Unpopular opinions

opuspace I think the issue for me is practically ALL the aliens have human issues and in most cases even human personalities. Who is the more useful squadmate is subjective, but I really enjoyed playing Sentinel/Adept with Ashley in ME3 or Vanguard with Miranda, Kasumi, or Kaidan for instance. And I'm with you on that one. I played the series super late and I think my words were she was a walking Encyclopedia of her people. But even then she still had a cute and bubbly personality to make her likable enough for me.

And yes, all characters have flaws in how they were written. I don't think their reaction in ME2 were that irrational. Kaidan is a very by the books soldier. Probably one of the most Paragon characters in the series. It makes sense he gets that upset regardless of whether he is your friend or love interest. Ash getting upset makes a lot more sense if she is romanced to me. It also shows that she doesn't instinctively side with humans like some think. I do wish in ME3 that they didn't keep distrusting Shepard even after he/she saved the galaxy twice, but at least they come to trust Shep again. To me, that is more interesting than characters like Liara/Garrus who have your back no matter what.

Jacob on the other hand is just a boring nice guy if not romanced. He has a commendable attitude and does positive things after escaping from TIM. If he's romanced, yeah his writing is lousy for the most part. I don't get why they didn't try to improve his writing or character. Instead, they just made him worse. And as much as I like Kaidan/Ash, I would never call them flawless. Outside of a few instances of poorly written dialogue, I prefer they are flawed.

This is why I consider BackOff a must-have mod. My Femshep totally called Kaidan out on his behavior on Horizon and he apologized. This is what we needed, Bioware!

Is that the one for ME3? I do get how frustrating Horizon can be. While it does make sense being upset about the whole revelation, some of how it was scripted makes Kaidan come off so weirdly that it looks like a hamhanded way to give players a convenient excuse to romance someone else. It just doesn't seem like Kaidan to put words in someone else's mouth.

obbie1984, opuspace

I've noticed you mentioned about the scene with A/K on Horizon. The way the scene currently takes place, I would have had a renegade interrupt to smack A/K upside the head for turning stupid when Cerberus is mentioned and not focusing on the fact that it was the collectors that just took colonists for whatever purpose. With Shepard, he/she sounded like a beat up punk who gave a pathetic explanation.

I've mentioned before how different the scene would have been had t'soni told the Alliance that Cerberus has Shepard's body. It would be up to them, if she didn't tell A/K, to tell A/K about that. How different would the scene be if Horizon happened after seeing T'soni? What would the reaction be from A/K if Shepard told them that T'soni helped in recovering his/her body and gave the body to Cerberus to bring Shepard back? What do you think would happen when they see the asari on Mars? Not sure what Alenko would do, but I believe Ashley would be in the asari's face.  Its too bad there isn't an option to tell A/K that T'soni played a role in his/her body being in the hands of Cerberus. 

I recall playing the broker dlc as Shepard who romanced Ashley. I recall that I had the asari on the Normandy. I believe she mentioned she heard about what happened on Horizon. I would be curious how she would know about that? Of course what's it to her what happened on Horizon. Its not her concern. I might be wrong about that since its been a long time since that happened, but if others had that happen, it would be another question that I would want Shepard to ask.

But all this goes back to one of my pet peeve's about Shepard. Not asking questions. I would be curious what answer the asari would give if asked if she told anyone that Cerberus has Shepard's body? Another one is if she's not romanced, she will say that Hackett gave her the dogtags. I find that hard to believe. Too bad there wasn't an option to ask Hackett about that when seeing him on the SR2 during the Arrival dlc, if the dlc is completed after completing the broker dlc.

Not only on Horizon, but also on Mars in ME3. It was very annoying to hear Ash or Kaidan crap on about Shepard's links to Cerberus. Even a verbal bitch slap would have sufficed lol.

It would not be hard to have a sequel to ME3 with Shepard returning. Some say they want their choices to matter. Ok. What if that person has completed multiple playthroughs making different choices? If the player chooses to cure the genophage in one playthrough while in another playthrough, he/she chooses to sabotage it. Bioware makes curing the way they want to go. Can that person say their choices don't matter even though he/she chose it in a playthrough? The same for the ending. I've read posts from folks who have chosen each ending, but prefer one over the others.

Well a Possible idea with that while having a reasonable Krogan population. If cured, Krogan species took a massive population hit due to the Reaper War where they are barely enough Krogan to restart the Krogan anyway. If Sabotaged, Krogan will mild mutation that that slightly increase their population but they have to be careful due to the casualties during the Reaper War.. Either way, Krogan as a whole would be much smaller due to the Reapers due to casualties. 

that would be a good idea, themikefest due to the grandfather aspect of the ME3 stargazer.

Well My If Genophage is Cure with Krogan, Reapers went out of their way to target Krogan with their Reaper Husk Death Squads with Modified Anti Krogan Reaper Husks and Weapons and reduce their population by 99% before the Reapers were stopped. I would make Reapers even more unrepentant in their brutality than shown in game. Even if shepard did save both Geth and Quarians. They were forced into hiding due to the Reapers were monitoring the situation and  reduce Quarian from a 17 million strong to 17,000 quarian and Geth barely a whisper in conspiracy theoriets circles by Wars end.

Well there are many possible way to respect the choices of players that is for another thread. 

I think Ashley/Kaidan were 100% right on Horizon. It's Shepard who's being forced to act out of character by the writers.

Huh.  Looks completely like a dude whenever I play.  Non-binary?

What Shepard should have said, at least on the Citadel when talking with Anderson, is to tell Anderson and the Alliance to stuff it. Since the Alliance made made no effort to confirm Shepard's death, not doing anything about the abductions, and then Anderson saying its up to Shepard to find a way to stop the reapers. Its very clear Anderson and the Alliance don't care. Shepard should be the one upset.

That's why I would have added an interrupt to smack A/K upside the head for turning stupid when Cerberus is mentioned instead of concentrating on the collectors. You know? The ones who are taking colonist. A/K needed to pull they're head out of their fifth-point-of-contact.