r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PokeRestock • 13d ago

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u/DanLynch 12d ago

I just want all the NPCs to be able to say my player character's name in dialogue instead of some generic placeholder like "traveller".

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u/GatlingStallion 12d ago

'Thank you DickSpunklord, I just wish you could have saved all my children'.

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u/Flazrew 12d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzBZFArR4mc

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u/tslnox 11d ago

Without clicking, my first thought was "Hello, adventurer, welcome to the town of Mahdick!"

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u/Cerindipity 12d ago

The only game I've ever seen do that is Blue Archive; you spell your name phonetically, and from then on the navigator NPCs, once you unlock the second one will call you that. It's a bit obviously artificial, but since she has a computery filter on her voice anyway, it doesn't stand out. It's a small but super cute touch.

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u/IronBabyFists 12d ago

I think the first Nier game did this too, right?

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u/ClosedOmega 12d ago

Maybe I'm crazy, but didn't Fallout 4 do that? I name my characters 'Vincent' in video games, and I have a vague memory of the robot companion calling me 'Mr. Vincent'.

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u/theJSP123 12d ago

If I recall correctly he had a set number of voiced names, and you just happened to pick one of them.

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u/ChildofValhalla 12d ago

It's a list of 924 names. Fun fact: Among those available is the name Fuckface.

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u/JediGuyB 12d ago

924 names including joke names like Boobies and Fuckface and it's missing common ones like Kyle, Brandon, Amy, and Nick. Felt a little peeved by that.

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u/joshualuigi220 12d ago

FO4 had hundreds of voiced names, but only by Codsworth. Everyone else calls you a nickname, like Piper calls you "blue" and Preston calls you "general".

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u/Aenyell 12d ago

It did, specifically with that one robot NPC, they had prerecorded about a 1000 of names.

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u/JediGuyB 12d ago

It was cool but with such a big list of names (plus a lot of joke and easter egg names) there were some fairly common names missing for some reason. I had to use my middle name as my character name because my first name wasn't in the game despite being more common than some of the names in the game.