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[lady8jane]

This makes me wonder if Bioware should just go a game without romance options 

 

Or a dating sim ... hm ...

[Aurok]

You'll date Cassandra and you'll damn well like it.

[celestialfury]

Well a dwarf you can just pop on and spin like a top. Thane was a great romance, even moreso with the Citadel DLC that was the best romance I've ever had in a bioware game. Garrus=Chicks dig scars right? Iron Bull=Giant Qunari...so uh big hands big feet?

 

I'm not saying these romances are bad, on the contrary, I'm just saying most male players wouldn't give the female equivalent the time of the day because they aren't conventionally attractive options and apparently all they care about is supermodel gf + raunchy sex scene. Even Cass and Josephine are too ''out there'' for them.

[AresKeith]

Or a dating sim ... hm ...

 

They could probably do that on the side

[TheChosenOne]

It's a good thing the Inquisitor doesn't have a hot sister........ Bethany,anyone? 

[daveliam]

This makes me wonder if Bioware should just go a game without romance options 

 

I have a feeling that when they start a new series, they'll forgo romances in it.  What is that new series that they are doing about dreams and shadows and stuff?  I bet that one will have no romances.  I can't see them removing romances from a series in which fans are clearly passionate about them.  For better or worse (better in my opinion), they are going to remain in DA and ME and TOR

[Maverick_One]

You do realise that this would entail a great deal of work? Romances have to be coded, animated, and voice acted (by someone able to do a decent impression of the people you want to make romanceable, since I guess you don't have the money to hire Ali Hillis assuming her contract would even allow it). 

 

Depending on whether voice files exist, mods might be able to remove requirements for romances (e.g. allowing your manly inquisitor man to romance Sera, but that depends on Bioware having recorded male lines for dialogue male inquisitors were never going to see)

 

 

 

Dagna? You know,

Spoiler

the dwarf running your forge?

Oh yeah. Thank you. I am bad with names. You should see me try to remember someone's name in real life. Oddly though I can remember things related to numbers.

[AresKeith]

I have a feeling that when they start a new series, they'll forgo romances in it.  What is that new series that they are doing about dreams and shadows and stuff?  I bet that one will have no romances.  I can't see them removing romances from a series in which fans are clearly passionate about them.  For better or worse (better in my opinion), they are going to remain in DA and ME and TOR

 

It would be funny if they actually did it though lol

[De Vulus]

IMO this game's romance options are geared towards Female players rather than male players.

 

 

Well yes there are more options for female characters than there are for male. 

[AlexMBrennan]

It's a good thing the Inquisitor doesn't have a hot sister........ Bethany,anyone?

I take it you don't know that there is an Imoen romance mod?

[rigron]

It's a RPG not a dating sim.

 

Which gives Bioware even more reasons to have more and/or better romance options because love and sex are part of real life, so I personally can´t have a beliable roleplaying if those elements are not present in the game or are present in a bad unappealling manner for straight male players, because as the OP has said, the game clearly caters to a straight female (and an homosexual male and female) audience while screwing the straight male audience when it comes to romances and love interest in this game.

 

It has been pointed out in tons of threads here, it has been discussed and still is discussed not only in this forum but on a lot of other forums too and it seems like this is the most vocal demand/complaint about the game more or less on par with the bugs of the PC version. This is not a conspiracy or any kind of "ey, let´s sabotage the game", there has never been any problem with straight male romance options and love interest in the last 5 RPGs Bioware/EA has made since 2007, so the complaints about this matter you and everyone else are seeing are completely legit and should be born in mind by Bioware/EA.

[De Vulus]

Which gives Bioware even more reasons to have more and/or better romance options because love and sex are part of real life, so I personally can´t have a beliable roleplaying if those elements are not present in the game or are present in a bad unappealling manner for straight male players, because as the OP has said, the game clearly caters to a straight female (and an homosexual male and female) audience while screwing the straight male audience.

 

 

Love and sex are part of real life, but demons and giant green holes in the sky are not. This is not trying to be the Sims RPG or something.

 

And screwing the straight male audience? You feel cheated that there are two women for your male character to have sex with while straight women get 3 males? So unfair.

[celestialfury]

Straight males aren't being screwed over, they just have very restrictive bland cornflakes taste. 

[TheChosenOne]

I'll take Cassandra over some dumb super-model in armor bikini any day 

[Angel Mercury]

Is Josephine all that bad? And Cass has grown on me, though my current character can't seem to please her at all so she's hardly likes me any ways. Granted my current character is female, an option for male characters to romance Harding would have been great. She cute and seems like she could be a fun character, maybe they'll expand her in a DLC since a lot of people are asking for it. Some quests and back story for her could be fun, even if I wasn't going to romance her.

 

As much as making Liliana romancable could be nice, it makes sense character wise that she isn't (particularly if your Warden in DA:O romanced her). The same can be said about Varric. In DA2 he was by far my favorite character and it was a bummer you couldn't romance him then either, though again story wise I can accept it. 

 

I think the bigger complaint is that in an effort to make the characters more gritty looking the designs are a fair bit less appealing. I certainly don't mind the sentiment or the attempt, but it seems like there could have been a bit better balancing in the execution and people would be a lot less dissatisfied with their options.

[De Vulus]

I can't even take this anymore. **** all the people who complain about the romances in this game or any other Dragon Age game. Here's to hoping everyone is asexual like me in the future games!

[Nemis-Roidsavelt]

Bisexual Male here. Prefer women never been with a man but ill acknowledge my gay side. I wanted to add in on this conversation, and give you my background in attempt that you wont jump right away to useing ad hom attacks again me. I enjoyed romancing Cansandra. Would of preferred to romance Krem personally. My type of man. A man with a vaginia and small boobs and is tough as nails . I didn;t like cassandras personality though. Its really off putting when someone accuses you of mas murder....... In addition I was never into a person who kept telling me I was the second coming and that I would bring in an age of love ect. I believe in the maker but I don't particular love him..... He gave us the blight afterall as a form of punishment. Letting millions of innocents die. If the maker was king and he did that everyone would be like O hell no that guy is evil as hell. But all of a sudden if its a god who does it everyone is totally accepting of him committing mass murder on innocent people.

[derekch]

Romance should remain in the series and yes to modding romance!

DAO wouldn't be as memorable to me if I wasn't able to romance Alistair and Morrigan. Morrigan;s romance was funny as she was awkward when trying to process her reaction and feelings. Alistair was awkward as well but sweet.

 

DA2's romance where most of the characters were bi was a good system, imo. So long as they don't come on to you and initiating the romance should always be the player's choice (flirting). I definitely would prefer to romance Cullen on a male inquisitor but I can see why people would object and want a set sexuality for certain characters.

[Pasquale1234]

haha makes me think these guys need to get introduced to the wonderful world of smutty romance novels. But then again they probably are sitting in a dark corner reading the latest Kresley Cole.

 

... or maybe some of them have watched too much porn.  Or played too many games where gorgeous scantily-clad women fawn all over their protagonists.  So any potential LI who isn't built strictly for male consumption doesn't meet their requirements.

 

Fact is, they have the same number of options in DAI that they had in DAO and DA2, although none display side-boob or watermelon cleavage.  Is that the problem?