Are romances 100% open to both genders? [answered]

Scott and Sara will have different romance options. IGN is always putting out incorrect information.

Some characters just won't be into you. Definitive. 

At this point is going to be Liam, the human companion. Not sure about NPCs.

One of my type YES.


White, Black, Asian I don't have problem ... as long as they're handsome

Ah, that's a shame. I wonder why the decision to move away from player-sexual characters was made.  Did they specify?

Anyway, thanks all for the quick answers.

Okay, I understand that line of thinking, even if I still disagree with it.  They sacrifice game enjoyment for the sake of realism.  Always a balancing act.  They just tipped the wrong way IMO.

Yes, this.  Dorian is sufficiently cool that he got me to play my first gay character.  That character was arguably the one I enjoyed the most as well.  

Everyone draws their own lines in the sand where to call bullshit and enforce realism. BioWare chose to adhere to the line that yes, in real life people tend to have set orientations be they straight, bi, or gay. In other areas they just went with what was cool or easy. Like... characters wearing belly shirts in hostile alien environments. *cough*Peebee*cough*

I would have preferred the opposite, but there is nothing that makes my lines and better than anyone else's.

Yes of course.  =)

I don't know I kind of feel this is a slippery slope, in so much that if for example straight men have 3 options, straight women have 3 options, and gay and lesbians have 2 or however it works out, and 3 of the options for men and women are squadmates, and all gay and lesbian players have are crew members or NPCs, then there is going to be a certain amount of backlash from whichever group have the inferior number and or available characters to romance. I just can't see BioWare serving everyone equally in terms of romanceable characters by choosing not to have the player sexual approach.

I see the positives to not having it be player sexual, but like in the original trilogy, there is always going to be one group who arguably get the better options, and thus to experience the better options, players are forced into playing a character whose sexuality is different to their own.

This is all currently speculative at the moment, as we don't even know the full group of squadmates yet or who are available to who as romanceable characters, yet I'm still concerned that one group are going to be favoured more over others, rather than everyone whether straight men, women, bi, gay or lesbian gets an equal amount of options of decently written character romances.

I think in this case it was a good choice to get away from that in order to create a world where each NPC is their own person. It helps rather than their sexual orientation being responsive to whatever the PC is. In general a believable world can be a very important thing in a RPG.

I know that some people will be upset that they can't romance the person that they want and it's understandable, but that happens regardless so it's not like they're avoiding that happening by making every option player sexual.

I never got my Kasumi romance regardless of broshep or femshep =P