Now that I'm back from being banned, I want to ask the community as to what their opinions are on how far we should push relationships in this next beautiful edition to TES.
I feel we should have relationships in the game but keep them at limits. I think you should be able to do stuff with friends and go places with them like in GTA. I think you should
be able to choose to go into a deeper relationship with characters if you want. I understand that some people don't want this in the game, but honestly why not? I think it would
add an extra and optional component to the game that a good chunk of the community might like. I don't think there should be anything stupid like six or dirty talk if that's what
you're thinking, but I do think that you should be able to develop stronger relationships with certain characters than just friends.

Where do you stand in this argument?

... women... can't live with them, can't shoot them..

I've never really paid too much attention to relationships. Like in the Sims, my characters would always have no friends so I don't see why it would be any different in Skyrim.

Anything that is more intuitive than fable 2 or 3 in that area would be a welcome addition. Gay relationships ftw though

I'm all for fully eclipsing relationships but Bethesda's writing team... Does not have the ability. Character's are all about the dialogue rather than just the story behind them, and I have not seen evidence that Bethesda's gotten any better at dialogue since Morrowind. To be romantically involved with an NPC would be cool, as well as deciding what companions are your favorites, but my guessing is it's going to be one huge homogeneous mess of one or two dimensional characters represented merely by one backstory fact and a fighting style.

In the Sims, don't you need to have friends as part of the 'social' need or whatever it is (haven't played since the first Sims, lol)?

But I think relationships would be nice, maybe open new dialogue options when you have a high enough speechcraft or improve their disposition.

No,Simply no.

Friends is okay,but I really don't want to play happy families.

I'm really not fussed about romantic relationships at all, but I am really interested in how the companion factor will play out. I loved them in F:NV, as I felt you could really connect (depending on your character), and there was enough depth there to make me want to keep them around. However, IIRC it was mentioned somewhere that the devs were willing to sacrifice a bit of depth if it meant a higher quantity of companions, which I didn't like the sound of so much.
I just don't see the appeal in romantic relationships in a game like this - platonic relationships can be just as deep and meaningful, and I think they just tend to come off as more believable in games like this - anything romantic in videogames tends to make me cringe a bit, I don't know why. Maybe because you can't capture the tiny intimacies of a real relationship in the course of a game like this? I don't know. I'll admit that I haven't played many games with a romantic aspect at all, so maybe it has been done brilliantly and I just haven't played it yet. Let me know if that's the case.

You cant mention grand theft auto on the SKYRIM forum and expect me to take you seriously

ye why not you should even get special "favor's" like in gta4. maby get a discount if you're friends with a shop owner, free training or make it so you can only get certin quests after you have someone like you enough.

ah yes.
very helpful post by this gentleman right here.

hear the sarcasm?

Well I've only played the game for a bit - what did you get from the game which would contribute towards a meaningful, believable relationship? Because I didn't get anything positive out of it in that respect, although admittedly I haven't played it all the way through.

I could care less about romance. What I do want is more meaningful and useful friendships. The only purpose to a friend in Oblivion was that they would tell you more information if you needed something. At least now in Skyrim, they will offer you a bed if you happen to be in town, but I think BGS could take it a step further. Whether they are helping you on quests (not necessarily companions), perhaps giving you access to new weapons/armor, there could be a lot of interesting things BGS could mess around with. I just think besides main characters, dialogue interactions should be more fulfilling and beneficial to the player. Otherwise, most of the NPCs will be irrelevant in terms of needing to know them.

Yaaaaaayyyy. Here we go again with the relationship thing.

Where do I stand on relationships? My answer is: NO. That's right. I know it's not a yes or no question. My answer is still: NO.

Why? I don't want devs scripting MY relationships.

kthxbai.

Yes! Meaningful friendships in games have much more of an impact on me than romances ever do.

I would like to have a "relationship" not in the romantic sense but in the sense that you actually care about the person. I think in Red Dead Redemption, John Marston's relationship with Bonnie Mcfarlane was perfect, it wasn't romantic at all but the dev's made you care about the character. That is my opinion, at least.

Why not?

GTA IV does many things well, probably the best thing in the game is the story which is bound up in the NPC's.
If there could be one thing that you could take from GTA IV and put into TES V it would be the way that your character interacts with a smallish number of "friends" who have more developed personalities than the rest of the NPC drones.

Though it would be an awesome easter egg if I could hire a merc from the fighters guild who said "Alright Dovahkiin lets go put some [censored]es to the sword! VIP style! Genetically different baby!" I think I would die laughing...

(Delete please.)

That is sooo clever.

Think how clever you'll be when you're IQ is larger than your shoe size.

~ Dani ~

this made me laugh hard.
well done sir, very nice burn!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

No

People here are more about the: "Rawrrr, I killz da Dragonz and I am Dovakiinz, da bestest man/women out there, I kill stuff for funz and fon't carez aboutz everything elses, killz, killz, killz...roar."

Don't expect them to take all these ideas seriously. All they want to do is slay dragons and kill monsters and level up. /sigh

I think the idea of relationship should stay out of Skyrim and TES all at once. That stuff is fro Dragon Age and Fable.

Yeah.

I always like deep NPC interaction, but only if it's something the writers are motivated to do. Otherwise it can be cheesy and bad.

STOP

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1179170-could-love-bloom-in-skyrim/page__hl__romance
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1178852-romance/page__hl__romance
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1178043-romance/page__hl__romance
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1178697-families-and-relations/page__p__17440871__hl__romance__fromsearch__1#entry17440871

And oh look... here's one from you too.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1178236-relationships-are-a-game-maker/page__hl__romance

A mod even locked yours because there are already numerous threads like it. Why would you make another when she gave you a perfectly good link to everyone's opinions which you are so clearly interested in. Did you learn nothing from being banned? If you want to add your two cents into those threads, be my guest but how many topics are you going to rehash before you're satisfied?