The Character Romance thread (Official)

Yep, there is rarely any NPCs around in same sex relationships. DA had some like Wade and Herren but they weren't stated as couple in the game, just outside of it.

Sometimes the lack of same-sex relationships even seems to go against games narrative. Like Skyrim has this: everyone is bisexual (or playersexual who knows) approach and nobody pats an eye when you marry spouse of same-sex. Although everyone is supposed to be bi or sth like that, I don't remember any NPCs in the game being in same-sex relationships. Every guy had wife, every girl had husband or boy who was into them.. It's like everyone were actually straight.. until they met Dragonborn. Who everyone was into for some reason. Kinda weird actually, lot "weirder" than having actually gay and lesbian couples in the game.

ESRB doesn't consider m/m scenes any more "rating worthy" than other scenes.  So a m/m scene with rear nudity and a m/f scene with the same amount of rear nudity would get the same category "nudity" and affect the rating in the same way. 

Not sure I want to see a naked Angara... but an Asari makes sense because her anatomy is like a human.

*sigh* I had a sudden bad feeling that gay males are going to get shafted in the romance department in a Mass a Effect game.

Again.

Yep.

I'm already preparing myself for disappointment.

Because there has been literally nothing that suggests to me otherwise. Every piece of information in regards to romances suggests to me that I am going to be disappointed. 

And there being hushed up on revealing the love interest options is good for them, since they can avoid any potential backlash before launch. After launch, they won't care less about any backlash in regards to this, since the game will already be out and bought and sold, so they have no reason to respond to it.

Ha! This is actually a pet peeve of mine. The bulge size I mean. I am so very irritated and bored of seeing ken dolls every-freakin'-where in games. With exceptions. Eh.

This might be the main reason I finally decided to embrace mods... 
Playing Skyrim at the moment, while we wait for MEA, with awesome nude mod and appropriately revealing clothes ... (yeah I know, I skipped a stage... hahaha)

[CHECKS PHONE] 44 days, 3 hours, 23 minutes, 44 seconds.

OMG!! I vote no Also to giant breasts. I never noticed bulges were too small or too big or... I just never noticed But I do notice the massive tits on all female NPCs. ALSO the SAGGING in Dragon Age women COME ON BioWare; I know it is like the medieval times or some shit but give these women bras!!!!!

Everyone is talking about Bulge, & Bust sizes, & I'm over here wondering what those Turians, & Krogans look like without their armor on 24/7.

You know, if the gay male content is going to be a complete disastrous bust, I'm curious to see how the devs are going to explain their decision on why the MLM content is lesser and not appealing to gay/bi male players, and whether they admit their shortcomings or stand by their decision.

Sales won't probably suffer, but there is other things to consider. Reputation and Bioware fandom for example. People wouldn't be happy about that for sure.

LOL!

No, the point here is (well at least my point, I won't speak for other people of course) that there's no need or want for a gigantic-poke-your-eyes-out-bulge (funny how little comment there is about the boobs who fit that category... I swear I must wear goggles when playing some games to avoid my eyes being put out by the huge pointy boobs).

The point is that I find it extremely agravating that devs (most of them across all companies) make a conscious effort to MINIMIZE all bulges to the point of non-existance (non-existing ones are usually "balanced" - and I use that word bitterly - by shaded textures or whatever they're called, which create an illusion of 3rd).

It's the same thing with gay representation in games in general. I don't expect 50% of the npcs to be gay. And I would be happy with even a bit less than 10% (even though people who cling desperately to the "gays are 0.000002% of the population" rethoric are severely lacking in the upstairs department). But when you see devs deliberately and systematically refusing or avoiding to have ANY gay characters at all, ever, then I lose my patience or good will towards them. Most devs/companies anyway.

And while Bioware is a huge improvement over others, they can use a lot of improvement themselves (like I mentioned earlier, the lack of any and all gay npcs in the world is very telling of an underlying problem and it's present in Bioware games as well - so not counting the big npcs marketed as gay, you then go out in the world and find... 0... abso-fkn-lutely 0 gay npcs out of a few hundred. that's not realism, that's... well, I won't continue that sentence, I would get too worked up over it lol)

So yeah, personally I'm not asking for HUGE bulges, I'm just asking for devs to stop castrating males in their games. A fairly decent demand if I do say so myself.

Oh, and if anyone brings up "but think of the children" in this, as if a penis existing would somehow magically harm a child's mind (no point in going too deep in that conversation if one has more than 2 functioning neurons) please point them to the nearest hospital for the mentally ill.