Things that don't make sense (v2)

If any and all necessary explanations, history, behind-the-scenes motivations and lore about the Andromeda Initiative, the Nexus, ARKs, and Hyperion, are all exclusively given only in the Nexus Uprising prequel novel, with the bare minimum of a passing mention or Codex entry being all we get in the actual game which most people will be starting with (and likely ignoring the novels), then I will be extremely disappointed.

If they can go to the effort of coming with an explanation, any history and lore about the AI and all the other stuff I mentioned above, then for goodness sake put it in the game, not just leave it for the novel writers to sort and map out.

Cause if we just jump straight into the action, and even later still have none of the above in the game, then it will be extremely difficult to really form a strong emotional attachment to anyone who is involved with AI, since we have no reason to fully believe or understand anything taking place in the new galaxy, cause they couldn't be bothered putting it in the game.

BioWare expecting us to be impressed by a character in the game, who has no development or real arc or backstory whatsoever in the game, but because it was in pages in some book or comic somewhere, is not going to fly. Case in point, the negative reception to both Liara in ME2, and Kai Leng in ME3.

Even Brooks in Citadel was forgettable.

They should learn from this mistake, and simply not do it again.

Seriously, they just need to stop with this and put all this necessary stuff in the games. The books should enlighten and enrich, not steal huge portions of the games necessary character development and lore, backstories etc. leaving the game bare and empty and us having very little emotional attachment to them, much to BioWare's disappointment probably. I don't know.

I think Saren is the only real example of a careful balance. He made enough of a lasting impression in ME1, and had a full character arc, and parts of his backstory were hinted at. The book enriched Saren and made us find out more about him, without making us feel afterwards that the Saren in the game needed these book elements. Liara needed the stuff from the comics in the game. I think Leng and Brooks were beyond saving to be honest because by that point a lot of people couldn't care less about Cerberus.