Why Do People Need to Know Everything About The Characters?

The orientations of characters shouldn't be considered spoilers any more than what they look like. It's just part of what they are, not who they are - not part of their personality.

And knowing that is very helpful for planning characters and how you want to roleplay them. It's lame to make a character specifically for one romance just to find out ingame that you can't romance them as that character.

The other part that's now getting under people's skin is the hypocrisy of the "We want you to discover romances naturally" spiel, since they officially revealed 2 options for Scott after saying that.

As for actual spoilers, it's just personal preference, really. Personally I don't want huge story spoilers, but some are fine with it. Live and let live.

-Impatience
-It's fun to plan out your character's personal story
-Pregame fantasy fuel
-IMPATIENCE

Considering the heavy roleplaying vibe that people have going into these games and their desire to be the character they're playing, having this meta knowledge is a waste.

If we met in real life, I wouldn't know your orientation and you wouldn't know mine, but if one of us deemed the other attractive --assuming some nondescript gender/sexual orientation stuff because I don't look at mini-profile shit so just assume that everything matches up in regards to external preferences--and attempted to pursue, it's all part of the unplanned experience.

And though I can see and understand the other side when taking in real world examples of wanting to know ahead of time in order to avoid wasting your own time, and that's fair. And at the same time, Bioware addressed that by letting things slip about Suvi, Gil, Cora, and Peebee. Just like knowing everyone's deal in real life ruins the mystique of life, knowing everything ahead of time about these characters ruins their mystique, too.

If you hit on one and they decline, recover and move on to someone else. You'll eventually snag someone; just like life.

If people want immersion in their games, there's nothing more immersive in this context than getting curved.

Sexual orientation is a preference and spoils part of the character imo. Besides, how do you reveal it without sounding weird? It's like saying, "Lucy is an engineer who works at the station. Oh and by the way, she's gay." I mean really? Who says things like that?

Ok I get roleplaying but again, do you need to know everything about a game to roleplay? You try to romance a character, it works great. You try to romance a character and it doesn't work. Oh well, move on to another. I don't see the problem of failing to do something in videogames. You're not expected to know and do everything are you?

I didn't know about the Scott romance thing. I don't pay any attention to that stuff anyway.

Not everyone feels like you do because we are human and have individual minds. If you can't understand why or try to justify why you think it's pointless, it's not going to stop how the other person feels.

I never said anything was wrong with having preferences or feeling anything. I just asked why people have these preferences. I don't understand and would like to. This is the point of asking questions yes?

I don't know -- why do people need to know what other people's temperaments are?

I like spoilers. They don't ruin the experience for me. In fact, when I get both the game and strategy guide, I will read up on all character romance and story spoilers while the game is updating. Different strokes for different folks.

With that said, I don't really care much what the devs reveal about characters or not. They can, they can not. I agree some of the people on Twitter, YouTube, and, yes, even this Forums can be a bit grating when it comes to femRyder, gayRyder, lesbianRyder romances and exposure. It's one thing to ask for representation but all the passive-aggressive whining and ranting and bugging of devs is kind of annoying. And that coming from a gay guy who actually marched out on the streets for social issues. Is this what gay rights and feminism has been reduced to? Lobbying FOR A VIDEO GAME?

Jesus Christ, this is the truest thing I've read all day, especially after that whiny ass tweet I read today about character romances.

People need to chill the hell out.

I think that answer makes more sense for the type of person who's in it for the rollercoaster experience; you want to know what kind of ride you're hopping on before you climb in sort of thing.

But a lot of the questions, whines, and complaints are coming from those who appear to be more in it for the immersive roleplaying experience, where knowing those sort of things, at least to me, run counter to that kind of roleplaying to begin with.

Why is wanting to know a character's sexual orientation being equated with wanting to know everything about that character?

You didn't 'waste your time'. You may of been disappointed, I know I was. But your not 'wasting your time' by talking to an NPC in a BioWare game. That is one of the most silly things I keep hearing about wanting to know romances ahead of time. Wasting time, c'mon, not like you ONLY talk to the ONE NPC you can romance and everyone else gets the cold shoulder.

The whole idea of wasting your time on attempted romance is real world issue, not one in a game where your gonna be talking to every NPC anyway.

That said I'd still like a list just cause I like to plan out characters ahead of time. Though, having a list now wont really help me know if I actually 'like' those characters to even 'want' to romance whos available. That's also why I don't care if I even get a list at this point, as much as having one would be nice.

And dev tweets are the Mentos?