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[andar91]

Hm...interesting question.

 

Well, I'm a gay male.

 

I think I find romancing men (as a male or female character) to be slightly easier since I'm attracted to men in real life, and my characters tend to be fairly close to myself.

 

But I'll also romance a female if I find her an interesting character. The female characters just have to work a little harder to catch my attention, I guess. I'd sort of like to romance Josephine at some point, and maybe Cassandra. Sera I love as a character, but I'm not sure about romancing her yet.

[synnerman]

Gay male, got into Bioware games with Jade Empire because I could romance Sky.  Been hooked ever since.

For DAIII: First play through will be Dorian.  Second will be Iron Bull.  I'll juggle them for subsequent playthrough. Although I tend to play the nice guy so much, I blunder into the het romance by accident. Merrill threw her self at me in DA2 and I know I didn't choose any heart options.

[boissiere]

I'm a male too. I tried to make some lesbian and homosexual relationships sometimes in DA games just in order to check if there is any involvement that could be different to heterosexual ones. It is rarely the case, the social orign of your character in DAO has often a greater influence that its gender for example (except for noble dwarf and Mardy). In DAII, the women are more interesting than male for relationship. I tried Anders in my first playthrough with a female hawke. However, Anders, for his relationship, was really blank... I was cleraly disappointed. He was a big 0 in comparison to Alistair in DAO! The cut scene with Isabella or Merril are clearly more intersting. Fenris often bothers me. I won't say I didn't try him to have all love interest but there was a je-ne-sais-quoi that clearly was afoot... Except the ending logic for killing Anders, Fenris was always searching to kill Merril when discussing with her (Anders only a little). With Fenris, it was easy : he wants to kill both Anders and Merril from begining to end! For that, he is stereotypical a lot. Merril is naive which is terrific considering Marethari for example. It only left Isabella whose history is far from uninteresting. I think, in DAII, she was the best romance. In DAO, my favorite romance was clearly Alistair and his rose... He had ideas that others don't during the love interest. And the Love interest that I hated in DAO was Zevran... I had the impression that, for him, love is only like an handkerchief. He takes you then throws you... He is fun to speak with but clearly not dependable.

[Yamie]

Nope it doesn't matter to me! If the character is interesting enough then i will romance them, reguardless of gender.

 

I usually end up having many playthroughs and romancing everyone at some point just so i can experience the content... I play these games too much

[KC_Prototype]

As a heterosexual male, I go straight or lesbian for my romances(obvious reasons). 

[Ayleid]

Nope it doesn't matter to me! If the character is interesting enough then i will romance them, reguardless of gender.

 

I usually end up having many playthroughs and romancing everyone at some point just so i can experience the content... I play these games too much

 

That partially applies to me aswell ... but i only do such things when i already finish the game or if there is exp or worthy rewards involved in the process 

For me it's like an extra something to do when there isn't anything better to do like the achievements and for this reason i can't understand many people who are obsessed with such "side quests" in a game like dragon age ...

[Lee T]

I tend do go with the flow of the story and the characters. In ME1 and DA2 I didn't romance anyone on my first playthrough, The characters didn't interest me enough to dig deeper into their peronnalities. In DAO I romanced morigan because she seemed interesting enough and the way the story ended felt like a big pay off. When I go through the games again I tend to explore the romances I didn't try, for the sake of variety. My second DAO character was a a manipulative jerk so I romanced everyone, my third was a female Cousland and Alistair was a both a logical match and the last romance I hadn't explore.

[rubynorman]

I'm female, bisexual; I played as both female and male characters and romanced both female and male companions before. But I rarely do a m/m romance because I can't role-play that I think. But Dorian is soooo hot this time, I may do a play-through for him. In conclusion, I mostly don't care about the gender of the character I'm playing, I'd romance any character I find appealing to me.

[HK-90210]

1.I find it dissapointing people still look at m/m or f/f romances and consider them "forbidden fruit".But if that is the view that suits you, and the way you percieve characters, that's fine I guess.

 

2.I believe you're talking about romantic orientation, not sexual orientation.If I understand correctly, if a woman is sexually attracted to both men and women she is bisexual.That doesn't mean she has romantic interest in both genders, that would be romantic orientation.

 

1. Human nature at work, friend. Anything different is bound to cause issues. No one is an exception to that, least of all a flawed man like me.

 

2. Eh. This is arguing over the definition of sexual orientations and the like, things that are such an intimate part of an individual that I try not to define it for anyone but me(and my characters). I view bisexuality as both romantic and physical attraction to both sexes. If you don't have both, I don't think the term bisexual fits. That's just me, though. And in the end, what I think doesn't mean jack squat. What matters is what each individual thinks. It's a God-given right for each of us to be able to decide where we fall on the scale of sexual orientation. I hate it when people try to tell other people what their sexuality is. <Not saying this is what you are doing. Just a pattern I notice with a lot of people I've talked to.>

[ArtemisMoons]

I intend to romance everyone at least once.

 

However, normally I stick with female characters and romance any characters said female can. So gay and straight relationships are on the table.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

Six-pages-and-counting with no flames or trolls to spoil the discussion.  Good job, OP!

 

I've already commented once, but haven't expressed my... preferences.  Although a hetero male, I find that I play female characters exclusively.  This is for a very specific reason; I don't want to look at/listen to another guy who "isn't really me" over the course of the scores of hours that I will be in the game.  I can role-play my female Warden or Hawke or Shepard (played all classes and origins) with no problem, but couldn't even manage to finish DAA with a male Orlesian Warden after that one time I chose to make the US in DAO.

 

So I've done all the f/m and f/f romances, but none of the m/m.  Not because I object to the idea, but only because I can't get myself to play a male character.  Reading some of the posts here about Kaidan, and knowing how interesting I found Steve Cortez in ME3, I may just have to try a male Shepard the next time I go for a complete ME-run.  (But it will be very hard to give up having Jennifer Hale voicing my FemShep!  Mark Meer is good, but he's not Brian Bloom...)

[Darth Death]

Women are a gift to men, so as a male, why should I deny it? With that said, I don't bother with romance in BioWare games except on a few occasions. 

[Subtle54]

I become quite immersed in rpg's and invest a lot of myself in my characters. I'm also a completionist and the two for me, unfortunately, don't go hand in hand. I play both female and male characters, but have never received any of the achievements for romancing a male character.

[Mornmagor]

I'm a heterosexual male.

 

My Warden was a male that didn't romance anyone and sacrificed himself in the end, refusing the dark ritual as well.

 

My Hawke was also a male. I tried to romance Aveline, because she was more interesting in my eyes. Ok, maybe she was a bit my type as well.

 

I got heartbroken in the process.

 

I liked it, although not technically a romance, i considered it enough, she was an interesting character, with whom i had great interaction, and it felt more... real i guess. Unrequited love and all, that left you with a sour taste of melancholy in the end.

 

I'm just not good with this romance thing

 

However, Aveline-like romances, that are not "actual romances", are something i would welcome. It was really fun.

[daveliam]

Women are a gift to men, so as a male, why should I deny it? With that said, I don't bother with romance in BioWare games except on a few occasions. 

 

I know that you mean that first part as a compliment and not to start a flame war or anything, but.....uh, women aren't really "gifts to men". 

[SurelyForth]

I'm a pansexual woman who prefers playing female characters who are also pansexual. While I sometimes go into a game with a definite plan to romance a certain LI, normally I just go with whoever feels "right". My romances in DA/ME are about a 50/50 split between M/F and F/F.

 

Until I decided I had to romance Morrigan, I hated the idea of playing a male character. However, I was able to get past it with a Warden, as his lack of voice and blank personality made it easier to shape him into a character I could better identify with. I ended up loving that romance best of all. Unfortunately, I've not been as successful with making a male Shepard for romancing Miranda or Tali.

 

DAI is going to be interesting, because it has the first gay male love interest that I really want to romance. If playing a male to romance a female character was a low hurdle, this was one I thought I'd be never overcome- without a woman involved, my interest tends to plummet. However, I'm finishing up a m!Surana/Zevran playthrough of DAO and it's been really sweet and awesome- and the friendship arc with Morrigan makes up for the dudecentric romance plotline. I'm hoping to get a m!Hawke/Fenris run done before DAI comes out, although it's going to be tough- I loathe m!Hawke. But even if I fail, I'm pretty confident that I'll have no issues with romancing Dorian as a male Inquisitor. After Solas, he's my most anticipated companion.   

[RenAdaar]

I'm asexual but my characters are always lesbians in games that give me the option.

 

Im not really sure why but I like the idea of romancing female characters more then male ones. =P

 

 

[Fardreamer]

As a hetero male, I've never had a homosexual male character.  I have nothing against it, but I've never felt like playing a character that way.  It's probably has to do with the fact that I don't find males attractive.  I played a female rogue as my main character in DA2 and I had her romance Isabela.  My secondary character was a female mage who slept with Anders but ended up completeing the romance with Merril.

 

To unlock the achievements for DA:O I made female dwarf nobel who romanced Alistair.  And a Dalish female elf who romanced Zevran.

[Yermogi]

Because I myself an a straight female, I tend to create straight female characters who romance males. I do this primarily because it is something that helps me to immerse myself in the game, and I enjoy it. 

 

The reason I do not usually play homosexual female characters is because, as a player, I find myself drawn to the males, and not nearly as much to the females. I do not personally find Cassandra, Josephine, or Sera interesting to me romantically. The idea of romancing one of them when there are sexy male romances to be had is not appealing. That is not to say that I do not find their personalities fun and engaging, I simply do not really think of them as potential LI's because I am drawn first and foremost to male characters.

 

I will probably play a homosexual male so that I can romance Dorian, however, because I very much like the kind of personality he has. But really, it depends on what you enjoy playing as, and what your gameplay style is. There is no right or wrong answer where this is concerned.

[Remmirath]

I'm asexual and essentially aromantic, and (not that it particularly matters to the question at hand given that) female. I have little interest in romances, be they in games or in novels or films, for their own sake -- it's a rare one that I've actually enjoyed, as that only happens when I feel that it really works extremely well for both characters and is adding something interesting to their characterisation. Mostly, I just think they tend to be sort of dull and not add anything to the story, and sometimes actively derail the charactres. As such, I'll never set out to do a romance when playing a game.

However, I love roleplaying (that is, after all, why I play roleplaying games), and I enjoy playing a very wide variety of characters with personalities that are very different from my own. Therefore, I do sometimes end up doing the romances in games, if it turns out that it's what the character I'm playing at the time would do. The gender of the NPC in question only matters inasmuch as the character I'm playing would care, so I'd say it's probably mostly about the NPC's personality there.

The Dragon Age series is actually the only one I've done any of the romances in at all, come to think of it, and at that I've done three out of the four in DA:O once and one out of the four no times at all. Only one in DA II, but I only played DA II once (well, twice in the same way with the same character), so that's a higher number than usual for that.

[karushna5]

I am an grey Asexual homoromantic but I identify more as a lesbian.

 

I tend to want to play female characters, because it is nice to have the option, but long ago, I did the same for male characters so my preference on gender is more stubborness at this point than an inability.

 

I romanced guys in DA, and ME and was really dissappointed with the female options in a few of them. I seem to have a preference down the line. Being a lesbian is the biggest and I played through Mass Effect 1 2 and 3 with Liara even if sometimes it felt like it wasn't made with women in mind. I only romanced Silk Fox in Jade Empire and I spoiled everything so I could find make sure it worked. I loved Isabela, but Merrill made me pretty uncomfortable to romance. I enjoyed Leliana, but honestly I felt Zevran was the best romance.

 

And that is leads in to if I can't play a lesbian or I do not like my options I try to play a gay man. Often when I enjoy the characters more for one than another. I had my male Aeducan romance Zevran and I still think he had the greatest character out of the romances, and a whole lot of depth to his romance. When I found I had to play a man in Fable, I refused to be straight.

 

And even be a straight woman although I really only do this if I don't have the option of the two above and the character is really good. When Liara's arc seemed really really flat in Mass Effect 3, when I played again I romanced Garrus because he is really cool and neat character and felt Sam's romance seemed once again that it was aimed toward someone else. I find that the number of lesbians who dislike the romance compared to the number of men who felt like she was the only good option really makes that pretty telling. Also, neither Kaiden nor Cortez seemed like they had the content to be worth playing male.

 

The only one actually hard for me is a man romancing a woman. I really loved Morrigan who really set off my gaydar something fierce, and Jack was exactly the type of woman I always wanted in these games, I really liked Ashley, the only one I ever could do was Morrigan and that playthrough was my do everything unlike I have ever done them before playthrough. I gained even more of an appreciation for her, but it felt like a chore in a weird way. For some reason, I just can't get into a man romancing a woman, I don't know why, but that one is the only one that actually seems to take the enjoyment out of the romance.

[LostInReverie19]

I'm a straight female, and I like to try out all the romances. It doesn't matter to me what my character's sexuality is, because I roleplay all my characters differently. None of them are me. I do tend to have a preference for romancing male LI's with my female characters, but I also like to do m/m romances and romancing female LI's with male characters. I rarely do f/f romances, but that is mostly because I've found the LI options for such pairings not as interesting as other romance options. For example, I couldn't stand Traynor.

[Sanguinerin]

As a statement about myself, I would say that I'm bi with a preference toward men.

 

So, out of habit (from not usually having male options available to my male characters), many of my first characters are female. I've typically played heterosexual females, in order to romance the male options I'm interested in (Alistair and Sebastian, for example). However, I've also made and planned lesbian relationships before (such as with Leliana and Isabela). And I've romanced women with my male characters (Morrigan).

 

I don't really care about sexuality (with the small exception of when they're gender-locked). I planned on romancing Sebastian with my very first Hawke. Instead, I was fascinated with Isabela, slept with her, and my first Hawke was an unintentional lesbian (because in order to successfully romance Sebastian apparently you can't swing around a little bit behorehand).

 

What am I trying to say...?

 

Ah, yes. It's mostly about the character for me. In my first play-through of Inquisition, I'm planning on romancing Dorian. I've firmly settled on a male Inquisitor first. However, despite the fact that Dorian is more physically appealing to me than Iron Bull, the Bull's personality (and voice actor) have given me cause to put him into a priority position for my first run.

 

Then again... I'm in love with Josephine so far. A refined, cultural woman who knows her way around a noble court? Yes, please. The only option (sadly not available) better to me would have been Vivienne, because I find ambition incredibly alluring. So will my first Inquisitor go for the fellow human, Dorian? Or, what are they saying, #ridethebull? Or perhaps even fall for the lovely Josephine instead...? Now that I think about it, a Pentaghast also sounds like a fine political match for a rising power player.

 

I'm more interested in the character's personality, and that will define who I continue onward with.

[Who Knows]

Gynephilic panromantic is the closest thing that describes me.

I prefer playing M/F, F/M or M/M. I haven't played anything with non-binary genders yet.

[Fardreamer]

I just recently learned the Vivienne isn't availible as a LI... I'm quite upset, as she was going to be the perfect match for my bad/self-serving Inquisitor.  Now, I'm at a loss as to who he/she would be best paired with.