Hormalakh
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I don't think having LBG(no T yet?) is what people are bothered by, it's that sex of any kind is handled so badly. Like how in Dragon Age: Origins romance operates on the level of prostitution - give your followers enough shinies and they'll invariably start coming on to you. The character system is broken as a whole - as long as you keep giving them shit, your NPCs don't care what you do to other people - but when that's the case, why would also shoehorn sex into a bad system? Iirc everyone except the dwarf has a threshold at which, if you have been friendly to them, they come on to you in a less-than-subtle fashion and require several rebuttals to leave you the f alone.
Of course you can also say yes and engage in the 'romance', in which case you have to endure cringeworthy soap-opera (dialogues before the inevitable softcore rumpy-pumpy (it's mostly shots of eyes). After which, more soap-opera. The only difference in Mass Effect is that there's also aliens (maybe they're supposed to make up for the lack of trannies) and you don't even have to give them stuff, they just beg you to bend them over the nearest futuristic chest-high wall at pre-determined story junctions.
You know why you can't romance the dwarf in DA: O, or Wrex in Mass Effect? Because they're ugly.
Ah ok. that seems more understandable. i guess i misunderstood when people were adamantly against romance in this game, it's that they meant "shit romance." i haven't played the witcher, but from what i understand, it seems like nobody had any issues with how sex and romance was dealt with in that game.
i still don't like TNA in my games and i'm lucky that mods to that effect are made.
carry on.