Why isn't romance a valid selling point in video game marketing?

The hype for Bioware's sci-fi sequel Mass Effect: Andromeda has focused on planet discovery - but it's a very different kind of exploration that many players are interested in

God, I love romance. That tingle up your spine when someone laces their fingers between yours for the first time. The rush of blood blossoming across your cheeks when their eyes meet yours and you gaze through those pools of colour into their very soul. The shortness of breath, the butterflies, the scary, exhilarating feeling of falling with no safety net. Ah. Isn't it wonderful?

There have only been a handful of games that have connected with that side of me - the hopeless romantic, too free with my emotions, too easy to hurt. One of those was Cibele - the heartbreaking, semi-autobiographical tale of the developer Nina Freeman's online romance and subsequent rejection. Oh, Nina. I've been there, and still it keeps happening. I hope you've learned. I hope I will.