Skyrim Marriage System Needs Improvement

Post » Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:45 pm

okay im pretty sure this has already been discussed but im new here and i want to run through it (again if so) so i don't have to spend hours looking through the mountain of posts that's on here.

so ive been playing in skyrim now (Xbox 360) on the first game-save i have ever made (this was back when the game launched and yes i still got the save) anyways when i started playing back in November the first thing i wanted to try out was the marriage system and how it works being that i played fable 2 and 3 a lot before skyrim and i wanted to compare the differences so i goes and marries Mjoll the lioness fantastic she fairly good looking, good in a fight and runs a store, no six or children that you can have with your loved one but i can live with that im too busy killing dragons and slaying bandits most of the time to be running around the house playing daddy and buying toys for the kids to shut them up.

so i recently came back onto skyrim and yes still using my very first game-save i mean who wouldn't i got over 270hours plus on that save and a hell of a lot of quests to do anyways i came back, i played the dawnguard dlc (very good dlc, price however different story) and i come across Serena that one and only character throughout skyrim that you build up any sort of physical connection with in the game so i goes to try and marry here at the end of the dlc and the dialog option wasn't popping up so i did some research and found she cant be married apparently fair enough, but as i found this out i also found out that you can only marry 1 person per a game-save now that was news to my ears and i didn't like it one bit i also didn't like that there was no divorce function at all implemented in skyrim what so ever i mean how does that work your going to have a marriage function but no divorce and people were saying oh just kill your wife job done NOT IF YOU WIFE IS UNKILLABLE so here i am hoping that the developers of this game are going to read my post and fix this problem because its not worth starting a new game save just to get married to someone different bethesda please please fix this problem and who knows maybe an option to marry more than 1 person would be great too.

Any other people out there experienced this dreaded nightmare if so share your views.
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Ellie English
 
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Post » Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:40 am

My view is that it's not a "problem" because there was never any intention to make divorce an option, and therefore the lack of it is not something that is broken and needs to be fixed. And also that punctuation is your friend. I'm just sayin'. :blink:
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Mel E
 
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Post » Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:58 am

My view is that it's not a "problem" because there was never any intention to make divorce an option, and therefore the lack of it is not something that is broken and needs to be fixed. And also that punctuation is your friend. I'm just sayin'. :blink:

While you may not think its a problem i respect that but each to their own or his own depending where you are from. and as for punctuation i may live in wales which is next to England but the English language is not my strong suit and while i may speak the language i very rarely type/write it so you'll have to forgive me on that note.
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Stephanie I
 
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Post » Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:19 pm

Polygamy seems pretty lorebreaking to me... Unless you're an Orc male, marrying an Orc female.
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Carys
 
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Post » Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:19 am

Skyrim's NPCs need an improvement before I care at all enough to worry about marrying them.
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Jarrett Willis
 
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Post » Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:23 pm

Not really. They should work on improving game mechanics widely used by everyone, not some weak Fable-inspired marriage system they tacked on at the last minute.
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Maria Leon
 
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Post » Sat Jul 14, 2012 8:03 am

I have yet to get married. I don't even plan on it. Seem like a waste. No really, I wouldn't mind if your choices were not so limited. I just hate there are no Khajiit males available. Khajiit are my favorite race and they don't have anything. I feel left out.
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Jesus Duran
 
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Post » Sat Jul 14, 2012 3:49 am

The only fix I'd like to see of the Marriage system in Skryim is its removal.

I'm really getting tired of studios copying elements of games, but not the core of what makes them work.
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