Characters' names

[ChaosPearl]

The first time I play through a game, I keep all the original names to get a more authentic experience (only exception is that I renamed Butz right off because it was just too little-boy-humor -- but I did name him Bartz instead). Subsequent playthroughs I know the characters' personalities so I usually give them names I personally like and that I think suit them. Mostly they end up with names from my various D&D and MMORPG chars.

The only game where I give them names of people in RL is the original Final Fantasy bc those characters don't come with their own names anyway and have zero personality. Right now my current party is named after my father, my little sister, my sister's boyfriend, and... my Yorkie. Only problem with this is that I have been known to make strategically stupid moves because I can't bear to see my little baby get killed, whereas sister's BF is more expendable.

Sometimes if I'm doing a solo challenge I'll name all the extra characters after people I can't stand, just for the satisfaction of seeing the dead bodies laying there.

Edit to add: Heh, don't feel too bad about the not knowing how to save thing, lol. Every single damn time I pick up FF7 after not having played it for about a year, I inevitably spend the first fifteen minutes trying to figure out how the hell to save my game until I finally reach the first auto-save point and then suddenly remember how it works. I've been totally spoiled by multiple playthroughs of the original FF remakes (DoS and PSP) where you can just save from the menu at any point anywhere, even inside dungeons.