I usually name a character the name they are "supposed" to have like Link in LoZ, but if they don't really have one or it just sucks I go for Klaus because I have always secretly wanted to be German or have a German/Dutch name. If pressed to tell why I suppose it'd be because I always saw Germany as a very efficient country and a polar opposite to Laziness, which I admire.

Met or M3t for online FPS games. If I'm playing singlea single player game, it's generally whatever the character's original name was, or Schlong or something similar to that.

I used to go with the generic character name for single player games, e.g. Link (or in a WoW induced parody, Linken), but then by sheer chance I hit on Siege, and it stuck.
It's nice to have a friendly number you can tack on to make sure you get that username you always wanted!

Comrade General- what can i say, i love red alert 2
or if i'm playing CSS, it'll be Country-Steak:Sauce

" a n00b"

you were killed by a n00b
you killed a n00b

In Zelda games, I'll just stick with Link

Legend Of Zelda: A Fagballs Link To The Past

I tend to stick to default..except for the 2nd run through...then it depends whether I am drunk or sober at the time :D

bluedoom...for everything(coz im not very creative)

Master Chief if it fits MC117 or MA5B if it doesn't.

I call anything and everything online klc0100 if its off line usually my own name

tyras is my favorite game name for RPGs...
but somehow i have a level 70 warlock on WoW called battlemaster ^^
and on starcraft i play as zerg named the jihad brood. lol

chaos95:
For single-player games I choose pretty random names either based on the character's appearance or words that I think will be amusing when they pop up in dialog. Pokemon characters are usually 'Slut' or 'Manslut' (With Pokemon called 'Assmunch', 'Stripper' and 'Testacool', among others)

I have a cousin who does the same thing. Drives me crazy. I did a comic about it a while back.

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I usually use Persephone Everett for female names and whatever comes to mind for male ones.

I like to get creative, you know names like Bob and John. I have alot of Bobs.

conqueror Kenny:
I have alot of Bobs.

You have a lot of Born on Boards?

I try to give them a name that fits the universe they're a part of, especially if it's also a reference. My characters in Mass Effect are Jean {as in Jean-Luc Picard) and Lilith (Evangelion ftw).

When I get Final Fantasy XIII I'll take a random word that isn't a name and use that, because that's what Square Enix do.

shatnershaman:

conqueror Kenny:
I have alot of Bobs.

You have a lot of Born on Boards?

I need to stop having sex with all the sexy crewmates. But I am such an natural they throw themselves at me. A two year voyage, it happens.

For male characters Thaimor, Female characters generally something Aimoree, Aimoress etc.

On FPS games and online its Shotaro, though spelt different ways $h0t4r0 <old UT/CS version, Sh0t4r0 <gamertag etc. It's Kaneda from Akira's first name (which my screen name used to be but too many people had taken it)

Mine is nearly always Johnny Johnston, or one of its numerous mis-spellings. Such as this account.

'Tryzon' is such a wonderously all-purpose title that only it and a few variations of the same thing (Lord Tryzon the Unexplodable, anyone? Loving the ironic names myself) keep me going fine. Plus fewer games give you the option of picking names now anyway, with the machine cunningly using the player account name, but obviously you all know that. I'm just waffling now. Doo-dee-dum.

I useually use 'Mal' for male characters (for obvious reasons), when it comes to women though...I just make a name up on the spot, nothing too specific.

The exception for both of these is if I am playing a particular game purely so I can mess around, for instance, one time in Oblivion I named my character 'Boobs' and created a rapeist class for him.

'Are you sure you want to be a rapeist?'...that'll stay with me to the grave

this depends mainly on what movie/book i'm watching/reading at the time.if can get a bow and some arrows in a game,it's Will or Halt.(rangers apprentice reference)however, if it's a crime game i'll call the character Smith.(shoot 'em up!)

More often than not (when it comes to online games, or one's where we have to create a character name) my husband and I use our default intarweb personas (crimsnsacrifice and RabidFlea). Occasionally we try to be creative.

Case in point: I have this book in my collection called "Who In Hell". It's a "guide" to the people/demons that are residing in hell. My husband and I will sometimes take names out of there.
For example: My husband's undead rogue on WoW is named Shax - a demon who deafens and blinds the enemies of his friends.

RPG's and the like where the character's have names as default, we use those.

My name in any game is usually always darthsmily back when I checked out runescape and the name has just stuck.
But sometimes i like to use the name Des.
And for online games I like picking a song off of one of my favorite bands whch is usually a Metallica or Megadeth song.
For a female character I usually give them names after different shades of primary colours and give them matching clothes such as Azure.

On the subject of joke names, after Yahtzee's Phantom Hourglass review I played Pokemon and named both myself and my rival I say. I say, I say, are you ready to begin your Pokemon adventure?

A guy I used to know named his Bellsprout Bellend, but that's another matter entirely.

Pokemon, every time i play the same way.

Name: God

All Pokemon nicknames: Minion

Some truly hilarious moments...

Lord Krunk or Darth Jaffa.

Ultrajoe:
Pokemon, every time i play the same way.

Name: God

All Pokemon nicknames: Minion

Some truly hilarious moments...

Pure genius!

Excuse me if I use that idea myself.

I always just use my name haha never forget it then :D

I use the game's default if there is one.
Otherwise males is Wofiel, females are Yianim or Itslek.

SecretTacoNinja/Nazi or S.T.N for short
In The Legend of Zelda it's always Link though