Unpopular opinions

In ME1 you could see what the Protheans looked like from the statues on Ilos and Shepard's visions. Those guys with their tentacle mouths. They also seemed to be nicer, given that they were the ones who created Vigil. I believe they first created the Collectors in ME2 and later added that "they're Protheans!" thing only to have a strong plot twist.

I found shotguns pretty pointless in ME3. Hurricane + incendiary ammo, problem solved.

Just saying that all we saw left of Protheans in ME1 was those tentacle face people in statues and visions. There was nothing remotely resembling the Collectors back then. ME3 even went as far as retconning the visions so that tentacle faced Protheans are replaced by Javik-like ones.

I know that many things hadn't been decided on early on, like the actual intentions of the Reapers. Much has developed (or not) over the trilogy. But retconning in the sense of erasing/replacing what had been there before really sucks. Especially if an interesting design is replaced by a less interesting one.

Going to have to show me the picture of the statues being replace on Ilos with new ones.

Not the statues but at some point (in ME2 I think) they changed the protheans in Shepard's vision from this...



to this...

Well this thread IS supposed to be for unpopular opinions!

I know the eviscerator isn't the best shotgun statistically speaking, but it is the best to me for reasons I don't even really understand. I've tried all of them at one time or another but the Eviscerator is the only one that feels "natural" to use for some reason.

Because the design of Protheans were not developed at that point.  At no point did anyone point to the statue and say definitively that they are Protheans. There isn't even a character that says that in the game. In terms of development it is like finding out that dinosaurs who we have never actually seen. We learn that some of them had feathers. So getting upset that Jurassic Park  only showed Dinos without feathers.

There is also the less obvious set up of Shepard the longer he had the mental imprint the better he was able to interpret them. Hence why the computer on Thessia even without Javik responds to Shepard and he was able to interpret the Prothean language so easily on Ilos and when he liberated Javik's stasis pod from Cerberus.

But again it is an insignificant change to an insignificant part of the game. That is why I call it splitting hairs because the change to Collector rather then statue on Ilos changes nothing about the lore of the game.  It was a change to match their further development of the Protheans who they never had a real thought about other then that was the name of the previous race. Much like how Bungie with Halo never really had a idea what Forerunners looked like.  They intended them to be the humans. The effect of the Halo Array firing and giving up their technology to start over as penance for their actions with the Flood.  Keeping them vague and their story explained in broad strokes. It wasn't till 343 Studios got a hold of the Halo series when Microsoft took over and they went into detail about the Forerunners and deus ex machina not one but two into the game for reasons that don't make any sense.

Anyway, unpopular opinions... I like Traynor.

Hm, I've seen her receive a lot of anger. Maybe I've been on Steam forums and Youtube longer than I should have.

Good point, and in fact I don't like Kasumi at all. All this ninja nonsense is just immersion-breaking (not that there was any immersion left in ME3).

Yes, I admit I'm a bit sensitive about the mass of redesign and retconning in ME2 and especially 3. A few things here and there would be ok, but the sheer amount of it made it all fall apart to me.