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[Maiden Crowe]

Submissiveness? A man who lets you take charge? One that is cute and goofy and follows you around like a lost puppy? A virgin so you know that the only woman he has ever been with and will ever be with is you? A man with eyes for you alone that seeks guidance in your "swaying hips"?

What makes a good love interest?

[Andraste_Reborn]

Alistair is pretty neat. But then, so is Zevran. And Merrill, and Isabela, and Sebastian. And my favourite DA love interest so far is actually Fenris. (I'm fairly indifferent to Leliana, Morrigan and Anders.)

What I want most from the love interests is variety, actually. While I didn't mind the Anders romance, in combination with Fenris it meant that you had two very intense, damaged guys with passionate feelings about the mage/Templar conflict. I'd like the love interests in DAI to be distinct from all the ones they've already done in the series. I don't want another Alistair, or another Morrigan, or even another Fenris. Been there, done that. (Literally.)

Other than that - interesting personalities that develop through the game and show depth as you get to know them. But that's what I want from all the companion characters.

But I admit that more wall-pushing would be hot, if repetitive.

A virgin so you know that the only woman he has ever been with and will ever be with is you?

Actually, if you want to stay together with Alistair without one of you dying, you have to talk him into sleeping with Morrigan. There's no alternative.

Modifié par Andrastee, 03 février 2014 - 07:08 .

[Maiden Crowe]

Andrastee wrote...
Actually, if you want to stay together with Alistair without one of you dying, you have to talk him into sleeping with Morrigan. There's no alternative.

Yeah but he can only sleep with Morrigan if you give him permission, personally I would rather feed him to the Archdemon while our love is still true.

[Bfler]

For me everything except of a man or in case of women Merrill. When I hear her comments, I could slap her all the day.

Modifié par Bfler, 03 février 2014 - 07:15 .

[Divine Justinia V]

I'm at a tossup between Alistair and Anders, and of course, they couldn't be more opposite.
Alistair because of his romance/innocence.
Anders for his aggressiveness.

There was great variety, it didn't feel like we were romancing the same person with a different name over and over again throughout both games. I've played some rpgs w romance options that were so repetitive that it physically hurt.

[Divine Justinia V]

Maiden Crowe wrote...
personally I would rather feed him to the Archdemon while our love is still true.

same :innocent:

Modifié par VittoriaLandis, 03 février 2014 - 07:16 .

[Nefla]

A manly man who will listen to your counciland value your opinion but still have his own brain and make his own decisions. Someone not meek, cowering, overly emotional/emotionally unstable or submissive. A man who would knock someone's teeth out in defense of your honor. The men I would want to romance are never romance options: Zaeed, Sten, Canderous, Sagacious Zu, Wrex (personality, not...Krogan-ness) the closest we've gotten is Carth but he's somewhere in between. I like the sweet, submissive, emotional LI's in their own way but I would prefer a traditional manly man if nothing else than for variety's sake.

Modifié par Nefla, 03 février 2014 - 07:18 .

[TeamLexana]

I liked Alistair and Garrus from ME. Slightly akward but cute and once you get 'em going, oh yeahs. Well, Garrus isn't cute to look at but his romance li stuff was cute and it's not like the pickings were that big in ME2 when he became a male LI. Thane creeped me out with the eye thing and Jacob's "The Priiiize" made me laugh him right out of my cabin the one and only time I tried to romance him. I couldn't even finish the game, I had to grab an older save that was at LEAST 10 hours back just to get out of the Jacob romance, lololol.

I hated Anders in DA2, he didn't walk that fine line between sweet and stalker well enough. Even if you show no romantic interest in him at all, he STILL acts like a jealous boyfreind. No. No. and No. Plus, the whole terrorist thing is a HUGE TURNOFF. Some peeps might be into that but me? Not so much. Plus, he complained way too much for my liking. I think Carver when talking to Anders in one of the random convos says it best when he says something like "I don't hate you because your a Mage, I hate you because you won't shut up about it." That statement alone made me fall in love with Carver, even if he turns Templar like a tratior if I don't take him in the deep roads, I don't even care, lol.

Modifié par TeamLexana, 03 février 2014 - 07:29 .

[Thomas Andresen]

What makes a good love interest?

Something new.

I found the Fenris rivalmance to be extremely compelling. I think my least favourite romance would be Anders.

Wrex (personality, not...Krogan-ness)

So, you wouldn't want Grunt, then.

[Nefla]

Thomas Andresen wrote...

Wrex (personality, not...Krogan-ness)

So, you wouldn't want Grunt, then.

I think of him as my child

[Harlequin1]

Andrastee wrote...

Alistair is pretty neat. But then, so is Zevran. And Merrill, and Isabela, and Sebastian. And my favourite DA love interest so far is actually Fenris. (I'm fairly indifferent to Leliana, Morrigan and Anders.)

What I want most from the love interests is variety, actually. While I didn't mind the Anders romance, in combination with Fenris it meant that you had two very intense, damaged guys with passionate feelings about the mage/Templar conflict. I'd like the love interests in DAI to be distinct from all the ones they've already done in the series. I don't want another Alistair, or another Morrigan, or even another Fenris. Been there, done that. (Literally.)

Other than that - interesting personalities that develop through the game and show depth as you get to know them. But that's what I want from all the companion characters.

But I admit that more wall-pushing would be hot, if repetitive.

A virgin so you know that the only woman he has ever been with and will ever be with is you?

Actually, if you want to stay together with Alistair without one of you dying, you have to talk him into sleeping with Morrigan. There's no alternative.

This, pretty much.

Alistair was my favorite romance in any of the DA series probably because I have a thing for the handsome, love-sick puppies who just want a chance to get it right. And who like and talk about cheese more often than most other topics. I really liked his character and wouldn't mind an Alistair-esque romance again, though for either exclusively male or a bi choice.

I don't want any Inquisitor-sexual romances, to be honest. And, so that people who don't like the LGBT additions, that the romances not be forced.

I would actually like a budding romance. I mean, it's nice that it's hot and steamy right from the get go and you can pretty much nose dive into their pants at any point in the game (I'm exaggerating, especially since there's only one sex scene for each romance exclusively in any Bioware game, but you get the feeling that, if you said, "Let's get it on right here in the Chantry," they would comply without any counter-argument or sense of refusal. That's me, I get that feeling in some of the romances. Though it makes sense when romancing Zevran or Isabela. This is too long to be grammatically correct) but I would most enjoy a romance that was small, started off as strictly friends, and budded into something more. It makes it feel more satisfying, to be honest, when you start from the very beginning and ended to whatever point is considered the end of a relationship, the end of a game? Marriage? Death? Who knows?

What I'd love is for the romances to be compelling and dynamic, just to make it more realistic. It's why I liked the romance with Isabela so much, and I think, if I did romance Fenris, why I would like that relationship too. When Isabela left, and you didn't cheat and look up online how to get her back like I did, you had no idea if she would ever come back or if anything Hawke ever said or did for her ever really mattered. It kinda hurt, in the sense that, you feel really bad for your character (unless you don't separate those two things) 'cause, if she doesn't come back, then Isabela honestly just used you and threw you away once she got what she wanted. That mystery and dynamicness in the romance really makes you appreciate the writing and the LI to begin with.

I want more of that where you have no idea where the relationship is going and some things turn out to be a rather big surprise. Like in Frozen if stupid Youtube comments hadn't ruined it for me. But, of course, some people don't like that and it might be a tad too realistic. People play games to escape reality, not get a reciprocated version of it with a different lable. So, of course, there'd have to be the generic Alistair relationship or whatever, where it's stagnant and you know exactly where it is heading and you can, as a player, manipulate where you want it to go.

Also, love triangles... they're interesting and I like the idea of it, even if it means maybe losing a companion in the process. I do, though, understand a majority of people don't like the idea of losing a companion, whether it be because of mechanical purposes (losing a large chunk of DPS or Healing or Tankability) or for the simple fact that they liked that companion or losing them kinda makes a giant hole in the story or your companion pool that you really don't know how to fill.

That's my two cents.

TL;DR -

I like variety in romances. I enjoy a lot of fluff, but I also love tension and a dynamic relationship that is believable and realistic. I'd want a man like Alistair who has the sense of humour, or lack thereof, of Morrigan with the complications of all that stuff in the DA2 romances. I didn't like the Anders romance, but I think they did a good job in making it complicated, though I think the Fenris and Isabela romances were a much better representation of the dynamic relationship.

Modifié par Harlequin1, 03 février 2014 - 07:55 .

[Vulpe]

Well a cute girl that's smart, funny and confident, has good comunication skills,preferably not blonde ( the bright yellow type just doesn't get me; I can make an exception for the darker tones ) and smaller with about a head than me, with hazel or dark eyes, a smile that could melt my hear, a little kinky and...oh, you were talking about Dragon Age, didn't you ? BIG BOOBS !

Modifié par JulianWellpit, 03 février 2014 - 07:48 .

[Orian Tabris]

I think a good love interest needs to have a good partner. Someone who challenges them or has the same values. Someone who they can easily converse with without getting at each other's throats. For example, Alistair and Leliana would work, but Alistair and Morrigan wouldn't.

Usually when my PC romances a character, they do so because I think they suit each other. I would never have a meek, goody-goody romance Morrigan, or a pro-templars and Chantry who hates mages romance Anders.

Love interests need a good backstory. There is no sort of character that doesn't benefit from having a backstory (though you may find in fiction, that a backstory might ruin a specific character). They also shouldn't contradict themselves without some sort of life-changing event that alters their views.

Another thing is that they work as a character. If they don't make sense, you won't want to romance them.

[acid_rain82]

A mysterious woman.

[Lord Watson]

An equal. Someone who is not a subordinate to my PC-even if their social status or rank is lower.

As far as specific personality types, that depends on who my character is. I don't even really have a "type" IRL. It's all about that person and the chemistry there.

Modifié par Lord Watson, 03 février 2014 - 09:03 .

[Jarl Johnnie Walker]

One that doesn't complain and play victim 24/7 is a start.

[caradoc2000]

Nefla wrote...

Sagacious Zu

Back in the old Bioboards, people frequently wished Zu to be a LI, though. And it gets even more interesting if you consider the fact that he is 20+ years your senior.

[FreshRevenge]

A woman that bows down to me.
A woman that agrees with every word I say.
A woman that wears hardly nothing to please me.
A woman that makes me make the decision for her.
A woman that doesn't have a mind.
A woman that gets her girlfriends to sleep with me.

oh are we talking about the game? Than my bad! Let me think about it!

[ObserverStatus]

In my experience, all great video game LIs are psychopathic murderers like Morinth and Iwamine Shuu. Ideally, the player should never fully dismiss the idea that their lover may still attempt to kill them, and spend their time with such a character in fearful arousal.

[ObserverStatus]

Double post

Modifié par bobobo878, 03 février 2014 - 08:10 .

[Orian Tabris]

bobobo878 wrote...

In my experience, all great video game LIs are psychopathic murderers like Morinth and Iwamine Shuu. Ideally, the player should never fully dismiss the idea that their lover may still attempt to kill them, and spend their time with such a character in fearful arousal.

That's... very sad bobo... and kind of disturbing...

[ObserverStatus]

Orian Tabris wrote...

bobobo878 wrote...
In my experience, all great video game LIs are psychopathic murderers like Morinth and Iwamine Shuu. Ideally, the player should never fully dismiss the idea that their lover may still attempt to kill them, and spend their time with such a character in fearful arousal.

That's... very sad bobo... and kind of disturbing...

Hey! That's enough kinkshaming out of you. Bunghole.

[Inquisitor Recon]

I didn't even post in this thread until now.

[The Hierophant]

lol