Examples of it done bad: > Skyrim Marry some retard for a mammoth task. Can adopt potato kid w/ no personality. Spouse gives you pocket change and worthless food once a week. > Stardew Valley Marry random painter chick. Fun romance quests working way up to marriage. Marry. She just stands around and you give her some weeds you found a couple of times a week. Maybe have kid w/ no personality.
Why can't games make marriage a good mechanic? HOW DO WE make it a good/interesting mechanic w/o it just being a sex-sim.
I more meant the stuff you get for marrying into families and such, but you aren't wrong haha
Benjamin Evans
As long as the romance plots and general character interactions are good I don't think implementing marriage even needs to be considered.
Nathan Martin
The biggest problem with Skyrim I think comes from the NPCs themselves not the marriage mechanic.
Grayson Cruz
>Spouse is optional party member/companion >If non combatant, spouse manages base/shop/some other property that requires once in a while interaction >After marriage you no longer need to maintain relationship bar, but there are still enough new interactions that change based on the story or what's happening in the game instead of just two lines being repeated every-time you talk to her.
I guess.
Jason Lopez
jake?
Aiden Long
> have to come home periodically and fuck your wife or else she becomes the town cum dumpster.
Caleb Davis
>how to make it good/interesting AAA studio budget graphics of explicit sex with harems and incredible writing with pages of dialogue
Zachary Price
Yeah, though maybe having it give more boosts would be nice.
I'm still mad you can't marry the outlaw archery lady.
Christian Roberts
interactive VR sex scenes with your waifu consoles start to feature connectible fleshlight-like peripheral fully immersive VR sex with your in-game wife
Logan Phillips
It's not just the NPCs either, it's just the type of game that skyrim is. Skyrim is fundamentally a game about killing shit, and marriage really just doesn't fit into the game at all.
Joshua Jenkins
After Marriage events
Juan Bailey
This. Make married life exciting and eventful.
Benjamin Gray
i would avoid obtaining buffs by marrying/dating a specific character, that way you risk to make some waifu options worse than others. If you want to give buffs, make them global for all waifu choices.
Like others said, don't end the quest chain of that character at their marriage, a marriage in real life can still be fucked by doing the wrong things. Just don't make the bride become a statue after a while.
Rune factory marriage >Spouse can be a party member >sometimes have unique mechanics >If not recruited, they stay home and make food or trinkets >If they're shop managers you get some special stuff
Colton Rogers
Just like my ntr doujins
Thomas Thomas
Post games or VNs that don't blueballs me on relationships like Persona 4 does.
There is most of the DQ games that handled it well, mostly V since the fact of the MC getting married is literally a focal plot point of the game, also: >the wife is a playable character in party taht can be quite useful >she give a passive buff to your team basing of which of the three girls have chosen >the three girls have different personalities (even if not that much explored) and give some good and unique interactions >the 2 twins will have the hair colors of the mother
Joseph Ward
Otacon approve (literally, since he canonically NTR his own father with his stepmother.... Even if she was the one who seduced and abused him)
Jason Jenkins
Trails in the Sky has a very satisfying resolution for its core relationship but it takes almost 2 full games that are about 60 hours each to get there. It was really great though, it was the culmination of so much time spent with the characters.
Landon Evans
I should probably note given the thread, it's not a marriage. Just a well executed romance story, which is a real rarity in games.
Chase Perry
What I want is more romantic rivals like in Harvest Moon, to make the relationships seem less static. Plus this way you also see extra scenes and character development for the girls you don't date.
Jose Garcia
>Examples of it done bad: >> Skyrim Skyrim is unironically one of the most accurate portrayals of marriage to ever appear in video games. The only thing they get wrong is nobody adopts kids when you can have your own. I know what your problem is. You're a weeb and you've bought into the weebshit portrayal of human relations. Just stick to the weebshit.
Austin Miller
Well there's two situations I can see where marriage is a suitable mecahnic for the game involed: 1. Life simulators, e.g. the Sims, Harvest Moon. In those types of games marriage is simply a logical step in the relationship aspect of the sim. The purpose it serves the player is mostly just about being able to craft your stories in teh game.
2. Games with some kind of "dynasty" mechanic, e.g. crusader kings. In these marriage is about binding together different branches of families to unite their resources and is more of a diplomatic contract rather than "for love".
Owen Jackson
Make it so you fall in love with your wife.
Bentley Williams
"We had sex" is usually the the reward (and often the end) for successfully pursuing a romance in videogames when it actually should be more of a milestone.
Angel Jones
Ah yes, totally realistic that marriage has absolutely no effect on either the bride or the groom and that one's spouse is only capable of saying a grand total of about 5 or so lines.
Ryder Flores
Yep. It's pretty much normal for spouses to barely ever talk to one another unless there's a problem with money or the kids.
Ethan Martin
>married couples never bicker about meaningless bullshit It's hilarious that you accuse weebs of not understanding human relationships you autist.
Angel Cox
The character you marry becomes a fully playable character, Having their own side-quests and minigames.
Dominic Flores
Marriage in games should only exist for tragedy or minmaxing
Henry Wright
Your parents didn't really hate each other. They hated you. You were a disappointment. Nobody wants a weeb for a kid. They took it out on each other to protect you.
Joshua Miller
Marriage is just a legal process. There's nothing interesting it would add from a gameplay perspective.
