Unpopular opinions

- Garrus is extremely over-rated and not a well written character. Many of his scenes try way too hard to make him seem like your best bro.

- Liara sucks. I hate this character more than anyone in the series.

- Ashley is a good character and her romance is very good. Though its a bit weak in ME3.

- Kaidan is one of my favorite characters in the series regardless of Shepard's gender (and I save him more than Ash regardless of gender).

- Jacob isn't that bad, especially if you are broshep.

- Kasumi is the best looking girl with the best personality in the series and I wish she could be my Mass Effect bae.

- Jennifer Hale's voice acting is overall good, but some of her dialogue is really badly delivered. And I think Meer is better overall.

- ME3's Destroy ending is the only ending that makes sense to me. And with the EC its actually not half bad and I like it.

Those are just the few I can think of.

I always went with the destory ending. I think the reapers deserved to die and plus you live if your EMS is high enough. (Bioware confirmed this)

A Mass Effect game with Deus Ex style gameplay and an open-ended approach to completing your objectives?
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

It also doesn't help that the Synthesis ending is really stupid, doesn't make sense, and leaves the game in an overly idyllic state. The ending is too perfect and too boring. And I don't think changing everyone into one DNA is right. The series has been about embracing our differences and then coming together to fight the Reapers. Synthesis is almost exactly what the Reapers want. And they get to live also.

I like the concept of Control. The ending actually is kind of epic in its own way and that theme song certainly helps. But no one man should have that kind of power. Even a Paragon Shepard. Plus the whole time Shepard goes on about destroying the Reapers for peace. Him/her having a last second change of mind makes little to no sense.

Destroy feels the most appropriate, has the most satisfying and diverse outcomes depending on EMS and your Shepard can potentially live. I don't mind if Shepard lives or dies. Him/her dying has a bittersweet feeling to it that also feels appropriate. It also feels like the most plausible outcome because some things can be left in disarray after the war which is realistic in some ways. Not everything ends up being perfect like the other two endings and the galaxy needs time to rebuild on their own. Its the best ending by far. 

I disagree.  The problem with Kai Leng is the "plot armor".  The fact that he can't be beat until the plot says he has to die.  Or how he tries to call Shepard and Co weak while constantly running away and hiding to recover his shields.  So the problem was less Kai Leng and more with how he was improperly used.

I'm of the opinion that Mass Effect 2 was filler. It was enjoyable filler but filler nonetheless. 

I've heard ME3 be referred to as "ME1, part 2", implying ME2 derailed from the plot.  However, had the gone the route of the ME2 crew going independent in ME3, it would have worked better.

Ok, that's another way to put it. But I think we can agree that his potential as credible villain is wasted in ME3.

I don't have formal education in narrative techinique, literary language or even a degree in english literature, but I think the writers intend Kai Leng to be portraited as the opposite of Shepard's personality and he's also jealous of him/her.

The problem is the story in ME3 is very cryptic sometimes. I understand and agree that not all of explanations and plots need to be disclosured to the reader or player. Handwaving like they say, is good to think and speculate about some events in fiction stories.
But the story in ME3 is very cryptic sometimes and Bioware incorporated the terrible habit of not explaining some events if they were published in books or comic books before.
I think critical information should be displayed in the game, not in books or comics.

The glaring example is the change in Liara personality in ME2. At least put something for the player to work on it, like they did regarding Cerberus and the quarians for example.
So Liara goes from the "caretaker" figure of ME1 to ruthless bitch in ME2 because she recovered Shepard's body and then gave it to Cerberus? Why? What happened?
If you read the comic book you will know why the change.

In the end, even with plot armor, Kail Leng seems more goofy than any other thing.
Miranda has plot armor in ME2 and while she's not the best character written in history of videogames, at the same time she's not a bad or goofy one. She's just common.
I'm not talking about the mechanic of having a character with plot armor, it's the most cheap and lazy solution if you want your character to survive until a certain event in your game.
Whom of you don't remember Miranda being abducted by seeker swarms in the long walk and then reapper moments later at the door? LOL

And removing player control of the action on Thessia after it was iniciated hurted even more the character.
Heck, at least on Virmire I can rationalize what happened: Shepard destroyed Saren's flying plataform, the explosion knocked Shepard making her/him dizziness and Saren took advantage of it.
The rest of the event all happens in cutscenes, just like Thessia.





So much hate for Liara, mike...

He need to fight three oponents and if you look closely, he actually throw Liara to neutralize the second squadmate and then raise a barrier to stop Shepard shots.
The scene is a typical movie scene, because that's not how a fight with multiple opponents works, specially because all of them are armed with some weapon.

But we are talking about people who can cure cancer with medi-gel, their weapons have miniaturized block cutting machines and they are capable of survive reentry on a planet with body armor.
So who knows, everything is possible.

Actually the story is not that great, since you asked. At least they provided a explanation, even if it's a bad one.
In ME Foundations #05 and #06 for example Miranda is also a cry baby too, totally off-character and Jacob is the hero who saves the day.

So... yeah...




There was even a video on the old BSN board, right when ME2 was released, Ecael made it. LOL




You answered your own question: why Kai Leng didn't fired at the supports right of the bat instead of wasting time fighting Shepard?
Like I said, is the typical bad action movie scene, it doesn't make sense.

And it hurts Kai Leng's character in the end.

I like Liara and asari "tentacles".

HA!

Realized one MAJOR unpopular opinion, too!

I am enough sadistic to enjoy the message from Kai Leng.

I just leave it there and vanish now.

I hate Tali.