I was just thinking about this last day and with all the potential in the game, the marriage system really doesnt go beyond 'i shall get married so i can collect my wife's store money'. Some hardcoe RPG players like myselft 'pretend' to be in a loving marriage but Bethesda has always been so good in replacing the 'pretend' in RPGs with 'live', I seriously dont understand why they don't put more attention on this.

They release a DLC that allows you to build your house, have a pet, even an adopt a kid. But they still dont improve the part in the game which is probably the best chance at giving the 'Mighty Dragonborn' a humane side. I mean, after completing five-six quests in dark dungeons and misty, snowy mountains fighting undeads and bandits, I ride my horse from wherever to my green-grassed blue-skyed cheerful Whiterun over the beautiful fields of Tundra among neighbor giants and beautiful rivers, galloping, feeling like Gandalf returning to Shire every once in a while after long journeys in darker parts of middle earth, I enter the beautiful town and greet everyone and walk to my house to see my daughter, at which point our only conversation is she asking for septims. I know Bethesda loves realism but SHE IS NOT A TEENAGER.

But after all, the concept of emotion is pretty weak in the game anyway. The cheers or sorrows seem so mechanic. I would like to see when I enter an inn, people dancing and singing together not just some weak ass bard singing the same song like a 1 hour show in a poor bar where every customer comes to drink to forget their day. Theres this one guy hanging outside the Belethor's General Goods saying something like 'You know whats missing in Skyrim these day? Jokes humor romance whatever' something like that I forgot it now.

Well is that guy Bethesda's excuse for the lack of more realistic emotions in the game?

creating such "detailed" game would need use of a LOT more resources than what is available on our current generation consoles-xbox360 and ps3-and i do remind skyrim is NOT a pc-exclusive game...

I think our character have emotions, because we who play it, but the rest have no emotions

PC : I want you to do something
Lydia : What do you want me to do?
PC : Sit there
Lydia : I got it (sit for 6 hours)
PC : (Stare at Lydia)
Lydia : Are we moving on?
PC : Follow me
Lydia : Of course my Thane, I will protect you with my life
PC : I want to trade something with you
Lydia : I sworn to carry your burden

Lydia have no emotion...most of the time "Alright", "yes", "uh...."

In other game (DA:O) when we want to decide something, the companions may responded to our decision, creating doubt (it being toss away in DA2 sadly), they even protest, argue, give suggestions, complains, whining, everything that make you like, love or hate them

Bethesda need to learn from Bioware on that part (not the other parts of Bioware games that ruin Bioware)

i personally would rather if BGS took no examples from bioware, none at all

Yeah but PC-Exclusive DLC wouldn't be a crime.

you are right about that but thats what I meant in the first place

except from the unimaginable [censored]storm that would come from the console players if bethesda made a pc-only DLC therefore i dont see that happening