Your Response When Our Designated Bestfriend This Time Is Human

The kiss that killed a thousand Reapers.

Yeah, Bioware is lazy like that sometimes. But I don't mind. I just tell myself they used the money they saved for something cool.

The only thing that bothered me a bit was how the romances reset in ME3 at some point and suddenly everyone is game again. The conversation with Kaidan in the hospital is especially awful when he's not romanced. He flirts with Shepard and even sort of tries to guilt-trip her into a romance by bringing up the girl he liked ages ago. WTF. His self-pity game is bad here. He'll always ask if Shepard is flirting with him. Uh, Kaidan, Shepard is with Liara. You know that! Makes Kaidan come off like an ass.

I do wish Bioware would fix stuff like that. Reusing animations I don't care about. And I expect MEA to use A LOT of assets from DAI too. You can already see it in the trailers. Again, I don't mind. It only breaks immersion when suddenly everyone forgets your character's relationship status. Or when the Dalish inquisitor asks who Mythal is...

Right.....well Liara's hug is obviously a hug, and Shepard is obviously putting his/her hand on Thane shoulder and leaning to console Thane(like he does with various NPCs in the game) and not giving him a kiss on the cheek.

Honestly, I find most of the human characters rather bland, but I also don't understand all this BFF forced onto us stuff? I personally didn't feel any of the characters were forced onto me, but that's just me and it doesn't invalidate anyone that thinks differently. Did some act way more friendly than I would have liked? Yeah, but that happens IRL all the time. I will say I could have done without the whole mind-meld thing. Frankly I feel people have more reason to flip over that than a simple hug? I don't liked being hugged either, but for some people hugs /are/ the same thing as a hand shake or a pat on the shoulder. It default to their nature. Doesn't mean you have to like it, of course. I'd be all for Bioware being able to give us truly organic relationships where the characters react accordingly to how you've treated them, but it's a lot of dialogue and a lot of variables to keep track of... The cost piles up what with the time spent writing, planing, programming and VOing it. They're going to make mistakes and leave out stuff and disappoint people. That, and there's the story they want to tell. Sometimes how we want to play that story might not fit into the overall picture they want to paint, so that option isn't there for us to play out.

But anyway, back on track with the question posed, if they really do "force" a human BFF on us, I won't like it much if I wind up hating the character. On the off chance that I like them, well awesome. I don't have high hopes of it, though. My track record of most-liked ME characters have been mostly aliens. Kaiden, Ashley, and Jacob are probably some of my least liked companions. Miranda was kinda "eh" to me, but at the end of the day I'll give her a pass. She actually got picked for some missions where as the first three were only there when I had no choice. Jack was interesting. I didn't use her much, but she was pretty unique. Joker was amazing, and he was definitely a BFF. What I wouldn't have given for a scene of Shepard stealing his hat. XD And of course Anderson. That scene with him at the end of ME3. Man. Oh, and Vega. As much hate as he gets, and as much I honestly expected to hate him, I actually kinda like the guy. Definitely took some warming up to, though, but that honestly made it feel more natural.

tl;dr

I don't expect them to force any BFFs on us, but if they do, I'll deal with it, human or not.

Oh please. Fly to another galaxy and not fornicate local life? Does that sound like a Bioware game to you?

I know what you mean but I don't think you are right 
There has to be different types of mindmelding since:

1) Liara makes a great deal about "joining minds" if you choose to romance her. In order to romance her, you have to pass the obligatory "mindmelding" scene after recruiting once (and maybe twice in all game). What's the point of making Liara so anxious about her mind-virginity if she has already lost it with you?

2) Then we have mind-sex with Shiala, haven't we? We joined minds with her in Feros too in order to get the Cipher. 

3) (Obligatory Simpsons' reference) Liara is not a mind-rapist! She might be a stalker, a creeper, a communist... BUT SHE IS NOT A PORNSTAR OMEGA'S STRIPP DANCER! 

To sum up: there is a difference between joining minds ala Shiala and unromanced Liara (ME1 beacon information, ME3 the friendly gift) versus sex mind ala Sha'ira and romanced Liara (ME1 before Ilos, ME2 after Shadow Broker's Lair, ME3 lover's gift).

Wait what looks likes it's being reused from DA:I? The only thing that resembled anything in DA:I was the weird looking rock formations from the Storm Coast. The character models and items all looked like new assets.