Everything Wrong With Mass Effect 3 Redux by GCN

Really, the only reason sabotaging the cure would benefit in the story is because there’s still sufficient krogan support regardless of your decision, or even who’s clan leader. Some krogan support dissolves, but it would’ve made more sense if the krogan pulled out completely and told the turians to drop dead, thereby leaving everyone else high and dry. If that happened, any support the salarians might offer would no longer be relevant. The war effort would simply collapse, and we’d get a mission critical failure because Wrex found out. The mistake I feel the game made was having Wrex somehow having access to your “secure” comms link to the Dalatrass, likely a traitor in the midst of the STG feeding info to them beyond Mordin/Padok. In any case, I think it could be argued that there’s a case for sabotaging the cure being the greater risk, and that the salarians would be stupid and short-sighted to stay out just because they don’t agree with the genophage cure, just like the asari were stupid to stay out of the summit.

In the broader scheme of things, the genophage cure is really small potatoes. Even Shepard said it best when they say that the consequences “are nothing compared to if the reapers win”. If I had to choose between guaranteed extinction now and the possibility of a protracted war sometime in an undetermined future, I think the latter would be the sensible option. Heck, post-war, what kind of resources do the krogan even have at their disposal that would make them even remotely a threat for even a generation? If, say, Wreav decided to take this newfound revitalization of his species as a call to arms to fight the rest of the galaxy, what’s he gonna do it with? They can’t just march on every planet.  They don’t even have their own ships, and it’s a fair bet that turian and salarian observatory outposts would monitor their progress and respond accordingly. The effects of their being demilitarized would hamstring their efforts to expand and invade other worlds, and their ability to storm other planets with sheer numbers mean nothing if they get blown out of the sky before they can make it anywhere. 

Ah yes the genophage. For me, I sabotage it, but if Bioware were to make ME4 with it cured, I wouldn't complain since I have completed a playthrough with it cured.

You are correct, but you cannot treat every situation like Tomorrow will never exist, kicking the can down the road for Future Milky Way to deal with. The post Reaper dark age gives the Krogan living on Tuchanka plenty of time to rebuild, and given that all the relays are gone, no one is in any position to stop them from possibly building WMDs or whatever else they might want to do to get revenge on a galaxy that screwed them over. 


Don't get me wrong, i trust Wrex. But Wrex is very old, and the other Krogan do not seem to share his vision, only following because he is the strongest.

Your right it is, but none of us can predict the future. Do you really think a post-Reaper war galaxy will be in any shape to stop a resurgent Krogan race, who may end up looking for revenge for generations of injustice? That is an awfully big chance to take, when the only reason people typically agree to cure it is because "Wrex is my bro it's cool, and Mordin believed it was cool so it's fine!"

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. I suspect you'll love TLOU Part 2, since it's all about merciless revenge with no second chances. 

Your right it is, but none of us can predict the future. Do you really think a post-Reaper war galaxy will be in any shape to stop a resurgent Krogan race, who may end up looking for revenge for generations of injustice? That is an awfully big chance to take, when the only reason people typically agree to cure it is because "Wrex is my bro it's cool, and Mordin believed it was cool so it's fine!"

Even Walters doesn't exactly believe in sunshine, bunnies and flowers (4:13)

I've watched this video twice now, and at no point does he actually answer any of the questions.  He dances around the questions, going off on tangents, pretends to answer questions with more questions....But all his words go nowhere.  Don't get me wrong, I love Mass Effect, it's the best game series I've ever played--the characters are some of the best written characters I've come across in any form of media...But there's something *off* when the creator/Lead Writer...the person responsible for creating a franchise to begin with can't or won't answer straight-forward questions to which he, being the creator of everything that is (Mass Effect in this case), should know the answers to. 

Say what you will about George Lucas, but at least he could speak with an informed knowledge about the world he created (speaking of the OT/PT). I remember the three-part interview on the 1995 THX Boxset VHS that Lucas did with Leonard Maltin about about creation and marketing of the STAR WARS Trilogy.  It was a very good interview, I thought. Interviewers such as Leonard Maltin would ask him a question, a thoughtful, direct question, and Lucas would give an informed, intelligible answer that made sense according to the canon/mythology as he wrote it at that time.


Mac Walters didn't do anything even remotely like that. 

 Apparently he does, on Virmire. For some reason he believes his shotgun will get him what he wants. Sure he might be able to kill Shepard, but the other squadmates and the salarians will gun him down. So much for helping his species. He's just another stupid krogan.

Yes how dare someone who cares about his race get upset and gain an itchy trigger finger when he learns that a possible cure to his species wide sterility plague might exist.  And now he is faced with the catch 22 instance of stop Saren and lose the potential cure or don't stop Saren and let his plan come to pass which causes the krogan to lose anyways.  Wrex's reaction is the most realistic out of everyone there. Everyone else seems to have the reaction of "Oh well guess we now have to assault thigh highly fortified building filled to the brim with Geth and Krogan with nothing more then 6 Salarians as support"

6 Salarians and a Human that some how manages to pose enough of a threat to get the undivided attention of an entire base.  In any sane or even vaugly realistic universe it would get maybe a couple dozen people if not simply calling in an air strike on their location from a few Geth ships.  If not just some artillery strikes from the base depending on if they had any artillery to defend the base.