Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

Put in spoiler since non-Jaal  

Is it weird that I just can't see any of the main cast that way??  Maaaaaaaybe Kieth/Lance, but I just can't see any of them getting into that kind of relationship with each other. Maybe I just have weird taste in ships. (At any rate it's nice to see other VLD fans. It seriously gave me some ME1 vibes )

This is probably the case initially. And I think especially if we meet him after we have some trouble with the Kett, the crew of the tempest and Hyperion will defs meet him and the rest of the Angara with a level of distrust. And it'll also depend on why he decided to travel with us. That'd offer some early drama, at least among the human crew. I imagine Peebee might like him the most initially, and I know my Ryder's always gonna try his best to be nice to him.

Actually, random tangent, but are we working on the assumption that Jaal hasn't been off his homeworld/to the nexus? If he's an important figure - or related to one in one way or another - I would think he's probably met quite a few Milkies and is somewhat familiar with them. 

Those comments were so cringy, all of them. And yet, I'm sure they all romanced Miranda for completely scientific reasons.

Honestly, tho, characters have always drawn me in. I was a voracious reader as a child, and while I didn't have a great many friends, I did have them -- I learn social skills just fine. But I've always loved a good character. Was is escapism from a crappy childhood? Was it a way to experience worlds and adventures I never could? IDK.

I actually don't understand what they're criticizing. All of it is just polygons, not just the romances. So why play at all? To get your quota of virtual murder out, or to experience a well-crafted story? If so, then what's the harm in adding a little romance, just like books and movies do? I guess you could say that a book or movie isn't interactive the same way a video game is... but then, I'd say that said video game is still limited by the choices the devs wrote, so it's closer to a "choose-your-own-adventure" book. You aren't fully substituting real life social skills for fictional romances.

I don't know. I was raised by nerds myself, big time sci-fi and fantasy fans. They watched Star Trek, Star Wars, read Tolkien and played video games, and I picked up on a lot of that for myself. So these sorts of things were always important to me growing up. Good stories, good characters...

Man, it is too early in the morning for this. I need more coffee.

Well its early in the evening for me, and I ain't near drunk enough to be able to handle that ammanta salt in the comments to that article.

More beer? More beer...

I don't get why so much hate for romances in games. People are weird. For me it's similar to watching romantic movie or reading a love story novel or any of this with just a part with romantic interaction with people. Romance is everywhere. It is part of life. Why in game it has to be weird? It makes game more realistic. If you don't like it, don't take part in it. Simple. We are not sad this person and her close, limited mind is.
I don't think we should worry about haters. Internet is a nasty place sometimes.

Hahahahaha Drack? Hah!
Yeah no. Seriously not every squadmate has to be a romance. Wasn't it said that there's romances that are not squadmates? And also, why does people(not everyone but some) think that every people so far that has been showed is a romance? Come on.

Well, as I said even if you don't like those options you would still have Jaal and UHM. As for a Quarian male, there might be one that can be romances off the ship if they are in the vanilla game. Or in the DLC that brings them in if they are not and Bioware decides to do that. Plus who knows, we may have more crew than I'm guessing and one is a male Quarian who can be romancable, replacing Drack on the list or something. 

Exactly. To me, 'shipping' my character with another NPC is not that different from me 'shipping' characters in a movie or T.V. show or comic or whatever. Except the difference is, I get to determined what the girl looks like and how she acts and what decisions she makes and who she falls for. And yeah, the people (or aliens/elves/whatever) I go for in games tend to share traits of people I'm attracted to in real life, or to the types of characters who have been my favorites in other media. I don't see it as any different from lusting over some hot female character in some T.V. show. Sure, the real-life actress' looks play a part, but as much of it is how the character carries herself and speaks and acts in the show - a construct as artificial as the so-called 'polygons' in a game. And as for the non-human stuff - that goes back as far as the Greek and Egyptian myths where deities and other creatures fall for human beings. Beauty and the Beast. Werewolves, vampires, and so on. How many women lusted over Legolas in the Lord of the Rings films, or, for an earlier example, Jareth from the Labyrinth (guilty). How many guys crushed on the hot female aliens in Start Trek, or hot mutant chicks from X-Men? This isn't anything new.

I know there is always Jaal. There is good chance that I will like him. That doen't mean that I would like to have other options I may like.

Drack is really not good proposition. I'm just saying that they can do better. I don't see the appeal. He's old and he's Krogan. 

And lets face it Drack and Kallo are only speculations. Nothing more. 

Whoa, wait... Gays for Drack?   Um... can I say "OUCH!?" Well, there was Bull, but he didn't have armor plating and four "power plants". Now for women, I can see why but men? Not so sure.

Completely agree. Cassandra, Dorian, Iron Bull, Josephine are some of my favourite friendships (I'm not even mentioning Varric, because DA2) in DAI and yeah friendships can be just as (if not more) heartwarming and beautiful experiences as romances. I just adored all these characters. I hope MEA is similar in that aspect.