What were your thoughts on the romances?

That's because this game is for straight men. As a straight woman, I got the best ever with Jaal's romance and I am ever so grateful for how it was done.

I'm agreeing with you. D: Sorry. 

Wait tribbing isn't really done...? It's a really sad day...

i thiught it kinda would look like that but that's because I've never seen the Scott version or seen it I just read about it... 

I have mixed feelings on the romances. On the one hand, I think my options (as in the actual characters) are great. I love both Liam and Reyes, and enjoyed their respective romances, and while Jaal doesn't appeal to me as much I still like him and will romance him my next playthrough. That's definitely a switch up from the usual Bioware game (with DAI as the exception where I like Cullen and Solas equally) where there's maybe one I like and the others I have little to no interest in. I also like that all three are really different - both in types of characters and types of relationships.

Liam's romance was sweet and developed in a realistic way, and both the couch and jetpack scenes were nice. Reyes was a lot of fun and I loved the chemistry he had with my Ryder. Both were refreshingly devoid of melodrama and tragic pasts and such (though with Reyes you have the option for an unhappy ending it's fortunately that - an option, rather than something forced on you because drama).

That said, I found them a bit... underwhelming. Especially with all the hype about more romances than ever, deeper relationships, and #PrettyGoodBanging. With Liam there was this long stretch of game where I wondered if I'd messed up his romance because the game barely acknowledges the fact. It's better when you finally lock it in, but even then I got almost no dialogue from the crew in regards to it. Certain scenes that should have had an emotional impact where him as an LI should've mattered didn't. It just felt... I don't know. Incomplete? With Reyes it's an issue of pacing. I was able to stretch out the Kadara plot my second playthrough because I knew to do that, but you can literally speed through Reye's quests and get the entire romance in one go. And then get absolutely nothing until the end of the game dozens of hours later. It would've been nice to get at least a couple more e-mails, or maybe some dialogue from him reacting to the main quest as you go through it, with variations specific to a romanced Ryder. Maybe a scene where he takes you to some cool place on Kadara on a date like Liam does on Eos? Though unlike with Liam at least the crew reacts to the relationship, which is nice.

As for the romance-specific scenes... well, let's just say if there's 'Pretty Good Banging' in this game I sure as hell didn't see it. Neither Reyes or Liam got Cora or PeeBee levels of quality or detail. Not even close. Even Kaidan in ME1 was better. Frankly I'm even good with a fade-to-black when it comes to actual sex, but... in this case even the kisses were brief and lackluster. I had high expectations after seeing Cora's in the trailer but... with both Reyes and Liam it's the typical barbie doll face-mashing with kissy noises. Apparently Jaal is better? Weird seeing how they picked him to have the explicit scene rather than one of the two good-looking human guys, but, I guess at least it's something?

It's just hard not to feel a bit resentful at the fact that straight Scott's romances clearly were the priority - both in the number of options and the quality of scenes (and apparently reactions from the crew too). Especially after straight Sheploo was the clear winner in that regard in the trilogy as well. I was really hoping that with MEA being a fresh start for the series in so many ways this dead horse could be buried once and for all. But it doesn't look like the team has learned much in this regard. And I won't get started on the m/m fiasco, as I'll leave it to the actual gay guys to speak to that.

So yeah, while I feel the romances overall were an improvement over the trilogy (especially since we needed the whole trilogy for those romances to feel developed), DAI did them a lot better.

So far I've only romanced Cora and Peebee (as Sara) and I quite enjoyed both of them.

Meh, maybe I'll romance Vetra. I'm not that into aliens though.

Except for Asari

I went for the strings and everything approach and it was quite good as well.

Yeah, it's not that I don't like aliens - and I still think Jaal is really pretty and love his design. It's just, after playing the game, his personality just doesn't appeal to me in that way as much as I'd hoped, you know? I was actually thinking he'd more more like Evfra - I'd be all over that cranky bastard if they'd let me be.  Where Liam and Reyes I ended up feeling drawn to far more than I expected.

I just wish things were more evenly distributed, is all. Again, I'm good with a fade to black - but I don't think it's too much to ask for a decently animated makeout scene? Clearly from seeing what they did with Cora and to a lesser extent PeeBee (with Scott anyway), it's not from a lack of capability. It just feels like they didn't care as much with the others and that sucks. Well, except for with Jaal - which I get that he's a dev favorite and the most plot relevant, but he's very alien and his romance isn't going to be for everyone. So it would've been nice for the other options to not feel like an afterthought in comparison.