Last Names in Video Games

[Pumpkin]

Do you prefer it when characters have last names, like in Final Fantasy VII for example, or games where there aren't any, or some games like Suikoden where some characters have a last name and some don't?

[Mirage]

Depends. If they ha e a backstory that is important and includes a family, it would be weird if they didn't have a family name, or at least a patri/matrimonial last name.

[Spooniest]

I feel like it adds a depth to the character and storytelling to have characters with surnames. But FFVII never bothered to use them in-game, which still disappoints me to this day.

They did try it with FFVIII but if the polls I've seen around here are any indication, nobody seems to have played it.

[Wolf Kanno]

Since I prefer story driven games, I like my characters to have backgrounds and that included last names.

[Vermachtnis]

Yes, how else are my crossover crack fics going to have any kind of legitimacy with out last names.

But in all seriousness, I do like last names in games. Since they're uncommon more care goes into picking them and I like looking up the origins and/or meanings.

[Pumpkin]

You can tell who is important in a Suikoden game, because they have last names

[Psychotic]

Don't care on the whole, though it makes playing the Sims harder if they don't have them. :shobon:

[Hollycat]

I think it makes them a little more human and cements family ties much better.

[Karifean]

I don't really mind their absence, but given the choice I prefer them to exist.

[Ayen]

I don't care, which is apparently false because I cared enough to both vote and post in this thread.