Immersion breaking NPC names

[Zvanya]

"Immersion breaking"?

You need to work on strengthening your immersion if something like that can break it.

 

[kurush]

"Immersion" people screwed me up with crappy keyboard controls and stupid cuscenes I can't skip so I hate them. CMDR Spoongebob strikes back!

 

[Vikinger]

Kate Russell in an Orca
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And this is the weirdest name ive seen on an NPC.
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[ianw]

Just a quick poll, to see how people feel about running into Tyler Durden and Isaac Newton.

**Now with added poll**

On the contrary - I think it would be "immersion breaking" if you didn't have stupid names.

As people have pointed out - some people go out of their way IRL to give their kids "stupid" names - some even change their names by deed poll...


Obviously what qualifies as stupid is subjective..

 

[epoch71]

I'd rather we saw ship names, rather than the name of the driver. Maybe show the CMDR/NPC on the contacts pane.

Maybe that'll come in time.

 

[Sch3v]

I ran into Boomshakalaka, Valdimir V. Putin, Al Bundy and Dr. House all within a week. I lmao so i guess i am not against immersion breaking names.

 

[Monk]

I rarely look at names unless it is a CMDR...

I don't like knowing my cannon fodder has a name...I need to sleep at night! LOL

 

[erbal]

If you bump into his noodly tentacle ... tell him I said hi

Saw Jerry Garcia the other day, and I was like "wow man, far out!"

 

[aowqyaaw]

On the contrary - I think it would be "immersion breaking" if you didn't have stupid names.

As people have pointed out - some people go out of their way IRL to give their kids "stupid" names - some even change their names by deed poll...


Obviously what qualifies as stupid is subjective..

Maybe it's the proportion that's immersion breaking. I swear I've seen umpteen Braben's' strewn across the galaxy. Worse than Williams' that bunch.

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Maybe it's a fad in whatever era the game is set in....

 

[Leighroy]

I approve of the silly names. Ahem.

 

[Morbad]

I know a lot of people who are named after millennia old pop-icons.

Adam, for example, is an enormously popular name.

 

[Nepocrates]

I had a teacher name Richard Pryor who was not funny and was white. Boy was that immersion breaking for real life.

 

[Pib_Juju]

i ran into myself and killed myself i was a pirate in a sidewinder

Clearly some kind of time loop paradox thing. Or possibly the goateed, evil version of you from the goateed, evil universe.

 

[Adam Lusardi]

I know a lot of people who are named after millennia old pop-icons.

Adam, for example, is an enormously popular name.

Hum.
The names where originally going to get mixed up first and second names but that has not happened yet.

 

[Splette]

Thanks for this poll. Yes, for a game like ED that cares much for immersion, the often ridiculous NPC names are not helping. Endless references to pop culture from 1100 years ago is not helping either. I hope FD will go through the list of names at some point and remove at least the most crazy ones.

 

[p2k]

I had a short fight with the master of gravity Isaac Newton. I think the term immersion breaking is strained during the last weeks, just like griefing or nerfed....

 

[-SOVEREIGN-]

Thanks for this poll. Yes, for a game like ED that cares much for immersion, the often ridiculous NPC names are not helping. Endless references to pop culture from 1100 years ago is not helping either. I hope FD will go through the list of names at some point and remove at least the most crazy ones.

They are not gonna remove silly names from ks backers - I wouldn't bet a penny on it.

 

[McDosy]

Doesn't bother me at all.

Oh, and whoever put in Tarqua Dall got a huge grin from me. Hats off to you!

 

[eachann]

like many people here.. not only does it not bother me but I kind of enjoy it. I wouldn't want EVERY NPC to have names like these, but I got a chuckle the other day flying past Karl Marx... and no, it wasn't a communist system

 

[Darkfyre99]

It doesn't bother me at all. People get named after famous people all the time, not to mention fictional characters, and "alternative" names. Why in the world would future parents be any better at naming their children?