How would you like to see romances improved?

I agree, it's starting to get into Fallout 4 territory where love interests are treated as fashion accessories for the PC. We certainly don't need the amount of romances that we have now.

I romanced Peebee with strings attached. All in all, it developed/played out pretty decent. No complaints. Taking her out on a date might work. Although with those raccoon eyes, not sure. Hard to take her seriously with those.

She still owes me for that pod.

That's not the way I would describe her

Ashley had more depth than any ME1 character. I was legitimately torn between her and Liara. Though it was easy for my FemShep.

She makes Andromeda characters look like they were pulled from the TBBT.

This is like asking a prisoner of he wants to get out of jail, except you're asking this romance obsessed fandom.

Make it like DA:I, you can do something with you LI whenever you want(ie,kissing), and they will change how they call you when you are in a relationship. Give each character a extra romance exclusive mission instead of just a cut scene.

I'd rather see devs not include romances at all and spend that time on something else. I've got plenty of romance in my real life and would rather RP other aspects in a game. That's just my preference though, I'm not judging others.

It'd be nice if there was a way to have branching romances. I like that you can decide to not have sex with Jaal (and Cora as well, I believe?) and it's not counted as a rejection, just because it's at least some variety and gives the romance itself some replayability. Ryder doesn't have the most dazzling personality (no dramatic paragon/renegade options), but at least maybe there could be some conversation options or even scenes you only get by poking at an LI emotionally that prevent you from seeing others you'd see when going at it logically, whatever. Or different actions to take - become the active seduceror let the LI come to you in the later scenes. Side-mission pacing in open world games is always a drag, though, I have no idea how to really fix that. I do agree the little kiss options in Dragon Age added some flavour, even if it is just small.

Also, at least one squadmate for any orientation, but that has been said a lot now, just because the squadmates have more chances to interject in the ongoing plots. I remember romanced Kaidan doing this once in ME3 when Shepard found out he was possibly a clone and he said something encouraging. This kind of thing really helps to make the romances feel less like a mini-game that happens outside of the story. Generally quality > quantity. I really don't think we need these Keri two-minute-romances ferried away on some planets (Reyes, Suvi and Gil are sort of on the cusp of that, I either think they should have more work put into them or be scrapped, even if I like Reyes and Suvi). I didn't even mind the DA:O/DA2 model, where only squadmates were romances.

So, here is just my 2 cents. I have always been firmly opposed to playersexual characters, aka everyone is bi. Why am I opposed to this? Because I believe that aspect of a person helps define who they are, because I want the characters to be a group of individuals, not simply a collection of dolls for the player to play with based upon their whims. It has nothing to do with my own personal lifestyle choices. That said, far too much emphasis is indeed placed upon romances in Biowares games, and it is the fault of the fanbase let's just be honest. Everyone wants their own personal kink/fetish/orientation/whatever represented, in every single game. Far too much time and resources are devoted to entirely optional side content, why? because this fanbase would go ape shit nuclear if Bioware didn't do so. All the comments I see here basically sound like content you find in Japanese Dating Simulators. Not saying that is a bad thing, but I am pointing out the obvious fact, dating and romance is not the damn point of these games.

At the end of the day, I would rather Bioware improve the actually critical and more important functions of the game. However, to speak to this topic in particular, I say make 3 Romance Options, period. 1 straight, 1 gay, 1 bi. If you don't like you're option? Oh well, don't do it. Put all their "romance budget" into just those 3, to make them as in depth and meaningful as possible.

As someone who finds the romances in BioWare games very important I will always want more


This time I feel very lucky with the romances. I really like both Liam and Jaal. Vetra will get a Ryder for sure. PB and Suvi will probably be romanced as well so my playing card is full for the next couple of months.

I thought that the Leviathan-dlc for ME3 was really good. Little extra scene with the LI before going down under water with the mech. Little things like that really makes me happy and makes me more interested in seeing it again with another Ryder and a new LI. Contrast that with Jaal not reacting when Sara had a very serious incident on the Archon's ship. Maybe it is different if the romance is locked in by then, at that point they were very very flirty but I had not finished his loyalty quest so perhaps that was it.

So improvement for me would be:
- Little things here and there out in the fields
- Possibility to do something fun with your LI. Think Samantha Traynor in ME3 Citadel dlc. Seeing her enjoying her hobby was great!
- Loved going back to Cullen for a kiss when playing DA:I.

It doesn't always have to be a big scene, sometimes just little touches to remind you that "yes, your Rider still has a LI even if you haven't had a scene for a while".

So far I am quite happy, wish there were more scenes with Liam but I am glad that he has been there for the entire game. Now I am keeping my fingers crossed for more content in dlc going forward.

If I vote yes, how much more wordcount am I voting to be pulled out of other areas of the game and thrown into the romances.?

I'm talking about giving players an option during the character creation that allows you pick the sexuality of your character. So if you play as a lesbian and Liam tries to flirt with you can tell him, that your character is not into men and vice versa. Also having characters that are homosexual tell you that they are homosexual when you try to flirt with them like Sera and Dorian in DA:I and Gil in ME:A I don't know if Suvi ever tells Scott she's a lesbian or not or just have them make a reference that they're gay like Cortez says he had a husband when you meet him and ask him about his family in ME3.