User blog comment:The Milkman/Skyrim's Smorgasbord of Shortcomings/@comment-66716-20120818180241

I agree with so much of this. I really wish they had put more into the marriage aspect if they were going to include it. I get it's not vital to the game, but a little RP in a game that's supposed to be an RP would be nice. I decided when I started my second character, I was going to marry Angrenor Once-Honored. I liked the idea of helping the guy get into a better place after he was let down after being injured during the war. However to win his affection, you need only give him a single Septim. Not much romance. When you marry him, he doesn't get new clothes. He still wears his tattered beggars clothes, and shoes that his toes peek out of, even though he's married to the Dragonborn who has more clothes, armor, and weapons in storage than she knows what to do with. There is no way *at least on the 360* to give him new clothes. I also can still give him 1 Gold when I talk to him, even though he doesn't need it. He's making 200 a day with his shop. It seems spouses never sleep, either. On both characters, I have yet to catch my spouse in bed so I can join them.

I willingly failed the first Thieves Guild mission when I found out that the elf is never let out of prison, and thus I lose a vendor to sell off my crap to. Especially when I found out there was another quest he is involved in, I figured I didn't want him thrown in jail. I'm supposed to be evil on this character, yet I kept a man out of prison.

Other than the occasional "You're not supposed to be here!" from Lydia, my followers never care what I'm doing. Lydia has watched me steal numerous times, and has watched me brutally murder an innocent simpleton without ever seeming to care. I sneak around and steal anything pretty I find and she just follows me, and then holds my stolen loot when I get too weighed down.

I love this game,but so much could be improved on. I haven't seen what changes have or haven't been made with the new DLC, can't afford to get it yet, but I'm guessing it won't be much in the way of change in a lot of areas. Just more quests to do and more difficulty keeping people alive during vampire attacks same as with the dragon attacks.