Unpopular opinions

1) I dislike Liara T'Soni's romance - She is obsessive towards Shepard.

2) Male Shepard had better voice acting compared to female Shepard, since male Shepard's near-deadpan voice fits a war veteran Shepard a lot. Female Shepard is too emotional and overreacting for me.

3) Kaidan Alenko should have remained heterosexual - I think his bisexuality is just pandering. If Bioware was serious about Kaidan being bisexual, they should have done it since the first Mass Effect. As it stands, I think that Kaidan, like Liara, is simply Shepardsexual instead of being bisexual.

4) Citadel DLC should have been more serious.

5) I prefer Kaidan Alenko over Garrus Vakarian for female Shepard.

6) The Vanguard class went full retard in Mass Effect 2 and in Mass Effect 3. No sensible military force would think that it is a good idea to train individuals to solo charge head on into a battle and fight, especially when battles involves not just infantry but missiles, tanks, planes, drones, etc. I prefer how the Vanguard played in the first Mass Effect - An biotic soldier on the front lines.

7) Ashley Williams is not a racist, the correct terminology is specist, which is not a problem as long as it is not taken too far. Additionally, she is far superior in Mass Effect 1 than in Mass Effect 3 in every single way, including how she looks.

8) Synthesis is just Marxist bullshit wrapped up with some scientific technobabble. Destroy and Control make much more sense.

9) Specialist Traynor is better than Liara at investigating and finding things, she should have usurped Liara as the Shadow Broker.

Here is an unpopular opnion. Not only did I not really care for Liara overmuch I wouldn't have included her as a squadmate in ME 3. I would have ditched her for Ferron. And also ditched EDI for Miranda.

I know, the ME 2 companions got screwed over. 

I wouldn't want all the squads from the two games. That'd be a bit much and there are more then a few it really would not have made sense for story wise or just in anything wise really. Just a fair mix from the two games + James Vega and we're all good. Which is like my next really unpopular opinion, he was one of my favorite squadmates.

To me, that was the issue... ME2 just added too many different people... too many romance-able characters and too many possible combinations of who lived and who died.  It was great for ME2 (my unpopular opinion is that it has the strongest character development opportunities of the whole trilogy); but didn't work that well in ME3 when they had to pare things back and still make room for some new personalities (particularly because they wanted to add in some gay/lesbian roles that were absent from the first two games in Samantha and Steve... times had changed over the years it took to get all three games developed and they were, I think, just trying to be accommodating).  I think all the romances suffered because of it and it didn't help much with the spread of squad talents either.

I too much preferred Vanguard in ME1. Mixture of biotics and shotguns, I found it really fun.

Okay, in ME2 and ME3 it was quite fun from a gameplay perspective to be charging all over the place but something about it just didn't sit right with me so I found myself using adept more with shotguns as a special talent.

Agree totally.  The charge almost takes all the challenge out of just working your way in close using squad placement and cover.  I find, though, that the skill tree in ME1 discourages people from using the shotgun with the Vanguard since it usually means sacrificing one of the biotic skills to get the 5 points into pistols to unlock the shotgun in the first place.  More often than not in ME1, I think people just keep building their pistols and eventually forget about using the shotgun altogether.

but, but... with both of them, you can just shoot everyone in the back.  Executioner Shepard! 

Awe, all work and no play makes Shepard a "dullstone"

I feel like a weirdo for playing Sheploo. I just never liked their CC and wanted to jump in the game. Then it grew on me.

I always kill Ashley.