ME3 Flaws

1) The squad. Reduced in size for no good reason, no obligatory Krogan, none of the awesome characters from ME 2 back on the team. Yeah, yeah, Tali and Garrrus, but its not like they were the only characters we got attached to. Plus I'm forced to have EDI, one of the most ridiculous characters I've ever seen in a game. And then there's Liara, the stalker I can't get a restraining order against...

2) Kai Leng. He's a terrible villain, but more than the character himself I hate the way everyone else is made to be so stupid so he can "succeed." My Shepard turns into a moron every time Leng shows up. Thane goes so completely braindead that I now make sure to kill him in ME 2 every time just to spare him the indignity.

These are the things that I dislike the most about ME 3, even beyond the endings or autodialogue. They certainly haven't kept me from doing more playthroughs than I can count, though.

Its funny that after the shields are disabled, Sovereign still wasn't taking any damage. The only time is when the itsy-bitsy SR1, with 2 fighters, 1 one each side, become the most powerful ships in the galaxy fire at the reaper destroying it.
That whole thing was a joke. First time it get fires at, it falls over. It appears to be destroyed. But its not. Shepard says they hit the firing chamber on the reaper. That is wrong. The rounds from the fleet hit the reaper just before it opened its doors to use its beam of doom. So all the fleets had to do was just fire on the thing.

It gets back up. Shepard paints the target. It gets hit. It doesn't fall over like the first time. Why? That happens a couple more times before Shepard can get on his/her tippy-toes to kiss the thing before it falls over destroyed. Why didn't the thing fire horizontally at Shepard instead of vertically? Whatever.
That whole thing was setup for Shepard and Anderson to have the touchy-feely scene

It would be interesting to see what Shepard would do if the reapers were to shut off the beam as he/she is running towards it.

Another thing is if Levaithan had been part of the main game, Shepard could put a couple of the orbs on the ground. Leviathan will do their thing. Harbinger's eye's flicker for a moment before falling over letting Shepard get to the beam without being injured
It would be hard to do since all ships were engaged with the reapers above Earth, but still it could've been used against the destroyer instead of the thannix missiles.

I did not question the involvement of the Thorian in the first place and neither Sovereign nor the Reapers in ME3. I didn't question the fact that a bunch of Turian fighters joined me on Tuchanka either. Why? It was well established and well foreshadowed. The Shroud and the Thresher Maw however wasn't and neither was the reveal that "oh look at how beautiful the Krogans used to be" but the latter part I bought because it had that cave-segment with ancient writings on the wall and the intro cutscene with music that suggested there was something of high esteem among the Krogan people, almost religious as well as their clan-structure supporting that idea. But the Shroud and Kalros are just mentioned like it's nothing and with no previous hints before they become important turning points for the resolution of the subplot. That is something I wasn't satisfied with.

Notice how on Feros in ME1 the entire time the Thorian has been the creature ExoGeni has been studying and you already see people acting strange when you arrive here and there and unusual developments keep happening until you reach the end part of the mission where you have to find the Thorian and stop it. That worked. That's the crux of the problem and that's an issue that kept repeating itslef in ME3 how there were sudden but very important developments. On Rannoch things were better becuase Tali's and Legion's loyalty missions in ME2 support the lore about the two species and their ways and Legion's mission in ME2 shows us that Geth can be upgraded, so most of it comes naturally to me, even the little stretch of a mission where you shut down a server in a VR version of the Geth Consensus. I love Tuchanka for the dramaturgy. It plays like a nice 3-act structure but the way the plot-logic is created took me out of it and made me realize part of it was being made up on the fly by the writers and it didn't help how they emphasized the "cool" in the Thresher Maw vs Reaper fight. It felt like it was dumbed down.

I know that my logic also means i should hate the Derelict Reaper mission in ME2 or the some of the encounters with the collector ship but I didn't because I quickly found ways in my head that made it seem believable to me. For Tuchanka the plot that was revealed was very simple to understand and not ambiguous in how it came up so there was only the facts left and I didn't like it because of that because two of the important pieces in that plot came out of nowhere.

ME1 has a problem with breaking pre-established lore?

You know I can't help but enjoy the irony of a forum mod who has temp banned me from the forums for less doing the very thing he has banned me for.  Contradiction is glaring and frankly amusing.

But beyond that is kind of highlights the hypocrisy when players complain about ME 3 yet give it a pass in other games.

Oh what is this the Crucible magically manifests from a Prothean ruin and it can help stop the Reapers. Well guess what that master control program that some how can stop a Reaper from accessing a Reaper created system magically manifests from a Prothean ruin so it can stop the Reapers.  Oh what is this the Reapers are god like beings who are near infinitely more advanced and powerful then all the races in the galaxy put together. Yet magically a glorified husk manages to take one down allowing to to be destroyed when normally it wouldn't be destroyed.

Oh look the Collectors are capturing human colonies to do something. What is it? Oh that is right they are building a Reaper. One that based on the over all size of a Capital one and the tiny size of the existing one. Meaning they would have to if they intended to finish it attack territories in the Alliance or other Council member space. Which would only weaponize the entire galaxy against them. And a single upgraded large Frigate was able to take down one of their ships.  Holy hell if they ever attempted to take on an entire fleet with dozens of frigates, carriers and a few dreadnoughts.  And sweet mercy if the Turians, Asari and Salarians agree to lend the Alliance a Fleet to assist.

People complain about the Catalyst's logic yet the Catalyst is Steven Hawking compared to the Collectors and by extension Harbinger. No wonder he was put in a corner and told not to come out. Even Sovereign's plan which is sketchy at best as to how it implemented it is miles better then Harbinger's with the Collectors.

Apologies for the delay:

Over the years, I've come around to the idea that people who always thought that ME was pretty stupid are the most likely to like ME.

Speaking of which, has anybody seen Il Divo lately? Or Dean?

Your right one is something that was studied for a while then had more money put into the Ruin in which case they discovered a secret chamber that held the Crucible data. Because secret chamber to hide important information if the Reapers happen to look up the base is a completely idiotic idea isn't it? It isn't like hidden secret chambers of old building, castles, etc have been discovered decades to hundreds of years later after renewed interest in it.  Which happens to coincide with Hackett's believing of Shepard about the Reapers and that the Protheans would be the best source to find any data about it to help the Alliance.

But yes lets go with the how stupid it is that a Prothean ruin would contain an undiscovered area and contain the details to the Crucible.  Your telling me that the Prothean scientists on Ilos managed to study the programing and inter working functions of the Citadel to create a program that could over ride not only organic interface but Reaper access and able to circumvent the interaction of a several million year old hyper advance AI that is able to think, react and interface with the Citadel in a way any Organic life short of maybe Keepers could.  All from the safety of Ilos.  And that after 49,000 years the VI system and power source is still functioning even though it couldn't support the Protheans in Stasis for more then a couple hundred years.

Same stupidity different form. Yet players won't stop about about ME 3 yet ME 1 some reason gets a pass or a reduced sentence even though both make about the same sense. At least in ME 3 they make the effort to try and make it all make sense. In ME 1 the VI contradicts it self a couple of times in a 5 minute speech.

Fun fact ground foot solider isn't needed to take on a kilometer long mecha god. There is absolutely no need for Sovereign to have gotten within 2 light years of the Citadel let alone dock with it for a full 15-20 minutes before Shepard even lands on it to some how disrupt it's interface with it. Nor for Collectors to be collecting humans specifically to create a Reaper while the Reapers sit back in Dark space for some unknown reason only starting to move after the Collector base is wiped out.

ME 1 doesn't follow any logic within the game. ME 2 doesn't follow any logic within the game. ME 3 actually follows logic in the game because it is directly stated the Reapers can not be beaten by conventional means. So how they are beaten is a non conventional mean.

Underlined: source?

It matters little anyway, because if the Crucible is supposed to be this superweapon meant to stop the Reapers and the beacons spread out just about everywhere in the galaxy are meant to warn us of the Reapers... well you see where I'm going with this. In the refuse ending we see Liara's capsule specifically talk about the Crucible. Did she just outsmart the entire Prothean race? Or was the Crucible an asspull from the start? I know what the right answer is.

A datapad discovered during Priority:Mars.