Romance options speculation (Official Thread)

I think we'll be getting the equally significant homosexual characters. You can't really look at ME3 and say that Kaidan and Ashley didn't have the same level of importance to Shepard. Sure, they were absent as playable for a portion of the game but if you're romancing them they still appear plenty. It makes no difference if it's a same sex or opposite sex romance. I do believe BioWare is on their way to embracing it all, if they're not there yet.

I don't think Kaidan is boring, though. He's not expressive in the same way but my Shepard's never had a problem with him. They developed a friendship and, eventually, more. Ash seemed pushy and aggressive. Not my style for a love interest.

I'm still cautiously optimistic.
I also liked this friendship with him, than later the love.

The problem with Ashley is the fact that she has become Kaidan clone in ME3. Quite safe to assume they wrote Kaidan first and were lazy when writing Ashley. I was like, hello barbie Kaidan.

I believe Mac Walters mentioned something like: "More about the companions in January".

Romances might fall into this statement, we simply have to wait.

If I had to guess I'd say that they'll do a few meet the character bios in January (maybe accidentally leaking a few romances in the process) but leave the official romance announcements for Valentine's Day. Its just too perfect a day for that sort of announcement for marketing to waste it, especially given the estimated release in Spring.

Who would think about Disciple, when there is Atton Rand?

Why would Vetra have to be asexual? Garrus certainly wasn't. Or Drak, for that matter. 

This, mostly. I'm a bit repulsed by the idea of sexual encounters with Vetra or Drak. They're too alien in form. Asari only work for me because they're so nearly human.

However, I'm not really interested in platonic romance either. Most likely I'll never be exploring a romance with them, if BioWare even makes that a possibility.

I don't remember bao being a possible romance. Not that KotoR 2 had "real" romances. It was basically all "one sided" from the companion point of view. But it's been two years since I last played it. I may start a new game.

It's no more and no less than what Atton and Disciple has when interacting with the PC, though, no, it does not have the "let's go on a date/let's kiss/let me show you my devotion in bed tonight!" dialogues.

I just chose to interpret Bao Dur's story-line as romantic (and tbh pretty much every major character in KOTOR2 acts as if s/he is under Exile's spell).

Bao-Dur's story the way he tells it that he is one of many engineers and PC is a high above General, so he does not expect that PC remembers him.


Bao-Dur gives that absolutely brilliant dialogue that is basically the only dialogue I can quote by heart after many years. He looks at the PC and says:

"You've looked at me, the longest you have looked at me..." and at the nod of the Exile's head, for that one look, he activates the Mass Shadow Generator.

Then he seeks redemption for himself on Telos, but follows the Exile immediately, the moment s/he shows up. He is the one that build PC a lightsabre unquestioningly once s/he starts regaining his/her Force sensitivity. And, in the end, before leaving to seek his own final atonement, Bao-Dur leaves the Exile his most treasured possession, the Remote, to sacrifice itself to ensure the Exile can find whatever s/he seeks.

It's basically the most consistent and epic story of devotion and pure adoration that was told in any of the BioWARE/Obsi games. I just loved the theme of the Exile and Bao-Dur forever cursed by the Exile ordering, and Bao-Dur's constructing and both of them detonating that doomsday device, and how that curse both linking them forever, and dooming them both.

It's how the romance of that kind makes the story more personal and give it more than just save the world motivation that I do love about it.

Same with Thane. Him dying resonates with the PC who is already dead. ME3 arc turning into a personal revenge story also works wonders, and culminates in the PC taking that final step into the digital vortex to solve the equation of the soul...

Ah, well. I loved it & I would love to see something as emotionally powerful and integrating with the main plot again, giving PC more depth and personal motivation rather than being an awkward side-line & something for PC to relax and forget about the burdens and just do mundane stuff. Nah, I want MOAR of the not mundane, as grand a love-story and as important as possible :)

I haven't plated KoTOR, so I can't say about Carth and Bastila. However, I wouldn't call Kaidan or Ashley "plot" romanceable squadmates. That title would belong to Liara, and she's bi. Even then, Kaidan became available to both genders in Mass Effect 3. Miranda could possibly count as a "plot"squadmate, but Jacob on the other hand isn't very relevant besides being used as a squad leader during the Suicide Mission, who you can assign to two other likable squadmates. I agree with your Dragon Age ones (perhaps a little less about Cassandra, and Solas was last minute addition)but you left out Dragon Age 2, with Anders and Isabella, who are both bisexual options and very much involved in pivotal points in the plot. And with the info we have, we can't really tell how involved Liam and Cora are in the plot. Right now, PeeBee is looking the most plot relevant, and she's most likely a bisexual option.