Picturing this in my mind, just made my day!

Thanks!

Ok so say you could get married and the laws of nature and time allow you to spend enough time in game to have a child......to what end? are you hoping the child will grow up? are you hoping the impregnation of your wife is a minigame? what purpose will it serve other then to not represent what it really means to live with someone and have children?

I think this kind of idea is better suited to an mmo style game simply because a persistant world would allow the time to implement a more realistic family life should you choose and not something you can save and load on a whim.

if FO4 was a real-time settler game, then getting married/raising a family would offer interesting twists and subplots eg one of your family was killed while out scavving by a raider party, or some "Family" type clan, then you could start a feud with that clan, get all the people in your village involved. (I've been very excited about the idea of a Fallout Settler game ever since the Real-Time Settler mod arrived. While that was good, the possibilities for a concept completely written around it would be awesome)

In a quest type scenario like FO3 and FNV, then no, I don't think it would add anything to it particularly, other than giving you someone else to look after. But you get that with followers anyway, and at least they pull their weight (in game terms)

Considering that a baby needs 9 months until he's born, I don't think it'd be very fun to run around the wastes waiting for that event. Let alone, waiting years to raise the child.
I prefer to see it as an ending element, if romance is involved in the game or one night stands like the Fallout 2's Bishop child.

Marriage? à la Fable? So we get to fart and dance to seduce and propose?

Let the nuclear family go up in smoke, I say (bazinga!).

I dont understand you guys. I always wanted the developers to put some kind of romance in Oblivion or Fallout.
I was amazingly dissapointed about Amata..i really thought she would come and live with me in megaton or something.
Have her clean the house instead of that stupid robot. And talking sixy and stuff. Yes why not? =D

As for a child..i dont know. A kid doesnt really have anything to give. On the other hand, it would be cool to have a kid that looks like your main character and your wife. With the face consisting of the faces of the parents.. Maybe that would be too much realism though..

A wife? Sure, makes sense, everyone in the future will want to hook up as much as we do in our time.

But kids? Not for me in a video game. Would take too long for one thing, wouldn't be much fun to change diapers with one hand while holding-off super mutants with the other.

And if you want Romance, I think there are some pretty vivd mods out there in which you can win a partner, though most of them are advlt Entertainment versus Romance stories. Some of the latter would be great to see added by the professionals. None of the advlt crap needs to be in the game IMHO.

Nah, leave that nonsense to Fable series (which is full of nonsense already). Soon we'll be farting on peoples faces too, if we go that road.

What in-game purpose would wife and kids serve in a game like this? I'll tell you what I think: None. Rather than putting those useless features in to aid the hunger of V-LARPers, they should focus just on content that has some weight in it.

Really out did yourself with those No links.

:)

Only if it wasn't a chore and well written and not forced on the player.(totally up to choice)

No kids though, thats where I draw it.

we had to woo them? All i had to do was fart in public a couple times and the Gals were all over me.

on topic- yeah i dont want this. i seriously doubt it could be added well into a game like fallout.

the idea of a kid doesn't work because your character is on a mission. he doesn't have time to stop for a couple years and raise kids or even wait 8 months for that matter

Oh God, no. No no no no. That would svck HARD. I know it's '50s culture, but no. As a companion out in the wastes maybe, but as a fixture in the home? Utterly pointless.

I play games to escape life. Now you want me to to get nagged at while I am gaming? No Thanks.

that sounds like something a women would say...... go make me a samich.

just kidding- yeah it would be pretty pointless. that robot told the best jokes. who would ever want to replace him

@CCNA- thats exactly why i dont play the sims. its like holding an advlt sized toddlers hands and forcing him to do boing stuff

I nearly opened a can of Rosie the Riveter Whoop-*ss on you just then
While I can see a romance being done well, esp. if your partner becomes a companion (the partners in Fable II getting angry when you don't visit them was silly), I just don't see how having a child will add anything to the game.

as i said above. the idea of a kid cant work because your character probably does not have time to wait 8 months and disregard his quest. and even if you did have a baby you would have to wait years until the kid can even speak full sentences

What if you play with a female character? How would she fit into a Power Armor?

Maybe armors will have mods to them and there will be a pregnancy mod for all armors for female characters.

No! NO! Nononononononno. :ahhh: :ahhh:

I would use the disc for target practice if that happened.

Yeah it just doesn't fit the game in any way. Thankfully I have never seen a mod created like this!

Such ideas belong in games where pregnancy would apply and be viable in that gaming world. Fallout New Vegas is Not such a game.

Well pregnant mothers should be allowed to hunt deathclaws too.

Ah, yes!

Pregnancy Armor DLC
2$
The Mojave Wasteland is a dangerous place. Protect your future newborn from danger with this beautiful handcrafted power armor.

I can live with the developers adding in fleshed out romances as long as I don't have to play them out; in my experience cRPG romances are very awkward with the only exceptions being the ones present in Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate II and Mask of the Betrayer. However including marriages and kids just for the sake of having them in the game ALA Fable I think would be very unwelcome. What would be the point, really? If you want that kind of stuff go play the Sims, or Fable for that matter. Fallout is more about the lone hero wandering the wasteland, perhaps with a companion or two, and not about raising kids and getting yelled at for cleaning the dishes on the table but not the ones on the counter.

Ummm, I really doubt they would Want to?

Have you been pregnant or been with/supporting someone who was? I mean maybe during the first trimester, but by the time you get 1/2 through the 2nd, mobility is reduced, stamina is reduced and by the 3rd trimester I can't see many women even wanting to loft heavy weaponry Period.

Granted I'm male but I do have 2 kids and have supported my wife through both pregnancies. It simply doesn't make any sense to pretend (or especially project into a video game) the idea that a pregnant woman would want to do any of this stuff.

I find the mental image of a heavily pregnant woman in power armor waddling through the wasteland hillarious. Could you imagine the faces of the other developers if someone seriously pitched that idea?

You haven't? Morrowind had one. Fallout 3 had pregnant armors released as modders resources.