The Character Romance thread (Official)

One day we will have both. I hope.

YO you got me to check my email and I got an invite to a beta I signed up for 

fucking radical

Yeah, I've noticed he's generally better with plot and quest related writing than character writing, with some exceptions.

I did notice that almost everyone in the game had the same reasons for being in Andromeda. "I finally feel like I have a purpose, especially with you." *Heart eyes*

I know right! I mean, I get MEA is supposed to more idealistic and lighter (if you ignore the Space Nazi Kett) but the fact that almost everyone has the same motivations and goals just made things feel bland. DA2, DAI, and ME2 are great because the squadmates were so morally diverse and many of them had viewpoints and goals that clashed. Say what you will about Vivienne and Sera but at least they were distinct characters. 

I dunno how much effort they'll put forth to characters that can die at the end of the Iokath stuff. Also, flirting with Jace with Theron in the party if you've romanced him is just weird and kind of strange they made you take him.

Well it looks like they are going to have two storylines, one where you side with the Empire the other where you side with the Republic. so Jace and Acina should be safe since they are the "leaders" of the respective faction in Iokath.
Either way all of my characters are going to side with the Republic just in case Jace becomes romancable. Although I'm not going into Fallen Empire/Throne on my alts until more of the story is released.

Which will be fun for my Empire guys :  "I defected to get some daddy, sorry"

ca.ign.com/articles/2017/05/10/mass-effect-series-on-hold-according-to-report

So... Everyone probably already knows this but Mass Effect is going to undergo a hiatus for awhile with no sequels currently being planned. DLC's are probably going to still be underway but I wonder what this means for the Pathfinder cast. It wouldn't surprise me if a sequel does come that it would basically just reboot the series again and try to forget Andromeda even happened given its lukewarm reception and instead have the sequel take place another 600 years from now in a different part of the Andromeda galaxy.

I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not.

I'm sure Liam unfairly is stigmatised as the starting human male companion so the deck was already stacked against him. And since his romance content is a lot less than Jaal's he has less support in that area. But it seems like he's generally regarded as lukewarm, although as a whole the entire crew hasn't been runaway successes like other Bioware characters. And that is from any game, not just the squad from the entire trilogy. MET is the outlier in that most Bioware companions only have one game to establish themselves and many of those characters are still popular. So MEA's characters don't get an out just because ME1's crew also took another game to flesh out.

I personally liked Carver (annoying little shit that he is, I can understand where he's coming from) and Aveline and Sera. Sera depends on my mood but overall I like her. And he wrote Jaheira's BG2 romance which was my favorite of them all. But just hearing such mixed reviews about Liam is a shame.

Someone mentioned that it would have been cool to have Bain Massani as a companion, because then his backstory wouldn't have been so milquetoast and he might actually have a past in the Milky Way he's running away from. The MEA crew all seem like watered down version of MET archetypes.

I doubt they'll abandon the IP but it will take back burner status for some time. I feel like EA really wants this new online IP to take off as it could be a cash cow, so that's going to be the focus of Bioware for a while. And DAI had a successful enough reception that DA4 will take precedence over a possible MEA2. I really think that EA wasn't fully trusting in ME anymore after the ME3 endings which generated so much bad press, so they only gave enough support to let Bio Montreal hang themselves with if it wasn't an immediate success.

Yeah, I agree Steelcan. We need more quality AAA RPG's out there if only so we can have a new game to negatively compare recent Bioware games too. Constantly singing the praises of Witcher 3 has gotten old.

Honestly, Kristjanson is my least favorite of BioWare's writers, despite considering Carver and Aveline two of my favorite characters. It feels like he has a particular type of character that he can write well, but when he gets out of his wheelbarrow, like with Jacob, Sera, or Liam, when he's writing a character who is of a minority or nuerodivergent, he ends up falling back on some unpleasant stereotypes. TBH, after I read an interview back in January where he talked about how he 'always thought of Kaidan as bi' back during ME1. Considering that no one seemed willing to fight for bisexual Kaidan, and he hasn't handled a gay or bi male character since, I kinda get the impression he's got some element of 'I have gay friends, I can't be homophobic!' that he needs to work through.

Like, leave him with a non-romanceable character, he seems to get a solid character. But when they're romance options, or they're not cis-straight white people, he seems to have a lot of difficulty getting things right.

Leaked footage of Bioware "improving" default Sara for 1.07 patch



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@andraste cheers. :kiss: