Everything Wrong With Mass Effect 3 Redux by GCN

KaiserShep I don't think cloud is aware of the thing they are referencing with that: The Man, the myth, the legend known as Leroy Jenkins!

Do you know how much I care?

Jenkins was a good guy. There was no reason for him to die. Before he's killed, Shepard has him move forward. Why isn't that seen in the rest of the trilogy? What could have happened is once Williams shows up, Jenkins heads back to a rendezvous point where the SR1 picks him up. When talking with Anderson, after waking up, Shepard learns that Jenkins will be reassigned to another unit while Williams is assigned to the SR1. In ME3, She3pard encounters Jenkins on the Citadel who has been assigned to security detail for the council. Instead of A/K being seriously injured on Mars, they stay on the SR2 for the whole game. During the Citadel coup, Shepard has a standoff with Jenkins. Do you know why this could not have happened? It's because of ME3. Remember? It's the best place to start playing a trilogy.

And what does change then?

You mean that you mostly reap the consequences of ME1&2's choices instead of some new choices'?

That'll work.

I believe the reason for the death is the same as some of the deaths in ME3, for the feels. The lead up to his death and others was lame.  Having the enemy kill squadmates/crewmembers doesn't have to happen. Seeing/hearing about the deaths of others at the hands of the enemy can hit home just as well. Look at Moreau's father and sister.

Speaking of horror, it was poorly executed because it just feel like a bland experience of seeing impaled people turning into husks. It doesn't feel like it was dark and horrifying like how evil Reapers can really be. They should learn from Origins to design a proper tone, because the darkspawn are beyond evil and they are the very concept of it. Because it corrupts everything it touches, and players can get to see how evil the Blight really is.

And they could learn how to use horrors of war from Spec Ops: The Line of the white phosphorus walkthrough.

Skimmed through the Tuchanka&Rannoch parts and saw no mention of the krogan&geth whitewashing. Not even the wrongest of ME3 is in this video, 0/10.

To be fair, I saw nothing wrong with how ME3 handled Shepard sabotaging the cure for the greater "good" of the war effort. The game makes you feel awful for it if you did it while Wrex is in charge. 


 

Sure, she's an idiot. But telling an idiot to "please stop being an idiot" isn't a strategy with a very high success rate. Shepard has to deal with her as she is.

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.