Jane is a vampire. I thought you knew.

@@SimuLordI was unaware. Now she's gonna bite me. Uh-oh.

@@shanemc1202 On the bright side, you'll embark the following day on a wild adventure across Los Angeles full of sexy fun...unless you pick Nosferatu, in which case it's rat blood for you, all you can drink.

Wait she isn't the female version of Dorian gray ?

you mean better lol

Mass Effect fans: And it shall be anyone other than Jacob...

*Queen’s Princes of the Universe intensifies*

​@AncestorEmpireGaming was thinking that too...

​@@Jedi_Spartan_38 Yeah even the mind vampire chick is a better choice.

lol… I have this mindset in far too many games 😂 I get so attached to one character that I hate choosing any other. For instance in Fire Emblem 3 Houses, which is one of my favorite games ever, I only played the other routes besides Blue Lions one time each, whereas I’ve played the Blue Lions Route like 10 times at least, all bc I want to romance Dimitri, and even if I do romance Felix or someone else, it makes me way too sad how he ends up in every other route 😅

as long as nothing needs calibrating

Garrus will always be my first choice. The guy is just to badass.

Garrus is the daddy

I like garrus but hardly ever use him i prefer the krogans for the muscle

There's no Shepard without Vakarian 😭

Johnny: fuck the police V: I’m trying! Johnny: what?

Johnny feels everything you do, so that makes sense. He's literally being clapped by a cop.

okay but also, once you do, you get a tank top that says "Fuck the Police" - which implies that River had that in V's size and then gave it to them to wear the morning after. Chef's kiss on that one. Love a man who can tell a good joke 😂

Johnny is an ass about everything. If V is dating Kerry. He asks Johnny" is it weird that I'm with Kerry?" Johnny acts like this " Kerry is only with you because, I'm here too" Different wording of course.

Yeah, I'd be lucky to string a complete sentence together after meeting Panam tbh

Well, nothing is as awkward as V's dance moves.

*Commander Sheppard has entered the chat…*

It's my favorite game ever as long as romance goes (pardon the thumbnail, please). My only issue is how animations do NOT change, so I insisted until Judy was rude with me because she had flirty looks in her final mission. I gotta say, tough, it's exactly because her facial expressions are so good. And I really love the decision to NOT make the companions, her included, player-sexual - I never liked any female character in any game the way I like Judy but she lso reminds me of a RL female friend (yes, strictly friend) and those memories are way more releant than a generic pixel sex partner. CPRed decisions made Judy one of my 2 all time favorite FRIENDS in games, alongside Mordin Solus.

​@@Muljinnfunny thing is, Garrus dances the exact same 😅

Makes you wonder about her previous experiences...

@@SketchbloppConsidering how she grew up in a swamp and has very high standard, she probably doesn't have much.

@@hangefoureyes that tracks

@hangefoureyes Wait, high standards? She'll jump in bed with a male warden literally the first time you make camp. The swamp part totally makes sense, though.

That joke almost got a straight up spit take from me

Not to mention the fact that Liara has a beautiful face and you never even see what Tali looks like except for a small picture she gives you after you've romanced her in the previous game.

​​@@user-vb2ll8nl6gtali benefits greatly from having such a loveable personality. she's such a sweet character, and I always loved talking to her. I liked Liara too, but for me tali was always the best.

I think people love both Talk and Liara are bad ass nerds basically. Something any game player will love. But.. Seeing as how Tali can end up with Garrus.. I do enjoy shipping them

I'm surprised at myself that i haven't romanced Morrigan, considering my crush on Claudia Black that has been going on since Farscape.

Also, Liara double dips maleshep and femshep. Her stats are absolutely overinflated TBH...

It's not really that big a part of it tbh, that's that what attracts most people to it

And then some, at least she can't go all Kaiden on this one.

I really want to know what Jane's teenage fanfiction user handle was. I'm convinced that she wrote a lot of shipping fanfiction at some point...

This definitely felt like a Jane video suggestion 😂. Also, I’m surprised we didn’t see Jane come flying in from offscreen when Mike dissed Kaiden

Long in the making!

Romance! And! Statistics!

Definitely algebra. There's something super romantic about someone buying 30 watermelons!

Let me propose, calculus❤️

Accounting. I'd like to see HER credit memos!

Doesn't matter as long as it can be quantified within a spreadsheet. I'm Excelsexual!

Don't even get me started about taxes

"We did twenty takes, and that was the best one."

Isn't he voiced by Dan? It makes sense that the man with a golden voice has wooed so many, but it's also completely unsurprising that trying to say a line without laughing is not Dan's forte haha

I was imagining Ellen being like 4 rooms over and just perking up because her Pun Sensors activated

That and "it's a 30-second cutscene, but OK" had me dying

@@jesusaguirre2150 right?!?

While this line did get me, my favorite was "Just tell me that you didn't roll a 1."

She sure broke the _mold_ with that. I thought it was _brie_-lliant too! Then again, I don't know _jack_ Some may think: *" **_Cheesy_** puns? Boo!"* *"You gotta stop it, these puns are too **_grating_** "* You su-_r_ _I_ _cotta_ stop? Why so _bleu_ ? These aren't _gouda_-nough? Why you hating? *"Cuz I'm **_fet_** **_a_**-p to here with you!"* O-_que_ _so_ why're you still reading? You think they'll get better with _age_ ? *"You've **_shredded_** the last of my patience!"* I'm sorry that you feel that _whey_ ... P.S. If you have a fund-_emmental_ problem with this comment, you have my _parmesan_ to hit dislike. I'll see myself out.

It's possible they grabbed the stat for that from just one person's profile.

I'm on my second playthrough and lost out on the good boy simply due to trying to joke around with him *cries*

I ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT SCRATCH WHEN I WAS IN ACT 3!!! I MISSED HIM!! I'M SO SO SO SORRY!!!

Pretty sure I’ve pet scratch 48 million times. Probably more.

*Shrugs the continues slaughtering the Harper's at Last Light Inn*

there is a lot of Dad-puns in the game. It's excellent

When I heard her say this I said out loud "Woah, lady... I mean, you right but do you have to say it like that?"

Yeah... he had reach... she had... flexibility

Garrus can calibrate my weapons systems anytime.

I do think it's actually fairly canon not to romance Garrus.. As weird as it sounds. As he and Tali are the two that pair up regardless.. It's odd they programmed that in for them, and a few others.

@@CrazeeAdam unless you've played characters that romance him and/or Tali back in the day.. then whom knows how awkward that gets.

I’m surprised she didn’t own up to romancing Alistair as she has in past videos. Jane… we know.

Many games, they kind of overtook Bioware around the time Tali went into that Rachni cave with Grunt and screamed "Spiders spiders spiders spiiiiiideeeeeerrrs!"

@@KasumiRINA At least one of us isn't getting the joke rn.

I wouldn't call them games. Technomancer, Bound by Flame, Steel Rising... they're making good DEMOS with one finished location ie first one, that is designed for reviewers, who won't go further. And to film ingame trailers on it. Then you move to next location and, oh, what a surprise, they're all empty. Loved the ideas and music behind their games, but at a certain point just gave up on their vapourware antics.

Thank god for mods.

I was remembering a comic on that subject involving Kharjo.

From what I've seen on yt, most people go for Aela or Ysolda. Don't even know what the most popular male character is. That is, of those that are marriable by default. With mods, you of course have Teldryn and Serana.

​@@georgeoldsterd8994 Right from the first time I played Skyrim at launch, I thought the bard in the Solitude inn was the cutest in all the land/s (I can remember her voice, and look, but not her name). Took years for me to play with mods, but I certainly did hurl a Mara amulet her way when it seemed [just about] appropriate, by Skyrim speed dating standards, at least. Pretty sure that playthrough got tanked by quest bugs, so the marriage of thief and bard didn't last long...

For Skyrim unmodded, I go for the single best girl who's the only one with these particular unique dialogue and "You and I, we're the only people in Skyrim worth loving, that's what I think" my personal favourite thing to hear every time "Leaving? Take the world by storm, dearest" Senna. And especially once you can turn her into a vampire, living with her in Bloodchill Manor is perfection itself

I don't think that counts as far as the achievements are concerned, since it's not part of romancing her.

you don't have to romance her to do that. and if you're playing a fWarden then you can ask Alistair/Logain to do it.

That doesn't count as "romancing her" for the purposes of the achievement so it wouldn't be reflected in the stats.

Not only is romancing her not required for it, but you can also ask Alistair to do it for you.

@@sirbiscutsomnom1454 or Loghain, or Zevran

Kurt will also try to kill you if you don't raise your friendship with him, which I consider to be a negative personality trait. (tbf, he's acting on orders and he's not thrilled about it) Also, isn't Kurt supposed to be like 20 years older? He reminisces with you about teaching you how to fight as a kid. A bit dodge ...

I mean, did you have many options in DA:O?

you know, I was gonna ask what you meant, and then I remembered leliana questioning me about being with Morrigan when I had at no point tried to romance leliana lol.

@@jamesherb4384apparently it involves selecting a particular response after dealing with Marjolaine. I’m not sure which one, but it’s apparently a nicer one, that locks in her romance, even though it doesn’t seem to be. Hence the accidental lock in.

@@wolvesfang271 You had four options. one straight dude, one bi dude, one straight girl and one bi girl.

@@jasperzanovich2504 Right, so if you were playing a straight character - you had 2 options max. Not too surprising then when the options were 'Lawful alignment option' or 'Non-lawful alignment option'.

I'm straight but Keanu is just one of those guys I'd go gay for lol 😂

He's been in mine since My Own Private Idaho

My own private Idaho Keanu is goated

I beat all of you. He's been there since Bill and Ted. _air guitar!_

@@mongooseunleashed SIXTY-NINE, DUDES!

Maybe in my next life I will be so lucky to be an Estonian Wil Wheaton follower who completed Baldurs Gate 3

​@@simonreseigh6778one can dream...

Aeryn Sun rocked my teenage world.

It’s ME2. At the bachelor party with the human, salarian, and turian

@@zanetaylor8020 But what we see in Asari does have some resemblance to all 3 species

I think that idea is kind of weak though. Would cameras be affected by the illusions, because the group picture shows the Asari as humans see them. Pretty sure Wrex and/or other species describe them like how humans see them. You can see how the banshees are distorted Asari from how humans see them - would that be the case if they're using illusions? Was there any non-human art that depicted an Asari? I can't recall. They'd depict them differently than a human artist would, no?

The theory is that the banshee’s are their true appearance, which would be pretty wild if true

@@2bdaqueen268 honestly I’d still hit it 😆

Oh right. I forgot about the second one 😂 Caught me of guard the 1st time I played it tbh

Nickel for every time I had to bed a witch to seal the darkspawn within her

"Seal the darkspawn within her" sounds like the weirdest euphemism ever for getting someone pregnant.

​@SimuLord I mean you literally do get her pregnant in order to seal the darkspawn within the child born between you lol

@@NewMega252 Well, that's not the something new I _expected_ to learn today, but here we are. Does she kill you afterward, or do you remain at least one point ahead of the guy in Far Cry 3?

I think the age of the player matters for Leah vs Abigail. It's common to see on Reddit that people think Abigail is too young/childish (lives with her parents, parents still try to control her, no job), Leah seems to be way more mature (lives on her own, has relationship history)

It's actually concerning how many women seem to love Astarion. When I learned he's the top female pick, I died a little inside for my faith in the female of the species.

I thought I was gonna go for Astarion (might on another playthrough, most likely Durge), since he IS quite attractive, but then I ran into Gale and he just smirked at me while being insufferably nerdy about magic. I was done for after that. I love my weirdo wizard man so much 😂 💜

My first pick was Halsin, but I'm sorta weak to the white-haired trauma bois. Be that Fenris, Percy de Rolo, Angel Dust, or now Astarion... I just wanna hug them. Among other things ;P

@@Adanu191 As someone who is a huge fan Astarion I wouldn't actually want to go anywhere near him if he was a real person and I think most people who love him would agree with me on this. There is a big difference between people I love and want near me in reality and the types of fictional characters I love.

@@Adanu191 Thankfully a video game character we choose to romance usually has little to do with what we find attractive in real life...especially given the fact that there *aren't* actually elf vampires wandering around. But it's that combination that cinches it for me. Elf + vampire + snark + deeply wounded emo guy I can help heal. Rawr. Plus...Neil Newbon's voice.

Ikr, just being friendly in conversation. *suddenly* you have to choose between us!

Bioware are CANADIAN, Kaiden's arc is him basically apologizing to you, to his first love, to his teacher, to aliens, and to his parents. The cool thing tho, much like Alistair, you can "harden" them. And then you have Wrex saying maybe we should say council while mah boi Alenko is like NOPE KILL EM ALL!

Then there's Bethesda games like Fallout 4...

That's the problem with most romance in games: they come down to "do whatever he/she likes and score" which is not how it works in real life. While there's no way we would be getting any of that in today's political climate (what with studios' unwillingness to actually prioritize the immersion over a bunch of angry Tweets from gaming journalists), I wish that we live to see NPCs' acceptance or rejection of our character to a large extent depending on our physical looks. And maybe, just maybe, _not_ having everybody you meet and their mother be conveniently bi just so the devs -can multiply the options without writing new lines of dialogue- can appear progressive? Please?

Tali'Zorah is definitely my favorite

As somebody who LOVES romancing characters with issues, I feel you. 🥲

Garrus was the only reason I chose playing fem!Shep 😂

i feel like morrigan's was far less of a betrayal than anders, and especially less of a betrayal than "i'm gonna genocide all the non-elves" solas

I don't know to me Bioware tries to make all the characters attractive.. Even Shale has absolute dump truck behind and she is made out of rocks

It doesn't matter what the source, almost every poll says the same thing. Leah is always pretty high up there, followed by Abigail, and then a mix of the other ladies. Haley has gained popularity in recent years. Sebastian is the top bachelor by virtue of all the others being trash or boring.

@@arellajardin8188 Leah may be winning out for similar reasons to Sebastian; I know at least one guy for whom the major appeal of Abigail is that the game dialogue implies she immediately _eats_ the gifts you give her, and many of her favourite gifts are _gemstones_

@LordJazzly Possibly. Leah is the most "normal" and has a vibe that fits well with a farmer. The other women have quirks that make them more niche. Or like Penny, who you need to lie to, to not lose hearts.

​@@arellajardin8188 Oh true; I hadn't even thought about them being able to fit into a farm vibe, but Leah is 110% that. I've met people IRL who run art galleries off their partners' farms; it's a whole thing.

I married Leah my first playthrough - because she was the easiest to find, and because she liked mushrooms, dandelions, root vegetables, and other random items I'd picked up in the woods next to her house. Basically, she was the only romanceable person who liked the gifts that I could actually afford. All the others wanted things I had to buy or make. C'mon, man! I'm a dang subsistence farmer! I'm busy planting parsnips from dawn to dusk so I don't starve! Even if I had the dosh, the only shop in town closes at friggin' 5 pm, when I'm still breaking my back with my 'snips! And I can't spare a single inventory slot for gifts anyway - because I can't afford to buy the upgrade at *the shop*. 10,000 gold for a backpack!? Highway robbery! And then Pierre has the temerity - the absolute gall - to complain to me that his business is failing. Oh, is Joja ruining your monopolistic strangling grift over the entire town's economy? Well, maybe have some evening hours, stop closing your store on random days, and provide some competitive pricing, you jerk - instead of spending trying to incite a lynch mob to torch the supermarket. Anyway ... so yeah ... all this is to day that in my first playthrough, I became one of those crazy oddball recluse farmers, the strange guy who almost never leaves their land and associates with no one - except for that one other hippie artist woman in the woods, who I eventually took as my bride to live on my compound. Oh, and I also made friends with the homeless dude, because he was the only one who couldn't lock me out of his residence at night. My second playthrough, I knew enough to be able to start earning money, and buy expensive gifts. And would you know it - suddenly, all the single ladies and fellas wanted to be my friend. So the moral of Stardew Valley is "No money, no honey."

Still. tali does have Garrus which is cute

Tali was always my favorite. Except in reality it might get quite awkward since she only takes of her mask when it's about to get intimate. Just imagine she takes the mask of and has some sort of tentacle face under it..

@@zakkvanish3668 i've slept with the emperor in bg3, it's fine.

I still have to build a house on Ranoch!

|:(

... You're my hero now.

If I recall correctly, the plot of the PS2 sequel involved one of the paddles going on an adventure to save his paddle girlfriend (and the rest of the paddle townspeople i guess)

Nothing saucier than a good paddling.

They have such a good rapport. Really bounce off each other.

Underrated comment.

I was also oddly attached to her. I kept her head in my backpack the entire game.

Dude Karlach is the only character that I openly cried about. Like at the end when she’s burning up and doesn’t want to go back to Avernus… I was straight up sobbing while BEGGING her irl to save herself. Which is weird because I never use her in combat and I don’t have her run around with me. But I guess she’s just that kind of characters who grows on you , whom you get attached to REAL fast.

I’ll never let karlach explode again, nor turn her into a…

I worship Swiss, for it is the holiest of all cheeses!

The problem with your theory is I personally romanced Morrigan for over 20 playthroughs and Leliana like 2 or 3 times, Zeveran once and Alistair like at least 5 or more times. So by your example, Morrigan IS the best and most popular romance option.

Minthara had the best romance cut scenes, though.

Married her in Back to Nature! I adored Karen.

She's also the easiest to marry because of the dog glitch. So a game with the most insane time management requirements of the entire series you can skip a major task by just bringing your dog to the bar one night, spam A for 15min, and just make sure to trigger her cutscenes

I liked her hair best. That was my whole reason for picking her over the others lol.

Right? Even though Robert and Dan are nothing alike, I would harken to say that's one reason he's heavily picked

I love that game. my various Dadsonas romanced all the Dads, and Robert probably was my favourite. Plus the hottie teacher, mmm moustaches

Robert's unique among Dream Daddy's eligible bachelors, being the only one who's down for a casual hook-up. Ironically, taking that option actually rules him out as a romantic partner: for the rest of the game he just stays aloof, silently judging you for having a drunken one-nighter with someone as rough-around-the-edges as him.

Jack was also my choice loved her, not to mention her growth as a character between ME2 and ME3, Karlach was my pick in BG3 tho

I really like putting Astarion's outfit on Lae'zel. She looks great in it.

@@Shae_Sandybanks Agreed! It's such a nice outfit tbh, love the frills/curls.

I swap underwear in BG3. Astarion gets Lae'zel's, my PC get's the drow paladin's. About the only one who gets to keep their own is Gale - just because of that 'he couldn't have enchanted his...' description. I die laughing all the time.

The bigger double standard is males often get shirtless but women always get cover... I don't know in what world women are more naked above waist in media.

Low cut stuff is useless on men, while women love the stuff for the attention. Men and women are not the same, and never will be.

I was so confused for like ten seconds before I understood you meant IN-game! ...you meant in-game, right?

That bit is truly a moment of all time. I had way too much fun rolling around as a wheel of cheese with my companions following along without a single comment like that’s completely normal. Tbf, given all the insane shit they’ve seen before you get to Rivington, sentient cheese just rolling around is most definitely not the weirdest thing they’ve seen.

@@ManubibiWalshhow do you get this? I gotta look it up lmfao

I didn't even kow this was an option!

I've played this game 3 times and each time Asterion barely tolerates me by the end. I have no idea how to please this man

​@@Zymemarui have the opisit problem. Everytine i try to romance someone else, i still end up with Astarion

I haven’t even played this game and yet I want to romance the hell out of Astarion.

"It's not you, it's me... I have standards." - Astarion 😅

@@Zymemaru just don't be TOO nice to ppl in his presence in act 1. Mischief, a little healthy selfishness, and after you get the bite (and pick the whole "I trust you" lines), you can basically do whatever. And don't be a j*rk to him in camp convos but that's probably obvious. 😂 Seriously, he calls the player easy to seduce but the dude is so thirsty for affection it's sad.

Garrus is space bro, not space ho

I've never actually played Mass Effect, and I've barely even _heard_ of Jade Empire, and your comment _still_ made me choke on my beverage! 🤣 Have a thumbs up! ☺

Is that game worth finishing? I always stop playing usually a little bit after recruiting that little ghost girl with two spirits inside her

@@Xxsorafan Oh, yeah. There are some twists down the line, that's for sure.

I remember renting that game to play through it when it came out, with a friend of mine at the time. It was his rental, so he would usually spend whatever free time he had playing through it, and on the days I got it I would catch up at his house while he watched. I remember him trying to do this, although he had a favorite and I think it was Fox but I'm not 100% sure on that. Anyway, he failed miserably and he spent that entire weekend lamenting about how it probably wasn't even possible, it was probably just a rumor you know people making stuff up to be trouble. And as I was playing, as he was watching, I accidentally got the double romance on both them without really trying. He didn't talk to me for a week, it was hilarious.

@@Xxsorafan It's rough nowadays of course as the style of game has been improved upon so much over the years, but even today it still has a rather unique setting. I'd love another company to do a well-done ancient China (fantasy or not) action rpg. (the fact that ubisoft has decided to waste China on a side-game, TWICE, is something I'll never completely forgive them for)

He is hard to romance but it's so worth it! I don't know what it is with turians, but if I can romance one, I will. Garrus is great and Vetra in ME Andromeda is as well.

I'm glad someone brought this up. I'm currently working on what I call the, "Realistic Take on Trying not to Die" playthru, where I will romance no one because damnit, got no time for that, I'm trying to not die here. Also, just seems rude to lead with, "Yeah, I got a terminal brain chip disease. Wanna get involved?"

So you're a straight male... But jumped shipped to Kerry in a gay playthrough bc a girl character was unbearable....!!! Why didn't you just ignore both... Seems like the straightest thing to do. I mean it's your playthrough, you choose but kinda weird response if you're straight.

​@@opscontaylor8195"got no time for that" A fellow Courier 6 fan?

Ashley is more offputting initially, due to being a space racist...

It's in ME2 on Illium.

@@dermade83 oof, it’s been so long my memories ME2/3 have blended together lol

True, but I never really bought into that theory that they adapt how they look in people's minds to be attractive. Like, human armour fits them in ME1, unlike krogans or turians or whatever. So I think it's just that they have several factors that different species each find attractive

@@freddierhodes8201 I think it's as simple as some sort of biotic illusion, and it's only their facial features that are 'shifting,'

@@AzureRook Hmm, maybe! If ME4 ends up letting us play as a non-human character, we'll know for sure!

Hancock will always be my favorite, but Cait is a very close #2

Agreed! My Shep will always remain loyal to the best Space Husband.

Good thing you will, because he sure won't (he has a headache)

Kaiden is misunderstood. A lot call him boring but he just has his crap together and doesn’t need to develop much unlike many of the others. The interesting thing there is that he does have issues and he tells you about them but he has them well in hand. It doesn’t help though that his tantrum in Mass Effect 2 and starting Mass effect 3 even if you are romanced to him is pretty damn off putting.

Kaiden who? Was that the guy I left on Virmire?

​@@Peachrocks5 I personally found it weird he's suddenly bisexual in 3. He's a slight step above the space racist that is Ashley at least. Though as far as humans go no one beats Jack. The female ubermench is top tier you have no counter arguments against her. Especially the cool haircut she gets in 3.

ME1 in general suffered from extremely clunky writing: one scene has Liara cheerfully telling you about how interspecies relationships are normal and preferred by asari, then two conversations later she's wangsting about how she's attracted to you even though you're a different species.

​@@MacrocheniaI don't recall you being human as being an issue, but rather how fast she has developed her feelings, and being somewhat confused by them because of how little experience she has with other people in general.

Not to mention if you carry through all three games her romance it's heavily hinted at that she's pregnant with Shepards child... No other romance has those implications

Maybe. I was big on Leliana and I also fell madly in love with Shadowheart. The heart likes what it likes, I guess!

The problem IMO with Liara is that she's TOO nice and soft spoken. In my various Mass Effect playthroughs I romanced Jack before Liara, which BTW takes some doing.

Dorian would just edge it I feel.💔

Cullen forever.

So did I. But you never can tell when that is going to happen