PixlBit

two breakfasts please. 

hmmm I sometimes name things in games after friends of mine.  But usually in a game like Etrian Odyssey I create new characters and make a new story. 

When I get to X-Com, I don't think I'm going to use friends names. There's permadeath in that game.

Man you're going to be as big as a house with all those breakfasts you're eating!  Unless you're eating Wheaties or Cheerios, then you'll just be really strong!  According to commercials anyway.

I don't know anything about Lord of the Rings or Hobbits, but in this last Sunday's newspaper, the Foxtrot comic strip was about Hobbits.

When my little brother Jeff was very young, he loved to watch me play "Cwono Twigger," as he said it (I also liked how he said Mario RPG: "Mario PG").  Anyway, on my second playthough, Jeff made me name all the characters after people he knew.  Jeff was Chrono, I was Frog, etc.  But when it came time to name the time machine, he couldn't think of anything except he remembered riding around in my friend's truck.  So we named the time machine "Truck."  It was really funny.  From them on, anytime I can name a vehicle in a game, I name it Truck.

Also when Jeff was little, he loved to play an arcade game on one of my collections called Circus Charlie.  In one of the parts of the game, you are a clown riding a badly drawn horse.  When he made the horse go fast, I said, "Wow, he's a turbo horse!"  That made Jeff laugh so hard that from then on, we named it Turbo Horse.  Any game after that where you can name a horse, guess what we name it?  Yup, Link's horse in Zelda games for us is now called Turbo Horse.

Hobbits love to eat. National Lampoon founders Mr. Beard and Mr. Kenney took advantage of this in their book Bored of the Rings. Poo to you sirs with nobs on, I say. Now, time for second lunch.

You can get quite attached to the characters or objects in a game once you name them. I still remember certain characters I named in Wizardry.

Breakfast for breakfast, breakfast for lunch, and also breakfast for dinner.  

For the most part I tend to leave most of the names unchanged in games.  I will normally use my middle name as the main character's name, or a variation of my middle name.  So, right now it is Kalle. 

Now now, breakfast is for breakfast, lunch for lunch, and dinner for dinner. You can have as many of each, but let's not mix mealtimes. We Hobbits like everything in their proper place. You're talking like that queer Bilbo who went on adventures and talked to Elves. Not a normal sort of chap he was.

I would suggest you name any FPS character Bilbo T. Baggins. No name could be better in that environment.

[note to sensitive types. I'm using the word 'queer' here the way Tolkein used it to mean strange]

I only do that with RPG"s that give me a chance to re-name characters. Thats' about it, the last time aI did that was in the Shining Force series and Chrono Cross.

I'm always groaning when I have to come up with a character name. Nothing comes to mind right away. So I started just using names from the last book I read. That makes it easy and kinda funny too.