Melee weapons

So you think you would more likely survive a lightsaber ( type weapon ) slash as opposed to a few rounds from a blaster? 

 
Obsolete not really... I concede they are surpassed though in many ways, but at least 2.

1) Silent approach.
If you have to kill without giving away your position, blades should still be better. Silencers do their job, but even then, you need to be pretty far from the target to remain unnoticed. A knife when used right (I mean in a pragmatic way, not as an elegant weapon for a more civilized age) is a lot less… messy. Theoretically, ofc.

2) CQC
Offering less catchable surface, blades are still slightly superior in very close encounters. People normally don’t try to grab a blade. But they can do it with a pistol, and break your fingers if they overpower the grip you have on your pistol, especially the index. Also, in CQC a pistol can be disarmed if you have agile fingers. Last, being lighter, the hand that use a blade tend to reach the target faster than a pistol toting one.

And finally, are we really debating the plausibility of melee combat in a universe where we have biotic powers? Why not grenades spam at this point, bypassing shields and barriers?
On this matter, I really don’t think we should pose any limitation: let everyone have his/her favourite poison.
Personally? I would love to see biotic bare handed combat: if I can lift 9 tons, I should be more than able to crush necks with my force choke.

I should probably clarify. 

I'm not against *all* melee weapons. I'd be fine with Sci Fi bayonets attached to assault rifles, or characters using an ability-based melee attack if an enemy was in their face. I'm just not a fan of characters having melee weapons as their sole or primary weapon, like Kai Leng and the Phantoms using swords, or Liam running around with a knife in each hand. Melee weapons are obsolete in that respect, and have been since at least the 19th Century. Modern firearms have rendered them so.

I do realize however that melee weapons are a part of the setting, and have been since Mass Effect 3. I also realize they're not going away, so I've accepted it. I'm just never going to like it.

You didn't even have a knife or anything?

Eh, fair enough you've convinced me.  

Are there melee combos where we can press the melee button multiple times to attack or is it just a one time attack with the same animation each time??

Would be nice if it acted as a legit melee item

i absolutely love melee weapons and will definitely be spending a lot of time with them in multiplayer...unless they're not in multiplayer then i'll be really sad

I hope we have turian nightshade blades that poison. At least in the MP. Loved that weapon as a turian cabal.

Ahh Bruce Lee's favorite saying..

An Omni-Bayonet you can activate at will would fix most of those issues, I guess?

Nothing beats the Pathfinder life, stabbing folk with my Pathfinder knife. I cannot wait to cut fools in the field.

lol it's a reference to this: