Disclaimer: I will try not to rape English in this c-blog post. Grammar police, don´t be so harsh with me.
I can only star this cblog with the following question:
Has your real life affected your in-game life?
Well mine just did and I am gonna tell you how.
I really enjoy RPG´s and every game where your character is customizable (which most of the time come by the hand).
So, since I really love to customize my characters and I am an egocentric bastard, I usually name my characters with my name, and friends name for his companions.
Most of my main characters are usually named GON, and their companions are usually names of people I really feel close to.
They will usually be an Arnald, if it´s a black guy or a retarded looking face; there is gonna be a Baul if there´s a red haired character, or a sporty one. And both are interpretations of my best friends names. When the character is a female, I would usually name her Teta (which sounds more female than male for me) or the name of the woman who occupies most of my time.
And after naming my characters like that, I somehow fell more affection for them, because they have a real counterpart that they represent (
something that reminds me a lot of Dexter´s post).
Why do I write all this?
Well after being dumped, I just can´t stand my in-game female characters. I am in the hate state of my situation.
I can´t stand the characters that represent her, those characters have her name, and sometimes her looks, and I thought of her when I created them, and now I hate them.
Yes, I can´t stand the white mages in my Final Fantasies. Now, it´s freaking hard to continue the game, since I only send them to melee everything.
I would rather be attacked by aid infected spears than receiving a simple cure or regen from those bitches.
I can´t count the amount of times I wish I could select one of my teammates and select death from my magic menu or attack, or summon Ifrit on them so they burn in hell flames.
Right now I am replaying every single song in my rock band guitar career, since I want to throw my plastic guitar to the TV screen every time I watch my character appear. God it´s frustrating!
Maybe this hate feeling will disappear, maybe she will call me again, but last week I just wanted to throw PSP´s to the floor, stab white mages in the face, burn bitches in rock band concerts, and run over every woman I could find in Grand Theft Auto.
Have this happened to you?
I know this is a lame post but I had to take it out from my system. So if you were wondering why didn´t I drew some Destructoid last week, this is the reason why.
Now if you forgive me, I need to replay MGS and kill Sniper wolf again, twice.
hum...ok...i do the same i try to make the character look like me the more often possible and i love to name my character and when i played viva pinata...*hide the box*....its not mine i was just holding it!... well while playing it i was taking time to give funny,cute name to my pinata and when they got eaten...ho...the suffering....the suffering...i...i think im gonna go cry in the corner of a dark room now
I never really changed the characters' names in my RPGs because I like to keep them as is, but I can definitely see where you're coming from with the hate train, we've all been there.
Catharsis is a useful tool my friend, and video games let us embrace it. Hope ya feel better soon man.
Psycho Mantis read my mind and knew what games I liked to play! Then I had to change control ports because he could knew everything I was going to do! Sneaky bastard.
Then in MGS3 I was versing 'The End', but left the game for ages to play something else. I came back to it a week later and loaded my game only to be greeted with a cutscene showing that I had waited so long that 'The End' had died of old age and was lying lifeless on the floor.
I love Kojima.
Definitely VGR.
Lol, I'm sorry to hear you got dumped and are feeling this way, but I'll be damned if this post didn't have some hilarious lines.
"I would rather be attacked by aid infected spears than receiving a simple cure or regen from those bitches. "
"but last week I just wanted to throw PSP´s to the floor, stab white mages in the face, burn bitches in rock band concerts, and run over every woman I could find in Grand Theft Auto. "
LOL, awesome post Teta.
i still love you <3
name one of your game characters RAB
=]
I named Tifa from FFVII after "the one that got away", her name was Wai-Hah *shudder*
I've still never got myself to go past the second disc...I'm gunna go cry for a little bit now.
You suck for this Teta =(
Hah. Whenever me or one of my mates jump into a "customize character" screen - we could spend hours trying to make our avatar as closely related to us... Never seems to work out though. APB (heres hoping)
So, I´m not the only one who feels related to his game characters.
I really wish there were more female characters in MK (which I freaking hate) so I could have diversity when I rip spines off women.
seriously when I'm having a bad day yeah my guiter hero shredding sucks the big one
but on a good day I;m the guiter hero jimmy hendricks
Yeah, but what happends when your guitar hero character looks like the woman you hate right now?
Well I just play with the drummer and loose on propose. And then i prey that when the drummer gets angry and thorws the drum sticks to the crowd, he will hit her on the head and die.
You could always visit Namingway...
now that i think about it, i used to make my pokemon character and rival as my own name and someone i got into a fight with at school, or a teacher
and my pokemon were named after all my buddies
In the first couple Final Fantasies (you had to create the names by yourself) I named the characters after me, my friends, and their cats. The cats, because they were badass and were characters by themselves already. Needless to say Takeshi was the strongest character.
In the newer Final Fantasies I just sticked to the given names. Because they were quite good in my opinion.
Luckily I've never had anything negative happen, but I try to avoid romantic entanglements, so nobody's girlfriend/boyfriend gets into my characters' names ... just friends.
It definitely makes things more interesting. I named Shadow in FF3 after my cousin, who was constantly over at my house, like a brother to me, etc -- and waiting for him on the Floating Continent, thinking we might not see him again, that his character might be dead ... it definitely heightened the experience. I named Aeris after another cousin (a girl this time :P) and, yeah, that had an impact too.