I began to wonder if there would be a quest to pursue romantic involvement with someone during the game? Much like the courting with Ahnassi in Morrowind?

I figured it would be a interesting sub-plot and spread the Dragonborn-bloodline anew, considering that the protagonist is the last of the Dovahkiin. And thanks to the dragon's blood, he/she could possibly breed with any species (from what I heard about dragons and their ways with intercourse).

...So I'am a svcker to romances, so sue me! Bioware made me this way! xP

At the moment, no.

And if you are a svcker for BioWare romances, I suggest you continue to play those, or read trashy books. All iterations of "romance" have been, at best, laughably embarrassing. At worst, a permanent cringe caused by an extreme excess of awkward and embarrassment. The only exception I can think of was in The Darkness.

Best you'll get is making friend, not [censored] buddies.

I doubt it, but it would be possible.

If there are any... I pray they are subtle and underplayed...

Not the overplayed ego-trips in the Bioware titles.

Really?
Bioware turned me off of romance back in Baldur's Gate. Sappy music, long stories, blah blah blah.

As for any speculation? Yep, a thread about every other day

No.TES isn't that kind of game.

Hmm, let me think... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V30tyaXv6EI :rolleyes:

Hey hey hey! Neverwinter Nights was a great game, then EA took over and we get..blarg...but anyway it wouldn't make sense to have character relationships in an elder scrolls game UNLESS they are going to have a companion system like in Fallout. I wouldn't be opposed to that because my only issue with companions in RPGs is that they are equal to your own character, taking away from the experience, however this wouldn't be a problem in Skyrim

I think the current news from the devs is that getting companions will be possible... but that companions will be able to be recruited more broadly and generically (Via some kind of radiance AI), the tradeoff being the lack of the back-stories of the New Vegas companions.

I think if there is "romance" in Skyrim... it will be implied. You have a female companion following you around... but she most likely will not give any voice to any romantic attachment.

While I am sorry to find out that Skyrim will lack the backstories of New Vegas... I am glad that romance will be understated... I think it makes for a much classier game, and I think it fits TES much better.

I agree totally

I would like this kind of romance in the game, maybe a longer quest line that offers you the possibility to pick one of many different characters to be your partner. I think it was not a good idea to include Bioware in your post, as you fueled yourself a lot of "if you want x then go play y" answers, they are pretty common in threads discussing things that are more proeminent in other games than in Tes. I for one think Bethesda could explore every chapter of life that has to do with roles and roleplaying, and love/romance is pretty high on my list. I don't want Bioware romance in Bethesda games, I want Bioware romance in Bioware games and Bethesda romance in Bethesda games. They should give it a try, as long as it's optional it can't hurt that much. It's just adding more dialogue lines, I don' need it to be graphic.

Exactly. It's ridiculously shallow and passes girls for easy people.

Anyway, it's unlikely. Bethesda stated most NPC wouldn't have many conversation options, I think this implies the lack of romances. Anyway, that would detract from the experience, from what an Elder Scrolls game is. TES games are about adventure, living in a fantasy world, romancing persons is far from exclusive to games. If your desperate, there's other things than video games, or at least there's other video games.

We certainly haven't heard anything on the subject, but my guess is no, as it's not somethking Bethesda does a lot. I mean, yes, there was the quest with Ahnassi in Morrowind, but that's only one quest, for the most part, the games have avoided such things. And while Bethesda is certainly trying some new things in Skyrim, I wouldn't expect them to go very far with romance.



I'm not really sure if it's actually some kind of AI system like that or if it's just that there are more available companions than Fallout 3 and New Vegas at the expense of their uniqueness as characters, but that they're still hand-crafted specifically to be companions. Either way, though, it's an unfortunate choice, I think, I'd really prefer a quality over quanitity approach to companions here, so long as there are enough options to give the player a satisfying amount of choices, but complaining about it won't change anything, and at least now, since we already have companion AI, it should be easier for modders to make their own companion mods, this is of course assuming the companion system is decent by default and doesn't need major changes to make traveling with companions not extremely painful.

Indeed



Indeed... looks like the Xbox gamers get pwned once more

Why not look at the other thousand threads were 90% say no, because they are unnecessary, and have never been executed well.

I have liked how romance is handled so far in TES and FO games. We have a hand in getting two people together and assisting them in getting their romance started. We get to see the outcome of these actions and may even get a reward for it. That is good and I would like to see more.

However, this is a game, not the Sims. I have enough issues maintaining my RW relationships, I don't want to have to deal with it in the game. If I came home from adventuring and had to hear was dinged by my in game lover because I have not paid enough attention to them, I would just as soon run my sword through them as to try and placate them.

Bioware needs to start concentrating on better plots, instead of just throwing a romance novel at their computer and hoping it works. Just because FF can do it doesn't mean you guys can. That being said I enjoy most of their games, but not for the plot. I think this is the kind of thing best left out. Let the random retired romance novelist/amateur game developer hiding somewhere around here make a mod so it is get's the focus it deserves in order to not be god-awful

like Dragonborn1 says, tes isnt that kind of video game, tes is about adventuring into a open fantasy world that you couldnt even see in reality or even imagine

And the "romances" in it were cringe-worrthy, same with Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark. And now you're telling me they've gotten worse? Oi.

Yea, I could go without, but wouldn't protest it if they done. At least it is optional, right? There isn't much romance in rpgs because it's hard to pull off, there should be so much diversity in dialogue and personalities to fit what everyone expects...

Hooray. Yet another romance thread. How many does this make?

For me romance is at the same level as children for immersion (and desirability). If kids are in, I think romance should be in. They are about the same thing: mostly aesthetics, society coherence, immersion, bla bla. I never pictured Tes having kids, now it has, so I reckon it will be the same with families, romance and all. Tes is not about romance until the devs decide that Tes is about romance too :hehe: and then, what next?

Shhh, stop this

You wouldn't be the last of the dragonborn if you could have children...unless there are fertility problems.

^ This.


We keep saying it, leave that to developers like Bioware. On that subject, I liked Jade Empire's romance the most. Mass Effect was ok IMO, Mass Effect 2 was "ehh", Haven't played Dragon Age 1 or 2, and Knights of the Old Republic was disappointing because it was before Bioware got the sense to actually animate characters showing real emotion (hugs, kissing, etc.) and all you got with Bastila was a fade to black. It was just a kiss, there was no need for a black screen! They seriously couldn't spend time to animate...

...*ahem* Sorry, I seem to have gone off on a rant there.

Anyway yeah, unless Bethesda is willing to prove us wrong (and after reading several months worth of "nah they can't do it let them focus on more important things" I wouldn't be surprised if they were motivated to lol), better to stay away from this sort of thing.