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[God]

Probably depends on how you feel about the romances in each game. Romance in video games tends to be very awkward. I always found them extremely awkward in the Mass Effect series. Three conversations and you're in love! What? Really?

 

Eh, it does depend somewhat on the game, and how they approach. DA:I handles its romances rather well I feel. Mass Effect romances, especially established ones in ME3 tend to work a bit better than the ones in ME2. That said, they're not bad per se, and you do have the ability to... expand on them via headcanon.

 

I feel they're better than a lot of the more established ones that railroad you: For example, in Uncharted, I think Drake would have been much better off with Chloe than Elena. But they sort of roll you into a path and give you a sense that the character has a choice, but then cutting that off and choosing one person for you.

[themikefest]

 

I feel they're better than a lot of the more established ones that railroad you: For example, in Uncharted, I think Drake would have been much better off with Chloe than Elena. But they sort of roll you into a path and give you a sense that the character has a choice, but then cutting that off and choosing one person for you.

I prefer Elena over Chloe. 

[Larry-3]

All the girls I wanted to romance, I could not. Kasumi, Shiala, Michel Chole, Samara, Aria, Tevos, Emily Wong, that asari police officer on Illium. I even wanted to meet that girl who sent me the very interesting email in the Armax Arena.

[KaiserShep]

Probably depends on how you feel about the romances in each game. Romance in video games tends to be very awkward. I always found them extremely awkward in the Mass Effect series. Three conversations and you're in love! What? Really?

 

I wonder how people would feel about romances if it required two or more games to actually develop into a full on romance. I'm guessing people would hate it, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued by the concept.

[ImaginaryMatter]

No romance does not add anything. but it does remove the unskippable romance scenes so you can get to the final missions faster in each game.

 

Probably depends on how you feel about the romances in each game. Romance in video games tends to be very awkward. I always found them extremely awkward in the Mass Effect series. Three conversations and you're in love! What? Really?

 

The conversation thing doesn't help. Another thing is that the romances in the ME series feel entirely like side content but other wise meaningless. In DA:O, for example, there's even more dialogue options but even more so they get things like relevance to main plot events, epilogue mentions, party member banter, etc. It has a way of making them feel more real and consequential compared to just a few more lines of dialogue and a brief, usually awkward, sexytime scene. I also feel that Shepard being a brick doesn't help either. To me in turns everything from romance and character building between two characters to some sort of slight fanservice indulgence.

[KaiserShep]

The conversation thing doesn't help. Another thing is that the romances in the ME series feel entirely like side content but other wise meaningless. In DA:O, for example, there's even more dialogue options but even more so they get things like relevance to main plot events, epilogue mentions, party member banter, etc. It has a way of making them feel more real and consequential compared to just a few more lines of dialogue and a brief, usually awkward, sexytime scene. I also feel that Shepard being a brick doesn't help either. To me in turns everything from romance and character building between two characters to some sort of slight fanservice indulgence.

 

Yeah, companion interaction in general was always superior on the DA side of things. It seems like a given that the new ME game will have romance of some sort as well, and it would be nice if it was more dynamic like its medieval-esque counterpart. .

[BurningBlood]

All the girls I wanted to romance, I could not. ... I even wanted to meet that girl who sent me the very interesting email in the Armax Arena.

The cheese sculptor?

[fraggle]

No romance does not add anything. but it does remove the unskippable romance scenes so you can get to the final missions faster in each game.

 

Probably depends on how you feel about the romances in each game. Romance in video games tends to be very awkward. I always found them extremely awkward in the Mass Effect series. Three conversations and you're in love! What? Really?

 

Haha, yeah. I was raising my eyebrows when Liara suddenly made an... interesting confession. All I did was being nice to her!! That girl must've had no love in her life before I was pretty harsh to her admitting her feelings in my current playthrough though (in my 1st I romanced her).

Right now I play a Shep that focuses entirely on the mission, but being there for his crew in a friendly way (mostly, I was mean to Ash at some points). But a certain someone might convince him later to commit to a relationship.

I think my most favourite romance system still is the one from DA:O. You had a lot of options to get there, and it felt more natural.

[Mordokai]

No romance does not add anything. but it does remove the unskippable romance scenes so you can get to the final missions faster in each game.

 

Probably depends on how you feel about the romances in each game. Romance in video games tends to be very awkward. I always found them extremely awkward in the Mass Effect series. Three conversations and you're in love! What? Really?

 

Eh, every romance in every game is gonna be faulty of that to an extent. It's a necessary consequence of what is being shown and what we imagine/know is happening. I agree with you that, if we take ME romances at their face value, they all come off as pretty bad and unrealistic. Me myself, I imagine there is a lot of little talks aboard the Normandy, the Citadel, the various missions that Shepard and their love interest undergo, getting to know each other.. you know, the little things that make people get to know each other and fall in love. It's not realistic(because this is an RPG/action game, not a dating simulator(and people have been known to accuse Bioware games of it before)), but I imagine that if the romances would be shown the way they are in real life, they wouldn't be nearly as popular as they are.

 

On topic, no, I think it's not. It adds nothing, but a romance makes for a better game. If nothing else, you get extra content out of the game and in my opinion, more content=good.

 

And for my friend Larry, since I know how much he likes Shiala...

 

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[themikefest]

I wonder how people would feel about romances if it required two or more games to actually develop into a full on romance. I'm guessing people would hate it, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued by the concept.

It wouldn't bother me at all. 

[fraggle]

It wouldn't bother me at all. 

 

Yeah, I have to say I thought ME1 without romance would be a bit more boring, but no! ME2 will be the same, and in ME3 I will finally do it.

I think a developing relationship across 3 games sounds really cool, and since I'm doing that now it's kinda fun to try out, but it wouldn't hurt to have both characters that require some time to develop true feelings and characters who just want the fun. Bioware sort of did that in the past anyway, you could get real quick in some characters' pants, others required more time, and that's all fine by me (allows for some great roleplaying choices imo).

 

Wouldn't surprise me though if people would yell at BW again if they ever did such a developing relationship thingie. Especially in the DA forums the LIs seem to be a very big deal and people are so often rude if things don't go their way.

[Daemul]

I wonder how people would feel about romances if it required two or more games to actually develop into a full on romance. I'm guessing people would hate it, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued by the concept.

I would be completely fine with this. Seriously, romance's in ME feel so off, more development for them can only be a good thing.

[Display Name Owner]

I wonder how people would feel about romances if it required two or more games to actually develop into a full on romance. I'm guessing people would hate it, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued by the concept.

 

Well, something like Samara but with a happy ending might work. I suppose it could be done so certain characters can be romanced in one game, and other characters take a little longer. I might just be able to get into a romance like that, possibly maybe.

[fhs33721]

On the subject of romances being awkward:

To be fair, they work exactly like most movie-romances (and quite a lot of book-romances even though that medium fares overall much better in that regard.) where the hero maybe talks three time to the girl and if she's super-lucky he rescues her from something/helps her with a problem before they fall madly in love even though they basically just know eachother for a few hours at worst or maybe a month in a selected few movies.

It's just how romance in fiction is often done not something Bioware came up with.

[Larry-3]

And for my friend Larry, since I know how much he likes Shiala...

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Yes! Thanks, Mordokai!

I love the pose she is giving.

Well I am not certain about the vines, but yes -- she looks really good.(^:

I would trade in Liara for her instantly.

[Mordokai]

I would in trade Liara for her instantly.

 

Hey, now you're just talking blasphemy!

 

Why choose one when you can have both Or all of them, even!

 

 

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[Quarian Master Race]

My femsheps sometimes end up forever alone due to a severe design oversight (worse than the ending IMO), no dateable manquarians. 

 

It's made even worse by Tali's psuedo lesbian tease about suit linking and fangirlism in ME2. Y biovar, y u torture meh like dis?

[Larry-3]

Hey, now you're just talking blasphemy!

Why choose one when you can have both Or all of them, even!



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Well, I would be lying if I said that Liara was not good in Mass Effect 2. That photo, though... BioWare, please release a DLC to make that happen. I will max out my paragon and or renegade if I have to.

[God]

I prefer Elena over Chloe. 

 

Ok. Don't know why you needed to share it, but whatevs.

[themikefest]

Ok. Don't know why you needed to share it, but whatevs.

Ok. Don't know why you had to bring up the Uncharted games in your post, but whatevs.

[God]

You really don't need to do a passive-aggressive repeat of my post towards you. I brought it up as it was a relevant side-point that supported my statement (and was thus pertinent to the discussion). To be frank, I don't care what your opinion was of the characters was. It's not helpful or relevant feedback to make a statement and then not support it. Especially when it's a tangential topic used as little more than a cursory example for my statement.

[Larry-3]

The cheese sculptor?

 

Salora T'Ron

[RanetheViking]

If you've already tried all the romances then sure don't bother if you don't want to, but if you haven't, you might as well try one of them. As others have stated it gives you extra gameplay value, a connection to your Shep  or just something you haven't done before.

 

Just my 2 cents worth, so to speak.

[fhs33721]

It's made even worse by Tali's psuedo lesbian tease about suit linking and fangirlism in ME2. Y biovar, y u torture meh like dis?

That teasing from Tali. Dammit Bioware why are you so cruel.

First this:

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Then nothing.

[von uber]

So lonely:

 

 

I think I prefer it with a LI: