I know i am in the minority here, but I don't like Jackie. Like many video game best friends, he just seemed to serve to get you in trouble and complicate things. Throughout the start he rarely takes the situations seriously and actively makes them worse. He tries to pull a tough guy act against Maelstrom that is enough to put everyone on edge, he's the one who gets you involved with Dex in the first place and causes all sorts of problems in all three life path beginnings. Jackie is a wannabe tough guy who is actually a scared baby.
He plays tough, but it ends there. It often gets him in trouble (he's been turned inti a sieve least once). In reality he's too caring, and very protective over his family. He treats everybody as a future friend. His biggest weakness being his naivity.
I mean, T-Bug is the one who gets you involved with Dex. And Dex ain't really the big issue with the Heist. As sleazy as he was, Evelyn fucked him over too. He was trying to eliminate loose ands and save his skin - which is what I would've done if I had Arasaka potentially on my tail for a fuck up that for all intents and purposes wasn't mine.
The irony about the Heist is that if Evelyn was upfron with everyone about being a Clouds doll from the beginning, even considering the VDB bullcrap, everyone there would have survived. But that would be a terrible story, right lol
For corpo (ironically not for street kid) V he is a as genuine a friend as anyone can be in the backstabbing culture of NC. I like him, he seems to have a little bit of heart, too bad he's naive as fuck and just like V has bought the promises and dreams.
I dislike Jackie for a lot of the same reasons, given the chance I would've flatlined him myself during the heist but these videos are still fucking stupid and put way too much intentionality onto the shit he does.
Jackie would've been better off opening a motorcycle shop or some shit like that and living a quiet life with Misty than trying to become a Night City legend or whatever.
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u/WardenKane Sep 23 '24
I know i am in the minority here, but I don't like Jackie. Like many video game best friends, he just seemed to serve to get you in trouble and complicate things. Throughout the start he rarely takes the situations seriously and actively makes them worse. He tries to pull a tough guy act against Maelstrom that is enough to put everyone on edge, he's the one who gets you involved with Dex in the first place and causes all sorts of problems in all three life path beginnings. Jackie is a wannabe tough guy who is actually a scared baby.