Which combination has the BEST romance?

[Dale]

I've played ME1-3 with [most] every possible combination from start-to-finish.

IMHEO: it's FEM-Shep and Garrus. They do more stuff together.

What say you?

[Zeo]

I dislike romance on the first because it's superficial and Shepard being a marine makes no sense for him to flirt with his crew, but even if you don't do anything Liara and Ashley will jump at you (I only played with male Shep).

I believe that the best relationships are the ones with the characters that are in your crew for the entire game, softing Jack is very cute, Miranda also is often discarded because of her appellative look but gaining her trust is rewarding.

I'm a simple man and choose Tali I believe that the female Shep gets the worse batch of characters for compensate for best boy Garus.

PS: I hate the shadow broker ending at MF2, makes Shep depressed for Liara even if you never expressed interest on her, seems that Bioware wanted to shove their relationship to us at any cost.

[5ean5ean]

I always pick Liara....here's why.

1. I'm a dude, I always play Fem Shep and don't date dudes.

2. Tali and Garrus get together, Joker and EDI get together, and Ashley and Vega get together. Picking Liara achieves maximum Normandy romance.

[OpenRoadRacer | Flame of Liberty]

Originally posted by 5ean5ean:

Ashley and Vega get together

Wait, what? Even more reason for me to leave Kaidan behind on Virmire? I hope you have some evidence of this, please.

On-Topic: Well, like 5ean5ean up there, I've only ever played FemShep, and only ever gone with Liara. To be blunt about it, it feels like Liara's about as close to a "canon" partner for Shepard as I can find, considering all she puts herself through in the time between ME1 and ME2 just because she refuses to let Shep go.

[Jonathan Hunt]

IMHEO: Shepard/Jack

[Vellari]

Originally posted by openroadracer #ProMask+Vax:

Originally posted by 5ean5ean:

Ashley and Vega get together

Wait, what? Even more reason for me to leave Kaidan behind on Virmire? I hope you have some evidence of this, please.

During the party in the Citadel DLC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmO3-cIDOz0

[alexander_dougherty]

Depends on what exactly you want out of a romance....
One of the best romances was with Kelly in ME2, but apparently that one doesn't count...

[Kat]

It really comes down to your preference. I can't bring my FemShep to romance anyone but Kaidan.

I've thought about doing a short romance with Thane on ME2 and if it had been possible for him to stick around in ME3 I might have done it already (maybe)

But in the end, I can't bring myself to go with anyone but my sexy Canadian.

[OpenRoadRacer | Flame of Liberty]

Originally posted by Vellari:

*video*

Thanks a million! Now I'm DEFINITELY not letting Alenko leave Virmire.

EDIT: While I'm here, I just want to say that there was definitely a missed opportunity for an interesting romance path in ME1 for having started with your human squadmate first, but then left your human love interest on Virmire. I could actually see this going pretty smoothly for a BroShepXAshley scenario, but I'd imagine that the repeated meldings done by FemShep could help ease a FemShep that tried with Kaidan but then had to leave him into a romance with Liara.

I figure it'd be best to determine whether this would be possible based on interactions with T'Soni immediately after Noveria. I wonder if anyone ever tried making a mod for such a romance path...

[Zeo]

Originally posted by Kat:

It really comes down to your preference. I can't bring my FemShep to romance anyone but Kaidan.

I've thought about doing a short romance with Thane on ME2 and if it had been possible for him to stick around in ME3 I might have done it already (maybe)

But in the end, I can't bring myself to go with anyone but my sexy Canadian.

Woa Kaidan is not a popular pick, you have my respect.
In all my games he always survive, I find is personality in check with the lore and when he corrects his bio implant he get way better, I only find weird he becaming homossexual out of blue on MF3

[Xenos]

Tali just feels the most organic to me. It's not a sudden, in your face, same-game, "make your choice NOW" situation like it is with many of the other male Shepard options if you play him as a nice dude. Prime example being Miradna's VERY on the nose "Maybe I dont mind you staring" if you were just being empathetic towards her. You spend the entire first game as just friends, building that foundation trust most real relationships are based on, then after re-uniting, she lets it loose by accident that she likes you in a realistic, "oh god did I just say that" adorable way.

Plus throughout the rest of ME2 and ME3 she easily acts the cutest and has that adorable/clumsy trait without being incompetent at the same time. The only absolutely CRIMINAL part of her romance is that she's HARD locked to 50% story progress for Mass Effect 2 and 3. It's a tease in ME2 since you straight up meet her face to face early on, but then have to come back later to recruit her, but ME3 is worse by locking her behind Priority: Perseus Veil, which can ONLY come after Priority: The Citadel II and Priority: Tuchanka, which lock out a TON of war asset side-missions if you rush them down.

I also hate that I basically have to break her heart to give her the best ending for her people as a whole. I love Tali, and she loves Shepard, but she's also incredibly dedicated to her own race as well to the point that she immediately commits suicide if they die. Making peace with the Geth is immeasurably helpful to the Quarians in every possible way, and the ONLY ending Shepard "lives" in is Perfect Destroy, which also annihilates all of the Geth, removing any chance of the Quarians being able to live outside of their suits in Tali's lifetime.

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

ME1: Liara
ME2: Jack
ME3: Jack

[barzai]

Originally posted by Zeo:

Originally posted by Kat:

It really comes down to your preference. I can't bring my FemShep to romance anyone but Kaidan.

I've thought about doing a short romance with Thane on ME2 and if it had been possible for him to stick around in ME3 I might have done it already (maybe)

But in the end, I can't bring myself to go with anyone but my sexy Canadian.

Woa Kaidan is not a popular pick, you have my respect.
In all my games he always survive, I find is personality in check with the lore and when he corrects his bio implant he get way better, I only find weird he becaming homossexual out of blue on MF3

Not meaning to make a big deal of it, but since you can romance Kaidan as FemShep in ME1, presumably that makes him bisexual.

Hey...I didn't come up with this taxonomy! :-)

[barzai]

Originally posted by 5ean5ean:

I always pick Liara....here's why.

1. I'm a dude, I always play Fem Shep and don't date dudes.

2. Tali and Garrus get together, Joker and EDI get together, and Ashley and Vega get together. Picking Liara achieves maximum Normandy romance.

I used to pick Liara (as FemShep) for a very long time, but after a while I realized she was more interested in her vast array of info than in me, and that got old.

Actually knew a woman like that, so it was kinda...personal, ya know what I mean ?!?

Nowadays I generally skip the romance aspects completely, although I did experiment a bit in ME:LE just to get the achievements...wound up doing Kaidan in MELE1, Garrus in MELE2, and the toothbrush chick in MELE3.

The last one was kinda by accident, I'd plighted my troth to Garrus and then chatted up the toothbrush girl, and suddenly it was like Garrus just didn't want to even talk to me any more--getting a lot of "calibrations" on that freqe. So I figured, oh well...guess I'll go back to the toothbrush babe! :-)

[N7_Shadow]

Originally posted by barzai:

Originally posted by 5ean5ean:

I always pick Liara....here's why.

1. I'm a dude, I always play Fem Shep and don't date dudes.

2. Tali and Garrus get together, Joker and EDI get together, and Ashley and Vega get together. Picking Liara achieves maximum Normandy romance.

I used to pick Liara (as FemShep) for a very long time, but after a while I realized she was more interested in her vast array of info than in me, and that got old.

Actually knew a woman like that, so it was kinda...personal, ya know what I mean ?!?

Nowadays I generally skip the romance aspects completely, although I did experiment a bit in ME:LE just to get the achievements...wound up doing Kaidan in MELE1, Garrus in MELE2, and the toothbrush chick in MELE3.

The last one was kinda by accident, I'd plighted my troth to Garrus and then chatted up the toothbrush girl, and suddenly it was like Garrus just didn't want to even talk to me any more--getting a lot of "calibrations" on that freqe. So I figured, oh well...guess I'll go back to the toothbrush babe! :-)

Nah, I didn't see it that way. She hesitated in taking the reigns, but realized it was too much to pass up because it could help Shepard. She said so herself, if I remember right.

I never got the impression that she had other motives at all. While she is a scientist, and there are things that interest/motivate her, she made it clear in ME1 that these were not her reasons for being interested in him. The dialogue makes it clear that she has a huge soft spot for Shepard, and she's 100% loyal to him. Keep in mind that she got into the info business as a result of going after Shepard's body. Did anybody else go after his body? No. And while she had no love for Cerberus, she gave his body to them, knowing they may be able to bring him back. Thus she wasn't as shocked as some were, that he was alive, when he meets her on Illium.

[Steadfast3]

I play as a large variety of Shepards: Male and Female, all classes, preferring different weapons and armours, and, obviously, trying different romances.
Tali is my absolute favourite. No question. She embodies everything that I like in women and has such a good heart. I mostly play as Male, but I can see the appeal of Garrus for Femshep as they go through a lot together.