For reference, the question asked during the livestream was:
"Can the player have a romance?"
And the answer given was:
"Not really, it's not a Bioware type of game."
Well, maybe it means that there won't be any Bioware types of romances, but maybe there will be some light romance? Like in Planescape: Torment, but even simpler, judging from what we've seen in beta's personal banter between protagonists. I'm not holding my breath though.
Originally Posted by LeBurns
One of the reasons I dropped following Pillars was because they chose not to have romances, even though BG2 a game they say they are emulating, did. Not that BG2 romances where not popular (just check the faqs and forums) but it was because the devs just didn't like them. Hope it's still in this game.
Romances are not a very strong side of Obsidian (or they just don't want to waste so much time on fanservice like Bioware), I only somewhat liked them in their NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer, so no need to bash them for not wanting to put them PoE. Besides, from what I've seen of this game, it resembles BG1 more than BG2, and BG1 had no romances.
