fails RUN!!!!!

*Theres always a light at the end of the tunnel...just make sure its not an on rushing shot of plasma!

I always leave the original names... why? Because FF3 is a story with the names given to the characters already. Seems silly for me to change a story that's already written ...

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My life is a chip in your pile. Ante up! - Setzer

Asheron's Call Characters
Azraelz - Level 133 Crossbow/Life Mage
Azacast - Level 86 Battlemage
Final Fantasy 11 Characters
Corwin - Level 10 Warrior

Terra - Sara
Locke - Zach
Edgar - Daniel
Sabin - Tony
Celes - Melisa (Couldnt fit Melissa)
Cyan - Kenny
Shadow - Shadow
Setzer - (i foreget my game is with my mom 15 miles away)
Relm - Toryln
Strago - Joseph
Mog - Rose (my friend dances so i named this after her)
Umaro - Tyler
Gogo - Gogo

didnt rename them but if i did...

it would be in a silly manner redenrign the game unplayable after three hours...

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Normally, I replace the name of them by thinking of elemental stuff that suits them and translate the name to Portuguese:
Terra-Terra
Locke-Nuvem
Celes-Neve
Gau-Lua
Cyan-Vento
Edgar-Folha
Sabin-Pedra
Relm-Luz
Strago-Gelo
Shadow-Sombra
Mog-Vida
Umaro-Frio
Gogo-Metal(for the "mirror" surface)

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"I like Goblins. They make cute popping sound when they die"
Phage the Untouchable

"I am love
I am true
Worship me!
Need me!"

The Mana Tree (legend of mana)

First time I played this game I named everyone after people in my sixth-grade class (which I was currently enrolled in ); however, I don't feel like trying to remember who they were.

Since then, just about every RPG I've played has had its characters renamed to match names of characters of mine who I feel they most resemble either in personality or battle utility. For FF VI:

Terra: Danni (basically, just a strong-willed female with mystical powers; also the last of a dying race)
Locke: Ted (needed a romantic character for Celes/Katt, also a prominent character)
Edgar: Biff
Sabin: Vito (these two worked out rather well, Biff is good with machines, and Vito is a hulk, and they are brothers; however, their personalities are the exact opposite (Vito is my lady-chaser))
Shadow: Niloc (mysterious, quiet loner-type)
Celes: Katt (good with blades, romantic interest for Ted)
Cyan: Jorin (kinda hard, but Jorin is the closest my cast comes to a "heavy armor" guy...too bad Cyan can't shape-shift )
Gau: Always changing. In my current game, he is Truls, after Truls Rohk of Terry Brook's Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series.
Setzer: Van(rushal) (definitely neither a personality nor functionality match, but they are both pale, have long hair, and kick ass )
Mog: Tabby (basically just a name theme, as Tabby is an elf...Mog is kinda cat-like...?)
Strago: Darius (old wise guy...yup)
Relm: Snow (both are children)
Umaro: Emew (Tabby's familiar, Mog's flunky, etc)
Gogo: Dhalin (semi-connected; Dhalin's a shape-shifter, Gogo can do things as others do and you can't tell what it looks like...)

I only have one other hero character who wasn't used for this game, but the majority of these usually end up replacing the original names in just about any RPG I can rename characters in. It's like being able to send my characters on different adventures. The names also stay within the game; I always refer to Sabin as Sabin, Locke as Locke, etc.

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"N'GHAAA!
This is heavier than I thought! It'll take me 5 more minutes to drop it!" ~ Ultros

I have the habit of naming all my characters. I'm going to stop soon though. When I was a kid, I named them after all my friends, and now I realize I dislike some of the people that I named years ago, say if I stopped playing a game a while ago.

I liked Namingway for that reason.

man you gotta keep them the same........ that's my opinion anyways..... makes better

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Estuans interius, Ira vehementi
Sors immanis, Et inanis
Sephiroth, Sephiroth
Veni, veni, venias
Ne me mori facias
Veni, veni, venias
Ne me mori facias

I try to keep their names the same as Square made them. I do get bored sometimes and name them bad words or body parts. I can't help but laugh when someone yells a name...PENIS!?!?
Lmao!

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Ehhhhhhhhh...I really don't like Sabin anymore...oh well...
Import Addictions

OK, I used name Locke, Edgar, Sabin, and Celes after my oldest brother, my older-than-me brother, me, and my older sister (in that order). Nowadays, I realize that that is just plain weird now, so I have changed to names from my own fiction stories. Or other people in my life. Or ME!

Terra is usually: Terra or Sarah
Locke is usually: Locke, Onell, or Johnny
Edgar is usually: Greg or Edgar
Sabin is usually: Sabin or Mike
Celes is usually: Melisa or Farrus

...and so on and so forth. I usually keep a few like they are, just decapitalizing them. All caps are WEIRD man.

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Wow. 1,000 posts.

I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

i usually have a hidden meaning for each name i give a character, so here goes on what i name them:
TERRA-Hope
LOCKE-Connor
EDGAR-Henry
SABIN-Hiro (rock on DRAGON BALL!!)
CELES-Dawn
CYAN-Martin...anyone read the "Redwall" books?
GAU-Felix
SETZER-Ace
MOG-Moogle!!!
RELM-Nanami
SHADOW-Shadow, because there is no improving that name
STRAGO-I used to name him gramps, but sometimes merlin is cool.
UMARO-Umaro or Banjo
GOGO-Mimic or Harley

yeah, these names are stupid. but i like them. peace!


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once you can accept yourself, you will never be alone

my first time through the game i changed there names to a normal type such as Terra and Locke

but after that i sometimes use friends names such as
Terra: Jackie
Locke: Ian
Edgar: Garret
Sabin: Greg
Setzer: Colton
Shadow: (too good of a name to change)
Relm: Jessica
Celes: Nikki
Strago: Jim
Mog: Jake (the name of my dog, man's best friend)
Cyan: Matt
Gau: Alex

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"Have you ever seen a baby do that before?"

I almost always keep the Square names.

One time I recall trying to name every FF6 person after a FF4 person (and vice versa with a FF4 game). It sorta works at first, but it all goes to crap once you have to name Locke Edward even though he isn't a coward and you have to name Setzer Cid even though there already is a Cid, etc.

I've also tried naming a girl character after someone I liked, which also doesn't work out so well when a friend comes over and is like "hey, show me ff3" and I'm scramble to show him another game or something Boy, has anyone ever done that before or is it just me?

It would be a scream though to name every character Kefka or Esper or something like that

This post has been edited by 1stclass on 22nd December 2003 07:24

I just left them thee way they are, but I did it like this once Terra, Locke, Edgar... Instead of TERRA, LOCKE, EDGAR...

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As soon as I find my Emulator disk so I can play FFVI, I am going to play a new game with everyones name spelled Backwards (OGOG= GOGO) OTFL!

This post has been edited by GamblingCat on 21st July 2004 14:14

I don't give them an other name cause there names sound cool to me.

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They may be monsters, but they're sea monsters. What're they gonna do? Flop around on deck and suffocate at us threateningly?

I already posted my FF6ers, so here's the rest...
In CT, I always went for this setup:
CRONO: Goku (To honor Akira Toriyama)
MARLE: Nadia
LUCCA: Hydra (Insider joke)
FROG: Glenn
ROBO: R-66Y
AYLA: Ayla. (Even if she wasnt already named it. I'm a fan of the Earth's Children series)
In FFVII...
Cloud : Blader
Barret : Lokkon
Tifa : Jade
Aeris : Either Aerith (True spelling of her name) or Dedchik
RedXIII : Nanaki
Vincent: Alucard
Yuffie : I could never bring myself to change the name of something hotter than the sun's core
FF9...
Zidane : Guile
Vivi : BM (After 8-Bit Theatre..)
Dagger : Daegra
Eiko : Kiddo
Freya : Mouse
Amarant : Ali
Quina : Debu

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Uwao. aooh! I'm Gau!
I'm your friend!
Let's travel together!

I would always just change either Mog, Locke, Setzer or Shadow into Adma, loved those characters.

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Adma <3 CoN

I have recently started naming Locke "Swiper" in honor of "The Swiper" from "Dora the Explorer."

"Swiper no swipping! Swiper no swipping!!"

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"Look at me! I'm a receptionist! G'fa ha ha!" Quote Ultros

Nah, I don't name my characters, unless I feel like an idiot. When that occurs, I give them names like Assrape, CATS, Barney...yeah.

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Let's see you figure out the truth of this quote...dun dun dun.

"The following sentence is true. The preceding sentence is a lie."

Yeah, that was lame. <_<