The Character Romance thread (Official)

Huh, lots of interesting information here. Nudity in a Mass Effect game? I feel like I shouldn't be so surprised, considering Dragon Age:3 and it's depictions. Also king Flynn said on Twitter that he is not interested in revealing romance options before March 21st, which I understand but dissaprove of personally.

A dude I worked with who was also a Mass Effect/Dragon Age fan said he played a male elf mage in DA:3 and tried to woo Sara, to no avail. I would prefer if I could avoid such disappointment. But I suppose I can just Google whether or not a character is romancable/compatible with my character (someone is bound to have blown through the game by then).

Also I'll bet one-million, no. Make that two-million credits that Vetra is not romancable. I just get that vibe from her.
Hopefully by "more romancables" they don't mean 2-3 Kelly Chamber light romances.

I think there will be male butts.
The leaks were examples not the whole content.
We also know there are some romances that are more explicit and others more fade-to-black, this just how the examples played out.
I'm convinced it's not the whole story, but we shall see.

My concern is alien nudity. If the leaks are true. That's not something I'm sure I can deal with lol

If it was anything but Asari, I think I might mostly be impressed that they went through the trouble of creating an even partially nude body model for an alien. And I suppose many fan curiosities could be answered. 

The implication was nudity with an Angaran but hopefully it meant nude female Ryder lol

I think because it represents a few other romances, or because it could have some language in the scene that requires it to be sent. 

Sera and Dorian beg to differ, unless you mean ME.
Vetra might be gay or bisexual and not be a LI, for all we know. 



Daveliam stated in Peebee's scene with Scott, his but was shown.

We don't have the insight to know what the process required,
what or why it was sent or how representative the content is of the game.

Speculation is all fine and well, but we know jack... surely?

So I can't speak too much about it because I'm just a little more familiar with ESRB than the rest of you. But here's what I think:

Since it's an optional process, they can choose to send in whatever they want. Bioware tends to send in the stuff that they think is most likely to influence the rating. So, with these three being the three that they selected, I think it's safe to say that they are the most explicit (or at least on par with others like them). Keep in mind that the ESRB raters don't necessarily view s/s scenes as any more "explicit" than o/s scenes. They do not view shirtless males as "nudity" at all. Otherwise games like Street Fighter 2 would be classified differently.

So I think it's safe to say that we'll see bare breasts from female characters (both the PC and the LI's in at least some cases) and rear nudity from both males and females (both the PCs and at least female LI's in some cases). Not sure if we'll see male LI's nude at all, but it does seem odd that they'd have Scott nude and not any of the male LI's (especially since Scott wasn't nude in the m/m scene that we know of).

I, for the life of me, can't think of why they sent the m/m scene that they did. It doesn't sound like it was terribly risque dialogue and we know that the other scenes had more nudity and actual on-screen sex activity. The skeptic in me thinks that maybe the dev team thought that because it was two guys, they'd send it just to be safe (as in, to indicate to ESRB that there are gay male scenes), but knowing how ESRB rates, it seems silly since that wouldn't affect the rating by itself. So, who knows.

yes India springs to mind , and I'm with you on being miffed about not having a LI there with you for the beginning . Even when we got someone they either weren't on your squad or we didn't get them until late in the game ( DA) or in the series(ME) ! I'm really hoping for something good for Reyes at this point  .

As Elder King said, it wouldn't explain why f/f scenes are more explicit. And it also wouldn't explain why they sent it ESRB, since they have nothing to do with bans in conservative countries.

I hate to be pessimistic again, but I can't shake the feeling it's because of the whole "two guys" thing.......

MaleShep can romance Kaidan.  Maybe that makes one or both of them bisexual but are we really quibbling over that?  If Shep and Kaidan get together, or even if they don't, you could still end up with Kaidan wondering out loud if Shep is flirting with him or even saying he wants to be with Shepard.  He's far from straight, even if not gay.