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Jun 15, 2011 - 7:57 am

The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim: Bethesda follows Bioware’s lead in RPG romance

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Many Bioware RPG titles have varying levels of romance and friendship elements. This makes for more depth in otherwise standard RPG storylines. Not one to miss a trend, Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim is going to incorporate player-NPC romantic and evolving friendship angles in its storylines.

Come to think of it, this announcement is not that surprising considering that the Elder Scrolls series has always prided itself on its attention to realistic details, story depth, and game play word interaction. What a better way to interact with the player/NPC world than emotional elements, right? It appears that the level of emotional depth, Bethesda is planning for The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim will be quite more robust than the cartoonish and shallow short shrift NPC romance gets in other developers’ RPG titles. This is a welcome addition to the repertoire of an established RPG title.

Screenshot of The Elder Scrolls 5 - Skyrim (Credit: Bethesda Softworks)

Screenshot of The Elder Scrolls 5 - Skyrim (Credit: Bethesda Softworks)

Expect a deep, nuanced, and fully engaged incorporation of emotional elements. The developers of the Elder Scrolls series don’t half step (just look at their graphics and design evolution).  There’s no reason to think they’ll start now. We can’t wait to see how this new element plays out when The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim is finally released.

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  • sage

    Thanks BioWare, very thanks…

  • fatso mcgee

    Is this article satire? I honestly can’t tell.

  • McGiggity

    Source?

  • Toggaf

    >Come to think of it, this announcement is not that surprising considering that the Elder Scrolls series has always prided itself on its attention to realistic details, story depth, and game play word interaction
    This made me laugh so hard.
    10/10 would read again

  • Madis

    Welp, gaming is done. Let’s dumb down every title, remove features, those pesky numbers and add shitty romances and F-grade virtual pornography so that the regular, normal people can just pick up the controller and press x repeatedly… I miss the days when gaming wasn’t mainstream and developers strived towards adding more gameplay features, complex and challenging gameplay mechanics and attention to detail. These days it’s just “streamlining” (read: taking out all the challenge and requirement to actually think) and adding superfluous shit that’s transforming gaming more and more into interactive fucking movies. YOU PRESS A BUTTON, SOMETHING AWESOME HAPPENS

    • Femegade

      @Madis
      You sound like an idiot. Adding a feature like this in an immersive RPG makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is not doing it sooner. They are giving you the choice. You are not forced into it. Basically… don’t like like it, don’t do it. It’s much less realistic to prohibit you from having this option.

  • ISD

    Indeed, give us a source. And not that vague german article.

  • Zinfandel

    Wow, that’s great news! Just imagine the emotional depth of Beth dialogue: It might even be deeper than Bioware’s dialogue which already is really emotionally deep. Can’t wait:

    1.) Fucky fucky?
    2.) Wanna be my freind?
    3.) Who are you?
    4.) Seen a mudcrab today?

    Yeaaahhh!

    Just kidding…

  • Haydn

    @Madis
    Really?, your complaining about all that on a small article about the possible addition of romances and friendships in an already AMAZING sounding game to make it more immersive and realistic. Oh and by the way, if your games are just quote ‘YOU PRESS A BUTTON, SOMETHING AWESOME HAPPENS’ you may want to try turning the difficulty up…

  • Hilary

    Oh, so looking forward to this. I hope it’s true. See, the thing is, if you don’t like relationships in game stories, then that’s okay – you don’t have to participate in them. But let the people who do like them have the option :) It’s a win for everybody :)

  • Jacob

    I honestly can’t wait to try out all of the different romances, both hetero and homo. I saw an article a bit ago explaining how you could even have relationships with the Dark Brotherhood, which will be my first choice :D To be honest though, Bethesda works have had a little issues in the past and even now, in the demo I saw. Combat will be a little weird, and your characters head won’t bob if you walk, but all in all, good game.

  • Lupe

    lol how should that skyrim romance look like?? :P ironically i’m just thinking about one thing xD

  • TinieT

    haha there is also a gay romance possible in skyrim xD

  • Marmal

    how can i get married or at least a romance??? sounds pretty interesting to me^^

  • DragonHunter

    who wants to get a romance with me in skyrim??? i’m single! :P i really want to try that out^^