The Character Romance thread (Official)

No, the DA team was nowhere near this tight-lipped about it. When introducing Dorian it was said he was gay, Sera's LI status was revealed when someone cosplaying as her kissed someone cosplaying Morrigan on the lips, they revealed that Josephine was available to men and women before they even revealed Josephine officially, and The Iron Bull's sexuality and availability was talked about on Twitter. 

[DREAMY SIGH] That was very nice.

Looking back at it, the only ones that didn't have their sexualities confirmed almost-immediately were the straight options, right?

Learn how to discuss things you disagree with without being a condescending jerk. Nobody said anything offensive to anyone specific, nobody was trying to hurt anyones feelings, a mere thought was presented, and just because you don't agree with it, does entitle you to trash about like a loon. If you want an echo chamber, sign up for NeoGaf. 

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As a gay person, it did cross my mind how if we are trying to build a civilization from scratch, it is quite generous for BW to throw us some gays into the mix. But when I imagine the world of ME, I think it's a bit restrictive and lame to think of such a technologically advanced world having problems like '' gays don't make babbys!! '' so I doubt having gays in the crew is a hindarance at all lol.

Not one Mass Effect game has had a f/f human squadmate romance. I am tired of it, I am hoping Sara can romance Cora. But most likely not, just a guess but
this seems to be the default way Jane/Sara = Kaiden/Liam Scott/John = Cora/Ashley. And if the next trailer has romance in it, my guess is Sara and Liam. Unless they make Liam bi, as they did with Kaiden later on. Sorry Kaiden you must be straight until ME 3, Except in my playthroughs I could never choose him over Ash. Haven't has a f/f human romance since Isabella from Dragon Age 2. Couldn't romance Ashley,Miranda,Jack, Cassandra unless playing male. This bother anyone else? What romance you want most? For me it's Sara=Cora

I'm not "trashing about like a loon" dear, however you do seem caught in a loop. It's ok if logic is not your strong suit.

Also, fyi, prefacing a ridiculous sentence with "as a gay person" doesn't mean you're magically exempt from being a homophobic... thing 
And finally, if "big words" (what is that lol) make you feel unconfortable and you feel the person using them is "a condescending jerk", that's all on you. Deal with your issues in therapy ok? 

Dragon Age has also always been far more sexual than Mass Effect.  Though both are BioWare, they're different in that regard.  There are no whore houses in Mass Effect(strippers yes but not whores), there has never been a "slut" companion in any Mass Effect game(well perhaps maybe Morinth) but there has been one in each Dragon Age game(Zevran, Isabela, Bull)

So it makes sense that the Dragon Age team would be more open to talking about this stuff.  The Mass Effect team just seems to be joking about banging this and banging that.  Also if I'm not mistaken, a lot of the romances for Inquisition was announced at gaymer or whatever it is they called that convention, I know that's where Bull was announced as pan.  Romances, especially non straight ones would obviously be announced at something like that because it works.

Also by that time, they actually released gameplay stuff, something BioWare hasn't really done yet for Andromeda.

But yeah, point being, two completely different teams, one more open to discussion sexuality, one not so much.  DA went far enough to retcon aspects of the Qunari just to fit in Krem.

I'm so glad you responded! It gives me a chance to point out that, yes, your rather ridiculous "jump the gun and anyone with a slightly differing opinion than me is a bigot!" rhetoric was a spurring to my posting! ♡

In short? You don't know me. You don't know that person. You don't know our histories. You don't know that I have two best friends, one a Trump supporter who kept me from committing suicide after a horrid breakup, though I lived hours away, or a post-op transsexual woman who I met playing video games online and knew in person the first time when they were getting married, as I traveled across coubtry to be there, and to support her union to a straight man officated by a fun but otherwise orthodox priest who agreed that love is love.

You don't know that I have Aspergers, or that I led a walk-out in high school to support the soldiers of the Iraq War because our school faculty had mandatory 'student protest marches' or that I was stabbed in 6th grade, in the back in the bathroom, because kids bullied me thinking I was gay, you don't know that Valentine's Day is terrible for me because it's the 12 year anniversary today that I found out my son wasn't mine.

You. Do not. Know me. You don't know anyone here, save our comments, on one message board made in one moment of one day of one week of one month of one year. But rather than talk, rather than discuss, to use rhetorical analysis or deep conversation, you pull out a soap box, stand up and point and yell, 'burn the witch!'

So do the right thing. Talk, calmly. Logically tell me you disagree, point out my lothos is off, that the logical fallacy of my character has zero weight to my point, rather than paint a picture that all who disagree fall into these tiny, self-fulfilling stereotypes, outlawing any thought that doesn't line up with your own. Which, I will added, is much more bigoted than stating 'if we got to another galaxy, we should focus on breeding.' In the very least. Or relaize that you talk about how silly it is and that 'not all topics have two sides' yet still say, without clause, that anyone who disagrees is playing the victim, or a bigot.

But hey. What do I know. I'm just the guy who agreed to your side, that the comment was wrong if for many reasons, I just wanted discussion to be civil, courteous, and open.

Now please, feel free to stare at the search engine results of the other 'oh snap' gifs you didn't choose, or, best yet, respond either with civility, or in PM so we don't derail this thread, further. 😘

Kelly was the only LI that had the kind of romance I wanted. 

It kinda feels like BW is trying to kind of keep the romance stuff under wraps because they don't want romances to be the main focus and what people will talk about. But while doing that, they are making romances this big huge secret, BIIIG thing that's SUUUPER SECRET when they could just be really nonchalant about it, either revealing who can romance who as characters are introduced or just keeping shit COMPLETELY under wraps and not using ANY romances to advertise the game.

But they are definitely hyping up the romances even if they are trying to make us focus on the character, story and gameplay rather than anything else. It's weird.

Honestly, I'm wondering... What exactly about her romance did you like? Obviously, it's ultimately up to opinions, but was it just because there was no sex scene? Her personality? Because personally I like relationships with a lot of tension, and I just didn't find that in her romance.

Josephine's romance in DA:I could have also done with more tension. And Merrill's romance in DA2. There was so much potential that I feel just wasn't ultimately delivered because it's easier to write them a certain way.

All of the above. I loved how it was the only romance that didn't force sex on you in the entire Shepard Trilogy and instead was written to be ambiguous so you can have the kind of relationship you want. I loved her personality and how she was just a genuinely good person rather than some morally grey/dark/edgy character. And I loved how her romance was without tension, though her being kidnapped and spying on you can be seen as tension. You mention Merrill and Josephine, those two are my two favorite romances in Dragon Age and in Josephine's case all of Bioware history.