The Character Romance thread (Official)

You have all seen this flirting stuff with Suvi, right? (I have pages to catch up with but can't even so had to post it - sorry if it's already been posted)



"Kill. Me. Now."

OH MY ACTUAL WTF that was so cute and awkward


Edit: lol it was literally posted the previous page. Sorry. It took me an entire hour to catch up with this thread.

Re: "The gays are never happy."

I wasn't going to dig into this one, but I keep seeing it come back up and that line annoys me so fucking much. There are always going to be people that are unhappy with their options, this is a given. Straight guys are set af with three squad choices and Avela, at the least. Keri is probably still nex_doc, imo. They're getting, at the least, three squad options, probably three plus two off ship romances. We still see guys bitching about how everyone is ugly, Cora's hair, Peebee is Shrek, whatever. It's not because straight guys are just douchier than other people, it's just because people will always be disappointed when they don't get an option they like (especially if shut out of an option they do like - Suvi, Lexi, etc) and they're going to vent about it. It's natural. It should be expected.

But what really matters is that they at least try to give everyone comparable choices. It's impossible to give everyone an option that appeals to their individual preferences and venting about personal disappointment in equal choices shouldn't be a big deal to their future planning, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try to give everyone an equal opportunity to the same amount of content. DA sometimes comes close to giving us at least an equal amount of content as most other demographics, but ME has never even gotten close. Even in Andromeda, in our best case scenario, we'll be the only demographic not getting two options in the squad. Of course we're "never happy" with what they give us, it's been substantially less than everyone else in every ME game. Anyone would have gotten annoyed by now.

Right?  And wouldn't there be evidence of that in the code?  I mean, the miners have been clear that the only flags for Jaal are his trust levels.  So if there's also an emotional profile flag, that means that they missed it.  And if they missed that?  Then all bets are off because it means that we can't really use any of that information.

So... it seems we didn't get any new information while I was sleeping?

Unless trust is inherently tied to emotional profile for Jaal and maybe even others. The "trust point" system might include it. They don't really know what's filling the r1-r7 system, so it could basically be quests, past dialogue choices, psychological profile, or pretty much anything. I'm not sure it would be crystal clear in the code which was actually fulfilling that. Maybe someone that understands the code better can comment on the likeliness.

:gasp:

Actually, no. First of all, it doesn't look like his "trust" level only - also your progression. And, most important thing - I've seen things that are located deeper and can imply that some conversations check Ryder's personality (they had separate file for game to recognize it) but conversations are coded the way you can't actually know which ones of them do - it is deeper in tables where I can't check shit. 

Fucking "realism".  Barf.

I don't speak code so this is getting too confusing for me.  I hear that stuff is 'definite' but then I hear that stuff is 'hidden' and you can't be sure.  So I guess the take away is that nothing from the code is definite despite people saying that, in their opinion, it's pretty much confirmed. 

Also, I'm sure it's been checked already, but ALL flirts are open to both genders? This isn't a Solas kind of thing where the first is locked off but all the rest are still in the code? All of them are open? Sorry, I was thinking about this all night while trying to sleep.

He went on to say that Asari don't count as a female option

While I can understand the '' less gamey, more real '' it's just an excuse not give LGBT people more options, well, in this case gay men, cuz lesbians seem to get a decent amount of content.