No, romance is crap. Relationships like make friendships/enemies is good. But romance? Just sad. Go buy Sims, it does a better job on it.

Oh, come on, you seem to be a fellow who likes words and persuasion (from your other recent thread, at any rate). Surely you can do better than that tired old cliche 'Go buy Sims', which crops up again and again in these threads like a sad old beggar on the streets of the Imperial City, muttering his bitter mantra.

Why is romance crap? What sort of romance? Is all romance crap, in all media (books, films, TV, theatre) or only romance in computer games? If all romance is crap, then how come it has been written and talked about and included in works of fiction for at least hundreds, if not thousands of years? If it is only romance in computer games, then why is it impossible for a developer to improve upon the state of the craft and do the job better?

Come on, persuade us. Don't just present your personal dislike of romance as an infallible statement of it's worth :nono:.

Random six with strangers would be good (of the human variety, I like Argonains and everything but.......No), no better way to unwind after a long day killing Altmer.

Marriage would be good, being able to move in with your partner would give you a place to stash your stuff :celebration: .

I doubt kids though, I doubt there will be enough time in game...... Unless Nord women drop kids like rabbits

Don't know what everyone else will to but this is mine: Nothing. If anything, disable them with a home-brewed mod.

Probably pursuing relationships.
I doubt you'll be able to have kids though.



It's more like asking for a six scene in an R rated movie.
You know, Rated M for Mature isn't just a pretense.

Would you please stop asking for The Elder Scrolls V: Albion?

It would be so cool to fight a horde of bandits with a companion then after a glorious and bloody victory you start to make out and take off the armor/cloths slowly piece by piece while doing naughty things that shall not be described on this forum due to restrictions then... make love in the warm pools of blood of your enemies, then light a camp fire near a beautiful lake near by and do it all over again in the water to clean the stains of love and battle :hubbahubba:


hmmmm wow that would be hot

Pervert

I don't think violence and six go together, and I DEFINENTLY don't think six and video games go together (unless it is a linear game where it advances the plot)

Skyrim probably won't have a thirty year timeline like Arena, so you won't be able to raise children, unless Nords have a gestation period of a few weeks.

I didn't know having six getting married and having kids is what the tes games were all about I thought they were about adventure questing magic and all that other good stuff.but to tell you the truth I could give a rats ass about romance in video games to me it seems a little sad.

TES games are about role playing.
Roles that are shallow and only interact with others at face value are nothing compared to roles that can form relationships (romantic or otherwise) and develop them further.

I don't want my character to get any deeper than friends with benefits.

I don't have commitment issues at all, its just I, and therefore my character have decided to take a break from relationships.

Also, I don't expect Bethesda to make the relationships deep enough for me to even take them seriously.

lol

who said anything about children .... yuck :sick:

and six and violence go hand in hand, you just need to know the right amount of both at any given time :hubbahubba: and bonds that develop in battle can be very intense.....

I want to be able to get my Skyrim girlfriend pregnant and then be taken to Maury Povich when the baby is an Orc.

LOL

so weird now I saw your avatar and name and I get it (duh)

I don't mind if romances are in or not, my characters tend to be lone wanderers or emotionally distant theives. I wil give them a try though and see if partners aren't a liability or a very large commitment. Hmm... maybe like a sort of guardian angel or surprise visitor in the night relationship...

KIds are okay. They add to the game world, in realism and depth. As for six, marriage and relationships? No. That kind of stuff belongs in Fable. This isn't fable. It doesn't need that stuff. It wouldn't be TES of it did have it. I'm open to a lot of stuff, but this is like a biiiiig no for me. It just wouldn't fit. There's no other way to describe it. TES has always been a solitary journey, that is best experienced as an individual. To break that mold and give the player an entire family to look after, or a woman or man to go back to a see, or have six with periodically, is just not how TES works. SKyrim isn't meant to be a life simulator. It's an adventure. And as such, works better when it is the player, and the player alone, within the game world, making progress and exploring it.

Yet TES has done just fine without romance, marriage, kids, etc. in it's previous releases.

TES to me is all about adventuring in an open world, not being tied down to a relationship/family. Doesn't fit the game IMO.

People always seem to use to Fable as an example, even though Fable is neither the first game nor first Fantasy game to include six, nor even the same kind of game as TES.

Would you people say "THIS ISN'T FABLE" if they decided to have an optional dog for a pet (which looks like it will be implemented in Skyrim) or the ability to become fat if you drink 47 beers in a row?

I don't know why people hate romance in games

I love it in real life in games in books in EVERYTHING :hubbahubba: can't get enough

But, it's neither being forced upon you, nor changing the gaming world in a negative way.
It does fit the game, because it's a role playing game, and husband or boyfriend/wife or girlfriend are as much roles as wizard or thief are.

And you could say TES has done just fine without Dragon Shouts this whole time too, should we get rid of them as well? What about faces that don't look terrible?

Bethesda isn't going to make it so that if you get into a relationship with an NPC you'll have to live in their house and go shopping with them every week and get a steady job at the lumbermill. More likely than not the romance options will be other adventurers or perhaps people who don't mind scarce visits.

Well if it was introduced in Skyrim, it better not be forced upon you. That would be a massive mistake IMO.

Just because it's a role playing game, I don't think that necessarily means romance/relationships are a must have. Yeah it could be a nice little option for people that like that sort of thing, but it's not what TES has built it's reputation on either. You could add an infinite amount of options into the game with that kind of logic. Would they all work? Would they fit the lore? Would they enhance the game? Could this development time be better spent elsewhere? Can Beth pull off a well done relationship arc?

In my opinion, I don't think it's necessary. I don't see it working and if Beth do decide to add it, I hope it's done completely differently to every other RPG out there, as I haven't seen anyone doing it well.

the most natural thing for dovahkiin would probably have some fan girls after saving the world.....so six wouldn't be miss placed, but still completely out of place in this game....so no please

Introducing Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, now with mundane living performing menial tasks! Because your real life isn't boring enough already!!

Relationships, well, I prefer sticking to friendship at most. Perhaps a more "interesting" person than others, but not six or children. Maybe kissing, that's fine. I hope friends and such won't just hand things to you randomly, and if they do, very rarely. VERY rarely. Just having a person to chat with, rumors and gossip, is enough. Perhaps hear some interesting news regarding a place, or some sort of discovery. Hints of sorts.

If they suddenly just gave me their heirloom because "I'm a nice guy", that would be...weird. Sure, I'm a good friend, but really? That would feel like cheap way to just get friends, to drain them of treasures.