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[jtav]

Josephine's pretty high on my priority list, and she wouldn't work as a companion. And I liked Sam's romance.

[Sporothrix]

I only just now came up with someone who might, maybe romance Cullen, and I'm getting a little sick of the advisor romances being denigrated out of hand. They allow for a completely different dynamic and LIs who wouldn't work as companions. If a romance is bad, it's because it's bad.

 

You will have 3 companion options as well, so I understand why you consider it as some nice change. But I will have only one such option, and it will deprive me of for example any possible interactions between 2 companions I could try to romance at the same time, them cutting into some talk of my character, etc.

[Tiuwaz]

as a straight guy I have no quibbles with the extra romances going to females.

 

I think Bioware was sensible in providing 2 options for everyone and not caring about balanced options with the bonus romances. also quibbiling about "Options" is a cop out. Most people care that the romance they wanted isnt happening, not about the number of options available to everyone (not saying that the number of otions is completely irreleveant). the latter is something a more "sensible" thing to outraged about and likely to attract others to your viewpoint who also didnt get their "dream" romance.

 

My personal complaint is that as a straight guy i only have 1 option for a female LI to take with me on adventuring. this is a pretty major point for me as I always take my LI into my party. no choice for me here :/

 

(also disappointed that Sera was fem-only, ah well but thats dem breaks)

[costalren28]

Companions help us on missions whenever we want, we can take them wherever we want, and I'm certain there will be specific companion missions as well as always.

 

So in the end it makes it look better than those excuses for romances from ME3, but not necessarily as something in line with companion romances. But we will see - I'm just pessimistic about it.

 

You know, perhaps they may release more romances in DLC format. While it is easy to forget, Bioware is run by EA, who has the final say on what goes in a game, and they are for cashing in deep. EA always releases DLC + expansions for their games. That could likely happen (Or the plan).

 

Besides, I heard that there are 1 or 2 more NPCS, we could flirt with or something. This hasn't been revealed yet, has it?

[Riverway_Inca]

Figures that the bombshell would be dropped while I was away on holiday...

 

I'm surprised that Vivienne wasn't the last LI, but not totally after reading of that "Soon..." bit which was linked to Blackwall. Straight male gamers have obviously been shafted, but frankly and if I'm to be perfectly blunt and honest, who cares? They've been the main demographic that's been catered to since forever, so it's nice to see Bioware buck that trend for a change. Anyway, in my experience, female and gay/bi gamers have always been more invested in romances in games than most straight male gamers.

 

I think the Blackwall romance arc has the potential to be very moving considering his Grey Warden background.  

[Saberchic]

There's an important point to be made here, though - in the past, LGBT and women players complained that games didn't cater to their preferences because there really, truly were no romance options available.

 

I was part of the push to get same-sex romances into ME3, which attracted an incredible amount of abuse and vitriol - but it was worth doing, and necessary, because there were no options at all for gay players and Bioware seemed confused about whether femShep/Liara qualified as a lesbian relationship. ME3's straight romances for women were pretty much a horror show.

 

Everyone gets at least two options in Inquisition. Everyone. Nobody is talking from a position of having no content for them at all, so it makes the complaining seem quaint in comparison to those older situations.

I feel like the common sense from this post will get overshadow by the vitriol of this thread.

[just.somebody2]

But if we actually get some accidental sweet heartfelt scene in the middle of a bog of undead skeletons coming at you, at night, waist-deep in muck, I will cry laughing and struggling to pick non-bad options and run through the convo as fast as humanly possible while a skull pops up behind my LI ready to attack.

[Iakus]

 

My personal complaint is that as a straight guy i only have 1 option for a female LI to take with me on adventuring. this is a pretty major point for me as I always take my LI into my party. no choice for me here :/

 

 

A valid concern, but I have always believed that a non-companion romance is fully viable.  An untapped resouces for LIs, in fact.  And I'm curious to see how Josephine and Cullen romances turn out in DAI.

[Angloassassin]

But if we actually get some accidental sweet heartfelt scene in the middle of a bog of undead skeletons coming at you, at night, waist-deep in muck, I will cry laughing and struggling to pick non-bad options and run through the convo as fast as humanly possible while a skull pops up behind my LI ready to attack.

 

"Bah - hahaha.. Uhuuuhuhuh... -Frantic pressing the skip buttons- I, eh, you, we, us -Skeletons sink in muck, wasted heartfelt conversation.-"

[TheJediSaint]

A valid concern, but I have always believed that a non-companion romance is fully viable.  An untapped resouces for LIs, in fact.  And I'm curious to see how Josephine and Cullen romances turn out in DAI.

My hope with Josephine is that she'll be an example of a strong female character whose strength does not come in the form of martial skill or magical power.

[wright1978]

I think you'll just have to trust that there's an equal amount of content in the advisor romances, and that you see them often enough to mitigate any semblance of it being a "long distance relationship". 

 

Since I think Bioware do earnestly try to improve on their past efforts, it seems likely that they'll have taken the feedback from the Sam/Steve romances in ME3 and put it to good use here.

 

Remember that the delay happened way after ME3 launched. There's been plenty of time to integrate lessons learned from that game.

 

Equal romance content does not mean equal romance experience however. Obviously that doesn't mean that there aren't those that want that type of different romance experience. No fan of Josie anyhow so, i doubt i'll be even looking at the NPC option anyhow.

[just.somebody2]

"Bah - hahaha.. Uhuuuhuhuh... -Frantic pressing the skip buttons- I, eh, you, we, us -Skeletons sink in muck, wasted heartfelt conversation.-"

 

Then once we win the fight, we look up the lost convo on youtube and either sigh with relief or head-desk.

[Talagen]

But if we actually get some accidental sweet heartfelt scene in the middle of a bog of undead skeletons coming at you, at night, waist-deep in muck, I will cry laughing and struggling to pick non-bad options and run through the convo as fast as humanly possible while a skull pops up behind my LI ready to attack.

 

I have to make sure fraps is on to catch the ensued hilarity as we run around professing our love while trying to avoid the legions of undead...Oh yeah, I can see it now...With Benny Hill music in the back ground...

[AresKeith]

I thought it was a mistake and i didnt even like him.

 

Make them all Bisexual. Its still the best solution.

 

That's subjective at best

[just.somebody2]

I have to make sure fraps is on to catch the ensued hilarity as we run around professing our love while trying to avoid the legions of undead...Oh yeah, I can see it now...With Benny Hill music in the back ground...

And yelling at the screen because we can't hear the banter over the ghoul shrieking.

[BioticMarauder]

My personal complaint is that as a straight guy i only have 1 option for a female LI to take with me on adventuring. this is a pretty major point for me as I always take my LI into my party. no choice for me here :/

Just realized that... Oh well, at least I can focus on the story now as there won't be any kind of "distractions".    

Looking forward to TW3 and hopefully, ME4.

[Kuse]

As someone who is a heterosexual male this is pretty disturbing/disappointing news. Guess I just have to flip a coin then eh...sheesh.

[Icefalcon]

As I've mentioned before I'm not really big on any of the romance options, but I appreciate a lot of people are and my thoughts are this. If we are going to have a romance-able character they should be available to the PC. Regardless of race, gender or anything else, this is a GAME and the PC is the star and if you want to romance character X because that is your story then you should be able to.

 

Now I know Bioware are talking a lot about how the story makes sense of their choices and I say simply Bullshit.

 

One of the first things you learn in pen and paper RPG's is you put your PC's first, not fall in love with your vision of the NPC's at the expense of the PC. The PC is king (or queen) and as far as I'm concerned every option should be open to every player IF they want to take it up, and for it to be easily closed off if they do not.

[Angloassassin]

 

And yelling at the screen because we can't hear the banter over the ghoul shrieking.

 

Especially after an audio glitch and suddenly the shrieking makes up 90% of the sound on your Tv/Monitor.

 

Then once we win the fight, we look up the lost convo on youtube and either sigh with relief or head-desk.

 

Especially when you choose all the options that don't fit your character, and maybe you lead them along too quickly. Eventually making the relationship fail.

 

I have to make sure fraps is on to catch the ensued hilarity as we run around professing our love while trying to avoid the legions of undead...Oh yeah, I can see it now...With Benny Hill music in the back ground...

 

If that makes it to the Interwebs, I'll personally share that on every social media I have available.

[ElitePinecone]

Equal romance content does not mean equal romance experience however. Obviously that doesn't mean that there aren't those that want that type of different romance experience. No fan of Josie anyhow so, i doubt i'll be even looking at the NPC option anyhow.

 

Sure, I understand that for many people a big part of the experience is going to be fighting alongside their LI as a companion. 

 

I don't think that's a reason to totally dismiss the advisors out of hand though, especially when it seems like we can go on missions with them.

 

edit: what even are prepositions 

[jtav]

And does anybody really think the advisors won't get love scenes/goodbyes/etc.

[InfinitePaths]

As someone who is a heterosexual male this is pretty disturbing/disappointing news. Guess I just have to flip a coin then eh...sheesh.

 

omg you didn't get the most options in a video game as a straight male?

 

*le gasp* the horror!

 

Very disturbing.

[Milan92]

My hope with Josephine is that she'll be an example of a strong female character whose strength is not in the form of martial skill or magical power.

 

I think her and Vivienne writing a letter, are more deadly then a few angry men with swords

[TheJediSaint]

I think her and Vivienne writing a letter, are more deadly then a few angry men with swords

To be fair, Vivienne can always fall back to setting people on fire.