Originally Posted by JFarrell71 
Btw, though your own character may not be treated differently by the game, two of your companions are women and the fact that they are women is quite heavily acknowledged.
I don't know - I saw some very angry posts about how female characters get treated badly in Ex: Rome. I think its a tough one - treating female characters too badly may result in irritating female players (including me) but if not then it doesn't reflect the Rome setting very well (imo).
There were particularly angry posts about Caeso's personal story for female players who decided to romance him - I decided to spoil it for myself and read on

Have to admit, Caeso was the companion I was thinking of romancing and the whole spoiler post turned me off from it ~_~ So if I end up picking up Rome, I think my character will be forever alone D: