Marriage Life

[Crout]

Hii

You've probably already planned for this but JUST IN CASE I thought I would bring it up for discussion. Characters after marriage are so boring. They will say the same line every day and it is only a small step up from how they were while dating. It just seems all around like so far the devs have been really lazy about how things are after marriage. For goodness sake they don't even have pajamas when they are sleeping it is just their every day clothes! It doesn't feel intimate even after going through all of the courting to get to that point. I hope for the future in some update you can tweak this a bit. Maybe add in missions and things you can only do with certain characters after marriage? Perhaps have an option for them to be able to fight or level up with you in dungeons? And i'm not sure if you ever considered putting kids in the game but that could be an interesting take as well like in rune factory and harvest moon. It just eventually becomes so blah when you are supposedly going through years in this town and none of the characters really go through any changes. Idk something to think about.

[Crout]

OH AND FOR AN EXAMPLE

My first marriage was to Gust. I was hoping that when we got married he would tone down his over bearing love for his sister JUST.A.SINGLE.NOTCH but no...us getting married had no affect on his following her around everywhere and sleeping with her in the grass by the water at 1 AM! He wasn't even that nice to me during the marriage, he would wake up and hate on the wallpaper and change it like 3 times a week (never allowing me to get mine back!!) and sometimes throw money my way.

After divorce I decided to go for Arlo. My hopes were that his personality would shine through after marriage at least better than Gust's but nope. Still essentially a stranger that just stays in my house sometimes lol.

Like can we at leassstt get date options or SOMETHING different after marriage? And maybe even have to build things for the ceremony or choose a dress? It was like a wake up, 8 sec cut scene and done kinda deal. *shrug*

My thing is, you can add all the new dungeons, weapons, and events you want but if at the base of the game the characters are still inpersonable and bland like when you've accomplished everything no one will want to stick around.

[Adesanya]

I would be happy if Mint went to work for the mayor .... I worked hard to build his office FFS LOL

[JVC]

Originally posted by indie.author.extraordinaire:

I would be happy if Mint went to work for the mayor .... I worked hard to build his office FFS LOL

To be fair, isn't Mint's office one of the last bits of last month's content? It would seem likely that the developers just haven't got to adding his "workday" yet.

[Adesanya]

Granted ...... I' looking forward to it. though LOL

[AsianGirlLover]

I can see where you’re coming from, OP, but Gust’s overbearing love for his sister prob ain’t going away because

1. She has a unique disease and rather than let Russo or someone else watch her, Gust feels compelled to protect her himself

2. This is just great rule 34 material waiting to happen

[Akio]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

2. This is just great rule 34 material waiting to happen

Oh no.

[Inzu]

Totally agree that life after marriage in the game is fairly blah .

I'd like to see more care given to spouses. Different clothes, added quests. Dialogue changes.

Add a marriage gauge that measures the happiness of your spouse. Have them request things. Reasonable and unreasonable. Certain spouses might be crazy difficult to keep happy. Add some achievements.

Congratulations ! You got the "Angry Spouse" achievement !

That might be too much like RL . :P

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by Inzu:

Add a marriage gauge that measures the happiness of your spouse. Have them request things. Reasonable and unreasonable. Certain spouses might be crazy difficult to keep happy.

That’d just turn the game’s marriage system into Fable’s: where people didn’t love you for who you are, but what you owned and how rich you were.

“Darling, I demand you get me 5,000 leather pouches or else you’re a terrible spouse and I’ll hate you forever.”

Yeah, no problem - here’s those leather pouches you wanted” *hands divorce papers*

[Tarti-Fleet]

Originally posted by Inzu:

Totally agree that life after marriage in the game is fairly blah . :P

Its for the RL coherence :D

[Cathy]

The only reason to get married at this point is for the achievements, and even then you have to divorce and re-marry. If you want a helper, Ack has that covered. Generally speaking, the spouse is almost as annoying as Pinky.

[Adesanya]

I suppose I disagree because I marry Mint ... who has no perks associated with him and IMNSHO is the best srorywise. He gives me the occasional gift in the morning, but otherwise doesn't lift a finger at home.

[Dread]

Well ... u all seem deceived by marriage ... and i totally agree. I married Ginger, and now .. she's in my house, turning in circles at the door. Amazing. I would pray for just her to sit in a sofa, doing something, this would be something at least :p

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by Dread:

Well ... u all seem deceived by marriage ... and i totally agree. I married Ginger, and now .. she's in my house, turning in circles at the door. Amazing. I would pray for just her to sit in a sofa, doing something, this would be something at least :p

Unfortunate glitch, but may I recommend you get footage next time and add this to the background? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NCsD-mEUB0c

Perhaps slowly zoom into her face and those lifeless eyes

Video title: Ginger Died and now She’s Haunting my House