sc1ence

How long have you been going by the game name we know you as? What were your past names? Any cool reason for your name?

One of the cool escapist features of online gaming is we get to name ourselves. With so many cool and original names I got to wondering how you arrived at the name you are using now?

RTCW was my first online fps. Discovering online multiplayer fps games was like discovering sex. I knew it was good, just not THIS good. I entered my real name as my player name when I installed the game. I was then embarrassed when I realized I was the only person using my real name...

I then changed my name to Headshot. The game was rtcw. I was convinced it was an original name... I felt very proud of myself for coming up with it.

Over the course of the next few months I realized headshot was not really cutting it as a name due to the unoriginality factor...

I then changed my name to sc1ence for Soldier of Fortune 2. By the time I got around to playing bf2, someone had grabbed sc1ence as a name. I then went by directrealist for a while in that and NeverWinterNights. Direct Realism is a philosophical perspective on the nature of reality. It is central to my belief system as a human and a perceptual scientist. Most came to abbreviate my name as D.R. But strangers still struggled to say it when I joined some random squad in BF2.

With bf2142 I went back to sc1ence and hopefully will stick with it.

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Exploding_Silver

'Morph' in DC (I don't even remember why I chose that)
'Exploding_Silver' in BF2 (Silver had gone and gamespy had a suggest name button, after 5-6 clicks 'Exploding_Silver' came up and I liked it)
'Silver.7' in 2142 ('Exploding_Silver' was too long for the 2142 player name after TG IHS tags)
'Silver.7' in ETQW
FFoW I may go back to 'Exploding_Silver'

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Catman1975

I always wondered why the ".7" ?

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Dismay

In BF2142 and ETQW I go by Dismay, the name of the band that I sang in until the drummer got too busy with work, in BF2 I went by Nuisance Crew, the band that I still play drums in

HiTestFest

Hey Dismay,
Whatever happened to the minneapolis band D4 (Dillinger Four)..?

the lurker

First started playing FPS with the coming of counterstrike, during which I used a bunch of weird and varying names. Some of the ones I can remember being, blakpanther, the machine, and big kev. They were all nicknames I had managed to pick up during high school.

Then me and a bunch of school friends made a sort of clan name thing which we would use when we were at the local internet cafe. We were known as [The C**ts] (censored it for those with sensitive eyes :P) and I was smallc**t. Well that didn't really last too long as we got bored of that scene in short order.

Left fps for awhile came back with CS: Source and played with random names till one day I just got bored with the camping and watching everyone else camp and decided from now on I would be the first one in and if a I die screw it. Thought of the name "bulletfodder" since that was what I basically was being most of the time, and that's what I been using since.

Depending on how FFoW turns out and if I get I'll probably consider changing it, as I'm getting tired of this one.

FriedCoD

okay.
i played Red Alert 2 , 1st game i ever played online.

name CGFox , Comrade General Fox xD
kept CGFox playing Diablo 2
then i dled and played WolfET and kept CGFox for quite awhile.


played MOH: AA , switched name to HerrHeadsh0t
went back to WolfET , keeping HerrHeadsh0t for some odd reason lol


got CoD2 , changed name to FriedCoD
Fried cause i smoke ganja xD and CoD cause... call of duty.
not cause i like fried cod... actually i rather dislike fish/seafood
.... but actually cods okay xD and other freshwater fish.... but nothing from saltwater ive ever liked.

and i kept this name now for quite some time... name ive used most i think

ScratchMonkey

I needed a name for some online account, I think maybe Yahoo. The one I wanted was taken. I recalled reading the book "The Hackers Dictionary" (based on the online Jargon File) in the early 80's, an entertaining account of the early days of online computer use, and went thumbing through it for an account name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_monkey

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westyfield

westyfield in Medal of Honour: Allied Assault (my first online FPS), chosen by me, my brother and our dad because of the name of his car (westfield). A bit sad, I know, but we were totally stuck for names. Since then it's always been a variant of westyfield, for BF2 it's westyfield2, for 2142 it's westyfield3 and for everything else it's westyfield.

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Demarcus

Never stuck with any name for long. My current one I got by looking up a list of 1000 most common names in the 1900's, going to the end of the list and choosing one that looked interesting.

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Ghostops

ever since my days of starcraft i always played terren and my favorite unit was the Ghost i mean comeon they can drop nukes : P so ever since i started playing FPSMMO's my title name has been Ghostops or some variation of it like gho5t0ps and right now the only two FPSMMO's i play are BF2142 and EQTW but for BF2142 for my main guy his name is Cookie_19 mainly cause i am alwasys saying cookie randomly and i was 19 when i made the name lol but i have since created a Ghostops_00

IronRhino73

Blackheart.. as early as i cna remember. bbs named Proton Palace i was a sysop. that was back in 93?

also known as Harlequin, IronRhino,DarkRhino and Heinrich Von Dehn(Guildwars)

occasionally like to use Bukwo Rogar for things like Eve, Starwars etc.


thats about it.

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