Gil Brodie - Chief Engineer (Official Thread)

Awh, that was so sad and precious. Poor guy. There goes the rest of my free time tomorrow... watching those gameplays. 

BW is frustrating. I know they know how things should be, they have excellent examples such as that and they have the tech and time to do it, but they always go short with m/m. Frustrating seeing wasted potential.

Brodies.

Wait until June, that's when the Morrowind expansion comes out.

Woah... And people say that MEA has awkward facial animations. Aloy looks like she has facial paralysis. 

I'm hoping that he's more of a partner. I like it better when the LI feels like an equal, versus a subordinate, in the relationship. I want him to be confident and knowledgeable and capable in his work so that there's not this feeling that Ryder is the one driving it. I liked that about Steve -- he knew his shit and it made him feel more of an equal (versus someone like Kelly who was so unsure all the time).

Gil is supposed to be funny. One of the journalists mentioned enjoying his funny personality, so I'm happy that he won't be super stoic and serious. There's room for that, but I prefer a guy with a sense of humor. That being said, I hope he's not played for laughs. I don't want him to be the comic relief guy either, like Zevran or Joker or Iron Bull.

With regard to his actual romance arc, I'm a bit nervous about the 'finding himself' thing because it could easily go into the gay content area. I'm a little fatigued with that. I want him to be an awesome and compelling character who happens to be gay, versus a gay character. Between the 'finding himself' and the 'it has to make sense for the character' stuff, I'm a little nervous that he's going to have some 'I came out to here to figure out who I truly am and, Scott, you've helped me realize I'm gay' nonsense. Instead I'm hoping that it's just helping him find a purpose, like maybe he's in a rut with engineering, like he's fallen out of love with his work. And there's some major engineering based emergency (like a colony that's in danger and he needs to science the fuck out of the solution to save their lives) that he can help with that allows him to fall back in love with it. And that helps him realize that he made the right choice in coming to Andromeda.

That would be better than a 'woe is me, I am gay but I'm (or my family's) not comfortable with it' finding himself storyline. And, I agree, is better not see a 'What do you mean Gil? We're both men?' Or a 'Is it okay that I tell you that you're handsome, Scott?' line. It's 2017 -- there is no need to have safety dialogue just to make sure that straight guys don't accidentally hit on Gil.

Hey! That's a noble purpose dude! 

I want to say "Shirley Bioware knows better...", but I don't know that person so whatevs.


Might as well be ready with a drinking game for when the game launches. Take a shot every time Bioware put their foot in their mouth and dissapoint me. To adequately prepare for this game, I'll also order my tombstone.

My thoughts exactly. But he is most likely in DA4, but what good is his romance (and the character development) if you can't experience it as the Inquisitor that romanced him. 

Buy Gil's new album it's out 21st of March.

I don't know how I feel about this. First, they're not sure about whether they'll show Gil at all, and now we can't even hear about his personality or anything? We haven't seen anything about him in any marketing material, and we're supposed to buy that he has as much content and writing and relevance as a squadmate? At this point, it's just getting frustrating.

Better be a big effing surprise then, m8.
Like the amount of secrecy can only mean Gil is just THAT GOOD.
Right? RIGHT?!