Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

Soo if you don't take the initiative and shoot the Kett stomping on Fisher, Liam does. He then apologises for it after the Kett are dead and you get slightly different dialogue response options... I always shot the second they attack Fisher so I missed this the first few times!

All right, so despite my previous declaration of my personal boycott of this game, my general disinterest in Jaal, and already having watched enough Let's Play of the game to garner an overall scope of the whole thing, including Jaal's full romance with Sara...I will fully admit that Bioware's effort to make things right concerning M/M romance is super awesome, and I am praising their recent progressive decisions by breaking my boycott and purchasing the game -- and while I'm out and about saving Andromeda, pursue a gay relationship with Jaal. It's also funny, because despite knowing every major plot point going in, I don't really feel all too spoiled. Actually experiencing it is vastly different than just watching it, at least for me. I won't be at all surprised if I warm up to the game very quickly.

Anyway! It is downloaded and installed. I have created my Scott and I'm ready to dive in.

I must ask you brilliant folks, though...what's the best way to share screen shots here?

HAHAA so I seem to have developed an odd new tactic... when I'm stuck behind cover and an enemy throws a grenade at me, I use a power. This then forces me to stand up, which then causes the grenade that's heading my way to bounce off my head and fall onto the front side of said cover. Now I don't have to evac my cover when fighting! Just headbutt the grenades!

Aww, thanks. 

Yeah, there are quite a few completionists going through the same angst.  But you will all get your purple space cat boyfriend.    Enjoy the ride lol.

Hey guys just popping in to say damn fine fic and love the pics!

I am having a rough time with this forum, so I won't be sticking around much today. It took forever just to get to the log in page!

I have a confession to make - I have never finished MET

Played ME 1 and 2 - both with zero DLC. Never played the third game at all, though ive been present for and actively participated in ME3 forum drama - it coincided with and meshed well with my research project (long story )

Anyway, between forums, reading fanfiction and watching YouTube, it feels as if I have played the entirely of MET, but actually, I haven't. A fact that I sometimes forget.

MEA inspired me to give MET another try. Properly this time, with all DLC.

And I'm totally naming my femshep Cassandra Shepard, because it is way too appropriate

Honestly, right now ME1 feels kind of... empty? And kind of bland? No colorful craziness of ME2, no tragedy of ME3 and no warmth and Whedonesque snark of MEA. Everybody is far too professional and normal

I have a confession to make - I have never finished MET

Played ME 1 and 2 - both with zero DLC. Never played the third game at all, though ive been present for and actively participated in ME3 forum drama - it coincided with and meshed well with my research project (long story )

Anyway, between forums, reading fanfiction and watching YouTube, it feels as if I have played the entirely of MET, but actually, I haven't. A fact that I sometimes forget.

MEA inspired me to give MET another try. Properly this time, with all DLC.

And I'm totally naming my femshep Cassandra Shepard, because it is way too appropriate

Honestly, right now ME1 feels kind of... empty? And kind of bland? No colorful craziness of ME2, no tragedy of ME3 and no warmth and Whedonesque snark of MEA. Everybody is far too professional and normal

Normally I'm a hopeless completionist, too. However, I've actually managed to make peace with my decision to turn my very first playthrough into Operation Gimme Dat Purple Stuff, so I've been on a real speedrun, largely ignoring everything that's not required to get into the meat of Jaal's romance. Ooohh boy...my ending is going to be so godawful if I decide to beat the game with this Ryder. :poop:

I kinda didn't care for how fast you meet the Angara, gain their trust, and recruit Jaal. I would've rather had to work a bit harder for all of that, but c'est la vie. In all honesty, I am rapidly warming up to Jaal. There are quite a few conversations with him that I didn't know about, and even the ones I had previous watched in the Let's Plays I'm really soaking in now, instead of just listening to them with half an ear. He may not be what I was originally hoping for / expecting, but nonetheless I'm starting to understand the charm about him.

As an aside, in my last chat with PeeBee she in her roundabout way confessed her budding interest in Jaal. Am I evil for fanning the flames of her crush on Jaal, only to eventually swoop in and scoop him up all for myself?

Normally I'm a hopeless completionist, too. However, I've actually managed to make peace with my decision to turn my very first playthrough into Operation Gimme Dat Purple Stuff, so I've been on a real speedrun, largely ignoring everything that's not required to get into the meat of Jaal's romance. Ooohh boy...my ending is going to be so godawful if I decide to beat the game with this Ryder. :poop:

I kinda didn't care for how fast you meet the Angara, gain their trust, and recruit Jaal. I would've rather had to work a bit harder for all of that, but c'est la vie. In all honesty, I am rapidly warming up to Jaal. There are quite a few conversations with him that I didn't know about, and even the ones I had previous watched in the Let's Plays I'm really soaking in now, instead of just listening to them with half an ear. He may not be what I was originally hoping for / expecting, but nonetheless I'm starting to understand the charm about him.

As an aside, in my last chat with PeeBee she in her roundabout way confessed her budding interest in Jaal. Am I evil for fanning the flames of her crush on Jaal, only to eventually swoop in and scoop him up all for myself?

My first game I made myself do every quest I could before I'd leave a planet (burned me out right quick too), it's gotten to the point now where I just do what suits my mood and then jet off to a different planet.  It helps a LOT to break up the monotony.  The only planets I've done the vaults/outposts on are Voeld & Eos.  I've barely touched the other planets yet - only as much as was required for LM, chasing down the other arks, or the main questline.  Now I'll go back and do some of the other quests that are interesting along with the vaults, and then move onto finding Meridian.

Yeah, I plan to get all of the 'main' stuff done, but all those little sidequests?  Pssh.  Unless they're on my way somewhere, I'm ignoring them this time.  It keeps me sane.  I had the same sort of problem with DAI, with really wanting to clear my log out for each area and then getting totally burnt out on some of the areas, like Hinterlands. 

Oh god, I found the gameplay in Mass Effect 1 awful and I played it when it first came out, so it's not like I had a taste of anything better yet. However I did love the story.

I also finally fixed my Nvidia Shadowplay, it seems all I had to do was restart my computer to get it working again...
and since this is going to be my canon run, I'm trying to get it perfect but I play slow and I'm barely on Havarl. I can understand why some rush to get to the meat of Jaal's romance. I'm already getting thirsty lol.

Crap were you having problems with NVidia too?? I've been wrestling with that heap of junk for the better part of a week now  :rage:  

Hehehe slow gameplay!  I'M STILL ON HABITAT 7 BECAUSE REASONS