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Namless hero DOES have a name
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Joey
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Namless hero DOES have a name
   

the hero does have a name because on a number of occasions in gothic 1, when coversing with an NCP he will say, Hero: ''My name is...." NPC: "i dont care about your name"
Post Thu Jul 10, 2003 10:56 pm
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... Same as in Gothic 2...

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"It doesn't matter who or what you were before you joined the order!"
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Post Thu Jul 10, 2003 11:13 pm
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Ofcourse he has a name, but his name isn't used 1 time in the game.
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Post Thu Jul 10, 2003 11:34 pm
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The_Dragon
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his name is not important.What matters is, who he is. the hero. and...
Post Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:00 am
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Z-lot
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...and it is a very good way of extending the story and adding new elements to it. I can't wait to discover how is he related to the king of Myrtana.
Post Fri Jul 11, 2003 6:09 am
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Hagen
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its just the devs messing with our heads

His names probabley Dave or Bill or somthing
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Post Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:53 am
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kugraw
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I don't see why the German devs would call the hero Dave or Bill. I think Siegfried, Otto or something like that would be more appropriate.

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Post Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:12 pm
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The devs do have a name for him (which is, however, more of a working title and not the character's 'official' name). And it's neither Dave, Bill, Siegfried nor Otto .
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Post Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:26 pm
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EDV
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I think its very original, in many RPGs your character has to find out about his/her past, but then you already got some information about it. 'Our' hero has a past he remembers but we don't know anything about that except:
-he has been been foun guilty of a crime (therefore he's throws in the colony)
-before that he is held in a prison fore a few months (he tells Kirgo about that?
Post Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:53 pm
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Milten Rulz!!!
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The hero's no fag! did you see how he made out with that chick in the red lantern! Dont name him siegfried. Now mud: now thats a fag for sure!
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Post Fri Jul 11, 2003 3:31 pm
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the mighty stamar
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Well planescape torment has 'the nameless one' as the lead character.

They invent some sort of name for him to bs with, but it makes your alignment chaotic to do that.
By the end of the game hes still the nameless one.
Post Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:52 pm
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konny666
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A lot of the names in G2 don't seem very "germanic" to me, or maybe in the german version they were different? i.e. there's an apprentice named Brian, the lord is Andre, there's a peasant named Lucy, etc. A lot of the names are french or italian (Garond, Sylvio), one or two of them seem Asian (Lee??) and some of them have that distinct high-fantasy sound (Coragon, Xardas, Zathras etc.)
Post Fri Jul 11, 2003 7:06 pm
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Maylander
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Most of the names have German origin, I live in Norway, and I recognize most of the names(Norwegian is based on German), but they seem to take inspiration from a lot of different places when creating a character/name. This is a good thing, it gives the characters, and the world, a feeling that it is "real".

Also, I would just like to add a couple of names. Diego is the first, and Marcos is the second.. his voice gives me the impression that he's not from Germany or any of the countries near Germany..
Post Sat Jul 12, 2003 1:51 am
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Jaz
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'Germanic' first names are not very common in Germany - in fact, very few of the younger people have a Germanic name nowadays. Especially in former Eastern Germany Italian and Irish names were rather popular, so you'll meet many, many Enricos, Silvios and Maureens in Germany. It's just the same in the States I guess, or does every U.S. American bear a native/tribal first name?
Ah well, Germans need not be of 'Germanic' stock, anyway (sic). There are Turkish, Kurd, Polish, Yugoslav, Italian, Greek...(continue with as many nationalities as possible) Germans. Half of my ancestors, for example, left Switzerland shortly before 1600 to settle down in Germany, while the rest of my (Prussian) ancestry is (mostly) Polish and French. One of my colleagues, a German, is of African and Chinese stock.

But the abundance of Spanish names in Gothic I struck me as slightly odd as well. In GII, names are far more diverse.
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Daedalus
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well if every name would be like German onez in G1 or G2 then it would be like crap they picked nice names out from every land
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