I, for one, can't stand the "Quest for Electronic Nookie" that seems obligatory story/character-heavy RPGs of late. Sure, RPGs do play a wish-fulfillment role for their players, but the hot elven chicks falling all over themselves to get with me just because I happen to carry the <PROTAGONIST> tag is an embarrassingly lame extension of this.
I agree with you mostly. I probably fully agree with you, in that I think most romances in games are lame. I do however, feel that just from a story aspect, a well implemented romance of some kind really can add a lot to it. The problem is that most of these game romances don't seem to do that. Romances seem awfully tacked on.