How did you choose your online gaming name?

[Switchback]

Mine was a nick name I earnt in college.

I had 1 lady who I loved and would do anything for yet she didn't feel the same way. So I spent many a year "switch"ing through girls. Hence switch. Then finally she became mine so to speak.
Yet at this point I was still enjoying myself and would go back to her.

So you "switched back?" ...

So switchback was born


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[Grimnar]

I know i posted something about my name before.

The name Ice Hawk i got from the game starsiege, thnx to a old girlfriend that found it a cewl name and i sticked with it.

But as the more newer people within dMw now know me as Grimnar, i have that name from warhammer 40k
"Logan Grimnar, is the chapter master of the space wolves"

[Sneakytiger]

mines simple really

when xbox live launches i was one of the first testers and i searched thru loads of diffrent ones and Sneaky and Tiger came up so i just put them together and have used that in games ever since.

[Sithvid]

Mine was a nick name I earnt in college.

I had 1 lady who I loved and would do anything for yet she didn't feel the same way. So I spent many a year "switch"ing through girls. Hence switch. Then finally she became mine so to speak.
Yet at this point I was still enjoying myself and would go back to her.

So you "switched back?" ...

So switchback was born


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That's cool are you with her now?



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[TheDvEight]

Avatar fixed. Just to make your world better, Dickdastardly. What I don't do for friends....

Normal order is resumed then

[Gorion]

Baldur's Gate 1

My original nick was Avenger, and I have no idea how that came out; unfortunately it's quite common and rarely available.  Also used Lestat during covert Freelancer server takeovers/blockades, last time it was used the Elite clan bit the dust; that was quite some time ago.

[RogueTaylor]

Bring life into a old forum thread. i got my name back when i started my Xbox 360 account which was 8-9 years ago now i believe it was to play halo 3 with my best friend so that i could stop going round there and using the good old guest account. I wanted a simple name and a birth year just like he had done but i liked my own name for some reason it was going to be taylor1994, but some one had taken it so needed something else, and the first Xbox suggestion was RogueTaylor1994, form there it has stuck with me in most things i take the last name off, but enjoy the name rogue alone. its a name that i stand by , the way i hear the word is unknown a dashing rogue is person your never quiet sure what they are going to do, shake you hand and smile or just turn and walk away to there own devices,but i always feel like i am fighting the name and i like it. i am always a goodie goodie but enjoy the idea of doing something right like saving a person in game but never getting credit or anything  for it, i think its a good way to be a rogue someone who helps but doesn't get noticed for doing it, like real life in a way i enjoy being the person who doesn't get noticed, i never do anything wrong but i like not being noticed haha like a true gaming nerd but i don't have a bat cave :flirty: . i enjoy being a rogue, this got a little long winded i a sorry to say but if you read this thanks means a lot and just thought i would post anyway.

[Sneakytiger]

mine goes back to when i originally beta tested xbox live back when it was just xbox that big blck and green thing that looked like a video player
i was looking for a gamertag the had the word tiger in it cause i've always liked tigers, and the words sneaky and tiger were available, and the rest is history.

[DannagE]

My first was w4rped from playing Quake when it was cool to have a number in your name making you more 1337 ¬_¬

DannagE I got from playing Carmageddon where the main character is called Max Damage. Originally I changed it to Max Dannage, a play on my name (Dan) but eventually changed it fully to DannagE. Again just a big E as it just looked balanced. Now there are 100's of dannage's on the net and I struggle to reg my nick name if I don't get on there quickly!

[BECKETT1994]

Ever seen the film 'Sniper' with Tom Berringer in?

My dad let me watch it when I was very young, I mean 5-6 years old maybe earlier? My mum freaked out over it, even though I had watched Terminator by that age mind! So I still do not know what all the fuss was over.  

Despite the ensuing argument I absolutely loved the film and I still have it on that very same VHS (I have the DVD copy now too!)

Anyway Tom Berringer plays Thomas Beckett a US Marine Sniper. The character stuck with in my mind since watching it and was the inspiration for my username and I have used it ever since I first signed up to Xbox live back on Christmas 2007 (the year halo 3 came out.)

It has somewhat defined me as a person. Some people even refer to me as Beckett outside of gaming who have no affiliation with my gaming habits.... spooky...

[uni]

Never seen this thread before, anyway mine is pretty simples. I have had this nick since I was around 14 or so, when I first started playing online, around the time Half-life came out and a friend let me borrow his copy. Loved Universal soldier as a teen (still do!) so it stems from that. Universal soldier is pretty long and always being on IRC meant I would never use the whole thing. It got shortened to unisoldier, unisol, then just uni, has to be a small u as well, seeing it capitalised looks very weird to me after using it for so long. Also, it's super annoying having IRC ping me when someone was talking about uni(versity).

[maz]

When i joined steam and needed a nickname i was reading the Wheel of Time series. One character was mazrim and so i just shortened it and now it's easier to keep it rather than change it.

[Dexterous]

All your stories are much better than mine  
I started with "megamaker2000" when I was about four years old because I was playing some online Lego game and I could barely managed to put the word "mega" and "maker" together - Pretty sure TL helped me with that one. I then switched to "The Dexterous Megamaker" because I joined a steam group where having "The Dexterous" in front of your name was a sort of unspoken rule. I then changed it to "The Dexterous Shadow" after being told by friends that I was too sneaky + by this point "Megamaker" sounded too childish. The obvious progression from that seemed to be Dexterous so I simply shortened it to that.

[main]

Where do these threads come from, never saw it as well

My nickname started when I was nearly 20. Used to play lots of quake and needed an online name. I liked the look of the first Max Payne character, but changed it to MaxPain for obvious reasons  Then very soon after that I thought its too long and just childish and shortened it to main MAxpaIN which suits me very well

[suicidal_monkey]

Fun to see how people got to their nicknames

Apparently I first posted in this (combined) thread almost a decade ago :blink:

I guess I earned the suicidal part back again