Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

Ahh that's cute.  That would be a neat thing actually, if his species had some sort of signal that they were interested.  If he got more purple, or something.  

That is adorable. I wouldn't look for it in game because I doubt the devs would have incorporated a feature like that, cool as it would be. Not to be too negative, but honestly they can barely get facial animations right. 

I totally understand and respect your decision.  I will totally miss you and your posts!    Should you decide to only pop in every now and then,  know you will always be more than welcome

Ohhhh I love this. This is the sweetest thing! I wouldn't mind this at all ingame.

Also: I absolutely adore this Ryder. She is gorgeous. So buff. Beautiful skin. I want mine to look like her! (I really hope Ryder hasn't She's twiggy arms.)

@ladyconsular *hugs* just stay here with us. I don't go to other places besides twitter thread. I know there is not much news atm but somehow we still find something to talk about.

To be fair we did know what Thane's fate would be long before the choice of romancing him happened.
Jacob was a shitty move, made worse by the fact that they intentionally picked the least liked character so that they would avoid more aument of criticism.

Well.... He could've been okey/better in ME3 had he not rejected the lung transplant. His content was poorly written, I blame the new guy who took over him.
He clearly talked about how he wanted to live and all that then suddenly in ME3 he did a complete 180 like he had given up. Blaaaaaaaargh I say.

Yeah i'm still kinda upset about it. I really liked his romance....

Did he talk about living/the transplant in the romance? Because I don't recall it in the normal dialogues. He talked about a genetic program that can't help him.
Even then though, it'd be something happening later on. From the meeting through most of the dialogues, we do know his situation is critical, so I'd follow his romance path knowing what might happen.
I'm sorry though you were upset about it.

If I remember right, they admitted to literally forgetting that Thane was a romance when they wrote about him sacrificing himself (yes, his death was expected, it was more the way he died that pissed me off - and I didn't even romance him. I just liked the character and though that was a lame, anti-climactic way to go). And I suspect the same happened when they planned for Jacob to run off into the sunset with that woman. Like they had it all planned out and then went - 'oh crap, wasn't he a romance? oh, well, not very many people liked him anyway...' Now, I though Jacob was a bit dull but otherwise okay in ME2 (Shep's auto-flirts and 'the Priiize' notwithstanding) but what he does in ME3 is unforgivable (that talk about naming his kid after you? really?). To be fair, neither of their ME2 writers even worked on ME3 if I recall, else I don't think that would have happened.

Both Solas and Anders had a part to play, it's just more tragic if you happen to romance them. I doubt Jaal will be like any of these, because Andromeda's story is supposed to be brighter overall so huge betrayals like that within our squad seem unlikely. If his romance isn't necessarily all sunshine and rainbows (as might be the case because I get the impression Liam is our 'fun' male LI on the squad) I suspect his romance will be more like Cullen, in that he'll have some personal issues, or perhaps Fenris or Kaidan where you're apart for a while but it works out in the end. Even with Alistair, you get a good ending or a bad one depending on your choices in the game - my only issue with that being those choices seem either arbitrary (that one line to harden him) or super shitty because they involve him and other women (Morrigan/Anora...). I'm optimistic that Bioware is aware of the criticism regarding trope cliches among male LIs in particular and have learned from past mistakes.

I remember when I heard that. I don't know if it's true but it crushes me! Thane is my favorite romance but it's hard to romance him because of the sads!!!

Thankfully, I love Liara and Garrus also. I feel more worse for those who really enjoyed the romances but only cared to romance Thane.

Especially if they were players who played female like me, prefer Ashley alive and wouldn't feel comfortable with romancing Liara or Sam. I know players like this and I felt really bad there was no male option for them in this case you know??

I'm like this, I'm really uncomfortable with romancing same sex characters. I've tried but it's not my thing, not in irl and not in games. Which is why I was really pissed at how ME3 romances for straight females were handled, especially if Kaided was kabooom and Garrus was not romanced. I know this is old stuff but I really hope Bioware never repeat this mistake.

Negativity time woo!

ME3 was just a straight up mess in so many ways, and they didn't put even close to the thought or effort into it that they should have. I still haven't forgiven BioWare for it and I don't think the fixed ending fixed it at all.

All I can hope is that they've learned from that mistake in many ways and that they pay the proper attention to their story beats. And that they've learned by now to stop screwing over anyone who isn't a straight male in the romance department.

I have a lot of hope for Andromeda character-wise. Story-wise, I'm a bit skeptical. But that's because the main stories have been kind of bad for a while (looking at you, DAI. Solas was your only saving grace in the main story).

IKR?!?! Kaidan... Shepard running towards Kaidan on Mars as the music crescendos, his hand outstretched, everything slows, he watches at Kaidan is smashed against the wreckage... AHHHHHHHHHH NO NO I'M PLAYING FEMSHEP AND ROMANCING LIARA AND WILL BE AMAZING Soon, Kaidan I shall return to thee my love, soon.