discussion Do you use your real name when playing games?

[Hummel2]

No, I use a different name.

 

[Mecha-chu]

I either pick the default name if I have such an option, or else I use the name Joe for all games. Was the first name that came to mind when I was first propted to type out a name for a porn game and it's been stuck ever since.

 

[Niahrleak]

i have anickname i always use, and use Ret if i really dont like the mc and im not self inserting, just there to see the gallery.

 

[kebabp]

I usually have a few names I use, depending on if the playable character is a woman or a man. Tried using my own name and shortens of it too, but it sometimes feels a bit too creepy to me

 

[Succubussy]

Depends on a character having a "canon" name like a pretyped name. If you have to add your own name i tend to just use my name. Good thing that Robin is gender neutral in some parts

 

[scarlett]

Since almost all games are male protagonist it'd shatter the illusion if i gave the mc my name. I sometimes use my name for the LI when its a game I really like.

 

[Shifty5]

I have a few names i cycle around though or just use the devs cannon name. Maybe if it's a really in depth choose your own adventure style game (like DoL) i'd use my name but it still feels weird.

 

[fish_or_fish]

Whoa. I did not expect the results of this thread.

I always use my real (first) name (pseudonym last name). I want to feel like the characters are talking to me. I like I have been placed in this other world and I'm living out that other situation. The other characters calling "me" by a different name feels weird to me.

I would have thought others had the same perspective! Interesting to hear that this this looks like the more rare case!

Yeah, especially in first person games where the other characters react to your choices having a different name can cause a bit of a disconnect in the emotion of the writing. That said I can see both sides of it. Some people want to have themselves become the character other's want to watch the story through a characters eyes.

 

[steelman111]

depends a lot on the game, is it an rpg with long gameplay loop? i might, is it a simpler game without much depth? nah a random name it is.
I do have some names i am fond of, and that i use at random, although some of them end up being recurrent for certain types of games

 

[master cruss]

I only provide a name if required and in those case I use something short.

 

[tbone625]

Whoa. I did not expect the results of this thread.

I always use my real (first) name (pseudonym last name). I want to feel like the characters are talking to me. I like I have been placed in this other world and I'm living out that other situation. The other characters calling "me" by a different name feels weird to me.

I would have thought others had the same perspective! Interesting to hear that this this looks like the more rare case!

Whoa. I totally did not expect the results either! Apparently we are the outliers! The anomalies! I always use my real name for the EXACT same reasons that you already listed.

 

[WildRage1001]

Use real name it is cringe. Name just for understand that character say something right now