Remember the Prize: Jacob Discussion

LOL. Someone just posted this in the Introduce Yourself Thread.

Huuumm..

LOL at Shep's facial expression in the Miranda one.

Gravity's  one mean mother

Wow, Jacob.

I was in the Jacob-thread for Mass Effect 2 all the time, even got a comission from an artist for my FemShep and Jacob together. He was such a great guy in ME2. I casually disregard the little strange voice that FemShep has when she first talks to him and continue the romance from there.

Besides being calm and rational the greatest draw for me was that he was the first squadmate who turned to Shepard and asked how she was holding up. I thought that that was amazing. Normally it is for the protagonist to try to help out everyone else left and right, make their lives better and hope that one of them might even care a little bit extra for you.

I was severely disapointed at the treatment he got in ME3, it was just such a sharp contrast to who he had been earlier. I would have pegged him as the one person that would always have your back judging by ME2 but that was just me. At least the romance is still there in ME2, I can always let him have an accident in the suicide-mission at the end.

If I get the time to do a rerun of ME2 and romances him again it will be fun to talk about Jacob again. He was a good guy, wish it could have turned out differently.


* waves at themikefest * Great to see you here too

I miss DJ Harbringer.... His channel's been abandoned for about 3 years now.

Ah, Jacob. I actually like him most of the time I have never really seen his romance so far, but I know of the community's thoughts about it
Yet I will romance him in my next run. But I specifically make a BitchShep who's manipulative and an ass to the crew, so she actually deserves getting dumped, haha. I know I will cringe a lot, but hey, it can be fun too, right? Maybe?

In my first FemShep run I didn't talk to Jacob at all because of her frigging flirty voice, which didn't fit her at all, but now with my second I did, and it's not so bad when you talk normal and neutral to him.

I have to admit, you're one of a few that I've read saying he was a great guy.


Good to see you too silentk.

That whole mess screamed, "WE RAN OUT OF TIME!!!"
(I've had projects that are very much like that; You know it's bad, godawful, but the deadline was merciless and now you have to face the shame and disgrace)
Usually, Bioware is known for trying to improve a character by listening to the most prevalent complaint and giving it acknowledgement. Turian counselor an arse? He's the first to offer help in ME3 while the other two dickered around. Thane romance forgotten? He gets a funeral in Citadel. Not to say it always worked out, but because I believe they would try, the first thing that happened when I heard what Jacob did was my jaw literally dropping open and me saying, "Wow. They really didn't try to make us like him."
That it would be a metagame reason that hit instead of an in game belief convinces me that this was never intended for Jacob in ME3.
In short, had more time and care been allowed for ME3, a lot more people would be happy. It wasn't just the endings that wrecked the third game.
*sigh* Now I can't stop thinking about Rick and Morty where there's a parallel universe with a much better game there. Worth the telepathic spiders? Hmmm...

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Jacob acted like a marionette once on board the ship... that saluting thing he did was off, somehow. Maybe that's why I hardly
took him with me on missions and missed the opportunities you describe.

best video ever.


"Dating Tali. Heavy risk, but the PRIZEEEEEEEE"