Ashley or Tali in mass effect 1

[LazerWolf952]

alright, so im having trouble figuring out who i should romance in the first game. i know i want to romance Tali in the second and third ones, but when your options are limited to the tough girl who has a lot of trust issues, or the sexy blue girl who is a little to obsessed with archaeology, its kind of hard to choose. on one hand, liara is more tolerable then Ash in the first few games, but on the other, in the third game, Ash takes it better then Liara if you find someone else in the second game, if you are not a ♥♥♥♥ to her. hell, she goes as far as to say Tali is like a sister to her. so it leaves my choice difficult. to i take the girl who is nice, but end up hurting her? or the girl who is a little too rough around the edges at first, but becomes more understanding later?
(this is a repost of a post i had for mass effect 1 classic on steam)

[Replica]

If you want and don't want to go the celibate route, romance Ashley and leave her on Virmire- because you had a 'locked in' romance, Liara will not have her romance dialogue with you and you can just side step the new chance in the third game.

[LazerWolf952]

Originally posted by Replica Velocity:

If you want and don't want to go the celibate route, romance Ashley and leave her on Virmire- because you had a 'locked in' romance, Liara will not have her romance dialogue with you and you can just side step the new chance in the third game.

I dont exactly plan to just romance someone and leave them to die. thats kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up dude. can i get some advice that doesnt make me a psycho?

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Replica Velocity:

If you want and don't want to go the celibate route, romance Ashley and leave her on Virmire- because you had a 'locked in' romance, Liara will not have her romance dialogue with you and you can just side step the new chance in the third game.

You cant romance Ashley before Virmire. You can flirt with her but to lock in the romance you need the scenes after the Normandy is grounded and on the way to Ilos which is much later.
Only that one counts for the romance achievement.

As for the OP, just choose Liara in 1, then in 2 go for Tali. Liara will give you a bit of crap for it during the Shadow Broker DLC but is also like " its been 2 years, we are different people now" and you can stay friends without any hard feelings.
And then in 3 just stay faithful to Tali. That will net you all 3 games romance achievements.

[Bealla Donna]

Tali.

[Kage Goomba]

Tali isn't an option in ME1 as much as the Tali fans (including myself :P ) wish it to be.

Only got Ashely or Liara

[Replica]

Originally posted by LazerWolf:

Originally posted by Replica Velocity:

If you want and don't want to go the celibate route, romance Ashley and leave her on Virmire- because you had a 'locked in' romance, Liara will not have her romance dialogue with you and you can just side step the new chance in the third game.

I dont exactly plan to just romance someone and leave them to die. thats kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up dude. can i get some advice that doesnt make me a psycho?

It's not psycho. And while the game doesn't count it as a romance because it does not complete, it can block the Liara romance which is how I count a lock in. People can do it for story RP reasons as well, I've done it on a playthrough for story/character reasons because I wanted to see if it led to any different lines in Mass Effect 2. Honestly, romancing someone just because they're there as a placeholder for someone better wouldn't be great life decisions either, but this is a game where you are roleplaying as someone.

If you're after an achievement, pick whichever is more tolerable for the third but relax. I wish I could romance Garrus in the first game as well, I usually just say all the wrong things to Kaidan (I'm still trying to get that biotic line, damn it) and well... let's just say I leave Liara alone in her quarters or as the last main mission before Ilos.

[Skill not found]

Ive romanced ashley, I dont think it was worth it. You can drop her in the second game at the first or second mission (She is an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anyways in the second game). Then you are free to go with Tali. Liara is a more interesting character in the game overall than ashley, in my opinion.

[Replica]

Originally posted by Skill not found:

Ive romanced ashley, I dont think it was worth it. You can drop her in the second game at the first or second mission (She is an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anyways in the second game). Then you are free to go with Tali. Liara is a more interesting character in the game overall than ashley, in my opinion.

I can understand the third game turning people off Ashley because it killed her character for me but she had a reason to be upset in the second game. (If only for maintained character progression- Ashley would have been such a fascinating character but alas)

I never got mad at Kaidan or Ashley for their reaction- the second game working with Cerberus made my skin crawl. We were working with terrorists who had and were doing some vile wretched things, if the writers were going for Shepard feeling trapped by that team up, they did a hell of a job.
But Cerberus commits all manner of atrocities on their victims. I'd honestly have thought less of the Virmire survivor for being team!Shepard.

It's where Ashley's character fails because that momentum, not seeing her try to understand and having to help others work through their own issues- wasted potential. Kaidan at least remains fine even if you haven't romanced him.

[★REM★]

Tali

[Door Into Summer]

Tali so you can see Ashley flirt with James in ME3 Citadel DLC. Wounder if she flirts with him regardless of being with Shepard.

[Skill not found]

Originally posted by Replica Velocity:

I can understand the third game turning people off Ashley because it killed her character for me but she had a reason to be upset in the second game. (If only for maintained character progression- Ashley would have been such a fascinating character but alas)

Totally agree with you there.

Originally posted by Replica Velocity:

I never got mad at Kaidan or Ashley for their reaction- the second game working with Cerberus made my skin crawl. We were working with terrorists who had and were doing some vile wretched things, if the writers were going for Shepard feeling trapped by that team up, they did a hell of a job.
But Cerberus commits all manner of atrocities on their victims. I'd honestly have thought less of the Virmire survivor for being team!Shepard.

The whole story about that was huge and very fascinating. I personally enjoyed to work with them, because the got things done. The council was weak and never took any action to stop the rising danger. I hoped if I let them die a better council would take there place, but no everyone was just mad at me.

[Uvirith]

Ashley is a Racist God-Job with a fathercomplex. Tali is not an option in 1. That only leaves Liara.

[Caz]

Originally posted by Uvirith:

Ashley is a Racist God-Job with a fathercomplex. Tali is not an option in 1. That only leaves Liara.

She's not a racist. No idea what you're talking about with "god-job", though, unless you're being a bigot toward Christians.

[Skill not found]

Originally posted by Caz:

She's not a racist.

She definetely is at the beginning of ME 1. But you can find a letter later that she regrets this.

[Xephyria]

Only liara and ash can be romanced in ME 1 Tali can be romanced in ME2 and 3