This has persisted through both Dragon Age: Origins and two of the Mass Effect games. In Dragon Age: Origins, there’s one character who will absolutely not leave you alone about sex (he doesn’t get serious about it unless you actively engage, though), and near the game’s climax, Morrigan outright demands that you have sex with her, even if you kicked her out of the party way back at the start of the game, and if you refuse enough times, she basically calls you a dumbass and storms off. Her default outfit also looks to be perpetually falling off, so that’s pretty telling, Bioware. Meanwhile, in Mass Effect, you can accidentally lock yourself into a romance by simply talking to your crrwmate because of how shaky the coding in the first game was, and in ME3, at any given time, I was having to shut down a new romantic advance by characters X, Y and Z.
You notice how I specifically brought up sex, there? That’s my big gripe about romance in games, is that it’s almost always strictly sex. There’s a bit of flirting, maybe some sugary sweet dialogue, and now it’s time to ruin some bedsheets!
Fun fact, I write as a personal hobby - “really, Zyri? You’re telling people you write for fun? On this website? You marauder, you!” - and one of my longest-running OCs is in a happy relationship with not one, but two girlfriends, but is mildly touch-averse due to frequently getting into fights and therefore is actively turned off by the idea of sex. Meanwhile, one of the two girlfriends is a very straight-lace, prim and proper kind of girl who feels uncomfortable with the idea of sex because she was raised to view it as an inappropriate thing, and the second girlfriend is incredibly shy about showing skin at all (not to mention she’s mute, and people have tried to take advantage of that in the past to force her into things that she couldn’t stand up and speak out against), and so the most touchy-feely the three of them get is kissing and hugging and sleeping in the same bed. And that’s fine with them, because they recognize that their relationship is a bit awkward with there being three of them in the first place, so they want to take it slow and cross as few boundaries as possible in order to make it work.
It’s one of my favorite relationship dynamics that I’ve ever tried to tackle, and not having to worry about the sex part of it means that I can put greater focus on the emotions - the part where the romance really should be. Sex is fine, whatever, you like what you like, but it always annoys the hell out of me when romance is treated as just flirting and sex. That’s what leads to so many guys (and gals!) online who think that demonstrating the absolute baseline of human decency should get them free sex, and cannot wrap their heads around why it doesn’t.