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

It would be funny of one of the squadmates had a crush on you and try to pursue you instead of the other way around

Meh, given Bio's track record I'm not gonna hold my breath for anything revolutionary. Besides half the time the ones I find most interesting are unavailable...Kasumi for example.

I hope they follow through on the romances being more organic. But they seem to be saying that we'll have more romance options than ever which...worries me. I'm always concerned when resources are spread out between too many characters. A few very in-depth and well-written romances are much better than a ton of options.

That said, I REALLY hope that we have an Andromeda alien as a romance option. And that we have more than one on our squad. I just really want to get immersed in the new galaxy and learn about whole new races of alien. This was BioWare's chance to really expand Mass Effect's universe and I hope they didn't hold back. I'd honestly be fine if the entire squad was nothing but new aliens, but obviously that would never happen.

Yes! This, combined with being able to RP an awkward person (when it comes to romance), would be my ideal addition to the romances! Partly because it would be a breath of fresh air compared to how it usually plays out in Bioware games, and partly because I'd find it a lot more relatable. Uh, but not the people pursuing me part. The me not doing the pursuing part I'm terrible at flirting.

Anyway, I think it would be a lot of fun if we could for once play the part of The Aveline and let the squadmate's advances go completely over our heads, or respond to them in the most awkward of manners. Terrible flirt-response options might be fun, too. It doesn't have to be like this for the whole romance; as you get comfortable with them it could get easier.

I like that the Inquisitor is a bit awkward during the Cullen romance, but it wasn't enough for me! Need more awkward adorkableness! Why should only the romance options get to do it and not our own characters? I want to be the Cullen/Alistair!

However, the thing they have to watch out for is a squadmate being stalkerish. An easy fix would just be to have them back off when told you aren't interested.

I thought that was interesting, too, and wonder what it will mean if anything. I have to admit I'm a bit disappointed there won't be any marriages, though. While I didn't really expect it, I thought maybe after Trespasser... Oh well. Hoping that if they make another game with Ryder, it'll have them. The longer-term the relationship without the option, the more out-of-character it can become for your protagonist.

I was also partly hoping for them as another way to show how little of a deal same-sex relationships are in the ME verse.

I mentioned this somewhere else, and I'll mention it here to possibly alleviate some of the worries you and others (and myself) might be having about the whole "quality vs. quantity" thing:

I suspect they're counting their newly emphasized "flings" into their romance tally, and that's the only reason it has more "romances" than any other Bioware game. Assuming those flings have much less content than the standard long-term ones, it would be consistent with Bioware implying even doing DA:I's 8 was tiresome. It would be very odd to say that then go ahead and do even more.

So I expect we're going to get the standard 2/2/2 with additional flings. Even if there are only 3, that's 9 "romances" - 1 more than DA:I. While more options does increase the chances that I'll actually like one of them, it would probably lower content for all of them, which would suck.

Actually Garruses romance for me in ME3 felt pretty natural and organic. In that sense it's best Bioware romance for me. I felt like my character and Garrus were in whole mess together, suffering both for Earth and Palaven, trying beat reapers together and comforting each other. Somehow that just clicked for me, he and my Shepard were both best friends and lovers at that point.

ME2's Garrus romance was awkward as fuck, but I liked how it developed to ME3 and through ME3.

As long as it's not like DAI, it will be fine.

What was it you did not like about DAI's way of doing romances?