Buggirl70 wrote...
I feel the romances in ME1 were more subtle than ME2, which explains why I didn't realise ME had romances options at all having never played a Bioware game before (LOL I have now idea HOW I managed that one considering people talk a lot about 'ninjamancing').
I am definitely an old romantic as well 
Also the thing about earning it, friendships deserve that path as well as the romances.
yesh, compaired to previous games, i thought that romances in ME 1 were painfully hamfisted.... Honestly, I could point to it, and say the reason that you didn't ever run into the romances in your playthroughs... was because if you dont know they're there.... why would you care to try?
In previous games, (particularly remembering JE and KOTOR), you can flirt...shamelessly, really... almost from the get go... but thats all it is, being a goofy flirt. your party members basically roll their eyes or make some witty retort (something I liked about characters like Morrigan in DA).
it really wasnt until you'd gotten serious, and gotten to know them, that they warmed to you at all, on a personal level (in ME terms, they respected you as their commander, and they'd gladly follow you into hell.... but as a person, you had your life and they had theirs)
then, and only then... after you'd made an effort to prove you were WORTH getting to know better, did they start to show an interest in something more (in some cases, they even resisted their own impulses and desires, and fought their own feelings)
In compairison... in ME, those individuals slated to be LI's....basically fall at your feet. You talk to them enough, and you get to tumble with them.
....and it just isnt as rewarding an experience, no matter how racy the cutscene is.