Ok, has Jane aged at all in the last 7 years? I can't remember when I subbed now, but she looks the exact same

A reminder that Garrus Vakarian is either your best friend, your lover or both. Legendary character that's impossible to *not* love in some capacity.

It's worth noting that romancing River in Cyberpunk 2077 ends up being hilarious when Johnny chews you out for having relations with a cop.

9:29 "I see the story they tell of grey wardens endurance are not exaggerated" "It's a 30 second cut scene but okay" I laughed so hard at this

Romance: Can have multiple routes over multiple playthroughs Fans: There will be only one

Tbf, V's awkward flirting in Cyberpunk is pretty realistic

Considering Tali is only 2% behind, and wasn't even a romance option in the first game, I'd say she is the real winner. Morrigan has the voice of Claudia Black. Huge advantage there.

The more I see Baldur's Gate 3 snippets, the more I believe it's a dating sim with extra steps.

I can't believe that 113 million corpses have been talked to, but Scratch has only been pet 48 million times! Who are the heartless people playing this game?!!!

“Un-brie-levable!” Jane, I love your sense of humor

14:49 it’s killing me that the VA laughs at the end of that line, and that’s still the take they used. Giving me big Tim Curry “SPAHYCE” vibes

Never forget that more people got the achievement for one of Elden Ring's secret endings than they did for the default one, all because you got to marry a doll woman with four arms.

I agree with the science lady: what's more romantic than stats? Bureaucracy? Algebra maybe?

Jane is in her element here! 😉

14:49 'I may be bad, but you made me glad.' Is it just me or can you hear the voice actor very nearly bursting into laughter at the end of that line :P

The idea of a game developed by spiders of unknown numbers and nature is truly unsettling.

2:37 Even though it's funnier not to... "And now Garrus is doing a lot more than just calibrating the Normandy's guns!"

About Morrigan, it's helpful to remember one of the only ways to survive the final boss is to knock her up so she can fuse the Archdemon's soul with your unborn child so she can be mother of a god. None of the other options have a built in game reason.

"What's more romantic than stats?" My wife could not agree with you more, Jane. For next Valentine's day, I'm thinking of giving her an Excel sheet with metrics detailing every date we've had.

So glad Greedfall got a mention. Kurt is also the worst to romance because, it takes from start to finish of the whole game, his compatibility is the hardest to raise, there are - 2 - points in the game where you could lose him permanently, and those 2 points are hard to avoid since they are each dependant on several quests.

"Keanu, you've been in my head since point break." He's been in mine since leather fetish Matrix

I know Thirsty Jane conceived of this and I’m all for it😂

There's a background conversation in one of the Mass Effect games that suggests Asari appear differently to different species, suggesting some level of biotic illusion is involved. For all we know they're actually Xenomorph-esque

One more point for shadowheart: she’s literally the first romance option you meet that doesn’t try to kill you.

The Morrigan achievement doesn't mean as much since there are two ways to get it, normal romance or during the ending where you bed her to seal the darkspawn within her.

10:07 To be fair, Leliana is kind of infamous for forcing players into an accidental relationship with her in DA:O.

Shadowheart is friggin adorable! Not surprised she is most popular. And her epilogue is so sweet!!

14:05 ''Only _I_ can fix him" 😭

Would love to see the stats on Skyrim. Not many of them are really "interesting" options, and the one people DO want isn't interested.

"Whats the opposite of a pick up artist?" Me, Mike, I'm the opposite of a pick up artist. Lol

Man, I hate all the "Kaidan hate" There's a ton of people like Kaidan and he's mostly shy when it comes to relationships and can even feel a little pressured when a Shepard persues him too hard.

I'm surprised by Leah being the most popular bachelorette, but not at all surprised by Sebastian (only Tumblr would've voted him higher, they absolutely have a type). For the most part, I often hear that Abigail or Haley (despite the haters) are the most popular. Must be from people outside Reddit though.

Now I'm going to keep coming back to these comments to see if an Estonian Wil Wheaton follower that has completed Baldur's Gate 3 shows up. That person will be my exact opposite, as I am none of those things.

As rubbish as the flirting is in Cyberpunk, at least it's written to sound like actual flirting not being vaguely nice, which is the best Bioware can usually muster.

With Panam, it’s honestly *only* because of the abysmal offerings the game does in terms of love interests. You have exactly 1 love interest to choose from for each gender and preference. Judy if you have a gay female V, River for straight Female V, Kerry for gay male V and Panam for straight male V‘s. And considering the majority of players of Cyberpunk are straight males, it kinda does explain the stats by itself. I for instance am a straight male, but *immediately* jumped ship to Kerry because Panam is honestly unbearable as a character. She is childish, hot headed, childish, rude, immature and childish. She literally throws tantrums around and literally just isn’t gonna talk to V if you decide to not go her route on certain things. I can imagine if Judy was available as an option for straight male V‘s, that stat would’ve changed *real quick.*

Given how accessible Liara is in ME1, the fact that Tali is second by only 2 percent says alot about how much more popular she is once she's available. I'd be interested to see the stats for me2 and 3 only, where most options are available.

sorry but Bioware TRIED to make Liara (and Ashley and Kaidan) attractive, but we fell in love with Garrus and Tali anyway and had to BEG for them to be options in 2 and 3. That makes them win. Also in all three Dragon Ages, I accidentally picked their respective Mage With Issues Who Betrays You At The End. Not sure what that says about me.

It does help that Morrigan is voiced by Claudia Black.

Kaiden Alenko is a gem and I’m tired of pretending he’s not!!

I'm pretty sure in Stardew the two most romanced characters are Abigail and Shane.

That Stardew Valley one comes with the Bias of being a reddit survey: Meaning that first; you have to be on reddit to participate in it, and secondly; you have to be willing to participate in a reddit survey. I dunno. Feels less official than the others. (And I want some respect for my frog-loving professional programmer)

"Dreamboat Bastard" is a great description of Astarion 😂

Kaidan Alenko is my #1 romance everytime

I'm honestly surprised Astarion wasn't the popular option in Balder's Gate

14:50 I love that you can hear danny start to laugh in this line

Morrigan and Tali still have a special place in my heart.

It's interesting to learn that the most popular dad in Dream Daddy is the one voiced by Dan Avidan. I don't know if that's the reason he's the most popular... but it is why I'd chose Robert myself if I ever played it.

I love the opening line “Romance in video games has been around as long as video games themselves”. Very subtle and satirical humour. Remind me of first line of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Spoken by Jane…😮

Speaking of Shadowheart's incredibly low-cut outfit, just gonna share that the first thing I do once I have both Astarion and Shadowheart in my camp on every playthrough I play (of which there have been many lmao) IS SWAP THEIR CLOTHES! Astarion's "Homely Clothes" look really nice on Shadowheart and the tight black outfit works for Astarion well. Though I am sad at the double standard of it not having a super low-cut when on men, only on the women.

You know what they say about video game romances; "Caveat emptor, Bio-be-Ware!"

8:10 I don't know, Mike, he could switch it up to, "It's about to get spicy!"

“I maybe bad but you made me glad” sounds like laughter at the end there lmao was that an outtake? If so, y’all should totally do an “Outtakes that made it into games”

It's true PONG paddles were in love, you just gotta read between the lines

Don't knock being a wheel of cheese. Everyone loves cheese. And if you're swiss cheese, well...

Keanu, you've been in my head since Point Break.

So glad Siora...and Greedfall...got a shoutout.

Alistair stays number 1 DAO romance in my heart 🌹

The problem with counting achievements as your basis for this statistic is the following: I am counted as having romanced Alistair, Morrigan, Zevran and Leliana. An even split in the stats, right? But considering that I romanced Alistair, Morrigan and Zevran once each, and Leliana something like seven times, I am going to give that one to Gaider. Leliana wins over multiple playthroughs. I feel confident that this is true for many players who replay those games.

I romance Liara ONCE, and that was to get the achievement for my Xbox. Many would hate me, but I’d ALWAYS romance Ash as male shep, and Garrus as Fem Shep.

It’s so weird for me to see BroShep romancing Liara, as I’ve always played FemShep. And no matter what I said to Kaiden he always thought I was flirting with him. Oh, Kaiden, you sweet summer child.

My first BG3 playthrough had my bard behaving as bards do, until only Halsin was willing to put up with me. Karlach never entered the rotation, but I did consider her my in-game BFF (which was hilarious when one NPC asks if we're together and she says, 'Ew! Gross!'). When final end-game choices came about, I didn't hesitate a moment to do what I needed to keep Karlach safe and happy. True friendship is true love.

To hose saying stats aren't sexy, if it wasn't for statistics we wouldn't know that more people have been turned into cheese than have completed baldur's gate 3.

I just realized how much Greedfall's Constantin sounds like Squiffy. I really hope he shows up in a new season of Oxventure.

Fallout4 gives some good choices. Always fun to hang out with Cait. Who doesn't like killing a bunch of raiders then having a snuggle?

Astarion must be playing *extremely* hard to get to not make it at least into the top 3

Karen from Harvest Moon 64! A girl with attitude who likes to drink and the daughter of a vineyard owner? Sign me up! She even tries to help around the farm even if she sometimes fails which I find endearing.

Looks like Mike forgot that in ME2 it's strongly implied that the Asari don't actually look like human women. Instead, they seem to appear like female versions of whatever race is viewing them. So Turians think they all look similar to blue female Turians, Krogans see them as blue female Krogan, and we see them as human-like. :)

HOLY SH- yall still do these!? I just had a massive nostalgia wave seeing the thumbnail in my recomended... I immediately recognized the format! Yall are awesome!

Wow! Surprised that the top choices in Stardew were Leah and Sebastion. Thought for sure it was going to be Abigail. Also, I like how you can hear Danny (voice of Robert in Dream Daddy) just break character with a snort at the end of the result screen at 14:48 Lol

Estonia mentioned!! Great video, I implore everyone who is still playing Baldur's Gate 3 to try Lae'zel's romance, it's REALLY good. Hers and Shadowheart's are my favorite.

I'm just intrigued by Jane's t-shirt, :) 5:50"Developed by spiders"..."the most unsettling thing I've ever said". HOW did you not get Ellen in to do this entry? That line would have SO much more meaning from her! LOL!

The mass effect one I have to heavily disagree with. I mean Garrus Vakarian is right there.

I romanced Jack in the Mass Effect games, she was my kind of woman. I love Shadowheart, she's my fave BG3 character.

The shirt says “MOOD”

I need that "MOOD" t-shirt

I always thought the romance options felt a tad hollow, especially Stardew Valley's characters. I mean, you have to give them sooooooooooo many gifts. They don't like you for you, they like you for your deep pockets!

Wait, there are people who had a FemShep and didn't romance Garrus? This is a dark dark timeline.

Don't know what it is about Turians, but I really like them. Maybe someday I'll get to be one if Bioware ever allows us to pick a species for a Mass Effect game. I'd have to say Garrus is probably the hardest to romance in the main series as you have to be loyal to him throughout all three games with the same Shepard. Otherwise, you'd miss out on some cutscenes and special dialogue options. Still feel sad Shepard had to sacrifice herself, but maybe for the best since human and turian biology are so vastly different. Guess they could've adopted orphans though. Hidden third ending was probably the lesser of three evils I suppose...

"Liara is the clear favourite in this Guinness Records poll" *Liara at 29%* *Tali at 27%* Seems pretty close to me.

My FemShep in Mass Effect 2 ended up with Thane without even trying at it. That's how spiritually in tune she was with a coldly professional assassin (I based her off my TES Dark Brotherhood character, after all). Thane also ended up the sole casualty in the final mission, so again-- karma.

I would like to point out that in Jade Empire you can romance both Dawn Star and Silk Fox at the same time. The Last Spirit Monk has more game than Commander Shepard! Thank you and good day.

14:50 It’s Dan trying not to laugh while saying that line

DA:O Zevran can be romanced by both males and females, so they are the only option for male characters to romance a romanceable male NPC.

14:44 how yall gonna talk about how popular Rob is without mentioning how the trophy above the one highlighted is at 51% and about Robert

2:25 in ME3 there’s a bar scene between non-Asari NPC’s that make the eerie implication that none of them can agree how they look like

Liara is always funny to me as there was something near uncomfortable about her romance in the first game, like they played her innocence up a bit too much, but and then ME2 base game had just such a shrugworthy reunion that it was staggering. But then LotSB happened and ME3 just did some masterful work on that front. And somehow in the end, for me, the Liara romance was the true epic romance that I could not choose anyone else. Like there was a journey with her and Shepard that just felt right.

Miranda from Mass Effect, Ysolda from Skyrim, Panam from Cyberpunk are my top 3 romanced characters

I just rewatched the Guess the game font challenge vid last night. It took me almost through this whole vid to notice that Jane was wearing a Mood t-shirt in the Doom font lol

Kaiden rubbish? I’m ready to throw hands to defend my space boyfriend. 🤣

Romance, statistics, much like Janes shirt, this video is a mood.

It's got to be Abigail when you play Stardew Valley, put a Crystalarium in the house with an amethyst and she flies up to 14 hearts!

I swear you can hear Robert's VA stifle a laugh at the end. "I may be bad but you made me gLaD"

Does Jane have anything to say about Kaiden being more popular than Ashley according to Guinness?

That 30 second cutscene joke made me laugh far too hard

I find it interesting how my preferences changed between games. When I first played the Mass Effect Trilogy, I romanced Tali. When I played Baldur’s Gate 3, I was 100% with Karlach. Massive difference.

Not only are ME1’s options for FemShep “badass Dr. T’soni vs Galaxy’s Most Boring Man(tm)” but its options for MaleShep are “badass Dr. T’soni vs weird space racist”… there was really just one option.

Sorry, but Karlach will always be my preference. She cheery, energetic, and has a teddy bear at her tent.

Make a list of the 10 Romanceable characters that ended up breaking your heart. Solas from DAI better be in the top five. 😂

4:48 There's a scene in Game Of Thrones that I came across on YT (I never made it past that Danerys/Drago episode) where Danerys tells some guy to "Do what you do best... Take off your clothes" and it sounds alot similar to this scene in the game

i'd like to point out that in dragon age all you need to do to unlock the romance achievement is sleep with the individual characters, which is very, very easy compared to later entry inquisition. you can very easily get three of the four romances in one playthrough. hell, in one evening in camp, since you only have to have their approval high enough to initiate the proper conversations.