Do you know why I love The Elder Scrolls? For one thing, it escapes from so many fantasy tropes. Wood elves aren't hippy dippy rays of sunshine, but vicious little savages with a history of cannibalism and murdering monarchs in Skyrim. Dark elves, while a little xenophobic, aren't evil and are often laudable for their honor and tenacity. High elves, on the other hand, are racial supremacists with a knack for eugenics and infanticide. This aside, I also love how the series really pushes the envelope. Arena had a half-naked woman on its cover, Morrowind debuted the erotic Lusty Argonian Maid, and Skyrim featured same-six marriage and Viagra (remember Stallion's Potion). The sketchy is thick in the air and I love it. That being said, I played ESO enough to stumble across a brothel in Stonefalls. As I watched a Dunmer woman punishing a man tied to a post in the basemant (I like to call it "Fifty Shades of Gray Quarter"), I started to wonder: how cool would it be to have prosttutes in all the TES games? GTA can get away with it, so why not TES? That strawman aside, I think it would add some realism to the game if the player could engage in a little romance, albeit censored. I loved Skyrim, but I felt like my Dovahkin was asixual the entire time and the Lover's Comfort buff was laughable. So here's what I'm suggesting:

1. prosttutes and brothels

2. The ability for the player to seduce and/or become a prosttute (It would be a fun thing to do to pass through early levels)

3. Having to actually ASK your lover to come to bed before you get Lover's Comfort.

4. A few low key inuendos

Please, give me something edgy. If I wanted a soft core, kid-friendly rpg, I'd go play Wizard101.

I really don't think so.

Rabbit

lol

Anyways, not that I disagree with you entirely (Can we at least hug our spouses? A kiss? No?), but did you really look in the games? There's the House of Earthly delights in a Morrowind city (I forget the name Suran! That's the name!) and Boethiah's pillow book, the Fo'c'sle in Oblivion, Haelga's Bunkhouse and the Temple of Dibella along with all the lowkey innuendo in Skyrim (which followed into ESO keeping the Breton stereotype alive)

I think the series does it well for the most part. It's not too in-your-face and ridiculous though I wish the other games would follow ESO's example. So rare to see a loving couple in the games that aren't also dead/die--which is why hearing Sigrid and Alvor's idle conversations in Riverwood is a cute treat to the ears.

"Sigrid! Love of my life! When you get a spare moment, I could use some water."
"Don't you sweet talk me, Alvor. Not after last night. I'll bring you water when I'm done with my other chores."
"Woman, you'll be the death of me yet. Fine, take your time. I'll just die of thirst in the heat of this forge."

First off how the hell would prostitution be edgy? It's really not a trend or experimental. Secondly GTA gets MASSIVE amounts of criticism for prostitution by certain groups all the time, literally every release. Thirdly the Altmer don't practice eugenics or infanticide that was nothing but a statement with no grounding created by one of Reman's ambassadors. It's also worth noting that the first PGE is filled with inaccuracies and propaganda.

Now onto the subject at hand, prostitution and brothels makes perfect sense for the elder scrolls, so much sense Morrowind, Oblivion and skyrim already had them and brothels and prostitution is referenced in many sources in lore.

ow the edge.

But in all honesty though...ehhhhhh. We know that they're going to exist in-universe, that's a given. Do they need to be depicted in-game though? Maybe, but there's a huge http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Narmfactor that plays into it where it doesn't quite...work. Its something you don't see pulled off in games well at all. Like if there are characters who are/were involved in prostitution, yeah, I think that works. New Vegas had a few characters like that, and it worked pretty well for what it was supposed to do. Shows us that yes, those people exist, but it isn't completely in your face about it. Any more then that though and you get into a huge cringe fest that is poorly executed and awkward.

After the removal of Personality, romance became impossible. Unless its tied to attributes, maybe a quest, and one's hygiene, I don't see the feature being at all compelling. The npc we'd get would always be static - a slave to our whims might as well be a mute pin-cushion - since an independent-minded NPC, with it's own standards and checklists, wouldn't be tolerated...

No thanks. It all sounds like a Sims game. Not a fan of the implementation of marriage (real or fantasy). Don't want it in rl, why would I want it in my friggn vidya game? Plus its just so... gay to love a blob of pixels.