Sorry for bringing this back up. Just feel like I need to answer these since I couldn't when the topic was going on.
I on the other hand agree with Gaider marriage and kids are best left to fanfiction.
marriage and especially kids are a lot harder to depict well however.
If it was optional, would you care? Or if it was tied to the story of one of the LIs?
oh i see thank you for the insight
No problem.
Maby for someone this kind of options are needed to add more depth to game experience. And in some way, it could be true. But is a very dangerous field to step on. This kind of dialogues and situations are not so easy to arrange, especially with a lot of characters in the game and several possibilities. You have to make still somthing beliveable, so the risk of making all very stupid and unnatural is very high. The marriage usually comes after a long relationship, this means at least a few years as a couple before the rings. For example, if the game's story cover a short narrative time arch, dont you think that maby a marriage with an npc is a little strange?
There are many people who get married within several months to a year of meeting each other, yet have successful marriages so not really. And this isn't a medieval world which is currently undergoing a possible end of the world event.
Oh certainly, but the marriage part at least only needs to be one scene and specific dialogue referring to it from that point in the game onwards. It would work as just another way to do a romance path at the end of the day. Which is what we were trying to say in that ill-fated thread... so I don't know if we need to repeat it all here, now.
Some people get married quicker than others though, especially if there is a war/imminent destruction situation going on. I mean, the romances in DAO are pretty fast going by some measures.
Exactly. One small cutscene and a few different pieces of dialogue is all that's needed for it to work really.
Yeah, Bioware games tend to have couples get to that level fast. ME1 and ME2 take place in a couple to a few months, and ME3 being the longest was at about 6 months. DAO took place within a year.
It may not have an epilogue, but it will have content you cannot complete until after the main storyline is finished. so the game will doubtlessly continue onwards into DLC. The ending won't be nearly as final as DA:O, but hopefully more final than DAII. Epilogues, I agree are unlikely, though. But I haven't put much stock in Epilogues anyway, not since Bioware brought Anders back from the dead. Epilogues are nice, but the devs have shown a willingness to throw them out. After all, their story plans change. They call the Epilogues 'rumors' now, I think.
Cassandra-wise, though, I wonder what she'll do once the Breach is closed and the Elder One is gone(for now?). I know, we don't know what kind of world we'll be dealing with, but I think Cass will continue serving the Inquisition, whatever its form. The devs have compared the Inquisition to the Jedi Order from Star Wars, and DA:I is the founding of that kind of organization. Which says to me that the Inquisition is going to continue onwards after the game game is over, and possibly after the Inquisitor is dead and buried. I don't see Cassandra leaving it. Which speaks well for a happily ever after with the Inquisitor, since they'll be working with each other for the foreseeable future. *Realizes what he just said in the last sentence* Wait....
That doesn't change the fact that if they had that dialogue all they are doing is dangling that in front of the players who want it without them ever getting it. It's like using the promise of a treat to get a dog to do something and then never give them the treat they were promised.
Well, as the one trailer said: "Whatever we were before, we are now the Inquisition." I get the feeling all our followers will leave their old lives behind just like the characters in the rebuilt Jedi Order in the Star Wars EU.
And yeah, living your life together with the person you love is clearly leaving no option for them to marry. 
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Inq: * goes down to kiss cass's stomach* what the ?
Cass: its a chastity belt had it since childhood
Inq: so you've gone years without...
Cass: yes a lady worth her maidenhood only removes these for their true loves
Inq: am i the one then? * wide smile*
Cass: * gives key to inq* yes you are
* romantic kiss ending with a click from the lock on the chastity belt*
I always saw Cassandra as being someone to wait until marriage. Alas, that's not so. She may still be a virgin though.