Unpopular opinions

Shepard did try to start out formally with Anderson, and Anderson told him point blank "not to go all formal."  There is a crewman walking about the ship who will salute Shepard if clicked on.  Shepard does salute Hackett a couple of times.  I believe he says "Yes, sir" though rather than "Aye, aye."  I'm also not sure if these were cases where Hackett was actually issuing an order... I'd have to go back to the one point where I know where Hackett actually orders Shepard to kill TIM and does specify "that's an order" to see what the response actually was at that point.  (It happens if you first activate the attack on the Cerberus Base, then back off, and then go back later to talk to Hackett a second time.)

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- I want to holster my weapon in ME3
- I don't like Ashleys hair in ME3, how do you fight under a helmet with that?
- The outfits looked best in ME1 and ME2, ME3 is too sexy (female body/outfit).
- Ashley is still the best character (Tali, Garrus and Liara close second).
- I liked the minigames in ME2 and didn't like the complete lack of it in ME3.
- Jack is a really cool character, especially in ME3 (didn't romance her).
- Tali's quest in ME2 is the best, but it wouldn't if you don't know her from ME1.
- The Qunari lore is great and you should have influence in ME2 for the Qunari going to war with the Geth.
- Tali's suicide in ME3 under the circumstances was brilliant sad.
- Miranda is the worst character in the game.
- Maybe they should have sticked to full developed characters only, the two extras Zaeed and Kasumi are like a fifth wheel on a wagon.

I think it's somewhat atypical for a graduate of the highest level of spec ops training in the system to refer to themselves as "just a marine" as well.

There is also nothing more relaxing than scanning planets. Coffee in the left hand and the scanner(mouse) in the right...

It works in the context of that conversation with Anderson (barring the terminology fail). Even in Space Jesus Glorious Leader mode I don't see Shepard as much of a politician.

The Alliance is Bioware's military. They can do whatever they want with it no matter if it makes sense or not.

ME3>ME1>ME2

Ok, I'll give you that one. That made me laugh.

Follow up unpopular opinion: The endings don't bother me cause Citadel DLC ending is my headcanon ending 

And yet the game from the start directly states that the forces of the galaxy can not match the Reaper forces. Sovereign was only in trouble specifically because it would have been a single Reaper vs entire galaxy.  Suicide squad implies there is a chance at survival. The game very clearly stated from moment 1 the concept of the Reapers were introduced that it is game over completely and utterly.

Randomly picking up a cain to destroy some Reaper the size of a Destroyer? You mean the Hades Cannon? That thing that had a massive obvious weak point? Who wasn't firing standard Reaper ammo but massive amounts of energy that would have to be build up and then released to allow it to hit fast moving shuttles. The fact that the Cain explodes right at the connection point causing a chain reaction when the energy gets disrupted.

Yea clearly they didn't do enough work. Save for the fact everything makes sense unless you cover your ears and claim other wise.

I think the trilogy would have been better had Saren been the main villain throughout the entire story. A growing/evolving relationship between hero and villain is always interesting.

Joker is a raging alcoholic...just like Male Shepard. I can totally back Joker and EDI, Would SHIP JOKER AND EDI!!

I 100% agree with all of that.

Before I played ME3 I just assumed we'd continue to either work with Cerberus or go that same route though there was he inevitable trial at arcturus which would complicate matters.

Naturally, being excited for ME3 I formed ideas in my head based on the revealed footage of 3 the same way people like to ponder about the possibilities of Andromeda right now and given the marketing of that game I remember qurstioning if we'd even have the Normandy. I was thinking maybe Shepard got to the trial, then visits Earth and gets stuck there for the first couple of missions in the game but then I thought once we got off into space the rest of the game would be about Shepard - not forming alliances to help the military - but on some kind of quest for leads to find something out about the Reapers that could weaken them or something similar. The idea of the prothean device or Javik weren't far off but it wasn't executed well IMO, because the Crucible was just this big construct we never knew what it did until the very finale and Javik turned into DLC. But like you said, I just expected Shepard once again defying the ignorance of the galaxy regarding the Reapers; that he'd defy those who seriously think conventional military would do anything against Reapers and then I expected TIM to be negotiable so he would actually find leads about Reapers for his own gains but would tip them off to Shepard if you cut a deal with him. I dunno. It's fan fiction realm I'm in now but I hope the point gets across.

I was pretty darn disappointed the second I learned Cerberus was just the unanimous bad guys of ME3, and I've been in record many times saying I hated the "war" aspect of ME3 because it never made sense to me for Shepard to be fighting for conventional forces to fight the Reapers back when we know that doesn't work.