Romance options speculation (Official Thread)

My predictions for the actual fleshed-out romances are: Females will be Cora, Pee Bee, and Vetra, because that way you have your obligatory (probably) hot human and obligatory cute asari, and an alien option for the adventurous types. Males will be Liam, and... alien guy squadmate we haven't met yet (species TBD) and/or some other alien guy we haven't met yet (species TBD). Kinda hoping for Mystery Man "sexy voice" Reyes (species also TBD) because that's, like, the only male character other than the krogan we've at least heard speak, so it's all I've got. Also, sexy voice.

Seriously though, when you look at those character reveals there seems to be a bit of a disparity... Don't get me wrong, I love that there's all this opportunity for strong female characters in important roles and all, but, where are all the guys? We've literally seen one male character we're not related to and he's a lizard. Two if you count Liam the silent helmeted dude. Never thought I'd say this, but, hopefully the next trailer/gameplay demo will be a total sausagefest

As far as presumed orientation... Not gonna touch that one, as it's too easy to fall into the trap of 'I think s/he seems gay/straight because...' and that can go downhill real quick for even those with the best intentions. But I will say that, while I prefer realistic representation over player-sexuality, I hope there's a not-quite-realistic number of bisexual love interests for the sake of player choice I also hope that more romances means more romances, not just more people you can sleep with, making my estimate of three girls and two (maybe three) guys a modest one.

That's what I got from it too, yea... and I still think it's better that way. Makes for more tight and believable character writing.

I think I'm beginning to see more and more why some developers don't like romances in their games...

Staying off topic a little more I'm not sure choosing the bisexuals to be the LI, so that everyone it's happy, it's very different to choose the pretty women or men to be LI, surely they make that so players are happier with their options, or it's a coincidence that the more conventinally good looking characters are usually the one interested in the PC and open to a relationship? I think I understand what you mean, but honestly, I think romances always have a lot of "making people happy" going on in any case, so I don't see it much of a strecth going on a little further and try to make everyone equally happy 

Well, it is a game, so realism has to give way at some point... which, of course, raises the question why bother with it in the first place, but that's a whole different story.

Personally i'm hoping Cora's hetrosexual or Bi li.

Ideally imo Vetra isn't romanceable due to the whole dextro thing.
If she is other option is that Peebee is too young to be interested in relationship but given her high profile early appearance that might be just wishful thinking on my part as i've seen nothing about her i like.
You'd wonder if all 3 will be romanceable since they generally don't like that unless there's a fourth unromanceable female squaddie.

you don't think an important character can be a lesbian? and i'm mostly just putting out there to go against the whole 'all asari are bi' thing. it probably won't happen. lol

ah, okay i get ya! i have a hard time seeing bioware doing it too, especially if she's turns out to be important. it'd be a nice change of pace though.

I wouldn't dream of decrying more human love interests, but isn't there something kind of... wicked, about getting it on with your dad's boss?

On second thought, I have no problem with this.

Well, if your dating pool was reduced to a couple of thousand viable options, being picky would go kinda out of the window, I guess...

You know, I'd love it if we were able to romance a fellow Pathfinder. We know there's a Pathfinder HQ on the Nexus that Ryder will have to go to during his/her journey. This is where the 2nd briefing said we will be able to converge with the other Pathfinders on our findings and share information. It sounds like we'll be meeting with them quite a bit during the story, they might even be the Mass Effect equivalent of Inquisition's advisors.

So crazy thought, what if Ryder had a fraternization-type relationship with one of them? Oh my, think of the drama ! You're all supposed be professional with each other and prioritize your path-finding duties but a then fellow Pathfinder starts to get the hots for our new protagonist. Reluctantly of course . It results in a secret love-affair where they have to continue to act professional in front of others. Not only that but their responsibilities to their respective races may also challenge their relationship. The more I thought about it the more I loved the idea.