Re: Bye bye RPG: Dark Messiah will be a FPS

On that special day, Mean_Chlorine, (mike_noren2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
said...

> >I'm sad to say I keep seeing lots of "Legolas X" and "X Legolas" type
> >names in Guild Wars.
>
> Oh yes. A step up from 'pwnz0rs j00', but ...
>
> >Do these people have no imaginations at all?
>
> Dreaming up names is hard. For my main char I resorted to flipping
> through an encyclopedia (and found the second king of Rome). So I have
> some understanding that people pick a name they know from fantasy
> literature, and Tolkiens works are the best known.

(snickers), you are in some way correct. I *can* "dream up" names, but
only because I have a slight interest in foreign languages, which
allows for combining meaningful syllables in an interesting way.

But even then, some of my characters get silly names, like my Sacred
Demoness Infuria. In D2, I once made a typo and my sorc Sirena turned
into Sirean (not bad, eh?)

But *how* bad names can be, can be demonstrated by an episode i
experienced about this thursday. I decided to try if Sacred allows for
hard core play on public servers, and was helped a bit by another
character, which was a lot more advanced, but had to leave. I played on
to gain two more levels, and was joined by a wood elf, lvl 1, which was
called $Accountname."Anonymous" (this is the default entry in the start
character screen). This elf got a rune from me, than left and was
replaced by $Sameaccountname."Anonymous". This time, it was a Dark Elf.

I didn't know that Sacred allows to run several characters in the same
account, with the same name. I asked the player, if he couldn't find a
better name for this Dark Elf. He left, changed the name, and I
couldn't believe how he came back.

As $Accountname."Spongebob.Squarepants" (German version, of course).
And I couldn't change his mind.

My own Dark Elf is called "Nocsal 'l Calan" (open character), which I
do muchly prefer.


Gabriele Neukam

Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@xxxxxxxxxxx


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