What are your too ***SPICY*** to handle hot takes of the trilogy?

She is the most popular love interest after Liara, and who doesn't want more Yvonne Strahovski. Initially she was suppose to play a larger role as a squad mate, but Yvonne had limited availability due to her role with the Chuck tv series.

It matter what role she's playing. As Miranda, sure the more the better. As Hannah McKay in Dexter, No absolutely not.

I don’t. Didn’t like Miranda in ME2, so glad she wasn’t a companion in ME3.

Wished she had taken Liara's spot on the team mate roster....

First time I hear about it. All I know is that Bioware planned to put her in, but just didn't have the time to add her as a full squadmate. They cut a lot of people out for ME3. Jack was also going to be squadmate, but they cut her to fit enough time for Tali and she is only in there for 25% of the game.

I know about Jack and Miranda. I don't know about anyone else. It's pretty obvious that Jacob and Thane were after thoughts. And it's great how survivability rates put Jacob at the top of the pile, but Tali, who is much more likely to die, is in the game as a full squadmate. Which makes it clear that survivability/"quantum state" had nothing to do with whether a character from ME2 would be a full squadmate in ME3. If that were true, the two characters to make it over, would have been Jacob and Miranda, not Garrus and Tali.

They were going to put Miranda in. There is even a mod that restores some of her content and puts her on the Normandy that as a full squad member.


The way they went about Thane in ME2, I was certain that one of the arks we'd be going with him in ME3, would be finding a cure for him. I expected Sarah, Ashley's sister, to get involved, especially if Ashley died on Virmire, I knew EDI would get a robot body and get involved with Joker, because it was so goddamn obvious, Samara fixing her relationship with her daughters, without any more of them dying and I expected to get an arc for Jack and Miri where they would overcome their differences and become friends. Things that we never got, but I'd thought were the natural progression of the character arcs of ME2 we came across. So of course we only got the sex bot arc, instead of all these.


I don't know. Perhaps? Seeing as how the only other possible male LIs for femshep can both be dead.

Amazing.   I'm with you on all those points.

Garrus is cool and all, but I never found myself wanting to take him much on missions. He would usually just state the obvious about things/situations. I felt like I needed to take him on missions though because the game and fans made me feel like I had to, "He's your bro, bro!"

Mordin was incredibly helpful and convenient, but I rarely ever took him on missions. He fit the role of the ship's scientist and I was happy to leave it at that. His death was a little sad, but hardly caused distress. If he had to die, I would've preferred him dying on Earth taking a shot for Shepard or something because Earth felt too safe/easy since no one dies. 

Legion is a computer. I don't care about its input and I never understood why fans love him so much. EDI is at least interesting and has something that amounts to personality. I still didn't take her on missions- she was better left taking care of the Normandy. Her squadmate status should've been given back to Miranda. 

Indeed. There are many types of ME fans, but Hale's fans are the ugliest and worst I've seen. They will literally shame you for even thinking about playing broShep, and will especially launch a personal vendetta against you if you mention you played Sheploo even once. So bizarre and they nearly ruined the series for me back in 2012. FemShep never bothered me, but now whenever I see femShep being used in ads, I get a bad taste in my mouth knowing she is there just to appease Hale's tiny, but rabid fanbase. 

FemShep players are like vegetarians and stick shift drivers. Nobody cares you do those things, but they always have to announce it and associate their identity with it. So dumb.

I went full carnivore for 6 months, switched to keto for a year, then to carbo-specific for another year. Most productive time of my life.

Now I'm enjoying ice creams, but on a normal weight.

Here in Brazil most cars are stick shift, so to drive an automatic car you need to have a little dough. But this is changing rapidly, thank goodness.

Most people shouldn't drive anyway, per ability or temperament. Here in my neck of the woods it's a leading cause of death, killing 30,000 people in 2019.

Ah.

I forget most of the world is still stick even in 2021. In my part of the USA, stick isn't as common so those who do drive stick like to brag about it as if they're keeping some lost art alive. Even when I've traveled abroad to Israel, Mexico or Australia, my rental cars have been automatic. Honestly, the few times I've been in a stick car, I'm terrified how it always stops for a hot sec in the intersections as you switch gears before continuing on with some wheezes. Hills are even more terrifying lmao.