Who makes you happy in the Pantalones.

OT I saw this Ryder on the mod Nexus but I couldn't pinpoint who he resembled.

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Definitely, other. I can't be faulted on that one. Can I? 

DANG IT.

Kaidan, Reyes and Gil, the only people I've ever romanced. If I had to narrow it down to one, it's Kaidan.

Kaidan was also the iconic voice of Carth Onasi, who set the bar for even greater depth of character storytelling and voice acting. Up to Knights of the Old Republic, you didn't have a lot of voice acting. You just had snippets of it while the text helped flesh out the rest of the conversation. After Knights of the Old Republic, we got Dragon Age: Origins. A non-voiced protagonist who was carried by an incredible assortment of voice actors/actresses. Morrigan. Alistair. Leliana, etc. Then Mass Effect and Dragon Age 2. Shepard and Hawke gave us voice and they delivered. All the way. The Inquisitor's voice was nicely done as well and you had two choices in style. Another step forward. No one can knock the voice acting, except it a few, very noticeable places in Andromeda (glaring at Liam, Morda and PeeBee).

The voice talent completed the canvas. They just sold it. All of it. 

Actually gonna throw Andromeda a bone here and go with Reyes. His interactions with Ryder are dynamic and witty. His animations are extremely well done. VA is spot on. He feels like a layered character and not just a stereotype (even makes people speculate about his motives and general grey-ish-ness...i love it ). And most importantly...pantalones would probably drop fastest. Alas, we don't know if they ever actually do? Aside from that, those are 20 very well used minutes of Reyes content.

Number 2 would be Thane for me.. I have worked so hard. Meditated and prayed and done good deeds. Atoned for the evils I've done. Prepared. I consider my body's death and a chill settles in my gut. I'm afraid, and it shames me. So beautiful..and so sad.

Number 3 Garrus because Garrus...but I guess I'm a sucker for drama so Thane comes first.

4 is...Jack? She comes across as this borderline ridiculous edgy emo teenage girl at times but...I just wanna hug her? I guess I also am a sucker for the "I am totally indepedent and absolutely do not want close relationships (but please do not leave me)" trope? Reminds me of Viconia. Cute.

Overall, I liked most of the main squadmate romances/characters in the OT while the Andromeda ones felt considerably flatter. Jaal is most interesting as a character I guess but his romance made me cringe way too hard. Peebee is a bit too bland as the stereotypical roguish girl. Drack is hot but only gets one flirt.

My choices as well, although I voted Garrus for my 4th vote.

I am actually surprised to see how much more popular Reyes is than Jaal tbh. the power of the experienced VA!

Same, the more I got into it, the less I wanted to romance him. The Regency in space did not work for me.

also, one thing that I noticed with the sex scenes in Andromeda was that they were either really abrupt FTB, without any indication of even the slightest motion by the characters towards one another or the attempt to animate TMI. That created quite an imbalance.

i much preferred it in the older games, when they tried to drop the FTB curtain just before it got interesting and tried to animate emotionally different scenes. Like your character going on tipytoes to kiss the LI, the main character gently coming over and wrapping hands around the LI who turned away, a slam in the wall, the eyes animated to open back up when the kiss is done... all of it was more desirable to me than either the hard blackout right after the line (I am still hoping that one day there will be a male LI that will lift the female PC off the ground in a Bio game) - it's like they don't even have the gradual fade out they used in infinity to create the mood, or the Jaal's demo of what pipe goes into which slot.

Kaidan and Garrus get a lot of love throughout the series. Liam (really? Hey, I won't judge) and Reyes only got one installment and they're already attracting a fan base. Reyes, especially. 

Garrus #1 and Kaidan #2, I can't romance my pick in MEA,
"Harry, look, we're in a new galaxy. We need to produce children. I'm young, you're...well I'm hoping your willing. Let's do this."
"You realize that I'm twice your age."
Ryder pulled him to her. "I don't give a damn. Show me what a doctor knows about the anatomy of a woman."