DA 4 Romances! New info for real this time!!! Zom-bangin'?

companions/squadmates or bust! even if there is no much content (see FO4) I like to headcanon and take my lover with me to the missions!

True, it just sucks that you have no truly romantic options if you play a mlm character in DAI.

It’s not that she doesn’t want to marry, but the writer said that she would want it to be a thing where her family was there rather than elope like Cullen and Sera. Which I get that argument, but I wish we could have at least proposed or something.

I think non-companion romances can work out, though they're obviously not ideal. Reyes was basically the best part of Andromeda, despite being limited to the one planet, and having a very tenuous connection to the main plot. The Reyes plot/romance felt full and complete enough that it could have stood almost entirely on its own as a separate story.

But I never romanced anyone else in MEA, so I have no idea how the party romance compare.

I'm a bit torn on the NPC romance thing. In theory, I'm not opposed to it at all. If they are a well fleshed out character with a strong story, then it should be all good. Yes, it's nice to have a companion romance who you can bring with you since that means that you will just have more interactions with them (through banter and reactions to plot/quests/missions), but obviously, it gets narratively restrictive to limit LI's to only companions.

My issue is in practice. The NPC romances aren't very strong. Kelly, Steve, Traynor, Cullen, Josephine, Suvi, Gil, Reyes, Avela, Keri. They all have much less content when compared (on average) with the companion romances (Cullen might be the notable exception here). They are clearly the "second-tier" romances. Whether that is intentional or not....that's another question. My gut is that these secondary support characters just get less of the "pie" (resources allocated to writing/animation/etc.), so all aspects of them (including romance narrative) are smaller. They also mostly have CC created or generic faces too.

The other issue that I have with them is that they are not equitably distributed across the player base. Look at the list above -- there is literally only one straight male and one straight female in that list. The rest are all LGBT characters. Again, is that intentional? I don't think so (well, maybe it was in ME:A), but it does show another way in which LGBT players don't get access to the same types of content here if they want to enjoy those stories.

Ultimately, I don't mind them including NPC romances (in fact, I think they probably should as it opens up more variety in the types of romance narratives that they can include). But, if they do, they need to spend more resources to make them comparable to the companion romances and, either way, they need to do a better job of distributing them more fairly across the playerbase. There have only been THREE gay/lesbian companions in any Bioware games: Juhani, Dorian, and Sera. That's dumb. They should do better with this. I WANT to see gay guys kicking ass -- not shoved into a shuttlebay to work on the shuttles/engine.

Three of my top 5 Bioware romances are on that list including the top one and two.

Also disagree about Josephine getting less content. If you look up the romance videos, timestamp-wise she is on par with the companions. Heck she was the poster romance of the game. Yes the Mass Effect team this statement may apply to but the Dragon Age team has it equal. 
I do agree with the part where it needs to be more evenly divided amongst orientations though. 

That's why I said "on average".  If you "time stamp" the romances for the companions and compare it to the NPCs, my strong guess is that the latter will have less content.  Granted, I haven't quantified this data, but I feel pretty confident in my assertion.  Josephine and Cullen are the two that I think are the closest to what I'd want to see in NPC romances.  They are prominent in the plot; around for many of the major events; and feel like fully developed characters.  But that was also because they were advisor type characters.  As seen in ME:A, not all "official" NPC romances fill that role (think Reyes versus Gil or Avela/Keri versus Suvi).  Maybe DA4 will have "advisors" who are major NPCs with prominent roles.  Hopefully they do.  What I don't want is another Steve, Reyes, Avela, Keri type character who barely shows up in the main story at all. 

Josephine has just as much content but isn't straight. I'd argue that Cullen seems like he has more content cus we have more history with that character - he's featured in two games before that point. It's likely more due to the development issues surrounding MEA which is why their NPC romances don't have the same content as their DAI equivalent. Cullen and Josephine are romances that are as good as any of the other romances in that game. If future games handle NPC romances in the same way as DAI rather then MEA, I'd be perfectly happy with an NPC romance, especially as it may allow for a wider range of romance options rather than just the ones that are able to fight with you.

Depends which "straight" you are, straight woman had one romance more to begin with before they added Jaal for gays guys, which was less than gay woman which was alot less then straight men. It''s not so much straight content but content that straight men are comfortable with cus people in the gaming industry still have that as their primary target. There's a reason that games with female protags (not gender choice like RPGs) don't have straight romance cus it apparently makes male gamers uncomfortable having their character they control kiss a guy. Which is likely the same reason the gaming industry (AAA) hasn't done a gay male protag either. Mass Effect tends to be a lot worse then this historically then Dragon Age. And it sucks. I would argue that MEA's development probably made the issue worse but it's not hard to work out who the game was designed for when straight guys consistently get the most choices in that franchise. The ME team need to take a leaf out of the DA team cus it just sucks. The reason NPC romances aren't as good as in DAI in MEA is likely cus of the development issues, the fact that all the gay guy romances  were light on content at launch was cus someone along the line thought it wasn't a big enough audience for the resources and that's just shitty. They could have prioritised it and they didn't. There's no actual reason an NPC romance can't be just as developed as a companion romance as DAI shows so if there were going to put all the gay guy romances in that category they should have diverted resources to bring it to the same standard as the others.