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

I'd like everyone to be bi, but if only Blackwall was made bi, then the whole all-important "each sexuality has an exclusive romance" will nor be true for a straight female of all races.

I'd take that hairy 50 year old over a noodle-hair ken doll any day :poker:

I think his lack of popularity has more to do with the flow of the romance, his personal quest, and the fact that with most companions he's fairly dull.

Bioware is all about inclusion ... hairy neckbeards pushing 50 like to get it on too, ya know.

EDIT: Damn, I should have written "like a roll in the hay too (literally)". Missed opportunity.

well, i too liked cassandra... though i do admit there didn't seem to be any romancible super hot female characters in DA:I, the likes of say morrigan. though, perhaps it just seems that way because we don't really have anyone wearing skimpy outfits.

For me the DA2 romances were the ones done right. They adapted and changed based on what was important to me - the PC's personality and his/her relationship with each particular character. Gates assess your character solely on his or her gender and race, making the compatibility mechanical rather than emotional. And DA2 romances were really romantic too.

I don't know about other players, but I did not like Blackwall even when I added a mod that improved his looks to great (for me personally) because he was just boring and non-romantic for me. I like lots of an old-fashioned drama and excitement in a lovestory like with Anders or Thane, not the dating and the kissing or sex screen screenshots. I hope even if they keep the gates, they will have something more high-fantasy and drama and romantic in DA4 romances.

Maybe they are tired of "more of the same" but I want "more of the same" in spirit and not really into modern-casual...

I think it's because there were way better options. Blackwall was manly geared towards female players. And why would they bother with him when they have pretty boy Cullen as an options? Or the blissful masochism of Solas romance?

Wich kind of pisses me off, considered his pretty much wasted slot could have been saved for a more interesting character, like Leliana, or Harding.

I believe devs didn't want Leliana available since she was already a romance option in Origins. And while Blackwall is the least popular romance, I disagree with your opinion that he shouldn't have been an option to begin with. Blackwall is more appealing to me as a character than Cullen or Solas, both of whom I frankly find quite boring.

Yeah, but not everyone romanced her. Solas can only be romanced if you chose a pretty specific combination of race and gender. Didn't stop him from being an option.
I just wish Leliana was an option. Her character arc is far more interesting in Inquisition then in Origins. To me anyway.

Probably because some people killed her waaaay back in Origins, leading to her not quite being what she seemed in DAI.

That and she's already been romanceable once. If people want to romance Leliana then they've already had the chance to do so.

I think Leliana is far more interesting in DAI than she was in DAO, but I'm glad she wasn't a romance option this time around. Mostly 'cause I would have been salty - what makes Leliana so special that she gets TWO romance arcs, while Zevran and Morrigan and Alistair get one?


I thought we had lots of hotties this time around. Especially Sera, Bull, Dorian, and Josephine.

And I'd add Cassandra just to make the OPs head explode....