Loving the capsule reviews of the NPCs, RK-47.
Edit: It is notable how almost all the romances you get score really highly on the wagsty/whiteknight scale. "Oh Protaganist! Listen to my stories of woe and pick the top right dialogue option and we can have the lovemaking cutscene! We can even put on Coldplay's 'fix you'" I mean FFS:
Liara: 10/10 Mummy issues in the first game, sheperd attachments in the next two, all the drippy shtick about finding it hard to deal with people and being pathetic.
Tali: 9/10 Daddy issues in the second game, also behaves like a bit of a drip. One point deducted for being not a complete ball of wagnst before romancing.
Jack: 8/10 Evil bitch, but, no, wait! Turns out she has security issues after all! Complete with wagnsty tears before you consummate your paragon romance.
Ashley: 4/10 Fairly unwagsty barring the daddy issues --> why I'm not a fan of aliens, but bioware chickened out on portraying a less-than-angelic-waifu romance option and just airbrushed out her character in ME3.
Miranda: 4/10 Also fairly unwangsty despite daddy issues, although you get a bit of 'but I'm just my genetic modifications' stuff in ME2. Bioware also creeps a little bit further towards less-than-angelic-waifu with her arrogance and bitchiness. Unsurprisingly the least popular romance amongst bioware gamers.
Traynor, Chambers: 1/10 No real wangst because the characters aren't fleshed out enough. I'd bet loads if they had more screen time Bioware would conjure up some massive trauma for the protagonist to play therapist to.
Steve: 7/10 "Steve don't let me be an Anchor!" +/- standard bereavement shtick.
And now for Femshep
Kaidan: 8/10 Hello Carth Onasi. Oh, you childhood friend got beaten up? I feel your pain. At least you stop being such a whiny beta loser in ME3.
Thane: 10/10 Wangsty solipcism + Terminal disease + Trying to save his estranged son! Also get teary wagst scene just before sexing, because everyone knows that discussing emotional trauma is perfect foreplay.
Garrus: 1/10 Happily unwagsty throughout the entire series. No childhood traumas, from a well-adjusted family, doesn't go emo over his disfigurement, keeps his head when palaven gets attacked, and generally acts like a proper bro.
I mean, if someone you knew in real life kept chasing after all the folks with deep seated emotional trauma, you'd take that as a pretty fucked-up fetish. That bioware writers struggle to conceive of romances not being built on a foundation of lay-therapy sessions (or that the gamers love them so avidly) says a lot about some weird freudian psyche hackery.