What were your thoughts on the romances?

Heh, I went in expecting to romance Garrus, and then I saw Thane. OMG, I have never had it so good in a videogame, ever. Then I hit DA2, and it was just as awesome. BioWARE suddenly had leading men that were my speed. Holy cow, holy wow! I was smitten. Then, of course, along came Inquisition, and all was back to normal. To romance a really cool NPC, please press "male" on a gender selection screen. Okay, the previous sentence is dumb. I know, there are plenty of choices, and I think we did luck out with Jaal. What it really means is that I frigging loved Thane, Anders and Dorian, and I badly wanted Jaal to be just like Zenith only, you know, romance-able, and I did not get my wish. Boo-hoo. I'll live.

Big gay Qunari run with Dorian too. Somehow the placid and unruffled nature of the male Inquisitor just landed itself to set off Dorian's mercurial nature, and a former Q merc just went so well with shielding a Tevinter heir going through the school of hard knocks. If not for Dorian, I would have also fallen for Cassandra's romance, after that moment by the window, with the golden dust dancing all around them. But Dorian's was a more alive take on the fantasy noble background than Cassandra's imo.

And, yes, I also felt like a princess, when the game was like:

"Yo, Domi? If you play an elf-maiden, you can romance 4 guys! Don't you all girls want to play a cutie pie loli?"

And I was like: "But I donna wanna play an elf-maiden loliiiii... I wanna play a Qunariiiiii!"

The game: "Excell- W-w-what? Well, there is Blackwall for that! And if not, surely, the Iron Bull got it covered! We ain't saying you are weird, or anything, but we've got it covered just in case you are! Enjoy!"

And I was like: (Stomp my littl' feet) "I wanna what boys get!!!! And I wanna play a Qunariiiiiii!!!!"

I tend to play as the least boring (that is not human) race available with decent romance content and non wonky animations. That relegates you to elves in pretty much any game that isn't DAI. So I play them, but it's hardly because I prefer them.

I always preferred humans to elves. But I wanted to romance Solas and rolled elf chick for him. Felt weird at the start, I was even dissapointed that Solas was not available to female Trevelyan (I planned to romance him with her before his preferensec became known). An now I can't imagine anyone as my Inquisitor except Lavellan who romance Solas. I'm in a loop, help me !!! (kidding, I threw myself into solavellan willingly)

Romanced both Peebee and Cora so far.

Gotta say I enjoyed Peebee's arc much better with a lot more flirting. Cora was extremely limited in flirting options. Peebee was just more earnest and fun. Cora was to straighlaced and obsessed with Asari. As great has her sex scene was, kinda feel she'd be better off pairing with an asari.... having said that, Peebee's scene was better over all (personal preference with the position and all)

When i started the casual sex-relationship with Peebee all Cora really said was "Peebee? Really?" and then went back to normal. Not much of a conflict there.

Will play around with the other romances, but I feel like my 2 main saves will be one with Peebee and one with Cora.

You know what would be a cool romance subplot? you start out game married to someone, and depending on your action and choices, the relationship either improves or falls apart. Every game has you falling in love, I wouldn't mind one where you are suppose to keep love alive.

Well, there are three possible ways for this to work out:

1. You get railroaded into an m/f relationship. No thanks.

2. You get railroaded into a gay relationship. This would never actually happen so it's not worth considering.

3. You get the option to choose your partner. This would also never actually happen because of the investment in resources it would require to be even remotely satisfying.

I haven't yet found a romance for my Sara Ryder. I never could relate to f/f romances, so I look for f/m and m/m pairings in games.
I haven't seen a single attractive human male (including both default protagonists and everything coming out of the CCs) in all four ME games. So, no male Shep or Scott, I simply can't stand looking at them. No such problems with the DA series and many other games.
Liam is my least favorite squadmate, nothing appealing. Not interested in Reyes (though this one is a well-written character). Jaal is good as a squadmate/character but as a LI he is not interesting or attractive to me. I don't like the looks of any of them.
If Bioware fixes the CC, then I will make Scott and romance Vetra or Cora.

As for the MET, Garrus was the only LI I genuinely liked. Wanted to romance Tali, but hated the ugly face of male Shepard. My Shepard was single in every playthrough of ME1 (spent all her time talking to Garrus).

Completely agree with you. Even after we had our "first kiss" and basically promised ourselves to each other, my Cora would just greet me with a normal "hey Ryder", and then I wouldn't even get an option to continue flirting with her outside of story conversations. What is there is great, it just doesn't feel all that connected to me.

I just finished my first playthrough with the Jaal romance.
I was hating it so much that I could no longer enjoy playing as Ryder. So I stopped for a few days and decided to immerse myself in Jaal fandom to see if the love others had for him would rub off and I could carry on to the end with some enthusiasm.



The first BW romance I have ever hated, and I liked Kaidan. Freaking Kaidan.
I find that level of adoration and cooing just suffocating and unpleasant. It made me wish I had Javik on board my ship so he could have helped me throw Jaal out the airlock.

Don't even get me started on the gushing emails he sends.
And the fact he calls you darling. Calm down Jaal. Kiss her ass anymore and your fedora will fall off.

:smh:

I felt the same way and Domi said it really well when she said he has the voice of a senior citizen LOL, cause that's exactly how I felt it myself. God I hated the alien, I hated his face, the way he looked at me with his tomato cringing face like he was crying every time and I hated his old man voice!!

Admittedly like all the other gay men out there, I was a bit dissatisfied with the M/M options for romances.

However, I wasn't really focused on romances while I played since there was so much more to do and I felt that as a character it didn't make sense to be getting romantically involved with someone while there's a maniac out there hell bent on destroying the entire cluster.

Even with the lack of M/M romances, I found my Ryder getting together with Cora to be the best option (something I still have not acted on lol).

Ultimately though, I would really love the opportunity to form a relationship with Avitus Rix. Not a romantic relationship, the guy just lost his lover for christ sakes I'm not that much of a dick. But I would like to be able to form a close friendship with him. His codex entry says he hasn't talked to ANYONE about what he's feeling and you're even offered the option to provide support to him (which he politely refuses ). No one can bottle up emotions like that forever, so why not go out to Vortex, get a couple drinks, and talk about Macen. As much I as would swoon over having Avitus as a lover, realistically I couldn't see that happening for quite a long time (like some DLC that takes place about a year after ME:A or even the next game).