How *unappealing* do you predict straight male romance options will be in DA4?

I'll also add that, during the Halward conversation, you can ask if he's ever been with a woman*. He says that he hasn't, and basically says that women are nice and everything, but he's just not into them that way.


* I never go this route, but it's there nonetheless.

I don't understand the people who are salty about not being able to romance Dorian with their female Inquisitor. Just make a male Lavellan and romance them.

But, but... Dorian x Cadash.

Oh, really, you just called me a village idiot, but you want to talk about people not having arguments? You want to talk about blatant strawmen when you are arguing that romances are decreasing?

There are eight romance options in DAI, the statement that romance options is decreasing is objectively incorrect. You might wanna change that to "Straight male romance, the demographic to rule them all [and in the darkness bland them], is decreasing and is now more or less in line with other people and that's just not on" if you wanna not be disingenuous.

Did I? Did you want a tissue?

I'm not arguing that romances are decreasing, I'm arguing that player choice is decreasing overall and people are heading to mods to overcome that. It's what these sorts of games promise, choice and consequence. Except they then enter the game and experience very little choice and very little consequence. But I will take up the mantle of the argument you thrust upon me, even though I wasn't actually arguing it. You take 6 romance choices away from one demographic and split it 2,2,2 and you go from a game that has great player choice for one demographic to one that has barely anything at all for all demographics. The ideal option would be to raise the number of romances for all demographics, which Bioware has not done. Ever heard of the phrase "a mile wide and an inch deep"? Because it applies very well. There is also a very easy way for them to overcome this problem ...

Personally I'm partial to Dorian x mage!Trevelyan.

Thank you for using Sage of Life's inaccurate paraphrasing of my post. Ironic how you talk about people being disingenuous. However please feel free to wander over to my latest reply which addresses your point

Dorian x Templar!Warrior!Trevelyan is also fun. I did that in one of my playthroughs. 

Ah, I can understand. Dwarfs are cute I admit. I'll romance my male dwarves with Iron Bull just because of the size difference and the fact that he'll have a hard time closing a certain rift. 

If you're referring to making the romances all bi, then you're mistaken. It was specifically stated that if they had done all bi romances for DAI then we would have gotten four, just as in DA2 (minus DLC Sebastian), which still leaves 2 options for everyone.