I remember playing plenty of games that would let you name your own squad members and such and command them, or just name the people in your group (like Oregon Trail). It was awesome to have my cat, dog, Mr. T, and James Bond do my bidding and it made me a lot more attached to my characters. The Worms series has continued to do this while almost every other game has stopped allowing it. Why won't companies allow us to name our characters like Oregon Trail, Starship Troopers, Worms, the Sims... It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult and it would add a lot more depth (depending on the seriousness of the player). Am I wrong though? Are there a lot of games that allow you to name party/squad/units out now that I missed? I would really like to know because I miss the old days.
I remember hearing Dawn of War 2 would be really unit focused and you'd get attached to your soldiers.
But it didn't let me name any of them and anyone but the main characters were literally faceless marines that would die and be replaced like it was nothing. I was pretty disappointed.
Because voice acting would be a lot shittier if they avoided referencing EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER'S name like they do the main character in every Bioware game that's not Mass Effect.
Well, they don't necessarily have to have their name said out loud. In Starship Troopers (RTS), you would command your squad around and the only difference was instead of "flamethrower trooper" it would be "Scrappy" or whatever you named him. Also, in Mass Effect, you picked your own name, people just called you Shepherd or Commander instead of your first name. The effect would still be there, and there would be no extra voice acting.
[QUOTE=venn177;27363331]Because voice acting would be a lot shittier if they avoided referencing EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER'S name like they do the main character in every Bioware game that's not Mass Effect.[/QUOTE]
You could have a real name and a code name type system, where characters refer to them by their codename and you can change their real name, or vice versa.
[QUOTE=venn177;27363331]Because voice acting would be a lot shittier if they avoided referencing EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER'S name like they do the main character in every Bioware game that's not Mass Effect.[/QUOTE]
At least have a large selection of predefined names in that case.
[QUOTE=BmB;27363515]At least have a large selection of predefined names in that case.[/QUOTE]
And then they would have to have twice or thrice as many lines for their actors to read. And Bioware games already have a lot of dialog in them.
Oh no, effort!
[QUOTE=BmB;27363629]Oh no, effort![/QUOTE]
They should do ten times the work for a minor and insignificant feature?
[QUOTE=BmB;27363629]Oh no, effort![/QUOTE]
Oh no, extra money spent on an unneeded aesthetic feature!
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1,000th post! :buddy:
Or they could do what ElfTacoLad said...
I like games that have this. In Gran Turismo 5, you just keep hitting random and it picks random drivers with stats. I kept going until I found names I liked. As of now, my 2 drivers are: G. Washington and B. Ross.
I'm gonna replay through Final Fantasy 1 now and theme name all the characters.
Monk will be Ghandi. That's the only one I have so far.
[QUOTE=krail9;27363786]They should do ten times the work for a minor and insignificant feature?[/QUOTE]
It's only ten times the work if you don't have an imagination.
[QUOTE=Croco15;27363910]Or they could do what ElfTacoLad said...[/QUOTE]
Son, I am not an Elf.
[QUOTE=BmB;27363962]It's only ten times the work if you don't have an imagination.[/QUOTE]
What the hell does imagination have to do with having voice actors repeat the same lines with different names over and over again?
[QUOTE=TicTac;27363931]I like games that have this. In Gran Turismo 5, you just keep hitting random and it picks random drivers with stats. I kept going until I found names I liked. As of now, my 2 drivers are: G. Washington and B. Ross.[/QUOTE]
That's what I mean, it would be way cooler if you could change their names to what you want. But just the fact that you can pick a premade name is cool too.
[QUOTE=ElTacoLad;27364032]Son, I am not an Elf.[/QUOTE]
oop, sorry about that, ElTacoLad. I was wondering what an Elf Taco was....
I remember in NHL 06 when you create a custom player you could name him whatever then choose a nickname that the commentator would call him by.
They do the nickname thing in GRID.
This was an awesome feature in X-COM, really made you care about your troops when they get one-shotted running around a corner straight into a plasma rifle
Ahh the good old days of Xcom, naming your soldiers, and then laughing when they died in ironic ways.
[QUOTE=Empty_Shadow;27366955]Ahh the good old days of Xcom, naming your soldiers, and then laughing when they died in ironic ways.[/QUOTE]
Nothing like a dozen people from a forum signing up for Xcom LP, and then having them all die on the first mission.
Eventually the death rate for XCOM soldiers got so high for me that I stopped naming them and just gave them names based on their combat role (sniper, scout, etc)
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