Originally Posted by biomag
There was a time romances in games were a nice gimmick. Now seeing the amount of resources they take for such a minimal amount of content per playthrough... I'm really starting to resent them.

Exact. BG2 had a few romances which mostly didn't get very far. BG1 had none? At least not with the PC. Planescape Torment? Icewind Dale? All Gold Box games? Fallout? None of them needed big, advertised romances, culminating in sex with everything that moves.
But Mass Effect unlocked the horny jail and now a lot of ressources are wasted on romances and sex.