Halo Quea wrote...
Estelindis wrote...
Shandepared wrote...
Well in time on these forums I've found that a lot of Mass Effect fans are idiots with very shallow reasoning abilities. So that would explain it. Same reason they hated Kaidan, really.
I don't see it that way. Lots of people who like Kaidan don't like Jacob. Moreover, people have given many reasons for disliking Jacob - or, more properly, for disliking *interacting* with Jacob - that are based on hard, solid facts.
1) Jacob says Miranda's too good for him, but FemShep is supposed to settle for him.
As for Jacob, I liked him but found him unusable in most of ME2's more intense combat situations. It's like Tali, I have no idea what Bioware was thinking when they came up with her powers and skill set for ME2. That little Quarian used to walk over the corpses of Geth Armatures and Colossus', now she can barely hold her own in a fight.
Sometimes I think I play this game
wrong. I seem to have the completely opposite experience as everyone else. Everybody raves that Miranda and Thane are great but in my experience, Miranda at least, is too freaking fragile. Unless I baby-sit she gets knocked out too easily. The measily extra damage bonus she provides is countered by her own poor damage output.
With Jacob though I fidn that his pull is wonderful. Anything that gets close I can disable with his pull and kill it. Krogan, those bug things, enemies behind cover, anything.
Tali too I find is great. I just make sure she is always sending out a combat drone and with that she's almost never getting shot. On insanity both Tali and Jacob saved my lives many times either with pull stopping a powerful enemy from getting too close or Tali's drone distracting something that would otherwise be charging at or shooting me.
Anyway, when it come sto Jacob's character. I like him because he's one of the few characters on the ship that to me gives a vibe ethat he's actually become Shepar'ds friend. In the first game I felt that way about Wrex and Kaidan on my first playthrough and then later Ash, and maybe Liara. Honestly Tali and Garrus took a long time to grow on me and even then they felt a lot more distant to Shepard than the others. Another thing I liked about Kaidan is that the 'story' he tells when you work through his various conversations has the most meaningful and intelligent point: aliens are not better or worse than us. Utlimately he's saying that aliens are just people. I always loved that.
I do agree that Jacob is kind of bland most of the time, but he has his moments. I rather like the way he greets Tali and Garrus; he's very respectful, especially to Tali despite her obviously dislike and mistrust of him.
Someone said he worked best as a foil to Miranda and that I agree with. I think both of their characters shined when they were together. Apart they kind of suffer a bit.
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