Relationships & Romance - How do you think it'll play out?

Nov 8, 2016 14:31:25 GMT Blue-Slates said:

Nov 8, 2016 4:57:07 GMT Hanako Ikezawa said:

Yeah, neither Steve or Dorian are black. Steve is of Hispanic descent, and Dorian I believe is the equivalent of Indian for Thedas. 

I always saw Cortez as being Afro-Latino *shrugs*

I hope with relationships being more organic we get:

1. Ninjamances: i know everyone hates these but I actually kinda really like them. When Alistair offered the rose to my Warden obecasue she was being nice to him, at the time it was really awkward, but looking back it felt pretty organic. I dunno, I guess I'm tired of always pushing for a relationship. I wanna be flirted with, dammit >:I

2. That we can refuse the sex bits without ending the romance. Not necessarily have an asexual romance (though I know those are greatly appreciated and I want them in the game for the peeps that would like them), but maybe I want to play a shy character who doesn't want to get physical at that time, just an option to wait while the relationship is still building. This option's pretty unlikely but I just think it'd be nice.

I'm not sure how I feel about there being "loads" of romances. I hope the content doesn't get too thinned out. I gotta say I don't mush care for mini flirts :I

1. That's not what ninjamances are, actually.

Example: in Mass Effect 1, one of the options to tell Liara that you only want to be friends unintentionally starts the romance without informing the player. This a bug rather than flawed design.

Example: in Mass Effect 1, you can accidentally end up in a romance because you selected an option like "I want to talk about you" or "how are you doing" with an eligible companion like Liara (female/male), Kaidan (female) or Ashley (male). These options exist with non-romanceable companions which is part of why they're deceptive. I think I remember running into this one with Ashley on no-mance run where I didn't know it had even activated the romance until the scene where the Normandy was locked down. This is flawed design, in my opinion, if I remember this right.

Example: in Dragon Age: Origins, you can ask Leliana if Marjolaine was special to her which activates the romance without indicating to the player that it was a romane trigger.

To sum: a ninjamance is not a case of a companion approaching or flirting with the player character but a case of things like the player character being completely unaware they'd activated a romance, bugged options or options that trigger a romances despite in no way indicating romantic or sexual intent. In worst case, the player is locked into a romance that they don't want and where they'd have to replay a large portion of the game as a do-over if there are no cancelation options after the point where they realize they've been ninjamanced.

Mass Effect 1 would have been this for me if it hadn't been for the fact that you could thankfully discover if you'd been ninjamanced on a no-mance by whoever came by the lockers after the Normandy had been locked down. The romance could be cancelled by you basically picking the bottom options.  

2. It has been confirmed that you'd be able to have relationships without sex but whether this is optional or asexual romances is not known. I'm just glad for the no-sex option so I'm fine with either.  Mass Effect 2 really needed that.