There are examples of cases where people would use Mr First Name, most notably with servants, for example, it is custom for servants to address children as Master John and Miss Jane, and I'm not sure, but wasn't Mr First Name common address by servants in the 50s, especially in the South? The issue with using surnames is that they are arguably more diverse than forenames which tend to run by fashion, given that the US was settled by a multitude of different nations that are inherited from different languages, whereas forenames are from a common language.

I assume that if your name/nickname is not supported, they'll just replace the phrase or change keywords to sir or mam. It's not really a gamebreaker and I'm pretty sure they'll release the list of possible names after the game is released.

I re-watched both the Bethesda and Microsoft demos and in the Bethesda demo Codsworth uses "Mr Howard " to greet the PC when he returns from the vault. Only name entered was "Howard" as player name. During the Microsoft demo the Pipboy shows the name "Phil Spencer" and when that characyer returns to the house Codsworth does not use a name, and there is a pause of sorts where the name was used before.

I will likely enter my real first name and use it on my first play.

Still disappointed Codsworth won't call me by my true name Zdrowojciechowski :c

Where's the Polish love?!

I can safely assume Thomas is in there, provided they're doing last names.

If Codsworth's Mr./Mrs. FirstName thing bothers someone, just pretend the main character had told it to address the family by their first names to make him more personable, but in stereotypical robotic logic fashion Codsworth still attaches a title to the names (ie., C-3PO in A New Hope calling Luke Skywalker "Sir Luke" and then "Master Luke").

Every name in the USA just about are foreign names. Almost all of us at some point came from somewhere else.

Thanks for the info - I've not watched the Microsoft one.

That's a minor shame as I like to use both first and last name and whilst both of mine are likely to be supported I don't want to see just a first *or* last name on the Pip-Boy.

@http://www.gamesas.com/user/949674-thure93/ - OK, I see your point there, still adding a second box for surname would be a trivial addition from a dev perspective. Aside from the 'Mr. First name' thing (which may be more common than I first thought) I still would rather have a character with a first and last name.

Never mind... I suppose I'll live! ;P