What does your gamertag say about you?

Parasite_eveNZ · Dec 27, 2014

Wow i've only had mine for about 3 years now but there is a tale to be told here.

About 2012 i believe it was, FF Dissidia 012 just came out and i bought the special edition needlees to say i love that game played that game for 500+hours (Longest play time record) and i went to the wiki to learn more about the game when i stumbled across a special lightning costume from a game called the 3rd birthday

For a long time i don't why but i ignored anything T3B related guess i was fearful about it being a shit game (Guess i was partly right XD) So i researched it's history and surely enough it eventually lead to me finding PE1 and instantly i fell in love.

Not only was it on my favourite console of all time but it was an amazing experience square did everything right with that game now i own all 3 black label and 2 PE wall scrolls which i hang proud as a fan then i decided to take the name and my country and slap them together. And i like the idea that i'm a parasite infecting peoples minds and breaking them down at VF lol

Lygophilia · Mar 13, 2019

Even though was 6 years ago, I feel that this is an interesting topic still today. It was the same on PSN as it is here (don't have a PS3 anymore, but thinking about it again), but my nickname is the same on the Nintendo Switch.

Lygophilia means "Love Of Darkness". I have a preference for dark personalities, places, and the night. The name played a strong influence by how others perceive me. The other, is my past. Last, are various subjects challenging and questioning what normal is, which tends to be a "love" for me, which is considered dark in the minds of others.

I figured it was either this name or my real name, which is Fiona.

Jason Elbow · May 16, 2019

Myke said: ↑

Some people think my real name is Myke, but I'm quick to correct them that it's Mike, and "Myke" is just an alternate spelling. That conversation usually ends there. Nothing else to see here. Move along.

But, the true story behind my name is all about a girl.

That story is pretty corny and kind of convoluted, but what the hell, right? During my second year of University, I was working full time while studying part time mostly by going to night classes. Anyway, there was this girl in my course that I had the hots for. She hung out in her circle of friends, I hung out in mine, and I just admired her from a distance for a while. Too chicken-shit to try and do anything about it.

I remember one night I was running late for class, and kind of rushed in and sat at the nearest available seat. That seat happened to be right next to hers, but, here's the thing. Her eyes were filled with tears, her face was red as if having just received some terrible news. I felt really bad, and awkward, and managed to simply ask a solitary question all night:

"Are you OK?"

She just nodded, clearly wanting to be left alone. I didn't press it any further, and lost myself in what was remaining of the class while ruing the impossible roll of the dice that lay before me.

After that night, I didn't really have much occasion or cause to talk to her, without going out of my way to do so. But remember, back then, I was a chicken-shit so that was never going to happen. Months pass by.

Then, as luck would have it, in one of our mutual classes we ended up being allocated into the same random group for an assignment. Was this my chance? I bloody-well thought it was! But then a funny thing happened. As the weeks went by, a funny thing happened. I actually got to know her! And in that process, the desire I once had for her slowly disappeared. I won't go into the details as to why, but let's just say that she knew how to use her assets to her advantage. I wasn't complaining at first, but it grew taxing on me eventually.

To get the story back on track, during the time we worked closely together on this group assignment, we communicated a lot using IRC (a lot you young kids probably have no idea what this is, but it was all the rage back when Universities with Internet connections was a hot-spot for all Engineering and Computer Science students, and getting the Internet at home via 14.4K dialup modem was a thing). And in IRC my nickname was Akira which I took after the manga/anime of the same name, before Virtua Fighter was even in existence. It was also her first foray into the world of IRC (thanks to me) and she got hooked on it. Hard. In fact, she started to annoy me with all her IRC stories. If it weren't new guys trying to hit on her -- which, to be honest, made me a bit jealous at first -- it was questions of a technical nature ("how do I do this?", "How do I do that?", etc).

So here comes the turning point.

All this time, she was calling me "Akira" in real life. At first I thought it was cute, since she only did it in private (i.e. when we were alone). But then, one day after a mid-semester break -- during which I hadn't seen her for about two weeks since I was away on a holiday -- upon entering a class she jumped up out of her seat, yelled "AKIRA!" so loud that it caught everyone's attention, then ran over to me to give me a hug.

It was as if, suddenly, my "online persona" was exposed to the real world, unwillingly, and disapprovingly. Back then, there was a certain anonymity with being online, and -- just like that -- it was gone.

I wouldn't quite call that the most embarrassing moment of my life, but, it was pretty damn close. And from that day, I vowed to change my nickname to... something else. But what? So I thought to myself:

"I need something so that the next time a girl comes running into my arms, screaming my name, she's yelling something that sounds like Mike!"

As for my gamertag, since "Myke" was already taken on PSN and XBL, I figured I'd throw some numbers at the end, and so it became Myke623. The 623 is the dragon punch notation () in homage to my street fighter gaming roots. It coincidentally works as being a unique command input that no other VF character has except for my main, Kage (since VF3).

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Wow this is awsome! Bitches huh? What are you gonna do?! Lol

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