oh god the mods..


THE MODS!

that's pure gold. I would also like to see spouses, if not many other NPCs comment on your followers, dogs etc. It seems that only guards actually see what you're doing, commenting on your weapons and the sort. I'd imagine talking to a spouse, decked out in new Dragonbone armor would give a "Oh, you slew a dragon today? That's great!" (but less cheesy) sort of thing. Or the jealousy idea which you had. Again, that was awesome.

Agreed!
I do like this idea too from the OP. So many good ideas posted so far.

guess they did their best to make it somewhat realistic

I wouldn't pay for this. Kissing in video games is always fake looking even for railroaded games where they know how to line up the toons because they always look the same. On games like this where you can have toons of different races, wearing all sorts of stuff, kissing would be a comedy of clipping and line-up errors. And for something so pointless, when Beth could be working on story DLC, quests, and gameplay. Nope.

I'm all for more quests related to or involving followers, but even that is not very realistic I think.

Anyone remember the stiper mod for morowwind? .. and the little quest?

lolz

Haha x) But i kinda agree.i mean why cant NPC hug eachother? When ralof meet his sister gerdur,or when esbern meets Delphine again after years! why cant they just hug? it will bring more life to the npcs.

2 trophies left to earn, get married and 1000 bounty in all 9 holds. Pretending to be married in a game is strange to me, even though I play females most the time time
I hear the only benefit too is they make you a lovely cake or something...

Actually there was a strip club in the vanilla game. Can't find one it Skyrim though.

Well being a PC player I can easily have everything the OP asks and then some, but I can understand the console users wanting some of these option. Thing is Skyrim is the first TES game with marriage, so what they gave us was bare-bones in the way of options. I'm sure the next TES game will add more to it.

I'm currently living with my spouse and have my mother-in-law following me around. It can get awkward at times.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/imageshare/images/649591-1331568802.jpg

is there really anything else needed than that? This isn't a marriage sim. I don't see the need for "Kissing" and these other things in the game. It's a waste of time and resources. People complained about not having marriage and not you have. Now you are complaining that it isn't "Real" enough.

There are many more things that are more important and need work than something as trivial as marriage.

Wow... first of all, a thumbs-up for the people who are open to options (and a thumbs-down to those vehemently opposed). Whether some additional options were made available for married players - be it a paid DLC, a free DLC, or just part of an upgrade... why such a strong opposition to it? The first response was OVERLY childish (I'll snap my disc in half)! Really??? There are many options when interacting with most characters you can actually "talk" with, and NO ONE says you have to do all the options!

It isn't like this thread is going to make Bethesda (I can't believe someone could only type "beth" - I did a double-take on that one) put the brakes on everything they are doing. "Oh... someone wants 'marriage enhancements' in the game... let's stop patching bugs, quit working on the big DLC, and let's focus on adding marriage enhancements!" Seriously?? They will do just what most major companies do when asked for something: "We'll take it under advisemant." = meaning: not bloody likely!

If they did, and it cost $1.00 (or 80 MS Points)... if you're not interested, you don't buy it. If it was FREE DLC and you're not interested... you don't download it. If it's part of an upgrade, and you don't want to select the additional dialog option, then you ignore it. However... if you really feel slighted if any of this happens... then go ahead and snap your disc in half!

Most of the postings in the Skyrim forums are just unimportant pvssyr: we are just talking about the game and having fun! There's no need to get upset over it.

They could probably beef up the marriage aspect a bit without going too crazy or "wasting" too much time that they could be using to improve other aspects of the game. Just a few little things. Nothing major or ridiculous. The Lover's Comfort bonus, however, is more than enough for me to suggest certain...advlt interactions. (Even though the bonus never seems to work for me for some reason)

As far as gift-giving...weren't spouses already supposed to do that? I thought I had read somewhere that they occasionally give you little gifts, but I've never had it happen. I give my spouse gifts all the time, though, in the form of kickin' weapons and armor.

I've been asking myself that for 12 years....

This. And now that skyrim was such a great success the developers now have a pretty clear idea about what the majority of people (this includes non-advlts) like about their game. It would be simply moronic and regressive to stray from their current successful path and add In any of the suggested Witcher/Fabel/Dragon age "game mechanics." However, If the sales of their next game were to take a destructive dive then you may end up seeing some serious gameplay change and community input actually being considered and put to use. Although this would be highly unlikely...

The game is for mature audiences, it should not matter. If your creating a game for Mature audiences, you should not catter your features for younger audiences. If those Christian Bastards want to hate on it, who cares.

Unfortunately, the current system is "Its Mature, not for kids, but parents will buy if for their kids anyways, so make it kid friendly"

Its garbage, im sorry im so mad, this is my biggest peev of the industry over disk locked content

I think that it is really cheap that you don't have to do anything to prove yourself to your future husband/wife, he/she'll just say "Hey an amulet of Mara, are you interested?" lol we're not in a swingers club.

If you really want that man/woman to be with you, prove yourself by doing some quest at least, or things to show him/her your love!

Then, when married, there should be some new quests that happen, too. Married life is really dull in Skyrim.
I don't know, maybe sometime you come home and notice his/her absence... so you're like "Hmm... that not normal", and then you see a note on the wall or on a table with a dagger or something, and read that some bandits, or an obscure sect, or vampires, or dragon-worshipping weirdos that wish to offer him/her as a human sacrifice, WHATEVER! that can lead you on an epic quest to rescue your prince/princess.

Life is boring in Skyrim!

If they added it (which I don't think they will because it probably will not pass the 80/20 rule of cost/benefit) I wouldn't have a problem with it. But, as it is, I probably would use the feature once to see how it worked then never use it again. If I wanted that kind of stuff, I think I'd pick up a copy of The Sims instead as this is supposed to primarily be a fantasy fighting/role-playing game. The only way a DLC like that would sell is if it contained six scenes so that all of the pre-teens and teenage boys could get their rocks off on images of digital people having a go.

Precisely, What Bethesda truly needs to focus on are the animations and creating some more immersive quests.. and the voice acting could use some work as well.

Ha!

to the OP- NO.

Woah, really hard to read that white writing on mobile, but I agree. Marriage should either be fleshed or removed.

This is not the Sims, and quite frankly I would be embarrassed to be playing a game that would have such cheesy content like 'kissing your (video game) wife'. Skyrim just doesn't fit into that genre, and if I wanted that kind of content in a game I'd go play something else. The devs should be spending their time on new storylines and quests, weapons, armors, spells, etc.

Marriage is a gimmick in this game, and that's all it should be. It shouldn't be a full-blown feature because that isn't what Skyrim is about.

Thank you for adding the "explicit" to my "implicit". I obviously agree.

Funny thing is I didn't read your post until after I posted, scrolled up and saw I basically said the same thing as you.

Looks like we're a match made in Skyrim heaven... let's get to the Temple of Mara and have a Skryim wedding... thank the gods we don't have to kiss or anything like that. Yuck.