Gamer handles and you.
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I promised more guides to follow up the Metroid Hunters guide, and if you're still getting blasted at that by hackers and / or convential means then you are pretty shit and I can't be arsed making a sequel part yet to make your general lack of killer instinct go away. Go play Animal Crossing son.

GAMER HANDLES! (Nicknames gamers use as an alias as their online persona) They've been around for yonks, ever since the Space Invaders cabinets had the 3 letters for you to enter your initials as you proudly showed off your new high score to your mates, only to have it beaten the next weekend by someone using the combination 'FUK' thus spawning the despisable world of l33t sp34k and text shorthand. Of course, FUK was really Frank - UK but this besides the point. Frank, you bastard - thanks for inventing leet speak.

Now with entire profiles and other stats behind such names that have evolved into poetic musings or your favourite german badger enthusiast, it is now time to look deeper into the meanings behind these names and see what you can learn from your opponent or team mate before you even get to the loading screen. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH CARTOON/MANGA/ANIME inspired handles.

Popular Entertainment Figures / Bands etc: One of the more common themes, these are mainly used by casual gamers who are struggling to find a more unique or original theme that suits them. These players are typically friendly and decent at their preferenced game and provide news and events from the outside via headsets on Live to their masters.

First name alternatives: Another casual gamer perogative, people called Gazza123 and JIM07 will come up from time to time. 50/50 with the behaviour here, as the age ranges from early teens to late 30s so as a general rule of thumb, should be given the chance to demonstrate their worth.

Nickname: Often the most varied of the bunch, The Alphabet Man or Crosshair or first name derived such as Frazzle are perhaps the most numerous in the online gaming community, each with their own personality and strengths and weak points, and often will end up on your friends lists.

Sexually orientated / Rude, abrasive terms: You will eventually come across players called BIG BLACK COCK IN YA FACE or FUCK YOU JEW who then choose the biggest and slowest weapons, vehicles and abilities and then whine and quit when everyone targets them and nukes them off the face of the earth. Avoid. Or nuke.

Anime / Manga inspired: A difficult one to pin down, some of these players are very pleasant to be teamed with and often choose supportive classes such as buffers and healers and are respected as such, while others pick offensive roles but lack the appropiate mind set or skills (mainly skills) and leave the game with a bad karma, often because they were the host and crashed the game when they quit.

Full names and detailed info: Such as John. A. Pearson - Wales, UK are often skilled players who are perhaps in a professional capacity and will most likely frag you repeatedly with a pistol. Feared and admired, they seek to eradicate all noobs from existance.

Leet speak: Often the most irritating, these players use glitches and every other trick in the book to win a game and will often quit should they be faced with an opponent who may actually win yet who is lower ranked, should it smear their reputation as 'that prick who cheats in Combat Hall with Weavel'. Should be avoided if possible, unless necessary. And friendly fire should be on just in case.

Single letter / other language names: Again, quite varied. Other language names might actually be foriegn players and they are often quite good at what they do, if a little strange (Italian guilds wearing the exact same colours as their flag and screaming battlecries at you in Italian?) while others may be using foriegn letters to make their own handle stand out. Single letter names or characters such as a full stop, exclamation mark, or simply the first letter of their name or increasingly more common, of their loved ones and family, these players are often distanced from the world of online community and only want to make you cry with a dazzling array of skill and flair because they just got sacked from another menial job and wish to take it out on you.

Ninja: They are not ninjas, they are shit. Real ninjas kill themselves if they fail, they do not dishonourably activate god mode when losing and they mysteriously vanish into the night, not blame complete incompetence on 'lag'.
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The information might not be 100% accurate but I feel it should be of some use.

I used to blame complete incompetence on lag.

Although it was true. Honest.

Anything for complete and utter twats? People who have a complete go at you for a mistake that was barely even your fault (like them walking in your line of fire, something that happened to me on AA: Someone goes on one man rambo trip, I throw grenade (before he ran off), didn't know he was there nor did he report in, killed him, acts like twat), threaten you then switch teams to try and prove how much better they are for no reason.

While on the subject, who's yours?

I hate campers. Especially vehicle campers.

Ever had those guys who would get snipers and rocket launchers then just wait around the base in BLood Gulch?

You know who you are.

Bastards.

This is about gamer handles, for campers and whiners please see ctrl-alt-del comic for it's glossary.

Grumbles:

Dr. Dachshund.

You always know when someone enters a game With xXx at the front and end of their name, they're a tosser.

Totally not stereotyped.

Like Totally Spies X-D



Gingers can belong too ;_;

( Edited on 03.03.2007 20:45 by Lord Summerisle )

More of a Dr. German Shepard fan myself.

( Edited on 03.03.2007 20:48 by Grumblezorz )

Fuck you

Did you know that Dachshund is German for Badger dog? Well now you do.

Good little guide Frazzle. I'd find it invaluable if I actually played Metroid Prime Hunters. Although alot of your examples apply to other games too.

Mine is always Max.

Basically I was playin Puzzle Bobble 2 years ago, and I got the top score but the guy who had all the other top spaces had put in ROB as his three initials. So as I was into Sam and Max at the time (thats how long ago this was!) I put in Max...

and its been my gamer name ever since!

My username doesn't fit into any of those categories...

Well, it is from culture but the culture is hardly popular - what does having a name from obscure culture say about one?

What does having a name based of a character you created for a fictional army for a very popular strategy game come under?

I often use SuperUltraMonkey, where would that come under? I guess Megadanxzero would come under the first one...

Its all about mythology And what sounds cool.

Paladin.

That is my favourite unit type, purely on background though. I don't like how Blizzard screwed them over for WoW