Concern over romance's

While acknowledging that I too am a guy IRL, I must disagree.  I think the Femshep/Garrus romance was probably the best in the game, perhaps the best in the entire series. 

I do have some concern over romancing, (more questions than concern) But my one main concern is that Bioware is taking too much of a frat boy, dude bro approach to romancing. That one dev saying "the banging is pretty good" making that the main focus of romancing just seems immature. The Salarian pilot also seemed to make a pretty big deal about using the captains quarters for sex. I just hope they understand that their main audience isn't 18 year old jocks. I also wonder just how many romance options their will be, I think I heard one dev say their will be romance options outside of your own crew (not sure about that). I just hope the writing is good and they don't take an immature approach to romancing. 

Where do you live... lesbian land or something?

That sounds nice, most of the time it feels like this tho...

IDK I went through a phase when the only games I played where League, COD and sports games. Not sure I would have really considered myself a gamer back then.

Why not? I would consider that a gamer. If you play video games regularly, I think that's considered being a gamer. Now, there is a difference between hardcore gamers vs casual gamers but they're all still gamers as far as I can tell.

You're choices as a straight woman were:  Garrus, who was not to everyone's taste.  That romance you had to start in ME2 (makes sense and Garrus is my favorite) The other was Kaidan, who could be dead on Virmire and that some consider very boring.  If a newcomer didn't know that Kaidan and Garrus were the only two options, they were SOL.

Then there is a single FemShep waking up next to Javik after a "wild" party.  It's heavily implied that they had sex, since Javik says, "At least there is one thing primitive are good at."  He could be trolling Shep, but the way she says, "Not another word," indicates they did just that. Without the player having imput as to whether or not they do this.  It wasn't very funny and in fact, some players find that insulting.  It's one thing to choose to (probably) have sex with Javik, it's another when the decision is made for you.

ME3 wasn't great in that department.

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I've been hearing that for years and it sounds as silly now as it did when I first heard that around 4-5 years ago.  "It doesn't count if it's a mobile or causal game," as well as "Well, most of those women in that ESA statistic play only those kinds of games."  

My husband is the one that plays Candy Crush and Diamond Digger and all of that crap. Never payed a dime for any of it. I don't get the fascination anyhow. I stick with my AAA and occasional indie stuff, except for a bit of Plants vs Zombies every once in awhile. The automatic assumption that only girls play mobile/"causal" games and never touch AAA or indie stuff is pretty out of date.

The same assumption goes that men don't play those games either. My husband likes both his Candy Crush stuff and AAA games. We're both excited for the upcoming GoW (which has been delayed by a year irrc.)

Besides, when did puzzle games stop counting as gaming? It's like if someone only preferred Tetris or Breakout they aren't playing "real" games. Those games are just as real as any RPG or other big budget titles or indie titles. Causal shouldn't mean lesser. Besides, think of it as a gateway.  Folks of all ages can start by playing Candy Crush or something along those lines and then they can take suggestions on bigger and frankly better games.

Now, do you mean folks that gobble up every bit of gaming news and latest info out there?  As well as the hardcore completionist?  The "serious" gamers?  That's another matter and one that's not taken into account when they do that poll.  So we can guess, but we can't know for certain if less women are into the "gaming culture"  or "less hardcore" than men.   It's up to the company to decide how they want to approach that information.  

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the site that companies and publishers trust when it comes to gathering statistics.

I grew up on video games and it was only within the last 20 years that this type of mentality came up. Same with "girls don't play hardcore games." No one gave a crap when I was a kid if a girl played Conta or if a boy played as Princess Peach in Super Mario 2. It's odd to me, but hey, whatever floats your boat.