Marriage is just not realistic in Skyrim. My spouse always greets me warmly, has a job for extra household money, and cooks for me every day. Right. Have the developers ever even been married?

Spouses' dialog should get progressively bitter over time, and there should probably be some quests to catch the spouse with the Housecarl or find out why your cool loot keeps disappearing from your chests. Why are there so many empty Skooma bottles in the house anyway?

Brawl should occasionally be a dialog option, most likely triggered when spouses are caught red-handed upstairs engaging in some Dibella worship with two Orcs and a Khajitt.

There should be a divorce quest, with a Dark Brotherhood option if you are so inclined. Then you could marry that hotty who has their own house and shop and not just a cot somewhere.

This dumbed down Skyrim marriage just doesn't work.

You do realize this game is not based in current time.

well, remember, this is the first time bethesda has done marriage, im sure they will get better at it by TES:VI blackmarsh

I'm pretty sure that not ALL marriage works the way you seem to think... I know mine sure didn't...

I think the marriage questline should take hundreds of hours, full of dates, promises, wedding arrangements and then all the bureaucracy over who gets the children after divorce.


I am not going to say something like, "go play Sims", but a complex marriage isn't really fit to this game. Marriage is a very simple feature quite obviously because Beth wanted to give us some small RP element that they thought up one morning. Marriage in Skyrim is 90% roleplaying and 10% gameplay.

That's because Zuzax obviously is not married and watches too much 'The Real Housewives of Orange County'.

maybe in skyrim they are the kinds of people who behead wifes who are stupid

all that content to explore out there, and you're nitpicking over the marriage system...?

This.

Before playing the game I was skeptical about marriage because I thought it would never be believable. And you're right, it isn't. But I'm glad they put it in, because it is a nice addition to the RP side of the game. It would require a lot of effort to become believable, effort I'd rather be seen put into less mundane things.

It needs divorce, lawyers, child support payments, and more in order to be realistic

the marriage system in skyrim is "basic"

after the CK is released i expect.... lets say amazing mods for companions and marriage

Its TES: VI Elsweyr.
No blackmarsh nono.

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it will be blackmarsh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Marriage" just deposits an overly nice merchant in your home. Nothing more. Its useful for sure though - I like being able to unload gear at 2AM.

Shouldn't my spouse and I be required to have personalities before we can get married?

I can't remember any NPCs without cheating by looking at the forums, and my character hit level 48 without developing a single shred of individual character.

hmmmm ok lets just demand all three

they are close to each other anyways

I agree. Although I wish it was the other way around; marriage being 90% gameplay and 10% roleplaying. Combat and combat-related tasks are the most uninteresting portion of the TES series to me. (I love Daggerfall's political scandals)

you are a genius!! a mad one but still a genius

I guess no one`s figured that this is sarcasm?


Marriage`s don`t all go automatcally downhill ending in an attempted assasination on someone, even in the old days. In fact a married couple has a vested interested to stay togther in a world where death and insecurity are constant facters.

But he`s being sarcastic anyway.

However, on a serious note, I agree that there should be a lot more to marriage such as things getting better or worse depending on what you or they do with the option of making things up, anniversaries where things get even better, bringing in the cash, prestige for being dragonborne goes to the other half too, etc... etc.

I want to bang Horkers so whenever I'm finished with those and go back to face my spouse and/or follower they may seem like intelligent and beautiful beings in comparison. That or a special effect feature where sufficient amount of mead blurs the screen so I can forget that I'm looking at Lydia instead of Angelina Jolie.

Don't forget the "Honey do" lists. After the honeymoon's over, there's a series of quests you have to complete in order to get "Lovers Comfort", lol.

And given what I've seen on YouTube of Oblivion mods, I'm expecting most of them to be mods that give you a trophy wife...who looks like a trophy wife, with a full complement of silicone.

they should of taken some influence from the fable II/fable III marriage system's, they are pretty good.

What are you talking about? In the US more than 50% of all marriages end in assassination.