Arleneverde wrote...
There's this little wheel in between the right and left buttons of your mouse. It allows you to scroll. Most useful.
That said, why is it that the people who don't care about the romance option always assume that those that do need to get laid? I'm female. I can do that whenever I feel like it. Most of the fairer sex can. We hold all the cards there. It isn't about sexual frustration...it is about the interpersonal interaction. The actual sex was kind of cheesy, but getting there? That was most amusing.
This is what I don't understand. You claim it's not about the sex - which for most people is correct. Yet, you go on to say it's about the interpersonal interaction, and the relationships that you develop with the characters. That isn't exclusive to romance (which you probably know). Bioware is fully capable of writing a close relationship up with a character without using any intimacy. You can tell me your relationship with Alistair or Zevran was the most meaningful out of all your companions, which would be both subjectively and objectively true - since relationships build up over a longer span than a friendship making it far more resource heavy to produce. But then, when you consider this, you also wonder if such a buildup would be fitting for an expansion of questionable length. That, combined with our lack of knowledge on just what those characters really are, their role in the story, and the core disposition they display towards the Warden makes the choice of barring any romance especially appropriate (at this time). Is it disappointing that there aren't any in the expansion? Maybe, but again, this is subjective - as you said.
Is it understandable? Yes, they give a logical explanation, even if it's vague or loose to you.
Those that speak for romances are out of luck and out of Bioware's minds. There isn't any point in wishing or wanting when it simply won't be.
When the expansion is released and people have the time to play it, understand the story, and comment is the appropriate time to discuss why there should've been romances included in the game. As for right now, no one knows enough to give an irrefutable reason as to
why.