Unpopular opinions

So, in ME3, all the dialogue stays the same with, say, Kasumi talking about how she can't do another SM, etc.?

Still confused I think - Does Kasumi still talk like she's been on the SM with Shepard even if Shepard does not recruit her until after the SM?

So then it just must be a mechanic for doing playthroughs that add in squad characters (potential war assets) for the import without redoing a whole ME2 playthrough... doesn't seem to serve no real story purpose.  I never understood why they arranged Legion's conversations such that the player would want to set aside a couple of missions to do after the SM to finish off the conversations with him (if making him loyal and saving the crew is what the player wanted to do with the playthrough).  They could have just as easily made it so the game recognized when all the missions had been done prior to Legion's loyalty one and that tripped a trigger that would allow the player to just continue to trigger the next few conversations with him without going on a mission in between.  I like making the SM the last thing I do in the game... I even prefer to do Arrival before the SM (if I'm going to do it at all).  I like using the motive that the SM and falling out with TIM changed Shep's perspective on things... causing him to essentially steal the Normandy for the Alliance... and go blind-sided by being placed under house arrest.

Perhaps my unpopular opinion is that Arrival itself was a mistake that does more to detract from the plot of the game than it adds to it.

What do you mean importing? Is it different otherwise?

OTOH, I like the art style for that stuff... even though it's very brief. The whole opening (from the Normandy to that) is visually cool, even for a 7 year old game.

Oh no. The segment remain the same for either Shepard.... one moment a girl got spaced and briefly a skeleton with a penis before she became a girl again....

I'm already in my third year of university by the time ME2 roll out, naturally I've seen way better CGI anatomy than this... even CSI did a cool job with their montage. Also, what the heck are these dangly bits suspended in fluid? Shriveled intestines?


As much as "suspension of disbelief" goes, the entire act with Shepard being spaced, exposed to vacuum, atmospheric reentry and resurrection is overkill. I'm probably happier if it turns out to be a clone than a perfectly reanimated corpse that someone paid billions for. I really hate how all this became a minor plot device for the entirety of the game when it have potential to be more. 

It still amazes me how changing up some little thing can change the available "banter" between squad mates on different missions - particularly in ME3 but I'm even still hearing lines that are new to me in the elevators on the Citadel in ME1.

I absolutely agree. I always find that ME3 is often not credited enough in terms of dialogue variation. They put such an effort in it, it's unbelievable. I love changing things up and seeing as many new things as I can, but yeah, it's probably impossible to see literally everything


He should have the same conversation with Tali as well
I brought Javik to a lot of missions with James when I was playing my first FemShep, and it was so great. I someday want to pair him with EDI, I bet there's some hilarious banter!

I got curious as well, so I looked it up in the Wiki.  The Unique Dialogue page for Javik doesn't mention anything about not having Tali present to get that particular line of dialogue.

masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Javik/Unique_dialogue

I also noticed the information about the Zha'til is repeated in a separate entry about the background races in the game:

masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Background_Races

Interesting. I usually have Tali alive and then my other squadmate is whoever I'm romancing if they're in the crew. I don't recall if I've ever taken Javik on the dreadnought. I don't think I have, but my most recent game is with no Tali (sniff) so I could replay the mission with Javik instead of whoever I took originally.

The pelvis is also too narrow to fit a female Shepard's body. When we see her figure and the skeleton, it should have been much wider and broader.

I'm with you on the Citadel DLC. That whole piece of content was nothing but a cringe inducing attempt at forced humor utilizing exaggerated caricatures of my squadmates. Having the shooting contest with Garus in the vanilla game was more heartfelt and natural, then having him and Zaeed running around the apartment trying to booby trap everything; the former brought a smile to my face, the latter was inducing a headache.

As far as I can understand, the Trespasser DLC for DA:I was the same way, which I'm glad that I didn't spend the money on if that is indeed the case.