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[RayneMoon]

Modifié par RayneMoon, 25 février 2010 - 07:34 .

[Nyaore]

Jakegnosis wrote...

Nyaore wrote...

Jakegnosis wrote...

SelphieSK wrote...

Jakegnosis wrote...

Jacob's great, I don't understand why people don't seem to like him. He's just a solid dude, and one of male Shepard's closest buddies (along with Joker and Garrus) by the end of ME2. I still want to go get loud and spill drinks on the Citadel with him.

That's because you didn't play as femshep.

Why, does he turn into the world's biggest douche if you have ladyparts?

From what I've heard his romance path is rather sleezy and unappealing, but that's just from mere heresay since I have yet to actually take the plunge and attempt to romance him myself. That'll probably what I do with the next character I import.
Frankly I played as Femshep and while Hale's 'flirty' voice annoyed me immensely, I found Jacob to be a rather solid friend. He's like the morally ambiguous younger brother my Shepard never had.

Sleazy on his part or Shepard's, though?  I just can't see Jacob as a scumbag.  Does not compute.  I do know that Shepard gets some cringe-worthy lines in some of the romances, though.

That I really don't know. *shrugs* Still need to romance him myself to see what all the fuss is about.

Modifié par Nyaore, 25 février 2010 - 07:35 .

[RayneMoon]

Ugh, I liked him as a friend, but as a femshep it was so annoying.
I talk to him twice sense I meet him and then I start using a flirty voice
and Jacob brings up fraternization rules?
I can't talk to him without the stupid flirty voice, and it very vague as to how
you can be nice and polite but turn him down and be his friend...
I just stopped talking to him altogether as a femshep because I didn't want
to ****** him off.
Also I liked his romance the least out of all of them...
His final scene is so cheesy I laughed and not in a good way.
He gives this creepy "I'm just here to have sex with you" vibe.
And that's why I romanced Thane. 

[Randy1012]

CC-Tron wrote...

Br0th3rGr1mm wrote...

Jacob has one decent skill (Incendiary Ammo). I can't see why anyone would ever chose to take him over ANY of the other squadmates. As a character he is just bland and uninteresting.

Sorry guys, the Bro comes in last place out of 11 squad mates.  He seriously needs a red Star Trek uniform, IMO.

That's because you don't know how to use Jacob. Incendiary Ammo is Jacob's least valuable skill. If you dumped any points into that skill besides the default  point already given, you're not using Jacob to his best potential. Pull Field, Heavy Barrier (Makes him very tough to kill), and Cerberus Veteran (gives him a health boost) are the the only skills Jacob needs. Incendiary Ammo panics organics with only one point allocated to it. You don't need the damage bonus of Incendiary Ammo because organics don't attack while panicking. That gives you the opportunity to attack them safely.

Jacob is far from the least useful in the squad. He's the toughest member on the squad after Grunt. Pull Field is one of most useful biotic skills in the game period.  Heavy barrier means you don't have to micro manage his ass in battle to prevent him from going down. Inviscerator shotgun gives him good range and power. Combine that with Incendiary Ammo and he can tear up panicked organics.

I can think of several reasons to take him on missions over Jack and other members who are not as tough. Jack doesn't have a skill that ranks her higher than Jacob. She's a close combat vanguard with no barrier skill so she's pretty easy to take down. Shockwave is not as useful as pull field. Jack has pull field but she can't take damage like Jake. At least Tali has combat drones but she's weak as hell too. I'd immediately rank him higher than Jack. I always take Jake in the final reaper battle because of his toughness.

Bottomline: Jake and Grunt are the toughest. The others require more micro managing and medigel.

Dang, great post. Definitely making me rethink my usage of Jacob. Early on in my second playthrough I was using him with my Sentinel and Garrus, which seemed to work well, but I was thinking of switching him out. Do you think I should just stick with that lineup?

I just wish Jacob was trained with assault rifles instead of shotguns. It just seems strange that he can't use rifles.

[Jakegnosis]

RayneMoon wrote...

Ugh, I liked him as a friend, but as a femshep it was so annoying.
I talk to him twice sense I meet him and then I start using a flirty voice
and Jacob brings up fraternization rules?
I can't talk to him without the stupid flirty voice, and it very vague as to how
you can be nice and polite but turn him down and be his friend...
I just stopped talking to him altogether as a femshep because I didn't want
to ****** him off.
Also I liked his romance the least out of all of them...
His final scene is so cheesy I laughed and not in a good way.
He gives this creepy "I'm just here to have sex with you" vibe.
And that's why I romanced Thane. 

It's weird how hard it is to get a "friend" vibe out of romanceable characters that you don't actually want to romance.  I was just trying to be nice to Jack, and her response was "oh, you don't want to have sex with me?  I'm never talking to you again." 

[RobbertDewulf]

Jacob is quite a good character, I just don't use him because I preffer Miranda and like to have an Alien on my team to be ambivalent, lol.

[RayneMoon]

Jakegnosis wrote...

RayneMoon wrote...

Ugh, I liked him as a friend, but as a femshep it was so annoying.
I talk to him twice sense I meet him and then I start using a flirty voice
and Jacob brings up fraternization rules?
I can't talk to him without the stupid flirty voice, and it very vague as to how
you can be nice and polite but turn him down and be his friend...
I just stopped talking to him altogether as a femshep because I didn't want
to ****** him off.
Also I liked his romance the least out of all of them...
His final scene is so cheesy I laughed and not in a good way.
He gives this creepy "I'm just here to have sex with you" vibe.
And that's why I romanced Thane. 

It's weird how hard it is to get a "friend" vibe out of romanceable characters that you don't actually want to romance.  I was just trying to be nice to Jack, and her response was "oh, you don't want to have sex with me?  I'm never talking to you again." 

Yeah that happens if your a femshep too.
She's like,"You are obviously only interested in me because you want to have sex!"
And if your nice you say,"Yeah your interesting" and she's like,"I knew it! I'm not in to chicks though."
Then she won't talk to you again...
You literally can not be a friend to her at all.
And if you're a femshep Miranda will never talk to you after her loyalty mission and that's not an exaggeration.

[Jakegnosis]

RayneMoon wrote...

Jakegnosis wrote...

RayneMoon wrote...

Ugh, I liked him as a friend, but as a femshep it was so annoying.
I talk to him twice sense I meet him and then I start using a flirty voice
and Jacob brings up fraternization rules?
I can't talk to him without the stupid flirty voice, and it very vague as to how
you can be nice and polite but turn him down and be his friend...
I just stopped talking to him altogether as a femshep because I didn't want
to ****** him off.
Also I liked his romance the least out of all of them...
His final scene is so cheesy I laughed and not in a good way.
He gives this creepy "I'm just here to have sex with you" vibe.
And that's why I romanced Thane. 

It's weird how hard it is to get a "friend" vibe out of romanceable characters that you don't actually want to romance.  I was just trying to be nice to Jack, and her response was "oh, you don't want to have sex with me?  I'm never talking to you again." 

Yeah that happens if your a femshep too.
She's like,"You are obviously only interested in me because you want to have sex!"
And if your nice you say,"Yeah your interesting" and she's like,"I knew it! I'm not in to chicks though."
Then she won't talk to you again...
You literally can not be a friend to her at all.
And if you're a femshep Miranda will never talk to you after her loyalty mission and that's not an exaggeration.

Jeez.  It's hard out there, huh?

[Jakegnosis]

Ugh. Thanks, Bioware, for making damn near everything awkward as hell.

[Jimmyzk]

I too loved Jacobs character, he could have used a bit more fleshing out though. Can't wait for the "Spill some drinks" Patch!

[WindOverTuchanka]

I was doing some for Illusive man, and had a template open in Photoshop, so hey, why not!



And



And here's one for another camp



And finally, my personal manifesto (too lazy to roll the evidence... )



On a side note, I still don't understand why these boards are downsizing userpics...

Modifié par WindOverTuchanka, 25 février 2010 - 07:26 .

[Felene]

Imagine a party on Citadel, Jacob, Grunt, Garrus, Wrex and Shepard all cheering "Bro for life!" with drinks in their hands and all drunk.

@WindOverTuchanka cool banners, but its just me or seeing part of Jacob's head being cut off is... kind of weird?

Modifié par Felene, 25 février 2010 - 11:43 .

[AM50]

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[Grunt420]

Jacob is cool, one of my favorite characters

[Fraevar]

I don't hate Jacob - I just felt he got short-changed on the dialogue. Poor guy barely gets any scenes without the romance. But he's a likeable enough guy.

[Jean de Valette]

Jacob says plenty of things together with Miranda. They work well together, Jacob pulling stuff and Miranda warping them is a good combo. If Jacob could use an assault rifle he would've been a lot more populair.



He's also one of the few people on board you know you can really trust. Yeah, Jacob's my boy all right.

[EDarkness]

Throwing in some support for Jacob. He was definitely my homie on the ship and I took him with me pretty much all the time. Hope he makes a comeback next game.

[Louis deGuerre]

Jacob is a likeable chap, but he's terrible in combat for my playstyle. The shotgun isn't much good for teammates on harder difficulties unless it's a husk/melee heavy mission and then Grunt (unkillable) and Jack (shockwave) are better.

I also hate the 'forced flirtation'. Makes my femshep look bad when she's romancing someone else...that two-timing hussy

He's so straight up he's a bit boring in comparison with all the other more 'emotional' teammates.

I do like his last 'spill drinks' line, he's ok in my book.