Eliantariel wrote...
Indeed. I have a bad feeling about this. But if it was Joker related I wonder why we got all those positive sounding hints and comments from several different people at Bioware and Seth was really happy about his ME3 Joker part.
I wonder if Patsquinade will really reveal something that would be a major spoiler in his tweets. If it is something that the public should not know why should it be mentioned at twitter? Even if it is locked and only open to some followers? Patsquinade does not have only Bioware employees as followers so this is an information that would be given outside Bioware. And if the public is allowed to know they can freely post/tweet about it.
"Joker has a romance, but it is not with Shepard" would not be a major spoiler, and maybe not even a minor one since it was never promised and they likely thought there wasn't much of an audience for it. There are already 4 LIs for a straight female Shepard. Maybe more as of ME3. Probably less; even 3 may well seem like a lot when only 20% of Shepards appear to be female and the male players mostly will have romanced Liara.
If he knew some of us like Sorrel were really hoping, he might have said something just to stop us from hoping all that time and then having our hearts broken. If we know now, then it won't be a letdown when we actually play; we have time to move on before March.
The reason we got all those positive sounding hints and comments about Joker--he's a beloved character who has a larger role in ME3, and he has a romance with someone who is not Shepard. It's as simple as that. For most people, it will be "oh, great, he's not alone anymore!" It's not really a mystery if we take our personal feelings out of the equation.
I would normally say in times like these that there wasn't reason to assume anything yet, but my gut seems to be approximately 100% sure that this ship has sailed. Not in the good way. I've not had it happen yet in my life that the sinking feeling I have right now was wrong.
Believe me, I would love to be wrong.
I will echo everyone's words to Sorrel, though--if this is something personal, which it doesn't seem to be, but if it is--then the best of wishes, and my thoughts are with you.