Romance options speculation (Official Thread)

I just know Cora and Liam will be Li's. Peebee too (like, duh!). I also think Vetra is a good bet for Scott and possibly even Sarah. I hope there is male alien squadmate that is available too, but if not, then I hope they are one of the guys that will at least temporarily join the squad and be on the ship.

As for the division between sexuality, I'm not sure. I think the 2/2/2 ratio sounds the most likely case. I hope more could be available solely based on the characters we have and not based on meeting a quota (a la Inquisition), however that would be. At least everyone should be able to have two choices.

I don't really care for the other options as long as my Male Ryder can romance Liam

Though, if I had to guess...

Cora - Straight
PeeBee - Bisexual
Veetra - Straight
Liam - Bisexual
Drack - Not going to happen

Of course, there's still other characters up for romance, such as Reyes, but we haven't seen, much less learned, about him or anyone else to make an educated guess.

Hmm... While this couldn't take effect immediately in the new series, it would be interesting (and make a lot of sense) if those "rules" were lifted and we started to see a more even number of male and female salarians.

Well, as long as I don't get another minor character like Steve, I'm satisfied with a gay NPC. ... I could never bring myself to enter a relationship with him because he was simply no comparison to Kaidan. If the homosexual characters are so insignificant again, I hope that at least the bisexuals are story-relevant. Please no Solas dilemma again. That's the only thing I'm asking for... I don't even care if I get less options than straight characters. But please no insignificant NPC's and especially no Carth syndrome guy again. 



ps: I bet that this one black bald-headed guy from the promo will be gay. He reminds me of Steve.

No pls

We'd like to hear your thoughts on this if you will.

Are you suggesting Turians tend to be masculine.  oooooo that's racist

I'm convinced all of the companions will be romancable.

Reason?
There are 'only' 6 of them (maybe 7, if Andromedian squaddie becomes confirmed).

This is going to be a huge game, and with lesser amount of squaddies to pick for romance Bioware has more effort that can be put into romance arc design for particular squaddie AND since that romance might be spanning across the entire game, they must provide an interesting LI to develop interesting relationship with from start ot the end of ME:A.

For a game where they tweet about "putting hundreds of hours into" it would be cool to have serious relationship take a long but steady pace to develop, unlike previous games where things often were happening too fast and just after few conversations even the relationships tagged as 'serious' would jump to 'we'll bang, ok?' phase.

That would be nice if all companions were romance options. But many people don't like this idea. So I don't know if Bioware would actually do that. But I would be all for it. And yes, I also think that the pace of the romances in earlier games had developed too fast. This was often not very authentic. Personally, I would also find it nice if there were several flirting options, not just one. After all, there are also different flirt types of people. Some like flirting excessively and talking about sexual things. Others are more shy. I would like to determine for myself what kind of person my Ryder is when it comes to love affairs.

I don't think they'll make all the squadmates romanceable. In fact, I hope they don't. I much prefer the approach of "I have a great idea for a romance with this character" vs. forcing a romance arc on a squadmate just because it fills a quota or whatever. Or worse, trying to write a character people would want to romance, instead of just writing a good character. Plus, it feels kind of contrived to me to have every squadmate potentially fall for you, barring gender preference. Especially with how romance has been handled in the trilogy so far. There were times I felt like dodging the romantic intentions of my squad (and sometimes even my own PC) was a mini-game in itself. And that's with only some being available. Maybe some people like that sort of thing, I don't know... I found it a little hilarious, and not in a good way.

There's supposed to be some romances with crew members and important NPCs on the Nexus and such. I have a feeling that may be where a good portion of our potential options might lie. And since those characters will supposedly have more dialogue than even our actual squadmates in the trilogy did, I'm alright with that. My hope is that they'll be handled much like the adviser romances in Inquisition were. Though I was skeptical about those at first, I never felt like I was missing out on anything by romancing Cullen versus someone from my party. I imagine people who went for Josephine felt the same. Though I've read complaints about the nature of her romance not being to their tastes, I don't think I've seen anyone criticize the actual scope of it.

Why on earth should Drack not be an option? I think they've learned from the previous games (GARRUS) that we're okay and even insist on romancing our favorite aliens. I'll be really pissed if we regress back to 'here's your token human male option, and here are a bunch of Asari because gender doesn't mean anything!' Well it does to me and I want male options, preferably male alien options, and maybe even a male turian on the ship or SOMETHING because turians are the shiit-take mushrooms.

I'll take another species of alien, but don't you be giving me a bunch of human male options and that's it.

Well maybe if they make it into a new trilogy you can romance the 2 unknown squaddies in the sequel. Like how they did Garrus n Tali not being romanceable in ME1