Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

Let's make a club. Because this happened to me too.   

Fiddlesticks.

Excuse you! Feron was beautiful!


I'm kidding to each their own~

Hah, I just don't see it  

It's those large anime eyes, isn't it?

Jag kan bara säga "hyvää joulua" på finska;P
I generally prefer speaking and thinking in english than in swedish for some reason. I started reading novels in english at an early age so it kind of comes natural to me (with a few exceptions^^)

I even speak english with my bf and he is 100% swedish. I find english to be a much more expressive language 😊

JAPANESE HERE (●´ω｀●)

HOW DARE YOU ALL. GET OUT OF MY AMERICAN FORUM YOU EUROPEANS. THERE'S ENGLISH HERE SO IT BELONGS TO AMERICA. IT MIGHT BE A CANADIAN GAME BUT IT STILL BELONGS TO AMERICA.

Lol, totally, totally kidding. But I bet you can guess my nationality. I love that these games draw in such a widespread audience!

As for information, I'm not expecting much today. I'm still just hoping we even get that gameplay video tomorrow, since there's radio silence on the dev half. I'm still so giddy at the idea that Jaal could be a squadmate in one of those videos! Then we could hear his voice loud and clear.

I'm also really curious to see how he moves in battle. Angaran legs are so strange! In one of the screenshots someone posted in a thread yesterday, you can see that they're practically in the shape of a Z from the side.

To quote Aaryn Flyyn "12/10 would bang."   In all seriousness though, yeah - if they were going to make a race of universally attractive almost-human aliens it's a bit unfair to make them all female. Though I love the concept of an all-female race, they could just as easily made them something far more alien. Imagine if they'd done it but with something like the Turian design? They could have explored that same culture and I could have taken them a lot more seriously because the blatant hetero-male wank fantasy aspect would be absent. Even something like the female Angara design could've worked - they're still pretty in a relate-ably human way, without looking like human women in sexy cosplay. I liked the Asari overall, and enjoyed the characters we met, but that aspect of their design is something I have to force myself to look past.

And I agree with you on the drell design. I think it's cool and I liked Thane's character, but never found them attractive. Between the big eyes and big lips and the freaky gill things on their necks I just wasn't into it. But different strokes and all that, and we seem to be in the minority. (And while the dead wife and terminal illness were a nice way to add pathos to his character, it turned me right off his romance.) And intended attractiveness or not, they're definitely farther from human than the asari. The Angara do hit the right note for me though. Jaal is very not human, but I still think he looks attractive.

Okay, real quick on my lunch break.

I assumed asari nurse their young. So I see nothing wrong with breasts. If they had, say four breasts instead of two... imo you can push things too far. I'm a fan of "human" aliens. Vulcans, klingons, twi'leks, togruta, etc. That's just me personally. I see "alien" characters as actually human in the literary sense, just representing "the other," except it's sci-fi so we feel more comfortable discussing racism against twi'leks as opposed to an actual human ethnicity. That's the beauty of sci-fi (and sometimes its failing).

On English...

Well most English teachers are teachers because we care, and we don't go around raising our eyebrows and turning our noses up at second language speakers. We certainly know how difficult it is to learn a non-native language, so if anything I am astonishingly impressed by you guys speaking English when it's not your first language. I never, ever see an ESL speaker and think, "Wow, what a dummy." Yeah, in the business world, if you want to operate in English, you'll need to figure out how articles work. Same thing if I wanted to operate in the German/Japanese/Finnish world. I'd have to learn the language very well if I wanted to succeed.

Even native speakers with absolutely abysmal grammar (and I get a lot of them), I don't think they're dumb or anything. More like I realize the education system in their neck of the woods has failed them. Unfortunately a lot of the time by the time they get to me it's too late. Somehow they've managed to pass their previous classes, and when you get me we're not at a "um, you don't really know how to write sentences, do you?" level. You're just going to fail, sorry.

About gendered pronouns...

They suck. I heartily support the singular they. One of the great things about being online is being able to define your own gender without anyone judging you by your appearance. I love that this forum gives you the option to have no gender.

About Jaal...

10/10, would bang, still awesome

You're all blind! Angara are the hottest alien race in ME! I wanted to bang one when it was an indistinguishable blue blob in the gameplay trailer!

Welcome! And maybe, but we know that some Kett do not follow The Archon, so I think if they have good intentions, it wouldn't be so controversial.

Rofl, that's not off-topic at all, you're on topic. Blame me for bringing asari bewbs into this thread. I'm not even sorry about this!

Welcome. That would be cool if we got one as a squadmate, more aliens the better.