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[Jaison1986]

I actually thought the DA:O romances were pretty forgiving, even Zevran. None of them had nice youths, no, but at least they were fairly average people, the most extreme thing you had to do was to kill Flemeth for Morrigan, but if Morrigan was telling the truth, then she had good reason for it. While I thought the DA2 romances were either jerks or freaks. I only romanced Merrill for the lack of an better option. 

 

Maybe DA:I will be a little better in that regard? Josephine for one doesn't seem to have any excessive baggage so far.

[Nocte ad Mortem]

I enjoy what the romances add to the story and how they help me connect with my character, so I always pick a romance option when one is available to me.

[GalacticDonuts]

I try to do at least 1 or 2 no romance playthroughs. Though overall I prefer to do a playthrough with a romance.

[Andraste_Reborn]

The only DA character of mine who hasn't had a love interest at all was my dwarf commoner. I roleplayed him as a dwarf that was into other dwarves, and since there aren't any romanceable ones in the game, he stayed single. (He slept with Morrigan in order to stay alive, but I don't really count that.) And my other dwarf only deflowered Alistair because she'd arranged for him to marry Anora and felt bad about sending him off to get married while still a blushing virgin. She broke up with him at the Landsmeet without any regrets and took herself off to do the Ultimate Sacrifice. (One of my major goals for DAI is to play a couple of dwarf protagonists who get romantic happy endings for a change.)

 

I think I would enjoy a romance-free play through more if I was doing it because it didn't feel right for the character rather than because none of the available options were a good match for them.

 

I would still play a hypothetical Dragon Age game without the romances - I enjoyed Awakening, after all. If they put the resources into some other type of relationship content instead, I'd probably be just as happy. I'm just not sure what that content would be. For me the romances offer some of the best roleplaying in their games, and I'd be sorry to lose that.

[KBomb]

I have plenty of playthroughs where my character doesn't romance anyone. I like the option, though and I do think it adds a little something. Options are always good. For instance, I would never romance Sebastian. Chaste romance? That is so far out of my realm I don't even want to roleplay it. I am glad it's an option for those who like him, though. Others shouldn't miss out because of my dislikes.

[simpatikool]

I have done no romance runs on DA, DA2, ME, ME3 but the one game I have always done a Romance no matter what was and still is Baldur's Gate!!!!

Seriously, sometimes when you are working on a second or later playthrough, the romance effort seems annoying to me. I usually pursue it on the first character, just to do it.

In the end, the Romance is not what keeps me in these games. It is the combat, and skills progression, and the sense of making a character. The romance is fluff. I like it, but it is not central to my wish list. For instance, I would give up Romance in a heart beat if it meant for ME3 like MP in this game.

[happy_daiz]

My pcs are full of  and must romance someone. 

[Ninjasplaycardgames2]

I simply wont be able to go through DAI without riding the bull or twirling the mustache :v

[frylock23]

BioWare games are somewhat more character driven than other video games. For that reason, it's the interaction of characters that is the hallmark and strength of the game as much as the rest of the plot. This is includes the romance angles. It's part of the interaction between people - your PC and an NPC, and even hinted at in the banter as taking place between two NPCs.

 

Now, if you are not, as a player, into character driven stories, it's completely your option not to play the game as a character driven story or even to explore all the possible angles of the character driven narrative. You don't enjoy the romances at all. I don't prefer to play outside certain types and preferences. Others don't like exploring story lines favoring some factions over others.

 

Be thankful we all have these choices.

[Zjarcal]

I didn't romance anyone in Mass Effect 1 and there's a chance I may not romance anyone in DA:I, we'll see.
 
I don't mind having no romance in a playthrough, but I'll only shy away from them if the options available are unappealing. As a general rule of thumb I do want to have a romance in my playthrough, I'll welcome anything that enrichens the experience.
 

Would any of you buy a BioWare game without romances?   I'd pay to see some responses to that question.

Yes.

[zestalyn]

 

Would any of you buy a BioWare game without romances?   I'd pay to see some responses to that question.

lol In all seriousness, I would be willing to, depending on the game's other features...If no romance,I could atleast expect to see a companion system with interesting character back stories and interactions. Cause those are the things, as well as romance, that make BW stand out from other story-driven RPGs. But yeah, tbh, no romance, why would they ever do that??? Similar to what you said, the romance system adds another dimension to how you perceive the storyline, it's a genius thing BW has created. 

[mindoirs]

I ALWAYS do a romance, even if I had already done it with the same person in a previous playthrough. I think romance is such a wonderful touch -- it gets people even more invested in their favorite character(s) to a personal degree, and that's what is most important to me in a Bioware game or any game for that matter. Getting emotionally invested into the story and characters.

 

However, I did not do a romance in my canon playthrough of ME1. Just because I wanted to really wait until ME2 to be really invested into romancing Garrus without any sort of unnecessary drama.

[Chernaya]

I am a lover of love.  I always do a romance in every play through.  Can't help myself.  I see it as an extra layer of character interaction that I don't get to see in other games.  So I always take that extra step.  I think the real question you should be asking is...

 

Would any of you buy a BioWare game without romances?   I'd pay to see some responses to that question.

 

I would. Before I loved Bioware games, I loved Bethesda games. You can say they have 'romance', but I use that term very lightly because it really isn't. And that never bothered me. But what makes Bioware games stand out to me isn't just the romance, it's the deeper relationships you can form with characters aside from just them following you everywhere based on your karma. If I had never been introduced to that by Mass Effect and Dragon Age, I would have never known and would have played them anyway if they didn't have it. but I'm glad they did. 

[SomeoneStoleMyName]

@Chron0id: I would definitely buy the game regardless of romance or no romance. 

IMO the main story is the beef of the meal. Even alone it is tasty. Romance is more like sauce and spices, it enhances the beef - but standing alone it is useless. Companions, good quests, dialogue, music, the world itself etc. is the garnish and side meals.
Good villains is the dessert. As great villains are few, just like the dessert almost never beats the beef. 

The best villains imo are Kefka (FF6), sephiroth (FF7), Jenova (FF7), The elder god (soul reaver), Dagoth Ur (Morrowind), Irenicus (Baldurs gate), Transcendant one (Planescape Torment) to name some.

Bioware has done a mediocre job at creating good villains. The reapers, the archdemon, Meridith among some were all underwhelming. As for Mass effect the Illusive man was a good villain. Irenicus was good aswell. Im not sure why Bioware places such a low value on creating good villains lately. But Im hoping that will change with DA:I

Dagoth Ur's line in Morrowind is still one I remember by heart. "What a fool you are. I'm a god, how can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence" 
 

[Tootles FTW]

Echoing the opinion of others here: romance is something almost completely singular to Bioware games, and they do it well, so I always partake.  

 

99% of games I'm playing a grizzled white dude who - as the plot dictates - romances a chick whether I like them or not.  The novelty of getting to play a female and romance whom *I* choose (or getting to RP as a gay dude!) is still quite refreshing even all these years after my first ME playthrough.  

[Pierce Miller]

It's a necessity for my character because it allows him to explore many issues, deal with the stress of his task and have something to come back to once all the fighting is done.

[Maria Caliban]

Would that romanceless RPG be on Steam and have achievements?

[wiccame]

I always do a romance. I like to think my character has a life outside duty. Relationship building and romance is just an extension of that. It just stands to reason if you're going to spend the majority of you life day in day out with a small group of people that one of them might strike up a deeper connection with you. It's just adds that little bit extra to the rp for me.

[Lillian]

In all of my canon playthroughs of DA:O and DA2, I have never had a romantic relationship with a character. I have experimented, but I usually just load back to a time that my character wasn't in a romantic relationship. I just can't really be in a romantic relationship; it's too uncomfortable for me.

The friendships you can establish are beautiful, though.

[Arachlia]

While I certainly do romance arcs if possible (since I generally like romance), it's not the reason for me to play games. The world, story and gameplay itself are far more important, and romance content is simply the spice among other spices.

 

For example, my first BG2 playthrough was without romance*, and I enjoyed it greatly. And lot of other Bioware games I have played would have been great even without romance content. That said, I'm glad that Bioware does romances, since it adds replay value and I did love previous games' romance arcs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Perhaps by accident, since I didn't know about game having romances at all, and I managed to get Anomen petrified, which killed absolutely the romance progress. Though considering that it was this particular, annoying priest, chances are that I would have preferred bypass romance anyway.

[BubbleDncr]

I don't think I would get as emotionally invested in the story if it weren't for the romances. 

 

And since I play Bioware games mainly for the story (not for combat), I will probably always romance someone in all my playthroughs. 

[renfrees]

According to achievements around 75% of DA players don't bother with the romances. So if you don't do a romance you are part of the vast majority. Don't let the forums give you a false impression.

I think this number is a bit deceiving, if it's based on registered achievements. More like - many players hasn't completed romances due to various reasons (i.e. killing Anders, not enough approval to trigger quest/event that leads to romance progression etc.)

[Ina]

The one I consider my main warden (my avatar) was single and didn't romance anyone. I headcanon-ed her on the Ace spectrum, especially on the romantic front. She is a lot like me in certain ways and not a romantic person if at all, so I really was determined to do a no romance playthrough. There were times when I was tempted to pair her up with Alistair because things looked so lonely and they were already close friends, but I think that was more my own personal thoughts than my warden's thoughts, so in the end I stayed true to the character and went solo. I haven't played through a no romance DA2 yet, but I do have some planned for both DAO and DA2 for the keep to be imported to DAI. I'd love to play a no romance DAI as well, but I'm also very tempted to play out every single romance so that might or might not happen. It's actually strange that I'm so taken in by certain romances in fiction when they barely interest me in my own life.