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"Playersexual" basically means, whatever race or gender the player's character is, the romanceable character finds the player character attractive and can be romanced.
I'm in favor of having all future romanceable characters be playersexual, and I hope I'm not opening up a can of worms here.
It's not realistic and maybe not even ideal (ideal might be two straight, two bisexual, and two homosexual romances with an even split between male and female), but as I said in another thread, it is fair--both sexes get an equal number of romances for straight, bisexual, and homosexual preferences that way.
I know that when this was done in DA2 with all "true" romances, there was some backlash. And, at the time I somewhat agreed, because your gender preference is part of who you are, and shouldn't it be the same for characters, too? Except, thinking about it, whatever their gender preference, they're the same character. And you're also suddenly limiting people's options because only X amount of characters will be made who can be romanced. So maybe you have a straight woman, a straight man, a bisexual man and woman, and a gay man and lesbian woman. That's two extra characters. Or, someone might just be left out entirely, or not get as many options (straight women who played Mass Effect 3 as straight female Shepard, here's to you and your total of ONE option left, if you didn't hook up with a certain turian during ME2).
So making everyone who can be romanced "playersexual," makes sense from an equal treatment standpoint, and I support it. Does that mean that the playersexual character is necessarily bisexual? Depends on how you want to look at it. Maybe in your particular playthrough they are actually straight or gay or pansexual--it only depends how you perceive them. Point being, they're the same character in all other respects regardless of who chooses to romance them (if anyone), and only their gender preference changes depending whether you play as male or female. They're characters; if they flirt with anyone else, it's going to be at least in part because of your actions as the player. And after thinking about it, I really don't get why that makes people angry, as long as they don't do like Zevran when he was romanced by a male (i.e. stating he prefers the opposite gender, actually, but you'll do just fine because he's not picky).
The one thing I will argue if "playersexuality" is used in the future is that "flirting" should be a separate option, in this case, from the "nice" or "friendly" or "sensitive" option--whatever you want to call it, so that people won't complain that they accidentally romanced someone of the wrong gender, etc.
I'm curious if anyone agrees with me, or if you have compelling arguments against the idea of romances being "playersexual." But please, keep it civil.
Mods/devs: If this thread needs to be part of the "romances" thread instead of its own, please feel free to move it there. But this is something I feel needs to be discussed.
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