With Mass Effect: Andromeda, Bioware Improved on Its Gay Relationships - Article

My...LITTLE WING!!!!

I had trouble looking at the screen after that "boss fight" on Noveria. It was bad.

Agreed. That exchange almost made me abandon the romance. The final scene on the Nexus was decent, though.

Yeah as an unapologetic Suvi fan (as if that wasn't obvious enough),  I concur 

I remember Marina Sirtis saying that she hated doing voice acting for video games. When she was asked about doing it she didn't even remember lol.

I fucking hated that they explained Krem, and did it in one of the most hamfisted ways possible. Would have been much better to just not bring it up and let players put two and two together from meeting a male character voiced by Jennifer Hale.

I don't remember any character really getting into it in a meaningful way unless the Inquisitor outright asks about it.

There are plenty of RPG games out there without romances.  Go play one of them.  BioWare is known for this stuff and has been for the entirety of its existence.

Jaal's relationship with Scott is rather amazing, I'll give them that! It's my favorite BioWare romance hands down.

You're right. It got me thinking when I first met Krem. The voice and the looks actually. But I didn't feel the explanation to be hamfisted. It seemed to fit the situation.

As for gay characters, and since I'm playing DAI again, I never played a gay character, so I never got to see the romances, but Dorian is still my favorite when it comes to gay characters. I think he's much better developed than Gil.

God forbid LGBT players get a gay character that's central to the story and is attractive, right?
The only problem with Dorian is that he didn't say "No." the first time a female IQ flirted with him.



After getting two story relevant gay squadmates, and an even distribution of romances, without needing to remind BW, MEA was a huge step down from Inquisition. Giving the gay character a plot line that revolves 90% of the time around his duty to procreate was such a stupid choice. And the author's insistence that characters, whose sexuality plays a huge role in their story are better and more realistic than characters, who just happen to be gay, is just insulting.