The Character Romance thread (Official)

I disagree. I was genuinely surprised when Tali and Garrus turned out to be LIs in ME2. A pre released list would have ruined the experience. At this point it's impossible to do something similar since everyone expects the squadmates to be available. I rolled my eyes when Dorian was announced as gay ("oh, here comes the pandering..."), but he turned out to be a great character, not just a token romance. L Sera announcement was disappointing because I like elf women (rolled a femquisitor, problem solved), but I liked that even with a Mquisitor you can still be her friend. I really hope that MEA takes the same route with the relationships. They offer more than just the romance or goaway, if you want you can form lasting and great friendships with every potential LI (squad or otherwise) regardless of their orientation.

It's experience in the game alright to get turned down, but is it positive experience if you wasted whole playthrough, because of that? ^^; Also it kinda sucks that one option for straight male characters is confirmed- Cora is confirmed LI for bro!Ryder, but every not planning to play one is left to uncertainty. Is Vetra bi, lesbian or straight? Is Jaal for both Ryders? There is just lot of guessing and longer it goes more disappointed some will be.

Cora and Scott kiss was pandering too? Ashley/Miranda hooking up with Shepard in ME1/2/3 trailers? However it should be taboo and pandering every time they announce a LGBTQ character? C'mon dude  Mainstream media is an eternal pandering for heterosexual people then. Yeah, you could have been surprised when you found out about Tali and Garrus, just imagine when gay male players found out how there weren't m/m romance, even f/f romances were a product for straight male players without lesbian players in mind. You have to understand that you have advantage and privilege on this, because you will never have to worry about of being excluded, and it's a fact that the most important characters have been straight.

Who knows? Mabye they'll suprise us with Drack.

Well... I still hope: not. Better if we just be friends.

I find it difficult to feel much sympathy for straight female players, given they had pretty much double the number of options of everyone else in Inquisition. As for gay male players, I'll wait and see. It looks like it'll be a step up from ME3 no matter what they do. 

I'm really happy with what's been teased so far. I was hoping for a male alien and an actually alien-looking female LI for my Scott, and it looks like he'll have both   Maybe this will be the first Bioware game where more than one of the romances appeals to me. 

As gay male: Bull: 1. Not my type, 2. BDSM 3. depend on an early decision, he turn against his love (but well, despite the romance surprisingly good finally)
Dorian: 1. Not my type, 2. Stereotype 3. Skype-cristal, not romance specific (on the other hand, I like his commitment toward his homeland, but still I liked better the friendship with him, the romance was good, but not the best for me.)

I really want Cullen – compared to Anders' spirit-problem this little lyrium-shit is really petty...
(Solas also not my type, but that the vallaslin-issue was romance dependent, was a bit unfair. Dorian's crystal was not romance specific – as I mentioned.)

Yes, true. I romanced Cassandra, and liked her romance.

If we're trying to even things out in gaming then straight male players shouldn't be getting any female romance options for the next... oh, 20 years or so. 

lol given some of the response to Cora and Peebee and the whole "women are ugly" shit femRyder has been getting as well, I wouldn't be against that   jokin' k?

Where???

And more importantly, which MEA romance??? 

Oh Jaal's.

Well I'm expecting some drama given the nature of Ryder being human and Jaal angara and they are literally galaxy crossed lovers as opposed to star crossed 

As long as the ending is happy and the drama gets over and done with at the start I'd be fine.