How would you like to see romances improved?

We basically can't ask them to improve them if they only intend to broaden the scope with every game while their word-limits to character developments remain as slim as they've been in the last 10 years.

They should at least aim to make a reproducible event like hanging out in Ryder's room or something like that. There's too many ways I could see them improve romances but I just know their constraints are governed by their priorities from high up.

Revoice Jaal. His delivery is so painstakingly slow, it really makes it hard to stay tuned. I know, not happening....

Overall, less of, all plot-important, with romantic lines woven into actions in the game, and all player -sexual.

Not the VA's fault. Remember how Kaidan talks in ME3? Same writer for Jaal so I bet Cathleen has notes that say

"Well (He takes painstaking slow breath) you know? This is (he pauses for a second) not what I've... (he hesitates to say it) expected."

His VO does get a little ridiculous after a while. At some points it even sounds like the voice actor might be chuckling at himself. Kind of hard to take him seriously.

A lot of great ideas here!

That's an apples to oranges comparison. The Sims is a goofy family/house building simulator that's meant to poke fun at real life. As far as I'm still aware, there are still no explicit sex scenes in any Sims game. Those games were never about sex and kissing, as their whole relationship system is very rudimentary. I don't believe anyone here was asking for e-Harmony either, or whatever you may be insinuating. This is a game and folks merely want BioWare to execute better on what is provided. Some of the features being asked for were in previous BioWare games.

As I said before, the most important aspect of a BioWare game, for me, is the characters. Relationships and romance just happen to go hand and hand with making more compelling characters. I don't see any issue with having more believable and better executed romances in the game. The whole point of the experience is to be immersed and have fun with what you are doing.

I certainly would also like to see more suspense, drama, and conflict in the relationships to help flesh them out. However, that requires more dialogue and BioWare has word limit caps that prevent them from doing so much. In other words, repeatable activities can help alleviate that issue.

I respectfully disagree and stand by my comment.

Never say never... David Gaider is gone, and truth be told I thought DA2 had some of the strongest romances in any BioWare game. I just don't believe it's realistic to expect equal representation and quality if BioWare makes every romance option for a particular gender and sexual orientation. Give players the choice of who they want and more people will likely be pleased than disappointed.

I think the sheer scale and amount of content this game has is what made some areas falter. Not to mention, if it's true that most of the animation work was outsourced, the attention to detail in romances wouldn't have been the reason for the dip in quality elsewhere. I'd like to assume that struggles with a new engine and being ambitious led this game to being largely rough around the edges. Of course, I want to see comprehensive improvement, especially in animations, for all parts of the experience going forward. I don't believe that should be at the expense of the romance arcs, however.

I'm always split on DA2 because as much as I think the formula would still work well for them, I hated most of the characters on account of them feeling incredibly one dimensional.

Though the reason I said I only "kind of" think it is, is because I know that you could take away from a wide array of areas of the game to spend those resources on improving the rest of it.

Though when it comes to animations, it does seem as though they prioritized Cora's sex scene.

Hell, they prioritized female body models, period.

Cora and Peebee have different body dimensions. Gil, Ryder, Liam have virtually the same body type if you look at it. I think the only instance you see Scott's ass is with Cora, and the level of detail and body hugging contouring they did with Cora's armor to highlight her and Peebee's bodies (Peebe is also the one other character with skin tight pants, belly showing and all as well) dwarfs the monstrosity you see that is Gil.

Liam has his exclusive clothes, but honestly the choices in men for females and gay men is ghastly. There are virtually no options like ME3 where you'd have Kaidan and James Vega, who are pretty attractive men in their own right.

And then you had the opposite example of Steve Cortez made with the hideous character creator assets that makes their faces and heads look like silly putty, just like Gil and Reyes were made with character creator and as a result Gil is a dark skinned dude that some how was stuck with orange rust hair (completely unnatural looking) and a bald patch on his chin between his stubble, and Reyes has an actual clone in Addison's office but with a different hairstyle.

1.) They shouldn't suddenly get quiet after the sex scene. It's like they were using you for your body. They're so mean and you're not ok with that.

2.) Don't push sex to the end of the story. It makes it seem like sex is a prize and once the player has it the romance and the game is about to be over. That's just bad. There's nothing wrong with it happening more than once. After the first time the scene is played a fade to black or a pan over to a fireplace or whatever is fine. After all relationships are about more than sex are they not?

3.) Give the romances ability to actually do stuff. I was hoping to see a poker game in ME as a throwback to TNG (already done in DAI... sigh....) but at least do something like this.

4.) Make other people talk about it. It's a small ship...

More content for Reyes like loads more, and more evenly paced throughout the game. It was all then nothing for the majority of the game. He's far and away the most interesting character in Andromeda so I hope we will see more of Reyes in the future beyond the romance too.

I'm hoping they expand on them in future games. Instead of throwing them out the window to bring in a new crew ala ME2.