Mine is a mix between my name, and the nickname of my dad, back in 1998 or 1999 when we used to play games like Medal of Honor, we picked up Torenico as a name for our save games.
Tore: My father's name is Hector, but his friends call him Tore.
Nico: Well, my name is Nicolas, so it's pretty obvious.
I also have a second nickname, which i don't use in games like BF2, Lazaro. That's how friends call me IRL, i use that nickname for a few games.
That must be so odd whenever I message you on steam going "Heyo Tor, blah blah blah"
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Myself, I had used various nicks throughout the years, from ErictheHobo (My steam account is EricZeHobo)
To HobomanJenkins, and various other short little names involving my first name, I usually only played SP.
Eventually I joined the FH2 forums. At the time I didn't know anybody here, so my name was :| Hi, because I figured if I ever met anybody here, I would kinda pokerface it and just say hi.
4-5 months AFTER I joined the forums, I finally got a computer capable of playing Fh2. (I have no idea how many times I watched the "training" videos for Africa).
When it was finally time for me to play, I want to say Fh2 2.1 had been out for quite some time, 2.2 came out two months before my birthday. (Sept 4, '09 ). I got a gaming computer for my 17th birthday, the 15th of Nov, and the very next day, I was playing Fh2.
When I started to play Fh2, I had only made a few profiles. One or two for SP, and another for vanilla Bf2. I wanted the people from the forums to recognize me, so I took up the ingame nick of Fh2_Hi, since : and | were illegal characters.
Nowadays, most friends have given me even
shorter nicks, those being Hi (Often I'm greeted by Hi Hi) and FH (Like pronouncing the letters.)
Since I've grown a little attached to it as my latest name, Fh2_Hi is my nick in all my current games.
Kinda funny when people in WoT see Fh2_Hi and go "Fh2, Forgotten Hope 2?" "Yeah" "Oh, great mod, just started playing again!"