Unpopular opinion: Straight Male romance was shafted.

Seems like we've gone from beating the dead horse to trying to cut it's head off to mount on a wall as a trophy.

I'm curious, what would you consider to be attractive? I'm surprised guys don't find Josephine attractive since she has classically feminine features and an elegant coif, while Cassandra has angular cheekbones a model could kill for.

Also I mean it's just totally 100% subjective. 95% of players think Dorian is absolutely gorgeous; I can barely stand to look at him (sorry, Dorian!). Blackwall gets trashed left and right, but I find him... sigh... just perfect hehehe xD

Tis all in the eye of the beholder. I mean OP says he likes Sera, who is often accused of being one of the most unattractive female characters. (p.s. I think she's super cute.) (EDIT: p.p.s. OP also says he likes Harding, and most agree with him, whereas I'm like, very "blehhhhhh" towards Harding.)

And drink.

Ohhhh, I see the open mouth now. Not so bad, but I get how small things like that can drive one nuts!
To this day, I want to tackle Cole and wash his hair! He looks so misshapen when he's not wearing his hat!

Meh, no. I liked both of their romances equally (Sera is one of my favourite romance though, to be honest.) i think Cassies my all time fav though, so,..

Cole (Compassion) looks exactly how he's supposed to: He looks like Cole, the mage who starved to death.

That's why he looks "like a corpse" who hasn't washed his hair and has raggedy clothes. As for why he never changes his look, he says it himself:


Dorian: Is this how you want to look?

Cole: I want to help. Looking doesn't matter.

Fine, right, pretty sure this wasn't even aimed at me.

But I'll just say this anyway. You remember trailer Ryder? Where she wakes up?

Yes. She's beautiful. I said it.

You know you don't have the courage to tell me otherwise.

Not as shafted as straight females was in ME3

I agree that the straight male romance options were not good because of the severe lack of variety, even though the number of vstraight male romance option has remained constant since Origins at 2.

In Origins and II, both straight male romance options were very different. They had very different ideas, different faith, different inherent abilities (one love interest is a mage and the other is a Muggle in Origins and II) and in II, they were of different races. Leliana and Morrigan were both very different women. The same could be said of Isabel and Merrill. Furthermore straight female romance options have remained very diverse since Origins until Inquisition. The only ones with the highest amount of options is a bisexual Elven female and well, there is a very good reason Dalish Elves are known as wild Dalish Elves.

Contrast this with Josephine and Cassandra. Both are nobles, both are devout Andrastians, both come from notable families, both want to be wine & dined, both are Muggles, etc. They are too similar and the differences between them are mostly physical and on-the-surface type of behavior - Cassandra is older, more blunt, will go to the third base a lot faster (without being ambiguous about it) and has a better body than Josephine (Cassandra's a warrior and Josephine's a diplomat after all) but Josephine is younger, more ladylike and more accommodating towards Elves (Cassandra treats and views Elven culture and religion as nonsense, which can be observed when you bring her to the Temple of Mythal whereas Josephine actually goes out of her way to make an Elven protagonist feel comfortable).

Yes well, nice guys are seen by women as boring these days, only good for being the spare tire / fallback plan when the bad boy eventually dumps her for another lay so naturally this sentiment should be expected.

I played male Shepard and found Kaidan to be a quite nice introverted man. Apart from his migraines, there is nothing wrong with him.

Is Kaidan nice? Yes. Is he a good friend? Sure. Is he boring and whiney to some people? Yes. My Femshep was a Spectre and Commander and looking for a little more adventure than the boy next door, that's all.