The Mass Effect ending support group

Maybe its the blessings of a shit rig,(now that I just got a new computer it will be interesting to see it in 4k) but after the patches I did not have the animation issues and even at launch I didn't get enough issues for their to be a problem. Though I value that stuff less than most I guess. The writing and characters are what made it a 5 for me. It was a fun shooter with biotics so I still enjoyed it enough, but for a rpg I want good characters.  For me, I did not get that. Apparently a small contingent actually like Ryder and more power to them.

Oh, I've plenty to say about ME1 and 2, yet you failed to ask, so that ones on you.

Hell, the opening of ME2 shouldn't have happened since on one can survive impacting onto a planets surface from orbit. You'd be charcoaled before you even hit the ground, and that's not accounting the impact on the ground itself.

I mean he did die I think. They did need some exposition about being lucky that his helmet shielded his brain enough, and the environment on planet X slowed degradation long enough for them to have a chance to save him. As is it just leans way too heavily on its called the Lazarus experiment, get it. You shouldn't ask your players to do the heavy lifting in explaining to themselves how its possible.

It makes sense if you had Shepard equipped with 2 Medical Exoskeleton Xs!  With a really good Alliance space armor, that medigel works wonders dontcha know! 

    

That is a flaw. It is contradictory logic that exists for no reason other then drama or to continue the plot/push the plot they want. These are literally the complaints leveled at Mass Effect 3.  And yet I don't see people going on endlessly about what a shitty writer Drew is simply because he left BioWare before the 3rd game came out. And the game he left on had a lot of problems.


This is basically the "I hate liara and I will spend an hour ranting about how shitty she is" situation just with a real person rather then pixels.  It has gone far beyond simple "I'm not a fan" set up and into long rambling rants about how everything Mac does is shitty and some how Drew shits gold bricks or at the least will never be openly criticized anywhere near the level of Mac.


In all my time across all forums, social media and what not the single most common thing to see is any issue with ME3 is completely and utterly Mac's fault. Any issue with ME1 or ME2 is just BioWare's fault or some how Mac and Mac only fault.

That's because his writing was shitty, between using a plot device, giving Cerberus an army out of nowhere and creating a big plot hole between ME2 and 3.

To me it reigns supreme as one of the worst story decisions in the game. Escalation of drama only to deflate minutes later was kind of the pattern going on here, and it only got worse with age. That they went this route instead of something simple and straightforward as a coma after floating in space boggles the mind. 

It’s hard to say. The thing I hate about Project Lazarus is that any modicum of consistency in the level of tech in the MEU kind of flew out the window now that “resources” can allow someone to simply cheat death even if they were obliterated, whereas TIM is basically given a cosmic idiot ball while he manhandles technology laced with space cooties. 

Shepard dying easily. TIM being indoctrinated can make sense, both because we don’t know when it started as well as him being independent fitting the lore of indoctrination, where if you want a subject to be more capable they don’t indoctrinate as completely.

There was a comic about it, I think.
If I remember correctly it featured Saren and his brother and it involved a Reaper artifact.