Don't romance Minthara

[Puffin]

I started to romance Lae'zel, but I broke up with her after Minthara came into the story, then it has turned out romance of Minthara is unfinished mess. I feel scammed by Larian now.
(at least don't try to romance only her)

[mrmolotov07]

can we romance Jaheira ?

[cerabus2001]

The grass isn't always greener ;)

[Puffin]

Originally posted by mrmolotov07:

can we romance Jaheira ?

I don't know, try! Or check google, though I am afraid of spoilers, so I try to not look for much informations around the Internet nowadays. I want to do 4 playthroughs at least to try different characters and romances.
I guess the game is so long and there are so many romance options, there are few confirmed informations about these things.

[Edstyles]

Romanced karlach i like her char but romance was just ok . Not very satisfying.
Was actually hoping minthara would be better on my next play but well now im not sure anymore. Will have a look at shadowheart

[ManureTruck]

It's completely obvious they put more effort into the romances most people would most likely choose. It's a statistics game. MOST people who play this game will only play it once. MOST people who play this game will romance either Shadowheart or Lae'zel (or Karlach, if they find her).

The quality of the romances are directly proportional to how likely they are to be experienced by players.

Most people, I would predict greater than 90% of players even, on their first playthrough will completely miss that Minthara can even be recruited. This is largely in part due to the vast majority of players playing "the good guy" because it's the default behavior of most people. The reduced quality of writing of her romance arc is therefore not surprising at all.

One of the reasons that the Tali romance was so good in Mass Effect is because the devs predicted she would be a popular option given the kind of people who play sci-fi games. They put most of the writing work into Ashley (huge number of players, i.e. gameplay andies, just go with the "default"), then Tali, then everyone else. That's what made the lazy finish to that romance story so confusing. All that work into Tali and then they used a stock photograph as a "face reveal" for her. People were rightfully mad and the devs were rightfully ashamed, although they barely did anything to fix it (apparently the decision to reveal her face was made very late in the dev cycle and no one had actually finalized what the Quarians were supposed to even look like under their masks at that point, so in a pressured crunchy rush they just went with "slightly modified human face").

[Edstyles]

Gith are the least played race.

I remember Minthara start romance was quite good. Tho i hear now it got changed for full release

[Murderhobo]

Originally posted by Edstyles:

Gith are the least played race

OMG it's true, Gnomes have been vindicated at last!!!

[45ay3asdasd]

Originally posted by ManureTruck:

It's completely obvious they put more effort into the romances most people would most likely choose. It's a statistics game. MOST people who play this game will only play it once. MOST people who play this game will romance either Shadowheart or Lae'zel (or Karlach, if they find her).

The quality of the romances are directly proportional to how likely they are to be experienced by players.

Most people, I would predict greater than 90% of players even, on their first playthrough will completely miss that Minthara can even be recruited. The reduced quality of writing of her romance arc is therefore not surprising at all.

One of the reasons that the Tali romance was so good in Mass Effect is because the devs predicted she would be a popular option given the kind of people who play sci-fi games. They put most of the writing work into Ashley (huge number of players, i.e. gameplay andies, just go with the "default"), then Tali, then everyone else. That's what made the lazy finish to that romance story so confusing. All that work into Tali and then they used a stock photograph as a "face reveal" for her. People were rightfully mad and the devs were rightfully ashamed, although they barely did anything to fix it (apparently the decision to reveal her face was made very late in the dev cycle and no one had actually finalized what the Quarians were supposed to even look like under their masks).

I think we need a medical study done on the people who romance laezel, they clearly belong to a very unique demographic

[hoot hoot]

Man finds woman.

Man likes woman. Woman like man.

Man finds new woman. Leave old woman.

New woman not like old woman.

Man is alone.

Shocker.

[Firelock]

Originally posted by Edstyles:

Gith are the least played race

Since the principal example is a mean-spirited, narcissistic, racist, gas-lighting, murder-hobo, it's not hard to see why. Only a masochist would romance a woman like that.

[ManureTruck]

Originally posted by ♥shadowheart's♥foot♥slave:

I think we need a medical study done on the people who romance laezel, they clearly belong to a very unique demographic

The githyanki are basically cloned from Star Trek's Klingons. There is a large demographic of nerds who like Klingons. Her "female is dominant during s*xual courtship" behavior is even pulled straight from Klingon-isms.

[threwapentagram]

That demographic and dx was removed from the DSM-IV.

[emyeuvietnam]

with that face,you might as well date a goblin

[hoot hoot]

Originally posted by ManureTruck:

Originally posted by ♥shadowheart's♥foot♥slave:

I think we need a medical study done on the people who romance laezel, they clearly belong to a very unique demographic

The githyanki are basically cloned from Star Trek's Klingons. There is a large demographic of nerds who like Klingons. Her "female is dominant during s*xual courtship" behavior is even pulled straight from Klingon-isms.

I don't know how others don't see this, but Lae'zel looks like Kate Mara and so I totally understand why people would find her attractive.

*Kate Mara in alien makeup

[Murderhobo]

Originally posted by cerabus2001:

The grass isn't always greener ;)

Saw the sex scene, she has no grass at all.