The Character Romance thread (Official)

So you are saying the romances should react diferent depending on what Hawke has between his/her legs?
How would that work exactly? Anders, Merrill and Fenris fall in love with Hawke, not with "a woman" or "a man", and Isabela likes to have sex with everyone so it made sense if gender didn't matter. And it still shouldn't matter because is a game and we all are happy if we choose to romance whoever the hell we want. Really, why would someone be angry because they can romance whoever they want? Is freedom, who doesn't like freedom? don't we play videogames to escape reality?
And if someone for X reason feels the need to have a gay, lesbian or straight character in their game they can always headcanon, like in Fallout 4, everyone is playersexual, not bisexual, since most of the romances you don't know what they fancy, so you can think "X character is lesbian" "X is gay", etc.


Romances are more about love than just sex (If they were just sex then it makes sense if they prefer a sex over the other), they can make your character and the LI's character change, also they affect the ending of the game (Like having little blue kids with Liara).

Since as people menitoned before "Ryder isn't going to ask everyone what they fancy", then why can't all of them be bisexual so everyone romances the character they like? after all, they are toys, our toys, not real people, we should be using them, not them forcing us to change the sex of our Ryder if we want to romance that character.

So, you say all characters being "playersexual" (it would have been easy to have them bi, but BW made an effort to actually not do that, so whatever, let's go with the silly "playersexual" term) somehow takes away from the characters and story. And then you proceed to describe how romance with these characters doesn't influence them, their story or the overall story at all since, apparently, romance doesn't change anything. As the Oracle would say, make your damn mind. Are "all bi" characters bland and storyless or not. Is romance irrelevant or not. Flip flopping mid sentence is just ridiculous.

It seem so far, because they are the only romanceable aliens we know so far (+ PeeBee). When we learn there is a ton of romanceable aliens who all have different preferences, I guess everyone will find a suitable "candidate" for him/herself.

So there really is no big issue here, if both Jaal and Vetra are straight

That's not a solution though.   That's just what you want and what you think would work best.

But they had to make a decision on this one way or another
I personally really don't mind BI characters, hell I wouldn't mind if all romanceables were playersexual.

But for those who mind that (and turns out they are a large % of the fanbase) they had to 'balance' this somehow.

1 month and we all learn how

Yeah, except for the fact that maybe they'd want to enter a same sex romance with a squadmate, as well as the fact that gay/lesbian romances would be relegated to side characters with little content again. Having them be bi would make the most people happy as well.

And I'm not really sure how either of them being straight makes sense, at least any more sense than them being bi/gay

Most obvious? Makes sense?

NO.

How? How is gay players and lesbian players being denied an alien squadmate romance, on top of no humans as well, "obvious solution" and "makes sense"?

Oh, cause you'd get Vetra so everything would make sense for you, but screw everyone else 

Are you trolling right now?

No big issue if Jaal and Vetra are straight??? It wouldn't be for you, of course, as you'd get the most romance options again and can ride through the game on your wave of privilege like this thread.

There will be a big issue if they are both straight, as that would pretty much mean gay and lesbians get no squadmate romances. 

For gods sake have you not read the past pages on this thread? Its very naive to come here and say it would be no big issue. 

Let me tell you it would be a big issue, even for some straight players, who don't like listening to other players complain about something they can't complain about.

Read post above.

Also, you have to understand that while there are straight people like me who don't mind all BI characters, if Bioware makes every alien BI all of a sudden then it start to seem ridiculous for vast majority of straight fanbase (which is the largest).
You stumble upon so many people every day and how many of them are BI? let alone gay?
Now you fly to Andromeda and bam, every alien is either BI or gay ? Doesn't make sense I'm afraid.

Further deliberation about this topic is kinda pointless too, since we will get what will get and none of us at this point has any influcence on that.

Let's wait for the game to release, then there will be a lot to discuss.

Already said what I had to say
No purpose to ponder this any more before the release.

Who is to say that there aren't alien races with higher percentages of gay/bi people? Asari, for example, all seem to be into women, whether said women are asari or not. 
Furthermore, who's to say there wouldn't be higher percentages of gay/bi humans in the future? Or, even now... It's painfully ignorant to think that the amount of people who openly identify as LGBT in surveys represent all LGBT people, since many are still closeted, questioning, or doubt they're "really" LGBT and keep quiet about it. 

And, even if you disagree, it's speculative fiction for a reason, meaning it can speculate there are more, I don't know, gay people in the future. Hell, considering how we've been overpopulated for a while and may continue to grow in that direction, more people being born that, with some exceptions, aren't going to be wanting heterosexual sex that causes pregnancy actually makes sense to me.

I'm not kinda fond of all bi approach since I like characters having different sexualities, to me all bi isn't diversity. However I wonder if all LI's being bisexual, but non-LI's having different sexualities would work? That way you would still have different sexualities in the game and diversity with them without taking away LIs from the players. The problem for me often with all bi approach is that the world around doesn't fit it, everyone is into Dragonborn (Skyrim) or Sole survivor (FO4) regardless of gender, but all other people you see are in hetero relationship. But if non-LIs showed diversity in terms of relationships it wouldn't feel unrealistic?

It is bit battle between what is good for playing the game and what is good for realism.

However I don't see why Jaal and Vetra in particular wouldn't make sense as bisexual characters especially if there would be other straight and homosexual characters.

I'm hoping I'm making some kind of sense with this..