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[Ryuji2]

What do you think some of the options will be? Guarantee there'll be human male and human female options, probably for one or both genders.

 

For me I'm willing to bet that there will be an asari LI for both genders, a male quarian LI and a male turian LI for the female protagonist. Probably will be a LI option for a new race as well if the devs deem it charming enough I'd imagine.

 

But my curveball speculation is that there'll be something like a female drell option for the male protagonist.

 

Wild speculation, go go go!

[thepringle]

I wouldn't mind a female Turian love interest, nor would I mind a drell of either sex. I've never been a fan of the human/human romances, as I feel they don't give us insight into any particular culture, and are notoriously bland.

[Probe Away]

I've never been a fan of the human/human romances, as I feel they don't give us insight into any particular culture, and are notoriously bland.

That just means they need to be written better. Cross-species romances are an interesting concept but I don't think BW should create too many options for them. Otherwise it makes them seem run-of-the-mill when in fact they should be seen as a very unusual (except for Asari perhaps). For instance, in ME2 it felt like you could basically wh*** your way across the galaxy, notwithstanding the odds that other species aren't necessarily going to be sexually compatible with humans.

In ME4 I would like to see no more than one romance option for each gender outside of the obligatory human and Asari romances (although that would have to change accordingly with multiple playable races). With good writing there are plenty of other ways to interact with alien species for insight without romancing them.

[Terca]

That just means they need to be written better. Cross-species romances are an interesting concept but I don't think BW should create too many options for them. Otherwise it makes them seem run-of-the-mill when in fact they should be seen as a very unusual (except for Asari perhaps). For instance, in ME2 it felt like you could basically wh*** your way across the galaxy, notwithstanding the odds that other species aren't necessarily going to be sexually compatible with humans.

In ME4 I would like to see no more than one romance option for each gender outside of the obligatory human and Asari romances (although that would have to change accordingly with multiple playable races). With good writing there are plenty of other ways to interact with alien species for insight without romancing them.

 

... Nah.

 

Personally, I think that yes there should be more insight into culture beyond 'Turians are militaristic humans, Asari are wise humans, Salarians are Scientific Humans' so on and so forth which is somewhat the extreme they kind of made out to be. Yes, you can do that without being in a relationship with them, but at the same time being in a relationship with a member of the particular species doesn't really... Make that more difficult.

 

I mean you can learn all sorts of stuff about Turians from Garrus without having to be 'involved' with him, stuff about Quarians from Tali while being Fshep, so on and so forth. As such I don't think having a romance option would be a silver bullet to remove content you could learn. It might mean that some information isn't known persnally about a character if you aren't at least friendly with them but that's your choice.

 

I think having LIs for either Gender of the other species is fine. You can't romance a Salarian so that's fine, you could have one Asari, that's cool. A couple Turians one for each? Or two? So on? I mean, the number of potential LIs in ME2 and ME3 were substantial enough, maybe too many in Me2 but I wouldn't say it harmed much...

 

Gah, rambling a bit much.

 

OT: Fem and MShep should have at least one gay partnet as well as the Asari (or two if the Asari is a 'lesbian' or 'straight'), one Bisexual because why not, then a couple of straight LIs. Altogether, 9-ish possible. Is nine too many? You aren't romancing them all at once and they can be functional characters on their own so if your crew is ~80% LIs but they don't have to be then you're still good.

[Probe Away]

@Terca - I actually agree with you that you don't need a romance to gain insight into a species, that was half of my point.

I just think people are too blasé about the inter-species romances. Romances (in BW games) have a pretty substantial sexual component. From an evolutionary perspective, the concept of two beings from different species being physically attracted to one another would be extremely rare. The Asari are an exception because they were designed by BW to be physically attractive to players (humans). Having two or three other aliens that Shep 2.0 can get jiggly with makes no sense.

[Sequin]

There will be humans. Outside of that, no idea. My super early guess (based on nothing but a feeling) is that there won't be an Asari LI, but I guess that just depends on how many LI's there are in general.

[Terca]

@ Probe; Eh... I see your point and can mostly agree with it, though I can't say for certain about romances in Bioware games outside Mass Effect. I do still think that while improbable it is not impossible for the Player Char to be interested in one way or another in an Alien, and given general fan support for things like Tali/Garrus and Shakarian etc. I think it is safe to say that inter-species relationships in ME aren't exactly too taboo. To what extent... I don't have numbers. so that's only a feeling. But from that feeling I think it is safe to say that I agree with you in theory I don't know if on the whole it would work like that.

 

In short, I agree but think the outcome will be somewhat different 'just cuz'. Never a good reason, but hey, 'tis the internet.

[Probe Away]

@ Probe; Eh... I see your point and can mostly agree with it, though I can't say for certain about romances in Bioware games outside Mass Effect. I do still think that while improbable it is not impossible for the Player Char to be interested in one way or another in an Alien, and given general fan support for things like Tali/Garrus and Shakarian etc. I think it is safe to say that inter-species relationships in ME aren't exactly too taboo. To what extent... I don't have numbers. so that's only a feeling. But from that feeling I think it is safe to say that I agree with you in theory I don't know if on the whole it would work like that.

In short, I agree but think the outcome will be somewhat different 'just cuz'. Never a good reason, but hey, 'tis the internet.

True. Sometimes I need a reminder that real life =/= Mass Effect.

[Remix-General Aetius]

speculating on something like this is pointless since we have no information.

[Nitrocuban]

A female Turian that does not die for nothing mid game would be nice.

[Paragon Soldier]

Batarian romance, Turian Fem & Drell Fem, I basically want some they haven't done before.

[Judas Bock]

Since I totally wanted Nyreen from the Omega DLC to be romancable, I'll just have to pop in here and say that if there is no female turian LI, I will be very sad.

 

And please, no more than two humans. One of the best things about Mass Effect is the other species, and anything that gets me more content with them, including them being LIs, is a good thing in my eyes.

[Abelas Forever!]

What do you think some of the options will be? Guarantee there'll be human male and human female options, probably for one or both genders.

 

For me I'm willing to bet that there will be an asari LI for both genders, a male quarian LI and a male turian LI for the female protagonist. Probably will be a LI option for a new race as well if the devs deem it charming enough I'd imagine.

 

But my curveball speculation is that there'll be something like a female drell option for the male protagonist.

 

Wild speculation, go go go!

 

I think there almost definitely will be human LIs for both genders. I would like to have a male quarian LI but if the next ME will be sequel then I don't think there will be any quarian LIs because it's possible that all the quarians died in ME3 and because of that it might be reasonable to not expect them to be around. But if there are quarian LIs then I would guess only male LI will be present because Tali was a LI in earlier games. I would also like to have a male drell LI but because Thane was LI earlier games then it's possible that only female drell will be LI. I would expect that there will be asari LI for both genders. I would also expect that there are new races so it's possible that you could find an LI for both genders among those races.

[Wulfram]

the Shepard VI, a Leviathan, a Thorian, Conrad Verner and Jacob again

[Probe Away]

speculating on something like this is pointless since we have no information.

Hence "speculation". We can extrapolate what we know from previous games and from fan reactions to particular romances.

If we had info about what the romances were going to be then it wouldn't be speculation, would it?

[zestalyn]

theyd be shooting themselves in the foot if they don't have a male turian LI (id shoot em too) would be cool to see a bisexual one too. ive seen plenty of gay gamers complain about Garrus not being able to go both ways and I can very much imagine that pain. insufferable IMO lol 

a female turian would be smart too. now that theyve got a model for them that aloot of people really like its about time to make them more visible. esp since its silly that despite the turians' enormous presence and influence across the galaxy, their females have never been seen for most of the trilogy. maybe theyll makeup a cultural explanation for their lack of presence outside of palaven or whatnot

id be so down for a male quarian. they're pretty damn hot   

now that i think of it there were alooot of humans to be romanced throughout the trilogy. they should really cut back on that...the way people begged on their knees for Tali/Garrus after ME1 is enough proof that people will always be super enthralled by alien romances, no need to get gungho on all the human options. they shouldnt be afraid to make any of their new alien races romance-able. when you can live in space instead of earth, why not romance aliens instead of humans. we're all here for the adventure 

[Farangbaa]

Yahg.

 

The romance consumation cutscene will be brutal. 

[ShadyKat]

Human and Asari are a given. Romance options besides those are a guess, since we have no clue what our companions will be made up of. Hopefully less humans, and females of the other races. A female turian and krogan are needed as squad memebers, simply because we haven't had them yet. Drell companion would also be welcome. Also I guess a male quarian is overdue as well. Now with that said, I seriously doubt Bioware would write a krogan romance, so that's out. Female turian has a slim chance, still wouldn't hold my breath. A drell romance and a male quarian both have a real shot at happening.

[Chroptus]

Neeeeed...... Another.... Tali..... Romance

[Pee Jae]

I just want all romance-able characters to be bisexual. Realistic? Maybe not. But, we're playing a video game here and since when are more options a bad thing? Make all romance-able characters romance-able for all playable characters. Stops shipping and fan complaints about character A not being a romance option for character B. Hey, if they can retcon Kaidan... why the hell not?

[Abelas Forever!]

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