How much will relationships affect interaction with other people?

I was hoping that since there will be kids and more attractive women it would be possible to get married, have six, and have kids.

I was also hoping that you could make friends that will give you thing randomly or help you with quests.

Or maybe determine whether someone would steal from you attack you give you discounts, not steal from you, help you in fights, cheer for you when you duel someone...

Why the yellow?

But anyway, if there is six, it will (hopefully) fade to black, as a cutscene would be tacky and unnecesary.


EDIT: Skyrims timeline probably won't be long enough to have kids

No marriage, random six is okay, no kids. Help with quests would only get in my way, and the last bit is good imo.

There's not going to be any marriage or pregnancies. Maybe six.

Kinda like asking for a six scene in a PG-13 animated movie...What good will it do?

Relationships seem like a good plan though, but that is more Fable and less Elder Scrolls.

Good point with the kids cause having to wait 9 months would be a bad idea and it would be dumb if they were born in a day, though they could make a small animation like in Assassin's creed 2 or brotherhood, and with modding i can guarantee someone will make a mod like that

LOL! Its so funny and sixist when you say that good looking female NPCs = possibility to have six in game. Whats even funnier is that you may even think this is Bethesda's thought process.

I guarantee there already is a mod for oblivion like that..


I do say no for the marriage though and having kids. It's not worth the time it takes to develope it, imo.

For some reason, the phrase "Don't count on it" comes to mind.

That, and considering it took some major work for me to keep one character going for two in-game years, why would I want to spend the first year getting married and getting some so I could leave a spouse stuck at home with an 11-month-old by the time I finished the game? :shrug:

If i can have a wife i just hope she isn't lying on a beach with Valen Dreth

Skyrim is not Fable.

If I had a nickel...

But on topic, for the sixy six, what else? I can't see Beth doing marriage or children...

First of all LOOOL to that, and second of all apparently relationships are confirmed, I'm not sure if it's legit info or the result of a bad translation for Google translate. I'm very curious on how dispositions work in Skyrim, how do you make friends ins Skyrim? I hope it isn't like Morrowind and Oblivion but a lot more realistic and meaningful. I want to take time gettting close with NPCs and actually caring about them.

In the handful of months of in-game time that you play your character? Wow, you move fast.


Ignoring the whole "Beth / TES games don't really have the depth of character & story needed to have a 'relationship' even as shallow as the ones in Bioware games" issue...... unless you're playing a game with lots of timeskips, stuff like marriage & kids doesn't make any sense. The vast majority of people won't even play a character long enough in-game for a kid to be born (9 months), let alone grow up. These aren't "and 10 years passed" style games.

I think marriage and having kids could work. Perhaps, pregnancy could last a month of ingame time, rather than 9 months. I could see it, though I'm fairly certain it won't be in.

And on another relationship note, I think it would be cool if you could go have a few ales with a buddy at the local tavern.

How about asking for a six scene in an NC-17 rated movie - which is the equivalent rating to Skyrim's (probable) 'M' rating? I mean, it would make more sense to say "Kinda like asking for a six scene in an advlt-rated war movie... what good will it do?" And the answer is, "It depends on the movie." Depending on what sort of game Skyrim is, it could either act as a storytelling device to give the hero some human emotional depth and some motivation for his/her actions; or it could be cheap and embarrassing titillation for the more... juvenile members of the audience :shrug:.


Well that almost goes without saying . Bethesda have never included family, and damn near nothing by way of friendship or romance in previous ES games, I doubt that's changing any time soon.

I do vaguely recall that NPCs opinions (friendly, un-friendly, indifferent) of the PC will have more influence on their behaviour, and will be used by the semi-dynamic quest system, but I doubt it'll go beyond that. A shame, in my opinion, as I think that at least an action-adventure style romance could be fun and would make the game world feel a bit less empty and indifferent.

But I agree, family (in the sense of having and raising kids) wouldn't work.

I didn't really like how people gave you random stuff in FO3 and NV. *Hello, here a stimpack!* It's a bit ridiculous...

The friends helping you with quests would be cool, but the quests should be harder or it won't be much of use.
I would really like to see more "social networking",because it makes the roleplaying a lot more realistic.

I just want some GTA style six

hope modders can make some pretty hot scenes

in MW we had a mod that gave us "slaves" that did whatever we wanted, that was a pretty cool mod, but hope we can have much more interesting companions this time around

I still don't believe it, and i won't untill Bethesda actually confirms it. I think the german website is either lying or has misunderstood something.



No it's not. Skyrim is expected to be rated Mature.

You will definitely be able friends, that will unlock benefits. Those relationships can possibly include romances, with cutscened implied six, but marriage, six scenes and kids will definitely not be in it.

There was a romance in Morrowind, and there's plenty of talk about six in Oblivion, or at least talking dirty. But you can forget about porm mate.

Nevermind, I thought the seond page was the first page and the above post was the OP

I hope that relationships don't get too in-depth or at least affecting third party NPCs. I don't want to have a random NPC supposedly become smitten with my character and kill one of my companions out of jealousy.

Elder Scrolls 6: Days of our Lives

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