They were too stupid to even include a divorce option.

They were too stupid to even include a divorce option.

I havent gotten married yet because I play TES to kill stuff, not get the ol ball and chain. But out of curiosity, could you kill your husband/wife?

they just put it there for the sake of putting there i suppose. Anyway many features mentioned weren't in; i dont think ive seen any "disrupt a town's economy" thing.

Agreed. A gimmick nobody even wanted until it was announced we could get married. Had to have been just a add on to Beth. Also agree with the economy thing. Never saw any of that either.

Oh, lots of people want it. We just dont want it to svck.

They were too stupid to even include a divorce option.

Until it was announced, the grand majority (at least on this forum) did not want it. Its reception was just above the "How about Guns?" threads.

They were too stupid to even include a divorce option.

Don't make stuff up and speak for others, please.

There was not some overwhelming opposition to this before it was announced, and the topic did in fact come up multiple times between the announcement of the game and the feature being revealed. While threads would be flooded with posts, a large portion of those posts were from a small subset of people over and over again.

It's really a shame. I wasn't expecting much with relationships and marriage in the game, but the almost nothing at all in the end is fairly shocking to me. I'm sure mods will fix it, but it would be nice if Bethesda improves it as well. Just because you do not want something does not mean "nobody" wants it and that they should remove it.

Actually, I would have to argue that giving us so many marriage candidates was probably the reason we have so few actually meaningful choices with them.

I'd rather the characters be made unique and individual characters, where marriage is a step along a character-specific quest line. Especially in cases where the marriage candidate is a potential follower, so that you fight alongside your spouse as partners in some quest that gives them individual character and the choice of who you marry some meaning. Hell, marriage could practically be the equivalent of choosing a faction to side with, with a quest chain where, instead of becoming a guild master, you settle out the most immediate and dangerous problems threatening your marriage. (With character-specific rewards for which spouse you hook up with.)

Part of that quest line might be something like meeting the parents. It would be more interesting to have this "you can marry, regardless of gender" thing actually have some impact in the story when you are a woman showing up at your girlfriend's house to ask her father for his daughter's hand in marriage. He might react to a man asking for his daughter with a contest of strength, but to a woman with a more detailed touchy-feely dialogue where he and his daughter have to come to grips with homosixuality and probably not getting grandkids. Or, you, know, maybe one marriage candidate has two mommies, and they are less pleased if their daughter brings home a man to marry than if she brought home another woman. (Of course, the moral guardian's heads would explode on that one...)

This "marry everybody" stuff is what Fable does, and why Fable's such a sad joke of an RPG. What's the point of having the option to marry anybody and everybody when I can't tell one person apart from the other? If it makes no difference if I marry a man or a woman, a tough-as-nails retired nord warrior or a pampered altmer seamstress who hates everyone?

Further, we are given the option to marry people of any gender without regards to our own gender, implying a completely open-minded society... which we see nowhere else in the game, really. I mean, we have an "Allure" skill that gives us a shop discount to opposite-gender shop-keepers. If that shop-keeper would be willing to gay marry my character, why can't I use my allure on him/her, as well?

In fact, it would be even better if portions of marriage were not dependent upon scripted quests, but on Radiant Story reaction to player actions. Players with Allure aren't automatically attractive to the other six, they just get the ability to start trying to use it (with the game recording it) on people. The more you use your allure on members of one gender or another, the more known you become for your flirtations with that gender. (So you could be gay/straight/bi or completely reserved so far as flirting went.) The more you use it, the more powerful it becomes on that gender, but then, your spouse would react to you flirting with all the other shop keepers (and that reaction could be different for each individual - some might be jealous, some self-assured, some maybe willing to do a little swinging).

Don't make stuff up and speak for others, please.

There was not some overwhelming opposition to this before it was announced, and the topic did in fact come up multiple times between the announcement of the game and the feature being revealed. While threads would be flooded with posts, a large portion of those posts were from a small subset of people over and over again.

It's really a shame. I wasn't expecting much with relationships and marriage in the game, but the almost nothing at all in the end is fairly shocking to me. I'm sure mods will fix it, but it would be nice if Bethesda improves it as well. Just because you do not want something does not mean "nobody" wants it and that they should remove it.