You mean 90% freeform roleplay by yourself with no support from the game engine.

Really it is more like 95-99% that.

Lets keep this thread about how the marriage mechanic in the game can be improved.

Let's not get into a bunch of bickering about who could get married and to whom.

Skyrim marriage is great. It doesn't matter how late you come in or how much hell you raised in Skyrim, your wife greets you with a "It's good to see you, honey" when you get home, she doesn't complain, she cooks you dinner, she gives you money from her store, and she'll lie down with you at night no matter how bad you smell. If only real-life was so bliss.

Good concept, just poorly executed in this game. It's just too shallow, and really adds nothing much to Skyrim.

LOL, it's easy in game than real world, so simple. It's so simple marry and get lovers in the game than real world.

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I'm sure most players want a wife who is a PERSON.... jokes aside why would you marry a person you dont care for and whoi lacks a personality, who never ever does ANYTHING, and when talk only says things like yes dear 1 million times but the real fail is how you don't even get to know your wife... your just :
-girl "oh I like that necklace....so your not married?"
-guy (you) "interested ?"
-girl "yes"
-guy "ok we are going to get married tomorrow, oh by the way what's your name? i just met you four minutes ago."

Shameful

Also yes children would be awsome, even for RPing.

-Blood for the Blood God!!!

The marriage system is lame and shallow IMO, but I don't mind as I didn't want Beth spending too much time developing that very minor part of the game anyway. It's like they just chucked it in to keep certain people happy, not me though, a marriage system in a game doesn't interest me whatsoever. So many other things parts of the game I'd rather be improved, a better marriage system is way on the bottom of my list if it even makes the list at all.

I think its a step in the right direction. Also found a wife in skyrim who looks very similar to my Girlfriend, that makes her happy She makes me always put the forsworn headdress on her.

Don't bash the marriage system.. it just need positive constructive feedback. Also, to those that do bash it, marriage is an OPTION, its never forced upon you in the game.

I think that's a broad hint (pun intended) when your girlfriend coerces you into marrying her ingame lookalike.

I don't mind the marriage system so much. I mean, I play Skyrim to explore the land and fight some dragons. When I want to play about with relationships first and foremost, I load up the sims. It's a nice feature to have, sure, but I don't think that should be focused on at the expense of something else in the game.

I did like the marriage system in Fable 3- Pick your city, pick the type of ceremony, then watch a clip of your character getting hitched. I'm not sure how well that could be implemented in a game like this though. Skyrim isn't the sort of game where you sit about watching cut-scenes, and that's why I like it.

I haven't tried to get married in skyrim yet but I will honestly say Bethesda exceeded my expectations in their execution of it. Granted, I had very low expectations.

In the end I would want the NPC spouse to have their own personalities and desires and input into the relationship. After all when people get married it's 2 people making one thing work.. sometimes together, sometimes they are pushing the relationship in 2 different directions. Until that happens a spouse in skyrim is a glorified pet mod, IMO.

Shouldn't be too hard to code. Small things that count.. just off the top of my head:
-If player is away for several days when he/she finally comes home the NPC asks to be taken to the tavern for a drink so they can spend time together.

-Some personal background story- NPC's parents died in a tragic way. Each day at a specific time the NPC brings flowers to their graves.

-Spouse has quests that come up after getting married- no not go to cave and kill something type quests- but ones that involve working with people in your town. Some intrigue? Some mystery? Resolving a conflict of some sorts between busnieses or within the NPC's family?

-Divorce- I don't mean this in how most people here want the ability to divorce the NPC I am saying allow the NPC to want to divorce the player. Ignoring your NPC spouse's requests or being generally cold to them increases the chances the NPC will divorce the player.


Adding these things to the game would make me interested in getting married in Skyrim. It would allow for some new gaming experiences outside of adventuring and questing in caves and dungeons.

I would like better dialogue and some smexy time with my spouse. Right now marriage is about selecting a person to be your kitchen slave for the rest of their lives. That or become pack mules.

What's so unrealistic about that?

Well, the kitchen slave and pack mule part is about right, yeah. But I want a slave with benefits.

*cue hilarious DA:O romance music*

-Oh, Farkas... Hold me in your strong arms, you hairy man-beast. Let's do it like they do it in Discovery Channel.
-Anything for you, my beloved overgrown lizard. Nothing gets a man going like scaly lips and the lack of mammalian reproductive system.

Yeah, totally realistic marriage. GOTY material right there, folks. Why am I not an employee of Beth already truly eludes me.