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Post by Salty Drell on Feb 24, 2017 8:13:13 GMT
"We have a chart." Helps loooooads, guys, thanks. Ugh I've got a mean headache so I'm grumpy, my tolerance levels today aren't what they usually are. Whenever they're answering questions about m/m they casually make it sound like the romances are outside the squad. It's like it's not important to them, as long as there's m/m romances somewhere they think they've done enough.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 8:22:08 GMT
M/M jaal fans. Just in case things don't work out for you I hope this comforts you somehow. From the twitter thread: Crimson Hope@crimson2hope So I've seen some people worried about this so to put it to rest, Are there male gay romances? Aaryn Flynn aarynflynn Let me check the chart Aaryn Flynnaarynflynn Yes Michael Gamble@gamblemike yes, there's a chart. It's even a PDF. Ian S. Frazier@tibermoon I like the one with the pictures. Note: the person asking said "romances." Plural. I'm too cynical to be hopeful. Thanks for the encouragement anyway. All we can do is wait and see. World will still keep spinning even if I can't crawl in a warm bed with Jaal
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Post by sparkysparkyboomgirl on Feb 24, 2017 8:22:19 GMT
This, I like. Vetra is still the tallest but Jaal seems to be just a few cm shorter than her, just by putting a piece of paper against the screen I'd say he's Drack's height (highest spike on his head plate) . So I'd say he's 196 cm.
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Post by Panda on Feb 24, 2017 8:28:54 GMT
Jaal is not tallest yep, but he's pretty wide, big guy in any case
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 8:35:00 GMT
Sleeping only helped a little. So tired! I want to make a long post stating my perspective on it all, but I doubt it would be anything revolutionary, and I don't want to re-start anything. I like the cobra-cat. He has an aesthetically attractive design, and what little we know seems interesting enough. My initial (non-sexual) instant attraction to him, based on those few seconds of video, had diminished a lot already before yesterday, and the things that happened here haven't helped matters. Right now, I'm not sure how much I care. I will, though, be staying around, as I do like Jaal, and I want to keep having fun with all of you guys. Who knows, maybe my hype will be kickstarted? There's a lot I would like to say too, but it just doesn't matter. If Jaal is not bi, I know exactly why they chose that and me preaching about their hypocricy doesn't change a thing. Well, you are of course always told to accept what you can't change, but there is the third option I use plenty. I just walk away. I don't go places where I'm not wanted. I don't keep company with people who don't want ME, as I am. I don't do business with companies who clearly see me as inferior and not as important as straight men and their ingrained uncomfortability (is that even a word or did I just come up with it?) with anything gay (unless it is lesbian and hawt). Bioware had no, and I say this again, ZERO problems to create a monogendered Asari to give straight men some wank-material. The fact that it made lesbians happy too was just coincident, and of course they gladly took the goodwill it generated among LGBT-community. I can totally believe they chose not to make Jaal bi just because it might make him unpopular among straight male, even if they wouldn't have to deal with his gayness in anyway. I was talking about Bioware's Mass Effect-team here, not Dragon Age. And I ended up preaching.
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Post by Gludipow on Feb 24, 2017 8:40:18 GMT
Reading through Reddit is so funny because they're the polar opposite of us. Most of them don't seem to care about Jaal at all. Some people don't even know enough to know he's a he and the top comments are about him looking like a vagina. I think it's hilarious, in a way. I don't get how you don't get hyped over the new alien race squadmate, but it's interesting to see perspectives outside of here and the Tumblr tags I trawl through to find art. I'm gonna stick to the likelihood that the majority of those guys have never seen a vagina in their lives, and are calling him one for the LULZ.
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Post by antmarch456 on Feb 24, 2017 8:53:40 GMT
Reading through Reddit is so funny because they're the polar opposite of us. Most of them don't seem to care about Jaal at all. Some people don't even know enough to know he's a he and the top comments are about him looking like a vagina. I think it's hilarious, in a way. I don't get how you don't get hyped over the new alien race squadmate, but it's interesting to see perspectives outside of here and the Tumblr tags I trawl through to find art. I lurk more on Reddit than on this forum, and I'm amazed by the fact that some people don't even know Jaal's a he, especially given the fact that a lot of Andromeda trailers, news, tweets are posted on Reddit as well.
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Post by Fredward on Feb 24, 2017 9:09:55 GMT
Jaal is not tallest yep, but he's pretty wide, big guy in any case thicc I'm not skip-the-game levels of invested in Jaal's MM romanceability but as the only alien alien on the squad he does have my interest.
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Post by chococri on Feb 24, 2017 9:11:21 GMT
Good morning everyone! Come on, what Biofan said is what I think. They never played as Scott. Doesn't mean Jaal isn't available for both. Narratively, I think it'd make the most sense if he were open to either, as it would encourage more players to learn about the Angara though his romance. Also, I would like to say as well that chart with m/m romance might be full of NPC but we can't know that for sure! STAY POSITIVE! It's Friday, we may get Jaal's bio
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Post by sparkysparkyboomgirl on Feb 24, 2017 9:17:59 GMT
Jaal is not tallest yep, but he's pretty wide, big guy in any case thicc Thicker than cold peanut butter, he can tear my bread up .
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Post by chococri on Feb 24, 2017 9:27:58 GMT
Yeah, things have now far surpassed the romance anxiety of pre-DAI. Pre-Andromeda romance-related anger might actually be in a league of its own. This is why I am confident with Jaal romance lol Everyone panicked hard with Iron Bull, everyone were saying and complaining he would be straight for soh and BOOM, he's pan! So yeap, in this case, it doesnt make many sense Jaal to be straight tbh <.<
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Post by faerlyte on Feb 24, 2017 9:28:45 GMT
Getting your hopes up for something and then finding out you can't have it is always a bit of a blow to the solar plexus, but boycotting the game because of it is a little excessive given that there is so much more to the game, and to the characters, then what we could possibly know at this point. It's easy to say right now that it's not fair when the heart is set on something, but you don't know what you have yet. I mean, I had zero interest in Dorian just based on design before Inquisition came out, but he ended up being probably my favorite character in the game and I was envious because the characters I initially had interest in romancing ended up falling short of expectations in game. I would have gladly tapped that.
From a statistics point of view they're always going to pander more towards straight people simply because they outnumber the LGBT community by a huge margin, but at least they're actively trying to include everybody. I still maintain that the best option would be to make all LIs available to both sexes and simply don't talk about their sexuality or if they do it will change based one whether you romance them straight or gay or bisexual. I expect that is more time consuming to animate and maybe that's why they don't do it.
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Post by Mintty on Feb 24, 2017 9:44:19 GMT
Woo hai thread. I'm glad to see the discussion has mostly moved on from that drama yesterday! It even started a lengthy debate between my brother and I, about "gating" romances in videogames... Took paracetamol and played some Citadel DLC to chill out after all that. I still think Jaal's bi but I am more optimistic than most when it comes to BioWare. Soo do we think anything is happening today?
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Post by armass81 on Feb 24, 2017 9:47:01 GMT
Our draenei/na'vi pal seems to be a lot more popular thatn the other characters, looking at the sheer number of pages. Holy smokes.
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Post by Obliviousmiss on Feb 24, 2017 11:32:46 GMT
Morning! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO Salty Drell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Obliviousmiss on Feb 24, 2017 11:33:47 GMT
M/M jaal fans. Just in case things don't work out for you I hope this comforts you somehow. From the twitter thread: Crimson Hope@crimson2hope So I've seen some people worried about this so to put it to rest, Are there male gay romances? Aaryn Flynn aarynflynn Let me check the chart Aaryn Flynnaarynflynn Yes Michael Gamble@gamblemike yes, there's a chart. It's even a PDF. Ian S. Frazier@tibermoon I like the one with the pictures. Note: the person asking said "romances." Plural. Baaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha. Aaryn is so done after yesterday.
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Post by Dukemon on Feb 24, 2017 11:36:57 GMT
I hope there is a gay Alien romance in the game. Jaal looks very cute and strong enough to handle male human In MET Shepard could choose between good options but when this time Scott have no Alien options I would be unpleasant. Its boring. Than I expected I don't get an iron bull 2.0 with Jaal. Btw. Maybe we should discuss what is a spoiler before Release and after Mass Effect Andromeda is released.
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Post by ames4u on Feb 24, 2017 12:02:17 GMT
Wow stalking the twitter thread....people continually tweet the same questions. Over and over and over and over. I don't know how they deal with it. This was part of the reason I rarely asked questions outside of whether the save files will be more open on consoles seeing as the BS that was DAI ruined any thought of a second playthrough. (that and the combat but you get my point.) Didn't get an answer. I only posted the dadryder funnies to the VA's of the Ryder twins.
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Post by Mintty on Feb 24, 2017 12:12:26 GMT
I hope there is a gay Alien romance in the game. Jaal looks very cute and strong enough to handle male human In MET Shepard could choose between good options but when this time Scott have no Alien options I would be unpleasant. Its boring. Than I expected I don't get an iron bull 2.0 with Jaal. Btw. Maybe we should discuss what is a spoiler before Release and after Mass Effect Andromeda is released.That is a good idea!! I think a lot people are sleepysleeps at the moment but if need be we can bring it up later too. So hum I don't consider knowing a character's name/race/gender/class/sexuality to be spoilers but I know others might. Anything story (romance plots, mission plots, loyalty plots, sub plots, overarching plot, etc..) is spoilers. Gameplay mechanics? I don't know?? Character creation? Probably okay?
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Post by feainn on Feb 24, 2017 12:17:42 GMT
"We have a chart." Helps loooooads, guys, thanks. Ugh I've got a mean headache so I'm grumpy, my tolerance levels today aren't what they usually are. Whenever they're answering questions about m/m they casually make it sound like the romances are outside the squad. It's like it's not important to them, as long as there's m/m romances somewhere they think they've done enough. I thought the same. It's getting annoying, if they just told us then it'd be so much easier. But whatever. Hopefully once the data mining starts we'll find out.
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Post by Dukemon on Feb 24, 2017 12:17:45 GMT
Character Creation cannot spoiler anything from the game I think.
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Post by geometricflowers on Feb 24, 2017 12:24:04 GMT
Whenever they're answering questions about m/m they casually make it sound like the romances are outside the squad. It's like it's not important to them, as long as there's m/m romances somewhere they think they've done enough. I thought the same. It's getting annoying, if they just told us then it'd be so much easier. But whatever. Hopefully once the data mining starts we'll find out. We might find out even earlier than that from the official guide book.
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Post by feainn on Feb 24, 2017 12:37:16 GMT
I thought the same. It's getting annoying, if they just told us then it'd be so much easier. But whatever. Hopefully once the data mining starts we'll find out. We might find out even earlier than that from the official guide book. Early access is on the 16th so that's when we'll (hopefully) get the deets. I think the official guidebook is out on release day? Unless someone gets a copy early.
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Post by geometricflowers on Feb 24, 2017 12:45:41 GMT
We might find out even earlier than that from the official guide book. Early access is on the 16th so that's when we'll (hopefully) get the deets. I think the official guidebook is out on release day? Unless someone gets a copy early. I could have sworn I saw the guidebook the day before the game for DAI, but I may be remembering that wrong. I forgot about the early release! Yeah, hopefully some enterprising souls will leak romance details as early as possible. I like experiencing most of the game fresh, but I like to go in knowing who my LI is so that I don't get bogged down in indecision or accidentally make the person I want to romance hate me.
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Post by feainn on Feb 24, 2017 12:52:30 GMT
Early access is on the 16th so that's when we'll (hopefully) get the deets. I think the official guidebook is out on release day? Unless someone gets a copy early. I could have sworn I saw the guidebook the day before the game for DAI, but I may be remembering that wrong. I forgot about the early release! Yeah, hopefully some enterprising souls will leak romance details as early as possible. I like experiencing most of the game fresh, but I like to go in knowing who my LI is so that I don't get bogged down in indecision or accidentally make the person I want to romance hate me. To avoid spoilers they usually release guidebooks on the same day but someone, somewhere will get it early but I think we'll get the info from the datamining. The thought makes me anxious because I don't want to be disappointed but I need. To. Know.
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