Kadara is dumb, here's why [no spoiler]

Nah.

No spoilers my ass.

Thats a nonsense argument, besides, so you killed less than 1% of the MW population in Andromeda...and the problem with that is, what? Why is that poor writing? Because there are less humans? Uh...thats not poor writing at all, the Initiave isnt about humans. Also, the MW population in Andromeda is roughly a 100,000, not 20 and I suspect the Kett and the Scourge have already killed many more than you anyway.

Uh, it is poor writing since killing 1% in just a few hours of kadara, excluding the hundreds dead there for other reasons means that MW population is dying out at an incredible rate. That's the point you're not grasping.

And at this point of the story the other 3 arcs are missing and the human arc has most people still in cryo so that's irrelevant. You effectively cull a lot of the nexus MW exiles who themselves have been culling each other for months before you arrive. Bad writing that could have been avoided if they upped the numbers of MW population.

Your argument is just plain weird. The exiles are a plot device, plain and simple, and it works as such. You dont go to Kadara to kill people to begin with, their actions toward you lead to the killing and as you point out yourself, they've been killing each other in abundance.
Never mind the fact that its an irrelevance whether there 100,000 MW people or 98,000 in Andromeda, the numbers that die on Kadara, who were written off anyway being exiles, wont make the difference between surviving or perishing.

Maybe there are more arks on the way and the first 100,000 is just the start? Who knows, Bioware can make the numbers up any time they choose to do so.

Hmm, okay, well if it's been 'proven' that it's bad writing, there's nothing else to say, is there? Well done OP, for coming up with the proof. Wanna take a shot at Fermat's last theorem next ;-)

(Oh wait ...)

oh no we are killing people that the nexus banished and left to die.

Yeah..? Hello?!?! Hiya?! Anybody's there? -waves- Heh... 

Anyways... That never prevented any videogame of being liked or good or a success: Uncharted anyone? 

Or maybe you're a bad writer yourself.

You only need, scientifically speaking, 10,000 individuals of each species to have enough genetic diversity for successful propagation. So unless you kill half of all humans in Andromeda on Kadara, then it's fine. Bioware following science and population genetics!

That's not even taking into consideration that they could have brought frozen embryos or other genetic material for cloning or artificial insemination. So I think they will be just fine in Andromeda. Bioware is not bad at writing. OP is just bad at science.

I had the same thought. While I thought Kadara's planet exploration was the most rewarding and interesting, I though the basic concept of hundreds - it seemed thousands - of Milky Way lives becoming canon fodder absolutely ridiculous.

Finally, Lexi does acknowledge how strange it is that so many Nexus exiles became violent, crooked criminals when, obviously, those selected for the Andromeda Initiative would've had to have been vetted as prime specimens of their respective races....? But that's on Elaaden.

I just finished the Kadara planet questline today. This is easily the worst thing to ever exist in Mass Effect. It doesn't feel like Mass Effect in any sense, and then there's this.



Reyes is painted as this smarmy guy you should fall in love with and there's no way around that. You had to get this insulting fanfic scene of Ryder and him sitting on a roof together and talk about how beautiful the journey has been like... uuuugggh, my jaw was on the floor as I pressed the Share button and uploaded this crap. That's the thing about this game. You can tell 3 different studios worked on this story because there's just zero consistency.

The only thing I like is Sloane Kelly but only a little, but Reyes... what an insultingly self-indulgent character. The entire plotline on Kadara is just woefully flat and out of character for Mass Effect. It feels like a stupid comic strip in a newspaper. The worst thing is, I assure you, the way this storyline ends leads up a DLC that'll probably be handled by BW Austin too where you meet Reyes again and team up with Sloane or something.


It feels like this Han Solo fanfiction that came out of a cut SWTOR class plotline. Fuck this crap so much.