Who says we need to spend the whole game dungeon crawling and smashing skulls? What if we could join a dating service as a faction? You would be tasked with connecting the lonely hearts of Skyrim. Tasks would include arranging meetings between people and convincing the of the merits of the other person, also you'd have to track down exotic flowers and other gifts etc.

You join the fighters guild to boost you weapon & armour skills

You join the mages guild to boost your magic skills.

I propose a matchmakers guild to boost skills like speechcraft.

Would you play this?

If I was the Dragonborne, and the end of the world was nigh, matchmaking would be very low on my to do list. Also, I am pretty sure most Nords would have no need for it.

Very true sir. But let me ask you this. The smoke has cleared the dragons are slain and you've stopped the apocalyps. What now?

So we're coming up with random guilds now, are we? .... It sounds fun and I'd play it if someone modded it --- but asking to waste Beth's precious time on it in the time before release? No thanks.




You... go pick flowers?

I'm going to Vatnaj?kull Land! :celebration:


As for speechcraft, that would seem to fall under the Thieves' Guild.

well if you saved the world, you wouldnt need to join a matchmaking service, you are bow a revered hero and probably rich , I would build my ow castle..then continue to do what nords do best....drink ale and smack things with ma axe

I'm...going to DisneyLand?

If I had just saved the entire world and were a legendary hero, I couldn't get involved in a matchmaking guild even if I wanted to - all the members of the opposite six would be after me instead of whomever I was supposed to set them up with. I would then regretfully have to dedicate myself to tasks that are more suited to my legendary powers.

Obviously just for the lols. This far out all we really have is speculation. For all we know they could have decided to add this exact feature in an effort to create diversity in the game.

Beer o'clock, off to the pub.

Im sorry but i cant see where match making would fit in between saving the world and trying to not get yourself killed. Im sorry but i dont like idea of spending time and money into making an match making guild.

So you like knockin about killing stuff? That's fine. I personally get sick of the hack n slash every now and then. I just thought it'd be nice to do something......nice......for a change. Obviously if your RPing a Khajit assasin you're prolly gonna give it a miss.

Quite simple sir. You destroy it!!

Pretty standard part of the whole heroes "save and/or destroy the world" business.

Well in Oblivion you can take a sabbatical from saving the rapidly collapsing Empire to compete in the Arena championships, so why not this? Buying Nord ladies a dozen blue roses and a wasabi cocktail might be fun. A bit Dragon Age-y, mind.

If there was something that took the spirit of the idea, perhaps not a matchmaking guild but a wide range of everyday people type quests would be great, kind of like the Less Generic NPC project for Morrowind.

I avoid the main quest lines anyway so something to break up the monotony of the hack and slash would be welcome.

I'd set up an Argonian with a Khajiit. Now those would be some freaky offspring.

"i-r-am heroz, wey needz da mathmak fur suprheroh ?"

This is why we can′t have RPG′s these days. Do people even consider what the two letters "R" and "P" stand for ? To clarify it′s "role" and "play", you know, like role-playing, as in playing a role.

RPG's are not about random encounters, they are not about dice rolls, they are not about saving the world as a hero, they are about creating a role for yourself to play as, be it that you wish to play as a simple farmer, a humble bard or even a divine knight.

Here is a simple yet pure example of an RPG.

http://www.choiceofgames.com/dragon/

You don′t get to chose a race here but there have to be some limits sometimes, like even in TES you have to play as a humanoid, no avoiding that. But this game is about the choices you make, your character get better at areas it practices and it has an impact on how you perform when making certain choices, but the main thing is that you choose what you role-play as.

Will you be a tyrant ruler ? An honorable king, a smart dragon, a weak dragon, a brutish dragon, a honorable dragon... and so on and so on.

I′d love to see a matchmaker guild in some TES game, it means options and I′m all for option, I′m not saying that I′m against arguing against such a guild, there are many valid reasons for there not to be a matchmaking guild.

You being the "dragonborn" and the "hero" is not one of them, if so then we may as well categorize the game as a pure adventure game removing the RP-title, because that is what it would be without the option of playing your own role, being your own personality, making your own choices.

Sorry if I sound rude and bitter, it′s probably because I am bitter about the decline in RPG′s, they are vanishing and while people who want adventure games and hack and slash games have hundreds of choices when it comes to picking a game in the genre they like, they still wish to change the few remaining RPG′s to suit their needs, and that makes me boil a little how people want there to be 0 games for people like me who like RPG′s just so that they can add a few games to their own favorite genres that already have a ton of good titles for their own genre, I think it′s fair that the RPG genre gets at least one or two games per decade when every other genre gets even up to a hundred titles per decade, there is no need to convert the few remaining RPG titles into other genres.

Would be interesting if there were like 6 people in the world who are looking for someone and you just have to meet them all and then give your recommendation to create positive or negative encounters.

TES V: The Dating Sim? :sick:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxvdvoQgAy8

Not me.

how about a more extreme version of that guild?

not even gunna go there......

He doesnt need a matchmaker, he is Dovakiin, Dragonborn and all the ladies will fawn over him like the godly piece of man that he is.

But playing Cupid and pulling the strings of mortals making them dance to the tune of love seems like a good idea for a daedric shrine quest, just make sure you have the right arrows equiped otherwise things could get messy.

Matchmaker, Matchmaker,
Make me a match,
Find me a find,
catch me a catch
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Look through your book,
And make me a perfect match :yucky:

You mean like that one quest in Tribunal? It's one of those things that would be nice but is definitely VERY low on the to-do list of the devs. They've more important concerns.

No.