WOW those sex scenes are...detailed and well done.

Yes, blurryness makes all the difference. By the way, 1:16, 1:22? Buttshots. Blurry, and to teh side, but buttshots nonetheless. The second even had a bit of sideboob. I'd link Ash too but I don't think we need every example do we?

Explicit Scenes: Cora, Jaal, PeeBee
Implicit Scenes: Gil, Reyes, Vetra
Ambiguous Scenes: Avela, Keri, Suvi

Personally I'm glad they did this rather than everybody having explicit sex scenes.

Yes. All romancable characters count towards the achievement. 

Yep. A really poor showing from BioWare. They really shouldn't brag about their "good banging" and how "inclusive" they are when they did such a half-baked job with most of the romances. Straight male Ryder had two quality romances. Straight female Ryder had one excellent romance. The rest of the romances were lacking in execution and content.

I don't get people who complain about sex in a video game. Especially this one, since most of them are skippable and don't end the romance and get an alternate scene instead.

Maybe because you don't engage the argument? You said sex was a private and personal affair. I demonstrated that you had no issue with the game showing said private and personal affairs until lol, they actually started showing privates.

Are you aware that "making love" is still a euphemism for sex, even in this day and age (albeit among either the more romantic or naive, depending on how you look at it)? Maybe keep that in mind.

And you wanna know why I mock your view? The underlined, right there. The level of implied judgement here is really kind of annoying. Guess what, people fuck. It's kinda what makes the world go round, and keeps the species going. It's not "shameful" it's not "indecent", it's just what happens. What we have here is a media representation of people doing people things, though of course in a highly fantastical setting and for entertainment purposes. They explore, they build, they fight, they die, they have hopes, dreams; they get angry and they get scared and they get happy or sad. They form bonds, they have attractions, they act on those attractions and this is the result. If you don't personally like it, that's on you. But quit trying to say it's something dirty or demeaning.

Seriously, even people known for asking for asexual romances aren't as high-strung about it.

Maybe BioWare can redeem itself with the DLC? I'm not getting my hopes up because there's A LOT of improvement that needs to be done. I think BioWare needs to have some sort of system put in place where it can maintain a level of consistency with romances across all of its games. Having this ad hoc approach where each writing team does what it wants just doesn't seem to be working. There's no telling what romances will look like in the next Dragon Age game, considering David Gaider left BioWare.

I'll admit I was puzzled when I first saw you asking for romances without sex. But I got that this was a personal thing for you and you weren't judgemental of the concept; on the contrary you seem quite supportive of everyone getting what they want. Sorry if it seemed like I brought you into this as a negative. If anything I meant to say you're quite reasonable with these things.

Correct me if I'm wrong but none of the Andromeda romances do it in the crew lounge in front of everybody do they? Oh, by audience you mean us? You are aware than an audience in that sense, is kind of a requirement for media right?

And you can drop the "I expected better" crap. My being a mod has nothing to do with this discussion. Although I have to agree with you now, this conversation got 200% dumber. Exhibitionism. Christ, what a joke. Yeah we're done here.

I'm not going to pick apart your post to answer in separate sections, you get it all in one nice block, because that's how I post

If you need to know which romances are "graphic" and which aren't, wait until there is a guide, or buy the guide.  I stumbled into Kaidans romance in ME1 completely unawares that could even happen and when he showed up in my room and things happened my mouth was hanging open.  But, I'm a grown woman with 3 kids.  I wasn't shocked. Or appalled. I just kept playing the game.  It was just one part of something in the story.

If you are playing Mass Effect then your actions speak louder than your words.  There is death in those games, it's not a secret.

The bolded part, I don't even get...it doesn't seem to be something from my post?

Again, the romances don't have to end in a "porn scene." Stop being so dramatic.  You could just skip the romance all together if you're so against it, or, again, play something more to your liking, instead of insisting that everyone who enjoys them is some how wrong.  Or that BioWare did them wrong.

I have no problem with the romances and never have, if I did, I would just not play them.  Not tell others they are wrong for liking what they like.  Simple.

And on that note I won't debate this as I've read your posts for years and know you won't change your point of view because of anything I say. And I won't change mine.

Enjoy your gaming.  Or not