Unpopular opinions

I saw your post about that before - and liked it very much. Here's hoping they're reading these forums for more than the usual game feedback.

They might be looking at this forum. They might see my post and get a good laugh or nod in approval.They might take a part of it to use in a different way from what I posted. People can have good ideas, but its Bioware who will decide the story they want to tell and what they want to put in the game.

I also wanted to add another thing for unpopular opinion. Not sure if this qualifies:

Meer is overall very good, and I think in many instances is better than Hale. I think each excel at different things and both have noticeable weaknesses. Overall, I prefer Meer's acting to Hale's. Hale's deliveries are way too one note and similar to each other. Though I have a femshep I absolutely adore, I still prefer broshep a bit more.

Character deaths in ME3 to have the feels, but the lead up to their deaths were lame.

If Jack is not in ME3, Pressley is killed. The scene is exactly the same as if Jack was there except Bioware decided to kill the kid. No reason for it. It was done for the feels. He could survive. Shepard has two squadmates, right? Why couldn't they provide cover fire?

Mordin dying when curing the genophage. No reason for it. He finds out that there is a malfunction using the panel on the ground, but it can only be fixed at the top of the shroud. I do agree its sad he dies, but I also laughed. Why couldn't the panel on the ground fix the problem? Its was done for the feels

Thane. The whole scene was bad, very bad. He has his weapon against Leng's head. Why didn't he shoot? Then he decides to play chicken. When talking with him, in the hospital, he will say, that assassin should be embarrassed for letting a terminally ill drell stop him from reaching his target. I laughed when he said that. No thane. Had you shot him when you had the chance, most likely you would not be on your bed dying. For someone who is very good at what he does, he looked really pathetic.

Tali's death when choosing the geth. Remember in ME1? She threw a grenade at her attackers. What happened since that time? Now with the geth chosen, she stands there doing a whole lot of nothing. Why didn't she use her knife to stab the geth? Why didn't she push the thing off the cliff? She lets the geth upload the code then stand there crying like the little weasel she is watching her species die. I wanted my Shepard to laugh as she fell off the cliff. For me, it's one of the funniest moments in the game. The scene was done for the feels.

Andersons death. Was it necessary? TIM already proved his point being able to control Shepard and Anderson. Having Anderson shot was overkill. I would even go back as far as the beam run that setup that scene. As Shepard is getting to his/her feet, Harbinger is seen flying away. Over the comms, voices can be heard saying retreat, regroup. Why is that? The reaper is gone. They must have suffered temporary blindness. Only Shepard and Anderson make it up the beam. How  different would things have been on the Citadel if others went up the beam as well?

At that point it was the catalyst that was controlling TIM. I would guess the only reason Shepard was able to use to the power of the voice to have TIM shoot himself is because there was likely enough of TIM left that wasn't indoctrinated like how Shepard was able to have Saren shoot himself

Certainly unpopular for the majority of the BioWare writing team and current mainstream entrainment, if no one else, but I really didn't like the whole Geth 'pinocchio-bot' plot line, nor EDI's sexbot body when it came to depicting AIs in science fiction. It's also the same reason why I don't particularly care for HBO's Westworld (stopped watching after the first season) and why I have no desire to pick up Detroit: Become Human.

Namely the notion that AIs are, by their very nature, not human, and that by trying force them to become just like us in our fiction; either for some laughably juvenile allegory of racism/slavery, or to just have them as f***buddies; cheapens the concept behind them in the first place.


The Geth in ME 2 were an AI that stretched the audiences' comfort levels in how they could relate to them. It wasn't some painfully shoehorned in representation of 'not-racism' that defined what the Geth were and how they interacted with the rest of organic society. From the Morning War up until the modern day they viewed the galaxy completely different from most players' perceptions, their reasons for doing what they did originated from places wholly different from what we could find familiar. In other words: they were distinctly alien. Sure, they weren't so foreign to our sensibilities as to be impossible to understand, but there was enough thought and effort put into Legion and the Geth's characterization that they were set apart from any other squad mate or alien race Shepard came across. Turning around in ME 3 and throwing away all of that uniqueness and nuance in favor of little robots that just wanted to be 'real boys' (as if they weren't a legitimate form of life to begin with) was intellectually insulting, a dumbing down of the rich setting all in the name of 'the feelz'.

Likewise, EDI suffered a similar fate. Rather than try to explore the nature of human/AI relations insofar as it could be possible for sapient information beings, and creatures of flesh and blood, the writers opted to instead go with the lowbrow approach of giving the AI character robo-tits and a synthetic camel toe for the players to gawk at. Instead of EDI being defined as sapient based on her creation and actions during ME 2, she only "felt truly alive" once she expressed romantic desires, and adopted a form us humans would find appealing.


This kind of anthropomorphizing is not limited to just Mass Effect obviously, but it was really a letdown that a formally unique science fiction setting decided to conform with the rest of the mainstream creations than hold onto its individuality.

I disagree. I had no problem viewing them as a 'true' race back in ME 2, and the existing framework and background provided for them by writers like Chris Le'Toile was more than adequate for them to exist as a unique alien species alongside all the more human-like ones. If the Geth's 'one-off' nature was truly too off putting to the general playerbase than BioWare should have expanded the other unique aliens, like the Rachni, Elcor and Hanar, to help make the galaxy feel more varied rather than neuter one of the few 'alien' species of the setting so we could have more rubber fore-headed humans running around.  

Seems rather ironic that despite BioWare's continued imperative towards embracing the almighty "diversity" quota in their games they are apparently really quick to alter said games of elements because they are "too different".  

And after the suicide mission is completed, Shepard is able to ask how Legion got it. The other thing is his writer, Chris L'Etoile, said that someone with a higher paycheck thought it would be cool for the geth to have N7 armor.

Ashley/Kaidan should have been required for the Arrival DLC

Default ME3 FemShep should have gotten an actual face model

Mark Meer should have been the face model for default MShep, Sheploo looks like a standard Hollywood meat head

Part of me wishes they had just gone the action game route for all 3.. made Shepard a more fleshed out protagonist.. keep paragon, renegade but make it a choice at the start during cc.. and have Auto responses thereafter based on which side of the coin you chose.. so two definitive Shepard's.. white knight and rouge agent.. maybe you can choose the tone of which he speaks . Similar to Andromeda.. professional, snarky, idealistic, cynical etc Shepard as a character could of been a lot greater than what was presented.. too many choices... Too many variables leave us with a very blank protag.. no matter how much we head canon..