Unpopular opinions

I do agree that it is very easy to like Garrus initially. Even after so many playthroughs, I still don't hate him. I think he's ok. I've actually never even done a run with him dead. Its probably something I should try at one point. Its just that most of his roles seem really inconsequential. In ME1 and ME2 he really didn't do or say much honestly. But yet people loved this guy. Even his romance is just ok to me. Most of the time he is just being awkward and goofy. And on occasion he will be serious or charming. I have heard some girls say his Citadel DLC scene where he kind of "urges" Shepard to dance is not such a great scene.

And in ME3, its kind of messed up right after Wrex asks Garrus if he knew about the bomb that Garrus starts to appreciate the crudeness of the bomb. And I don't know why his banter just bothers me so much in certain missions. I just don't get how a character that is so... not alien gets so much love, but then characters like Ash/Kaidan/James are hated so much. I mean, he never really ever acted like an alien, but in ME3, its like they weren't even trying anymore. And he tries way too hard to be funny. Also, I remember I got called an idiot by a Garrus fans because I said he was dull and that Alistair was a better bro/more interesting character than him.

And I'm not even going to bother about Liara. I've already talked about why I dislike her so much.

This is a poor example if you're trying to explain why the asari has Shepard's armor. Jackie's outfit was given to the archives. The archives did not take it from Jackie's corpse. Google to learn more
As true as that is, how many of those items taken were from people that claimed to be friends with the individual of that item without informing anyone?
It would have been collected by the Alliance since the armor is Alliance property. The council would have nothing to do with it since it wasn't issued by them. I wouldn't be surprised if the Alliance ask's Mrs Shepard, for those that play a spacer, on her thoughts of what to do with the armor.
Are you saying Liara is a private owner? What gives her the right to keep the armor? What answer would she give if someone were to visit her and ask her about it?  The other thing is why would she have the armor especially if Shepard treated her badly in ME1? Shepard can say that he/she will throw her sorry a** in the volcano. That alone would cause me to avoid that person and not take anything from that person to keep in my apartment as a prize/trophy. Even better I wouldn't go looking for that person's corpse since that person is dead.

Since you have no problem with the asari having Shepard's armor, would you have a problem if...say...Jacob, or better yet, Conrad had the armor?

I'm not a fan of Garrus. 

I will look at it from Primarch's view.

Let me get this straight Garrus. When you were investigating Saren you told your boss to stall the council without having any evidence. You know better. I also heard he removed you from the case, which I agree. You left C-Sec because you don't like rules and regulations. You do know they're there for a reason, right? Even I don't agree with all the rules we have for our species, but they're there for a reason. 

You join a human, Commander Shepard, to chase Saren. I've heard of Shepard. She sounds like a good human. Maybe I will meet her one day. 

After what happened with the Citadel, and after the Normandy is destroyed, you decide to go to Omega to shoot bad guys. Why? Don't you do that being with C-Sec? Oops. I forgot. You don't like rules and regulations. For you its your way or the highway.

You tell me Shepard is dead and that Cerberus brought her back to go after the Collectors. I knew very little of them until you told me your story. So you decided to help Shepard, who's working with Cerberus, a group our species doesn't like, to stop an enemy that is going after human colonists? Interesting. Lets back up for a moment. When chasing Saren you knew about the reapers from Shepard. Even talked with one and talked with a prothean hologram on Ilos about what the reapers will do, but yet you wasted 2 years shooting bad guys instead of trying to find a way to stop them? Yet you were willing to join a human to stop an enemy that is a human problem? Do you not care about your species Garrus? Why not take the group you had with you on Omega to find a way to stop the reapers? Didn't you say you knew an asari who knew about the protheans? Get her to help as well. I don't expect you to have found any clues to stopping the reapers, but the fact you made no attempt is troubling. 

Now you stand before me asking for me to do something? Tell me Garrus. How many baby bottles did it take before your father had enough of your crying before he brought you to me?

In regards to these reapers. When will they get here? Is there a way to fight them? How will they attack us? Is there anything you know that will help? How many are there?

Garrus: No sir. I don't know. I just know they're on their way here.

You know Garrus, if I was in your shoes, I might do the same, well the part about coming to me, not all that other stuff. I can't do anything without some information about the reapers that I can use. For now, I will make you a temporary advisor. I want you to go talk with all our military leaders. Let them know what might/could happen and give suggestions, if you have any on what to do to stop the reapers. I will inform them of your position. For now, I have some meetings I must attend to. Good day.

In ME3 Garrus adds nothing. There was no reason for him to be on the roster. If anything, he could accompany Primarch Victus on the Normandy and go back to Palaven after the genophage is dealt with. 

I actually only hate on Kaidan haters.  I don't care if he's not your favorite but I just can't see what's not to like.  He's really not boring.

I don't remember if I said this before, but the Mako is my favourite vehicle in the series. Bumpy physics aside, I really liked the mix of vehicular and on-foot combat in ME1. Mixed up the gameplay nicely.

Hammerhead: I don't hate it at all, but too lightweight for my liking. Especially the combat, most of the time it's just circle-strafing around enemies while spamming homing missiles, no aiming required. And then there was virtually no mix-up in the Hammerhead DLC, it felt a bit like some extended arcade mini-game with little connection to the rest of the game. Overlord did more with it, sadly it also did that silly Super Mario style lava platforming shit.

Nomad: Better physics than the Mako, but still a bit too lightweight/easy to me. I actually prefer if there's some heft and limited maneuverability, that makes the Mako feel a bit more real/engaging to me. Most disappointingly, it is unarmed, so it's reduced to pure transport. That makes it actually my least liked vehicle. Still not hating it at all, certainly better than no vehicle at all like in ME3.

Really? Even the part where Jacob's conversations are better than Garrus'?

I tend to use Jacob/Thane myself (a shame they never got a resolution between them like Miranda/Jack). I know Miranda is likely a better squadmate than Thane. But I really like characters with snipers like Legion/Thane/Zaeed. Zaeed can also do assault rifles and has inferno grenade so he's amazing. And Thane has a sniper and warp. And yeah, that is my basic strategy in combat as an Engineer. But even if I was a Vanguard or an Adept, I wouldn't take Garrus. I'd take Miranda or Kasumi for my overload needs. And then a good fighter like Thane, Legion, or Zaeed.

And I only used Mordin sparingly in this run. Since I liked Engineer enough, I will try this again. Or I can do something similar with Sentinel since it has overload as well. 

Don't see how.  At the end, Shepard is off to prepare for the coming Reaper invasion. Besides, if it's just the one, they're not really all that after all.

I have been feeling this for a while, but upon completing ME2 again recently, I'm not a huge fan of some of the more personal matters that the crew have. Jack comes off a little bit too angsty to me. I get why she is like that, but its still off putting. Some of her lines are just bad like "i got thoughts like little bugs crawling in and out of my head." The whole fight between Miranda and Jack is silly. The fact that if you side with Jack, Miranda holds a childish grudge against you is what I'm talking about. This is especially weird when she knows what is at stake and she is supposed to be the professional one. I can see Jack holding a grudge, but its weird coming from Miranda.

And likewise, if you side with Legion over Tali, Tali acts really immature and shoots at the ceiling. The weird animations make this scene even more odd looking. I'm also not a huge fan of Miranda's loyalty mission or how she suddenly develops feelings for you because you helped her. Tali and Jack's romances are more in depth. I also don't like how some of the loyalty missions are very basic in their premise like Garrus wanting revenge and Thane wants to find the son he abandoned. While I like Thane, I am wondering if they couldn't come up with something else for him besides this.

I think ME1 handled the personal matters of the crew better without being overbearing about it. I sometimes feel ME2 went overboard with the personal stuff in an attempt to make these character more endearing.

While I'm quite sure this isn't an unpopular opinion, I am not so sure that many people approach it from this angle.

Mass Effect: Andromeda was bad. For many reasons of course, but my specific gripe with it has is due with how generic, how "un-alien" everything was. We travel over a million light-years and arrive to a place more vanilla, more "human", than any of the previous locations we encountered back in the Milky Way. What's even more disappointing is that all the sapient species we do meet in Helius are even more human-like than the Asari. The Angara could have literally been just humans with blue face and nothing would have changed about them or their depiction in the narrative. The Khett are the resident not-Reapers of the new game and what precious little insight we are given about them or their culture is lost on either being portrayed as something evil to kill, or just being mindlessly hostile. Even the Remnant, who had the most potential for showcasing a new 'alien' intelligence are actually just a type II or III society's version of a Roomba, not anything with intelligence.


I've heard it argued that one can't judge Andromeda too harshly, since it was just the first game in a new trilogy, but we didn't have to look any farther than the very first Mass Effect game to be introduced to aliens like the Elcor, Hanar, Rachni, Thorian, and Geth on top of all the more human-like aliens such as the Asari, Turians, Salarians, and Volus. So yes, I am going to judge Andromeda for it's lack of appreciable alien elements.




Aside from the lack of any alien elements there's the whole situation of sending colonists over without any form of ship mounted protection, but that's a whole other can of worms.

Mass Effect 3 was merely 70% good enough.

I don't even think he's any worse than a Renegade Shepard prior to indoctrination.  Can you really say that the things Saren did were worse than shooting your allies in the back, killing a friend just to make sure the genophage isn't cured?  How about killing civilians just so Zaeed can have revenge?  (Practically the same thing Anderson was complaining that Saren had done.)  Punching Khalisah in the face for not liking her questions?  (Talk about anti-free speech...)  Betraying Gianna?  (Different than simply ignoring her quest.)  I could go on, but these are just off the top of my head.  Tbh, I imagine a Renegade Shepard being made aware of some ultra-powerful ship would have ended up indoctrinated and working for the Reapers as well.

don't believe this is unpopular, but it might be for some.

I'm sure folks have played or are familiar with the Saints Row games. What if Mass Effect was like that?

Shepard would lead the gang
Samantha plays the role of Kinzie
Ashley plays Shaundi
Kaidan as Gat
Anderson as Julius
Jacob as Pierce
Miranda as Viola
James as Oleg
Khalisah as Jane Valderamma
Conrad as Josh Birk the actor who plays the role of Nyteblayde

The gangs
turian known as the Birds
asari as The Tentacles
salarians as The Lizards
quarians as Bucket heads
geth as toasters
Cerberus as The Keystone Cops