That being said, why is everyone who isn't a straight male still getting jipped?
I only say this now because there's a massive amount of romance options in ME3. Like, kind of a ridiculous amount. In past games it's usually been two or three people, and so me (as a straight female) only being able to romance one person out of, say, three, wasn't that much of a sting. But in ME3 there's no less than SIX available romance options for straight males. Seriously? Six? Because the fugly news reporter is such an interesting character that extra time must be spent making her ravageable instead of possibly expanding other options? Lesbian players have 3 options; Straight female players have two (an awesome two, but only two, nonetheless) and Gay men have one. (cortez; I'm not sure if gay Kaiden is canon or not, but it doesn't look like he's romanceable for men in ME3? Could be wrong here.)
I'm curious as to how the break down for romance options became 6 options for straight men and half as much for everyone else. I definitely think Bioware, with it's reputation for trying to play "fair" amongst it's gaming community, could do better here, especially since two of the romance options available to women are absolute complete fluff. Really? With all these amazing characters I've gone to hell and back with, you think I'm even remotely interested in committing to some specialist I've just met? And it's even worse if you want to play a lesbian FemShep, because your only really developed romance option is Liara; the other two are barely even notable as they've just shown up for the final game.
For those of you wanting to jump up and proclaim straight white male plantation owners (oops, I mean game owners) are a gross majority of gamers and that everyone else is in the fringes, here's where you're wrong:
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This only covers gender. Doesn't cover sexual preferences. The original PDF this comes from: http://www.theesa.co...ESA_EF_2011.pdf
Any thoughts? Did anyone actually play any of the tepid Diana Allers or Traynor romances that were offered and actually found the same level of satisfaction from them as any of the other cross-game romances?
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But Kaiden and Ashley are romaceable (depending on your gender in game, I suspect) in ME3 if you didn't shack up with them in the first game. But they've been there, involved in the story from the beginning. I'm just wondering why this wasn't obvious to the writers. Wouldn't a PC want to develop a relationship with a character that's actually paramount to the story (and thus would be more interesting just based on that) as opposed to random throw-away characters that are just there as support roles for one or two games? They managed it with Chambers, where you could have a fling with her but nothing serious. And that made sense to the plot; why would someone like Shepard get involved seriously (committed, like in ME3) with a woman he's just met? Why did Jacob Taylor get thrown to the wind (admittedly his character in ME3 is absolute crap compared to what he was in ME2) when that may have been a great opportunity to nix the extra hours making your assistant or news broadcaster "doable" and instead spend it on making Jacob a permanent LI for ME3 as well?
Which makes it kind of...icky. 
