So... After 4 ME games I still can't romance an African-American woman?

Yes. It's annoying. I would like for a black female love interest very much. Maybe I'd have interest in romancing a female human. Until then, I stick with aliens.

They might do once a while black female LI though, it's not like BW can do female LI's for all races for every game.

Yes. Representation is important and black women typically get the short end of the stick in that regard. It doesn't help that there a lot of harmful stereotypes about black women, and so it's important to represent demographics in ways which break down these stereotypes.

Plus, some people find black women more attractive than white women, so it would be nice for them. We've had plenty of mass effect games with white female LIs.

I always liked Liam and Jacob, never understood the hate. Some might not like them, but they were characterised very well.

Heh, I'm neutral on both of them myself, but I think it's perfectly understandable that people who played a femShep who romanced Jacob would hate him considering that he cheats on her and gets the other woman pregnant. It seems like a characterization that begs for hatred in that particular case, don't you think?

I didn't ignore any of your points, they just weren't really relevant. What you said goes without saying. You presented the idea that the race, gender, sexuality etc of a character doesn't matter as long as they're well written, voice acted well etc etc. I presented the idea that representation does matter.

When people ask for representation, the most common response is "doesn't matter as long as they're a good character". Those who are asking for representation however, aren't asking for a character of any particular race, gender, sexuality at the expense of the quality of the character's writing. It's clear that they want a character that's developed and characterised well, they just want this character to belong to a particular demographic so as to represent that demographic.

No celts either 

I won't be satisfied until I can romance a Norse-Gael of the clan MacAuley from the isle of Benbecula. 

I personally believe that they have issues of black women being love interests, and I figured that they wouldn't like they did it with Vivienne.




And this made me so happy!!!

At least there have been black characters to romance in the games. Where are characters descended from native indians, from australian aboriginals, amazonian tribes, samoan, inuit...? The list goes on and on, countless possibilities. I'd rather they added characters with more unusual racial backgrounds, to see how the wider universe and technology has affected their cultures.

I'd have thought Suvi would count as a celt seeing as she has a Scottish accent

Dragon Age is where you get us brown ladies...