My X360 Gamertag is Jullinar, by the way.

I still have several Heartilly/Tilmitt accounts I never use, but hey, no numbers at least…!

I like in MMORPGs naming myself after a cool character, but that’s a lot diff than a handle. Sort of, anyway.

However, I had several people point out, during my EQ career that the name Nevar was apparently the name of a character in a fantasy film. I didn’t name my character after that character, it was just something someone else had chosen to name their film character.

So my point is…. don’t assume that someone named Twilight is named after anyone else. It could be someone who just thinks Twilight is neat. However, I do see your point in standing out, so picking a name like Raven would be back, since that’s likely to be a common name.

I don’t game in the same environment, but I still like unique names. The problem is just what Monique was saying, that if you have a cool name, it’s not going to be long before someone else takes it for the next game they play.

Sigh. I *do* have 1 high-level character that has a unique name. (& no I won’t say what it is. Neener).

*ahem*

I’ve always been InterfaceLeader (or Suzie, which is my REAL name). Most of the time it isn’t taken, but it was on AIM. I was so upset, I nearly cried. So I ended up InterfaceLeadr23. Which, well, does actually suck.

On MMO’s though, I have stuff like: Julep, Aniseed, and Anise. Random spices and drinks, basically. I hate just making up a random collection of sounds, so it has to actually MEAN something.

I hate the gangsta420 ’s or the 1337gamer ’s or the IDIDURMOM’s etc. etc.

they are sooooo lame. I think Pothead Tags are seriously played out over xbox live the worst. Hello… if smoking pot is the only thing that defines you… you are a loser!

My GT is FleshandRedLace. I was listening to the song “Melt with You” by Modern English and there’s a line that says “It was always mesh and lace”. Well. .. . i always thought when i was singing along with the song that it would be better “It was always flesh and lace” which sounds WAY sexier. SO i was FleshandLace for a while, i just kinda added the “Red” to avoid a stalker.

Now, i am by far NOT the sexiest chick on xboxlive, but i have been complimented many times on have a super sexy gamertag. LMAO. give them little boy nerds sumthing to think about!

Well, obviously Liz is my real name, but I use my email handle in a lot of places, I made it up a while ago. I absolutely hate unoriginal names, but I can stand it to an extent as long as there are no NUMBERS. Ugh, I remember I had a number name once and never again, I vowed to never to it.

Originality is awesome! You’ll never be confused for someone else.

I forget how old I was, I think i was like 10 or 11 or some bullshit.

Anyways, yeah the gayest name Ive seen was CloudStrife304238945234895023 (Im exaggerating but it was a string of random numbers)

I like creating made up names mostly..
The name I’m currently using for everything is Nime, although I’m getting a bit tired of it and starting to name things Adenna. Nime was taken on XBL anyways and I’m Nime 13.. I can’t stand numbers myself but it was taken and 13 isn’t as bad as 3874.. as cliched as it is - 13 is my favorite number..
In the past I’ve used Xero_Zero_0, Shadek, and Xecks..

I generally don’t like gamer handles that are several words clumped together, simply because I prefer to use names instead of words as whatever handle I might have at the cost of risking my originality. I tend to pick characters that I have a special fondness for or I somehow feel that they have some traits that are similar to mine or something I admire. If somebody finds that lame, then it’s their problem. I just want a name that doesn’t give a headache to people typing it and it’s easy to remember, for which Sefie is perfect.

Thought I do admit FleshandRedLace does sound pretty sexy.

What does is all those thousands (millions?) of people who can’t think beyond their character’s class, race and sex.

So we get all these types of names: Pallyhealer, UndeadLock, ElfDrood, Huntergirl, Ihealzyou, Icemage, Shammie, Shadowgnome, OrcRouge (rogue of course), etc etc.

To cap it all, people then have to put their country of origin into their names as well (no doubt you dont get these on the US servers), like Hunterguydk, Locksterpl and so on. Arrgh!

Right now on TF2 I am “Night Man, I think I love you” but I usually switch that name fairly often (cuz I get bored).

I always thought I was the only one with this “unoriginal username” pet peeve! Ever since AOL or Prodigy were the only programs people used to go online… it’s always annoyed me. Particularly the FFVII ones.

And I myself cycle through a few different names. My gamertag is CaptainSidekick, which I wish had a space, but it was the maximum character limit at the time I got it.

Win! you are validated!

I resent my Gamertag.