Unpopular opinions

To be honest, this anonymous pilot from Cerberus in ME2 was way better  . 

- Politics in Mass effect are handled in a childish way.

- I really liked the Batarians, as a race. Not good or bad, with their culture and their particularities, very well written with the concept and totally believable. My character loved to hate them. Disappointed with what Bioware did with them in M3.

- Ashley Williams was better in M1. They wasted her potential in M3, neglected. Better writting, better appearance too, that fits better a serious soldier. I also disliked the fact that she became Spectre, especially because of political bullshit. I'm not really a fan of the rule of cool. I can like it, to a point, as long as it doesn't detract too much from the relevance of the story and the quality of the writting. Realism was better to follow in my opinion. With a better grade for her, yes, but no need to become a spectre like Kaidan. It didn't fit her.

- Disliked the peace option between the Geth and the Quarian. It lost any interest to choose between the two if we could get both of them, for more power and points against the reapers. A bad design decision from the Devs in my opinion. I was glad to see Gaider agreeing with me.

- It is totally justified to to kill the Rachni Queen and I fail to understand the babycries about Genocide and being called a monster without sensitivity. I think that kind of thought over-emotional is way too video gamey for my taste and a bit irrational too actually. The Rachni were known as a devastating race, it could be potentially dangerous for the universe to release the Queen in a matter of weeks, and could become absolutely deadly for all the species in less than a year with all the children born from eggs if hostile if you are wrong about trusting her. Your decision lied on trust and it is your responsability. Neither decision is the good one. Bioware decided what would be the outcome in their own story, but that doesn't change the relevance of not trusting the Rachni Queen. Good and bad. Life is more complicated than that. It could have been something else, another situation. In real life, you'd fall on the same situation, you'd think twice before deciding to release such thing being easily able to erase your race or half of it.

- Miranda Lawson was a very well written character, despite the camera angles around her butt. I can go beyond that. She should have been on the normandy after her mission with her sister in M3.

- Unlike almost everyone, I very disliked the last DLC IN M3. It was lame, and incoherent with the mood of M3, which was all glood and doom. It's like everything happened in a bubble, almost unreal. Only liked the romance content. But then , I bet that everyone liked the DLC because of that. You just have to put some romance content in a DLC, and it seems it's enough for everyone to be happy no matter how lame a DLC can be with its story hardly serious.

I think that's actually quite a popular view. Lots of people actually really liked her character.

However, I really didn't like her whole character arc. It basically was:

"I'm perfect. Cerberus are great."
Then,"I'm perfect. Cerberus are great."

Then, "You're so awesome, Commander! I realise now that I'm not so perfect. By the way, Cerberus are still great."

Then, "I hate that human Guinea Pig with them tatoos! She thinks Cerberus is evil. It wasn't Cerberus' fault that Cerberus experimented on and tortured her, thereby turning her into a deranged and psychopathic mass murderer. Because Cerberus rules! How dare you not side with me, the person trying to justify literally the worst things any person can do to another."

And finally, all of a sudden, "I hate Cerberus. They were so evil. Trying to use a base that could literally be our only hope against the Reapers. I quit. Take that, Illusive Man!"

(I decided to skip out the Oriana part, because that's basically part of the transition of parts 1 and 2, and I was too busy shooting dudes from behind cover to care at that point.)

The Illusive Man should have been a boos fight in Mass effect 3

Garrus is likable, but a thinly-veiled "best frined" character. I don't find him to be as great as others here do.

I've never cared about Tali. Merrill from Dragon Age ][ was everything Tali tried to be done better.

Starting to see a pattern in some of my reddit replies these days.....

I always like the Krogan but in particular I always defended their right to live, and somehow this translate as me being offensive and racist to Asari and Salarian because I seem to value the Krogan lives over them.

...eh.... that means I'm not drunk enough to worship any fictional superior races as my overlords and I don't tolerate their BS. That's anti-imperialist, not racism. They use biological weapon to slowly kill off an entire species capacity to breed for over a thousand years to control that species as weapons of war, why should I endorse that because the one doing it is "superior species"?

Shepard should've had the option to throw Jack, Tali and Liara off the Normandy for instigating an argument with another squadmate

It remains on the ship. Most of my playthroughs I send the thing to Cerberus. The couple of times I encountered it and Tali, I wanted to throw her off the Normandy

LOL. You'll find that a rather common opinion. I'll top this: it was stupid and simplistic, most of the time, and informed by Mac Walters dislike of his strawman "politics".


Gaider said the option shouldn't be there because it thematically invalidates the Catalyst's assertion of an inevitable conflict between organics and synthetics. Were this a stand-along plot, there would be nothing wrong with the option to make peace.


I always say that sentimentality is a bad advisor. I usually save the queen, but I'm aware of the fact that it's a calculated risk others may not find justified.


She was reasonably well-written in ME2, but that her story focused on her sister again in ME3 rather than on more important aspects damages her as a character, and that we couldn't take her to Cronos Station severely damages her story.


I didn't like Citadel much either, for the same reasons. I think it was meant to exist on a sort of meta-level, with a large dose of breaking the fourth wall, a light-hearted goodbye to the characters rather than a real part of the story. Nothing wrong with that, but it felt out of place in a normal playthrough of ME3.

I don't want to punish their ancestors for any particular thing. Their ancestors only did what came natural to them. I resent the Salarians for enabling them in the first place. I'm just the janitor who has to clean up the mess now -- but that isn't going to happen by making an even bigger mess.

It doesn't help that the only viable way to cure it is to keep Maelon's data and use the products of torture (human torture at that). Even more deeply insulting is that this is the Paragon choice. It's one thing to put this in the game and simply be utilitarian, but another to present it as Heroic. I dare Patrick Weekes to go to a Holocaust museum and tell them that Mengele's research was a "heroic" thing. I'd pay to see that even.

Very well.

How about Krogan females? The entire gender was enslaved by the genophage for a thousand years because some aliens decide their entire race couldn't be trusted to reproduce. They're already outnumbered by the males 1:1000 and only 1% of their female population could carry viable birth. Not every girls and women wanted to have a child and yet they're a dying species so that was never an option and the only way for them to know they're fertile or not was to see if they could carry birth full term. Imagine finding out from the moment you can menstruate and then everyone pressure you to get pregnant because your womb could save the entire race. So.. what is your stance on teenage pregnancy?

Now, they're smart enough to develop a sterility plague and yet they didn't bother to fix the gender disparity? One female krogan could pacify an entire room of bloodthirsty males simply by yelling down at them. She could even rally an entire valley full of krogan clans to fight wars for the Turians and for humans to retake Earth. Where are the Salarian or the Asari in this?

Dalatrass Linron herself said this; "We uplifted the krogan to do one thing; wage war. It's all they know because its all we wanted them to know." She's not interested in having the Krogan as people. She see the species as nothing more than barbaric violent animals she could use to win wars with.

And like hell I would let Shepard get involved with that and Linron could send her own Spectres for that. Oh dang, another missed opportunity with Jondum Bau.

For all of your genophage debate needs:

bsn.boards.net/thread/713/curing-genophage-heartless-monster

Here's another unpopular opinion. I would have much rather seen Vega as a romance for FemShep than Thane.

Sorry, wrote the post and then went out doing groceries and post it before I read that.

Now to make up; here's an unpopular opinion;

I hate military romanticism and yet I still play it. *facepalm*