Romance requirements is not gender-specific, it's character-specific says Mac

I'm going to play BroRyder as well and I hope to see Cora as a romance option..

But that get's me thinking after reading your comment, we don't know anything about Peebee or Vetra. What if they are among the best characters BioWare has ever created and are WAAAY more charismatic and fun to hang out with than Cora? Don't you think about this as a possibility? You have hopes on Cora, but what if she is one of the worst characters BioWare has ever created? Of course, the same could happen with Peebee or Vetra.

Just saying, it would be kind of ironic 

Well, wait and see is all we can do about this, but I really hope all squad mates of Andromeda are cool, charismatic and well written.

I would think that every gender & sexual preference combo would have at least one human option among the potential LIs. I doubt any version of Ryder will end up with Peebee & Vetra as the only female characters they can be romantically involved with. They may end up with one of the two as a potential LI, but 5 credits says it won't be both. 

If both of those characters are LIs I'd bet on them having different gender preferences.

Actually the only game in the trilogy that potentially limited the player to a alien LI was Mass Effect 3, if Kaidan had died in Mass Effect 1. It also received some criticism, so I doubt Bioware would make the same mistake again.

Agreed, just saying, BW didn't suffer as much of tokenism once, and their writing was better back then.

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I'm sticking to humans and close human-like aliens (like the Asari), I'm sure some here will romance a bony Khett if it was possible.

Confirmed squad members so far"

1. Cora (mystery girl)
2. Liam
3. PeeBee (Asari)
4. Drack (Krogan)
5. Vetra (Turian)
6. ??
7. ??

One of the two remaining slots has to be the new cluster LI, which apparently we will find in some planet.

Since I'm straight, I'll go for Cora, PeeBee and possibly the new alien LI. I'm not interested in anything else.  However, romance being character specific, I anticipate striking out on one of them. On my second playthrough, I will play the other sibling. Maybe I will be luckier.

This has always been the way I wished Bioware romances would evolve, where personality or player choices are the primary gating mechanism. Like, act like too much of a Renegade, and certain characters will rebuff your advances or won't hit on you, that sort of thing. If, say, you play a human supremacist (lol, I don't know what to call it, a space racist I guess), then most if not all the alien LI's should not be eager to jump your bones. Or if you repeatedly insult the Quarians when the Geth/Quarian war comes up, Tali should take note of that and not be interested. Basically just a more thorough and advanced approval system than what they've used in Dragon Age, really. That'd be much more engaging and meaningful to me than any of the systems they've come up with yet. 

And I don't care too much about the gender gating or lack therof, but I would kill for someone to actually flirt with Sara and Scott. At least this time we seem like we're on more equal footing with the squadmates so it'll hopefully feel less like a sexual harassment case waiting to happen if we're still forced to be the pursuers. 

i do not understand :s

This is the part of the romance subplots that I find so annoying: the fans.

I'm glad that the writers are being allowed to simply write their characters, without the overriding command, "Oh, by the way, your character must be Ryder-sexual, no matter what." That type of interference destroys realistic characters and verisimilitude in the world, just for the sake of including a few extra romance scenes.

Imagine Dorian Pavus as a player-sexual character. David Gaider would've had to completely scrap his personal storyline for Dorian (in a theoretical circumstance in which someone could've dictated to Gaider how Dorian's story be told). What if Cullen had to be made available for all Inquisitors? No big deal? I think it chips away at his personality. How weird would it be if Solas got down with non-elves? Inexplicably bizarre!

Letting writers give their characters real personalities, complete with preferences, makes them feel alive. People should embrace this as quality story-telling instead of pouting about how they've been cheated out of a digital romance with their desired target. If you want to experience that character's romance arc so much, stop self-inserting and play a Ryder more to that character's liking.

I wonder if BioWare is going to do what they did for DA:I (on twitter this time) and straight up announce the romanceable crew and squad, etc. Or announce the number of romances in game and the orientations and such. I hope they do because I get sick of hearing, each time a new character/crew is announced, "I hope he/she is straight", "I hope he/she is bi" "I hope he/she is gay" which inevitably leads to arguments and contention about what is fair and not fair, or which character should be this or that, etc. Just announce it and get it over with before they get inundated with those questions to the point of nervous breakdown.

At this point, romances have become such a big draw in BW games, one might think they actually are dating sims... it would be refreshing to - for once - not know what we'll get our selves into, and just let the story unfold.

Well said and I do tend to agree.  I generally favor player sexuality but that's more because the fanbase is out of control with their demands of every conceivable sexuality and taste represented in game...the infamous 2/2/1/1 or whatever it is.  If each group has to be represented equally even if they represent a lesser percentage of the people purchasing, then I'd rather see a player sexuality mechanic that still allows for a refined core game.  Either that or return to the days when relationships were more implicit than explicit.