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Bad toon names vs Good toon names.....
Isturi
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Lets face it many of us gamers appreciate a good toon name. For example I started my toon name Isturi form a lotion bottle of all things my mind is very creative when it comes to creating a toon or as a "Avatar" for those of you not savvy enough in MMO language to understand what I meant by "toon" anywho I like to put time and effort in to my game beginning with my toons name. My opinion it separates the gamer from the casual wannabe. I done some research and I come up with some very good names and some very horrible names.
With out further to a due here are the good names:
Zarmortis Albeit
Zarmitar Lindir
Zaraph Orthac
Melkor Khamûl
Isturi Imrahil
Urthona,
Jhuuno,
Odn,
Malchiel,
Marrigan,
Luvah
Enceladus
Damaskenos
lol just to name a few. Now for the crappy names:
Dahealah Pieceoffass
Aloha Lady Paoolah (or anything "Lady")
Pixy Dominic
Anything (Gul-, Zul-, -Dan, etc.)
Hoppinassassin
Tiberius
Sunwell (yes any stupid WoW name that is a object in the game come on get real.)
Sedious- from star wars (not a original name)
Well anyways you guys get the point. Any more good or bad names you guys can come up with and yes even use your own toon names.
Comments
Why is Aloha worse than Albeit? They're both just regular english words.
Yes very true but come on Aloha reminds ppl of Hawaii not a MMO name lol
All I have to add is that you can tell a player's personality by their character names;
I usually don't get along with people who draw a lot from lore, or it just seems like the name is too suiting to Middle Earth or something. They generally lack a sense of humor.
People who plagiarize pop-culture icons are usually dimwits, and tend to try and act like their namesakes and become quickly obnoxious.
Those with outright disgusting names that would get a mod edit in here give exactly the kind of show you would expect from these kinds of people.
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I hate stupid names like that. Any name that's like, Iwhipjoarse, pwnage, or something that isn't RPish i find lousy. I also think names of common popular fictional characters are lame like Drizzt. Zeddicus Zul Zorander
Like Killah and the retarded names but sometimes they can be funny though. Here are a number of names that I thought were funny.
OsamaUrMama is a long time favorite
Limubai
My character names have been the following:
My first PKer in Diablo 2 was called Khellendros and I love that name. So it comes up often. My first diablo 2 character is Cryomatrix and I often times use it for logins for the games that I play.
Lineage 2 and RoM:
Qais (pronounced Kayce, but people say Kwayce and therefore i've stopped using it)
Eve:
Khellendra and Chancellor Doom (albeit this one is lame)
Star Wars Galaxies:
Khell Valkyn (the name of one of my diablo 2 characters)
Diablo 2 names:
Chrsyanethemum = one of my favorite HC duelers of all time and favorite names
GreglouGAYnis = I was immature
Imaphag = I was also immature
WoW:
Cromagnon (i made an orc and it looked like a neandertha, i didnt' think id continue playing)
I forgot my Quake 3 name; That was the game i played before i started MMO types.
Cryomatrix
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I am not too sure about the list but I do like to name my characters in such a way as they would fit in the general feel or lore of the game. LOTRO warrants tolkienesque names and so on and so forth.
I think it is important that character names fit the setting, or are at the very least genuine unique names, not taken from popculture or silly joke names.
The ammount of Leggolasses and Aarragorns you meet in any game is always disheartening.
I am not really much of an RPer but I do feel like the immersion has broken if I see someone with a name like, Ipwnjoo ect.
Name your character in the same way as the NPCs or setting warrants. These are still mmo 'rpg' s after all.
It's all subjective OP. I disagree with a lot of names on your list. Names like "Albeit" (english word - sounds strange in a name), "Luvah" (really, why is lover a good name?), Odn (needs another vowel somewhere), Damaskenos and Zarmortis (too long), etc.
I also don't go too RP heavy myself. I try to go somewhere in a middle ground between in choosing a name that sounds like it would fit in with the lore, but doesn't sound way too corny either. My favorite character name that I use in most MMOs is Maylei which sounds like an actual name, but when spoken sounds like the word "Melee" (most of the time I use this name the characters are melee oriented too). If the name doesn't seem appropiate to the type of game then I'll use a different name.
I agree with most of what you say, other than those that name there characters after lore lacking a sense of humor. I name characters on occasion to fit the lore, and I feel I have a great sense of humor.
Anyways, some of my own personal names and name dislikes...
My Characters:
- Piritien Pynk (Female Woodelf Ranger in EQ. Wore Hot pink armor)
- Zalasar Razorwhiskers (Val Shir Beastlord in EQ)
- Maggotbuffet (Undead Priest in WoW)
- Peteophile - (Only had this toon about 10 minutes before I deleted it) Was a Human Male priest I had chasing the NPC kids around Stormwind in his underwear one day out of boredom.
- Ormsunnhet (Stygian Tempest of Set). Name is in Norwegian. Roughly means "Snakehealer and/or health)
- Kaledren (No real meaning, just thought it up and liked the way it sounded.
- Lacihtenu (Actually a comic character I created) Not giving ALL of the details, but it's based on the reinstatment of the secret society of ninjas in Japan, which takes place in 2142. Since ninjas died out with the dawn of the industrial age and modernization of Japan, ninjas making a comeback is an oddity in the time period. The name is simply the word unethical backwards. I felt it sounded sort of Japanese this way, plus, it's fitting for the setting and circumstances.
Many more, but not getting into all of them. Would be one hell of a post =P.
I usually thumb through a dictionary, etc for neat sounding words, or words that have a loose connection to the character in questions abilities, looks, etc. But sometimes I just pull random names out of thin air to try and stay somewhat with the theme of said game.
Ok, hated names:
- Anything unoriginal such as the name of a person, exisitng character, product, etc, etc. Ex. Legolass, Headnshoulders, etc.
- Overly retarded names (Sort of fits with first dislike as well.). Sure, I have Maggotbuffet listed, but he was undead, it fit, and is mildly humorous. And sure, there was Peteophile, but it was temporary to get a few quick chuckles. I'm talking about names like Ubahpwnr, Leetdude, etc used as serious characters.
That's about it lol.
umm name for me depends on the class/race/game i have seen some i thought was dumb or just had no place in the game.
it makes me laugh everytime i see some one named "Generic" anything in Aion, it means they had a name they shouldn't have and it got changed. noticed alot of them was sorcs that had names changed like Genericsorcerer,Genericsorc,Gensorc ect ect. they could pick a new one the "Generic" is only a temp thing but most for some reason keep it.
My favorite most fitting name i had come up with was in WoW on a pvp server, he was an undead rogue named "Gankinstein".
i try to use the same names in games i play i usually use Fantomas, Vlad Drac<(fake name Mike Patton used on the first Mr. Bungle album with WB) think those are about the only 2 i use in every game i can if they're not taken.
Any names with numbers in them make me cry
or names like this xXColdHeartXx >.> one thing i really hated about some Lineage 2 players
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Yeahhh, I don't really care much. I tend to ignore the players with "bad" names.
The thing is though...you do realize that some kids actually do incorporate numbers into their real names, right?
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What's wrong with "Tiberius" as name?
I think the worst names are those referring to a character from something that has nothing to do with the game, AND that characters name beeing spelled wrong. Like someone named "Gondalf" runs around, because "Gandalf" was taken.
I don't think though that every name has to be serious. For example the first time I saw a dude named "Sir Lagsalot" it give me a hearty chuckle.
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Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
these names suck, the best names are the funny non-rp ones.
Ok Then what would you consider to be good funny non rp names??
Worst names include Legolas, Drizzt, Raistlin, Belgarath, Neo.. or anything related to these names or any typoed version of these. Also any name with numbers in the place of letters is stupid as well as "xXx ... xXx", "- ... -" or "boner65421".
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lol guilty
wops hehe
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I don't care what others say my names are always inspired from games. I even sometimes use character names from other games but pretty hard usually to find them unused some of them but I usually use a little modified version of them like for example instead of arngrim since it's usually take I use it as argrim.
Pieceofass is a funny ass game XD
BigusDickus is an epic one (thank monty python for that one)
LolUMad is another great one
Becouse he says so
I say his good names are bad and bad names are good becouse i say so:P
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I have to say that I too, will often times disregard folks with Leet names, or ripped off character names, I agree with the poster above, Drizzt, Raistlin, Legolas, Aragorn, Cid, Cecil, Rosa, Sephiroth (Any Final Fantasy name really) are just unoriginal.
And a lot of the leet names, aren't really that original either... But now-a-days almost every name has been used by many, so there aren't that many original names left.
I use these names all the time, and I've seen a few of them used by other players as well (marked in asteriks): Emeraq, Solaira, Soladrian, Soladriel, Solaribeth, *Klane, *Lokar, *Vane, Greenthorne (this one probably isn't original, I think I altered it from Silverthorne), *Lifon, *Rhona, Morraien, *Thalen, Laraelia.
To me these are good names, and somewhat original, but to others they just might not be, it's all subjective really.
That's a good one. I had a character in the original EQ named "Osama's BinLagin"... lol I had to explain to a lot of people why my toon was named "Osama's" before I hit level 20 and got the surname.
As for names being good or bad I try to pick names that go with the theme of the race and class of a character. I always try to make an original name. The example above was one of only a few times I had a variation of a real world name. As for people that do pick what may be considered 'bad' names it's not my place to judge them. I either deal with the name if the person is likable enough or ignore them if they are not. I rarely will judge a person's personality based only on their choice of a character name.
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Blumpkin Teabaggins (saw this in Darkfall...oddly it was after I mentioned the name "Dildo Teabaggins" in a thread about names on this very site)
Rusty Trombone (used this in SWG...if you don't know what it is, google it for laughs)
Megacolon (Used this one in Anarchy Online)
Oobiedoobie Kanoobie (saw this in SWG......still LOL at it)
Pengina (Saw in AO)
Master Fister (used this on some alts)
Names using "leet speak" or numbers piss me off. I usually gank and loot the fuckers just on principal. Names that make me laugh still get ganked, I just don't loot them
Blumpkin Teabaggins (saw this in Darkfall...oddly it was after I mentioned the name "Dildo Teabaggins" in a thread about names on this very site)
Rusty Trombone (used this in SWG...if you don't know what it is, google it for laughs)
Megacolon (Used this one in Anarchy Online)
Oobiedoobie Kanoobie (saw this in SWG......still LOL at it)
Pengina (Saw in AO)
Master Fister (used this on some alts)
Names using "leet speak" or numbers piss me off. I usually gank and loot the fuckers just on principal. Names that make me laugh still get ganked, I just don't loot them
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I had a guild in AoC and War called Two Maidens on Chalice
My friend got in trouble in WoW for naming his pet *racial* Slave lol
Hah, all the names you listed under good names sounded fucking terrible to me.