Something I want to see for the next mass effect game is different scenes for romances when (also a

The less of the actual sex act they show, the fewer resources they waste on nude modeling and making the pixels line up for various character combinations, the happier I am.

I'd rather they invest the resources in more emotional intimacy, fade to black, and let us headcanon the rest.

Its probably all about managing the time the artists have to put into romances. Animators have a lot of work to do in a BioWare game and if it doesn't done perfectly people will whine about it all day long even if the majority of the animations are fine. If anything there would something be done to make it a more unisex interaction like all the animations in Inquisition that were a step back and completely motionless so that they didn't have to go back and animate for all the different races and their sizes into the conversation.

The old adage I think applies with "be careful what you wish for, for you might just get it".

Her scene didn't bother me because I'm more concerned with my character's broken arms (like in inquisition), or my female characters walking around hunched than any animations during sex scenes. However I won't judge someone for where they place their priorities, we all like different things.

Honestly though? Even if Bioware left romance out completely I'd be fine, I enjoyed DA awakening and POE is one of my favorite games and neither have romance or sex scenes.

As for mods, you can search the nexus for something but I doubt you'd find what you're looking for. I always heard that frostbite is hard to mod and I think you would need something similar to the DA toolset to create such a scene? I also don't believe a toolset was ever released for Andromeda. But really I'm not a mod maker, so I'm not 100% sure.

Correct.

Doesn't change the fact that "cheap nasty" is an odd way to describe something as simple and non-imposing as fade to black.

It's unfortunate that that's the message you derive from fade-to-black - especially since cutscenes actually cost time and money to produce - and in this case, the romances are 100% optional side content.

I mean, as someone who doesn’t want sex I would love for the games to have options that don’t involve death too. I love games that have the pacifist routes.

Yeah leading in this area is definite reason why bioware for a long time were my favorite dev for so long. Generally i’ve Appreciated that they’ve tried and I can only think of me3’s Miranda fade to black teleport that annoyed me.
the whole optional content argument is odd because so much of these sort of games are optional content. Yeah making games costs money so what. And agree completely regarding the bizarre disparity when it comes to sex vs violence.

Agreed.