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[Sandrock05]

Not calling Bioware racist but I couldn't help but noticed that he is the only one on the web site without a character video. Instead he gets 3 pictures. That is kind of lame since he is only the FIRST person that joins your squad in the game. I also took a look at Dragon Age site and every character on there has a video as well with the excemption of the DLC. Not sure if this was just overlooked or if Jacob just gets no love

[Sandrock05]

Here is the link so you will see what I am talking about. http://www.masseffec...se/squad/jacob/

[JigPig]

He's probably the most unlikable character for me, and no, I am not a racist. I hate everyone equally.

[Ruthven_RS]

He is quite useless.

[Schneidend]

Well, to be fair, the Dragon Age marketing team didn't wait until the last second to really start broadly promoting the game. The Dragon Age character videos were mostly done months before the game came out. I think Ohgren was the last to be released and he still had a video at least a month before release, if I recall correctly.



This is a simple case of the ball being dropped. Jacob is awesome. He just doesn't have a video, and Bioware/EA doesn't have a whole lot of incentive to make one now that the game is already out.

[lockerlocke]

As a black man myself, I kinda wish Jacob didn't have such a huge mouth. His teeth and lips jut out like crazy, which is weird considering how different he looked in Galaxy.

[Schneidend]

I agree, locke. I much preferred his Galaxy look. In Galaxy he basically looked like a bald version of his voice actor. I'm guessing it's just not considered "diverse" enough to have a light-skinned black man in a mainstream industry game. That's a sad thing, I think.

[Willie_on_Wheels]

Jacob's a dull character. There's not much to him.

[Jaymo147]

Jacob is kind of a douche. I can't stand him or Jack.

[Schneidend]

Willie_on_Wheels wrote...

Jacob's a dull character. There's not much to him.

Except he has what is probably the darkest loyalty mission in the entire game?

Emotional baggage and muddled pasts do not equate to depth.

[Willie_on_Wheels]

Schneidend wrote...

Willie_on_Wheels wrote...

Jacob's a dull character. There's not much to him.

Except he has what is probably the darkest loyalty mission in the entire game?

Emotional baggage and muddled pasts do not equate to depth.

I dug the whole Heart of Darkness vibe in his loyalty mission. It was great. It's just that it didn't really seem to make his character any more compelling.

[The Demonologist]

His loyalty mission was good. He himself isn't a really deep character... Pretty much a Cerberus cheerleader, in all honesty.



Which is a shame. :X

[Clumsy Ninja]

Willie_on_Wheels wrote...

Jacob's a dull character. There's not much to him.

Agreed, and he had the worst loyalty mission imo.  So he's my 2nd least favorite crew-member, after Zaeed. 

Then again, I saw my fiance playing a fem shep and Jacob was MUCH nicer to her lol.  Guess he's more interesting if you're a potential bunk-mate.  

[Traumacrazy]

...i found him quite boring

Modifié par Traumacrazy, 08 février 2010 - 07:55 .

[pedal2metal]

I like Jacob. He's a stereo-typical soldier, vs. a complicated sensitive-type. I liked all the characters in one way or another & Jacob was fine by me too.



best regards,

Pedal2Metal

[Traumacrazy]

Lawgunner wrote...

Clumsy Ninja wrote...

Willie_on_Wheels wrote...

Jacob's a dull character. There's not much to him.

Agreed, and he had the worst loyalty mission imo.  So he's my 2nd least favorite crew-member, after Zaeed. 

Then again, I saw my fiance playing a fem shep and Jacob was MUCH nicer to her lol.  Guess he's more interesting if you're a potential bunk-mate.  

He was nice to my male shepards, he said he would get loud and spill drinks on the citadel when it was all over... but that was a lie.

nevar trust a black man:(

lol...that was wrong:bandit:

[RabidWHM]

I like Jacob. Most people don't like him because he fades into the background with all the crazy aliens on board. He is much like Kaidan in the way that he is just a regular guy trying to do what's right. I do wish his loyalty mission was better in the way it showed off his inner struggles but overall it was decent.



For his appearance, I think he is very attractive. He is a very good attempt at a real African American man. I think it is very nice to see Bioware showing diversity in its games. All other gaming companies focus on the Mr. T/Dennis Rodman look a likes. With those hideous "fro-hawks, blonde hair, crazy ridiculous attitudes, whatever, I'm happy Jacob is aboard the Normandy. My male Shep needs a good homie and Jacob is just the guy.



Jacob for me has the good stuff. We going to get loud on the Citadel and have some drinks! Woot.

[blkgrrl]

Jacob's just an angry, frustrated black dude with an absentee father (who'd rather live in a fantasy world then to go home). Yup, alive but didn't care to contact home or to be rescued. A sad commentary on black dads? You bet!

[AtreiyaN7]

Eh, I think the problem is that he's basically a solid guy kind of like Kaidan. Decent, relatively normal human beings just kind of don't stand out much compared to everyone else.

[Traumacrazy]

blkgrrl wrote...

Jacob's just an angry, frustrated black dude with an absentee father (who'd rather live in a fantasy world then to go home). Yup, alive but didn't care to contact home or to be rescued. A sad commentary on black dads? You bet!

who wouldn't want to live in a fantasy world:happy:

[Willie_on_Wheels]

RabidWHM wrote...

I like Jacob. Most people don't like him because he fades into the background with all the crazy aliens on board. He is much like Kaidan in the way that he is just a regular guy trying to do what's right. I do wish his loyalty mission was better in the way it showed off his inner struggles but overall it was decent.

For his appearance, I think he is very attractive. He is a very good attempt at a real African American man. I think it is very nice to see Bioware showing diversity in its games. All other gaming companies focus on the Mr. T/Dennis Rodman look a likes. With those hideous "fro-hawks, blonde hair, crazy ridiculous attitudes, whatever, I'm happy Jacob is aboard the Normandy. My male Shep needs a good homie and Jacob is just the guy.

Jacob for me has the good stuff. We going to get loud on the Citadel and have some drinks! Woot.

I like Jacob as a person. His character is just less interesting than it could have been. He's also really not "a regular guy whose trying to do what's right". He works for a very morally questionable organization, (which in the context isn't so bad) but seems so totally ambivalent about it. At no point does he seem to actually question whether or not the terrorist organization he works for might be manipulating him.

[Dreadz666]

Of all the teamates, Jacob is the most boring character.

And we all know that being a boring NPC is a much greater sin than actually being evil. (Compare Jack)

[Traumacrazy]

Dreadz666 wrote...

Of all the teamates, Jacob is the most boring character.
And we all know that being a boring NPC is a much greater sin than actually being evil. (Compare Jack)

lol...true, true:happy: