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Dragon Quest | ==[[Dragon Quest]]== | ||
'''[[Dragon Quest I]]''' GBC | |||
<u>Hiro</u>. Simple name pun, worked with the 4 letter limit. | |||
'''[[Dragon Quest II]]''' GBC | |||
<u>Yuki</u>. For lack of anything better, took the name Hiroyuki and cut off the part I'd already used. | |||
'''[[Dragon Quest III]]''' GBC | |||
<u>Saki</u>. Continuing with the theme, I decided to use as much as possible of Iron Chef French [[Hiroyuki Sakai]]'s last name. | |||
'''[[Dragon Quest IV]]''' NES | |||
<u>Gordon</u>. With an unrelated game story came an unrelated name. Gordon means "round hill", but why I thought it appropriate for the hero's name, search me. | |||
'''[[Dragon Quest V]]''' SNES | |||
<u>Elliot</u>. As the names for DQ 1-3 connected, so I decided to do the same between 4 and 5, so [[Gordon Elliott]] was the inspiration. | |||
Shumway. Well, Gordon Elliott didn't leave much room for growth, and I couldn't find his middle name, so I took Gordon in another direction. That's Gordon Shumway of Melmac, also known as Alf. | '''[[Dragon Quest VI]]''' SNES | ||
<u>Shumway</u>. Well, Gordon Elliott didn't leave much room for growth, and I couldn't find his middle name, so I took Gordon in another direction. That's Gordon Shumway of Melmac, also known as Alf. | |||
'''[[Dragon Quest VII]]''' PS1 | |||
<u>Meredith</u>. A fresh start for an unrelated game. So named after [[Stargate Atlantis]]'s Rodney McKay's ''real'' first name. | |||
'''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]''' PS2 | |||
<u>Rodney</u>. I know 7-8-9 isn't a trilogy like 1-2-3 or 4-5-6, but I still wanted some naming continuity. | |||
==Other== | |||
'''[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]]''' Xbox | |||
<u>Lacto Bacili</u>. This one's a bit convoluted. Many years ago there was a segment on The View where they discussed this vaginal bacteria, lactobacilli. Great, right? But then-host of [[Talk Soup]] [[John Henson]]'s joke response was that it sounded like someone who would work with Boba Fett. So this is kind of my go-to ridiculous Star Wars-sounding name. | |||
'''[[Mass Effect]]''' Xbox 360 | |||
<u>Fischer</u> Sheppard. Since the fixed last name of every character is a variant spelling of an animal-based profession, I decided the first name should be that way too. | |||