Speaking as a black male myself, you can see why this might annoy me a little more than the average mass effect fan, but hey, I bet there are black fans who are indifferent to him, so I`ll clarify that I`m only voicing my own, specific opinion about Jacob.
It`s not that he`s boring, I got past that with Kaiden, and at first I imagined him as a Kaiden-knock off(the moderate biotic talent also helping reinforce this view), or simply just too much of a nice boy scout to be in cerberus, a black ops human supremacist organization. I just wished Jacob would end up exposing additional layers of a personality that was fanatically loyal to TIM as well as to the ascension of humanity above despised alien species., a ruthless, cunning man, that to female players and avid femsheps alike, would present an interesting LI, but I guess his niceness was supposed to counterbalance Miranda`s iciness. In short, I expected TIM jr, but what I got was far worse.
Let me start from the beginning, I will use an example that most femsheps will be familiar with:
-Every conversation you have with Jacob after the prologue involves him coming onto you like a relentless teenager on the head cheerleader in high school. You basically can`t talk to this guy as a femshep without sounding like a tramp and him sounding like a sexual deviant.
Also consider this:
-Jacob previously dated Miranda, a white woman with a, uhm...booty that needs to be encased in metal chains simply to keep it from wobbling endlessly when she walks.
-Jacob works out, A LOT, the Shadow Broker`s terminal is proof of this, I guess that`s how he keeps his bizarrely neat abs.
-Jacob`s father probably takes the crown for ``Mass effect **** daddy of the year``, but there are some strong contenders.
-Miranda`s dad, for instance, but he was more of an **** in the way that he wanted to use her assets(not just the bod!) for personal gain, as his legacy, and generally treating her more like a means to an end than a daughter, but I don`t think that is really comparable to Jacob`s issues with his dad.
-Tali`s father comes to mind too, but he`s the dad who seemed to make grand promises he couldn`t keep, not realizing that while he was trying to make those dreams come to fruition, that his daughter faced neglection at his hands, can`t say this squares up to the first two though.
-Garrus`s dad is a hardass himself, but is pretty much just a stickler for rules and regulations. Don`t think there are any other daddy issues mass effect characters, excluding Wrex, as his dad betrayed and tried to kill him.
-Liara kinda, but she reconciles with her father in me3, and hers was mostly just the ``never met you till now dad`` problem.
-Ashley and her dad have a pretty solid relationship, finally a normal family
.-Anyways, back to Jacob, his dad is guilty of asserting control over a group of shipwrecked survivors that he was part of, he hoards food and medical supplies for himself, turns the females in the group into comfort women, forcing crew members to eat native foods that cause neural degeneration, essentially living like a king, not caring about contacting his family or treating his crew decently instead of like animals for the most part. Jacob`s dad essentially abandons him to live in a twisted fantasy of his own making, and then makes up a bullsht cowardly story to try to weasel out of being killed or arrested. Wow.
-Oh yeah, and in me3, if you romance Jacob...he cheats on you and knocks up another chick:lol:.
-At this point I can`t differentiate Jacob`s me2-me3 story from a Tyler perry movie, it`s that BAD.
In point form, if youre too lazy to read the whole thing, I`ll quickly recap why I think Jacob is a walking stereotype that just amounts to poor writing and perhaps some mild racism or trolling on Bioware`s part.
-Jacob comes on too strong
-Jacob dated a white girl with a phat ass.
-Jacob`s dad left home and never returned
-Jacob works out...did i mention he does this alot:mellow:
-if you romance jacob in me3 he cheats on you and knocks up another chick.
Am I blowing this out of proportion or am I on to something here? Honestly it`s like Bioware gave up on him from the get-go, it`s like he was an...afterthought. ``Oh hey lets add a black guy so as to make me2 moar diverse, despite the fact that we feature a broad range of diverse humans and aliens in the me2 squad`, but due to laziness and or time constraints, his back story will be taken from rap songs and gangsta movies``.
C`mon bioware, you can write well for black, latino, asian characters, Anderson, Kasumi,etc, why skimp on Jacob?
Modifié par MuhidinSaid, 19 août 2012 - 06:02 .
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