Things that don't make sense (v2)

I believe that more than the lame excuse she gives Shepard. Yeah. That alien has some serious head problems.
Just another reason to not have her on the ship in ME3. She can't be trusted

Batarian space is close to the Sol System and naturally they fought with humans. That Council kicked them out for that, but also because of their use of slavery. They were apart of the Council before humans showed up. In ME3, you run into Balak again (if you left him alive) because he was using codes from when batarians were still a Council race. Um, so slavery was just fine before the humans showed up, but fight with them and slaves are suddenly bad? Makes no sense.

For that matter, other than hating humans, what was so bad about them? Okay, slavery sure, but again, the Council seemed to be fine with that prior to humans coming onto the scene. "We were a proud race, a beautiful race." The only glimpse I got of that at all was in ME3, when delivering a religious book to a batarian preacher. Otherwise, they took a race that didn't like humans and turned them into bad guys.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this, but how did Liara become a successful information broker in the first place? Screw the Shadow Broker, she was doing well on Ilium before that. I think Miranda described it as "Omega with better shoes." That kind of environment struck me as a hard to get a foothold into. Just building contacts like the ones Liara supposed had on Ilium would take years, if not decades. In any case, it would take a hell of a lot longer than two years. Yet now she has a secretary, threatens to flay people with her mind without reprecussion, (a line that sounded stupid when her mom said it and sounds worse from Liara,) and has a lot of "contacts."

Seriously?

I've mentioned in other threads that I find Liara a decent character and most of my Shep's see her as a little sister. Her character development is rushed, and uneven though.  She gains too much personal and professional power too quickly to make a lick of sense.  Even in a series with a mindcontrolling plant.

And then she has her own DLC, the second old squadmate that Shep meets in ME3,  and her own comics. The bug were she's getting Shepard at the beginning of ME2 instead of the LI. I completely understand the hate if someone didn't like her to begin with. <hugs mike>

I like her personality changes, but just her being an information broker on Ilium breaks some of my suspension of disbelief.

I say this as a fan, but Liara is the obsessive type in general. Think about it.

First it was everything Prothean. It was to the point where she didn't have any friends of her own. Focused on nothing but them. She rarely shut up about it in the first game.

Then it was Shepard. Which tied into her previous obession with all things Prothean. Then it was the Shadow Broker and Feron. She was too obessed with that to even try to focus on the Reapers. Well, aside from considering Shepard to be the Ultimate Answer.

When that was done, she was back to actually trying to do something about the Reapers. And setting up recordings where she calls Shepard "best of the best, without peer, ect ect." People with addictive tendencies always find something to grab onto.

For that matter, how the hell did Hackett know that Liara was the Shadow Broker? The whole point should be secrecy. Did he just ask? Not many people supposedly knew. Liara mentions on Mars that Hackett asked for her help and her resources. It left me puzzled and a little irritated.

If he didn't know and thought she was just an information broker, then why ask her?  She's barely past being a teenageer by her lifespan. Maybe picking a Prothean expert that wasn't just out of her teens would have been a good idea? Just because Liara served with Shepard doesn't make her the only person that Hackett could have contacted.


Why would a Super Ninja bother sending Shepard a troll e-mail? No wonder he fails without Plot Armor. He's too busy doing stupid shit like that versus his actual job of weakening the Alliance and those trying to kill racial leaders.

I thought it does.  Kai's little note says that it comes from the Asari military on the account list. He then thanks Shepard opening the message.  The rest is a very bratty letter.

When running to the beam, soldiers are seen being vaporized instantly by Harbinger from a direct shot, but if ems is low enough, both squadmates will be vaporized, but Harbinger fires behind them moving his beam of doom towards them instead of a direct shot at them.

This is on a meta-level, but the Stargazer scene. That kid beside him looks and sounds young, like maybe 7-9 years old. So good ol' grandpa decided to tell Shepard's story to a child. Every time I get to that scene all I can think of is, "Grandpa, tell more about Shepard's sex life. Tell me more about people getting shoved onto spikes and turning into zombies."

I have a ton of respect for the BW devs, but that scene makes me laugh.

Doesn't that conversation happen even with a Refuse ending, only with a woman talking to a young child? I figure that low EMS Destroy endings probably wouldn't have that little gem. You'd certainly know better than I would.

If you take into account that the Stargazer scene happened before the story DLC came out, then he told the kid about Leviathan and about Citadel.

Huh. The ME series reads like a modern version of old school sci-fi pulp comics. That isn't a bad thing for me; I wouldn't have bought the entire series plus most of the DLC if I disliked that. Just never thought of it before. <shrug>

To keep this on topic: There is a salarian on Omega named Ish. He sends the player off to Ilium and the Citadel to get some datapads. If you take Jacob when you pick up the quest, you'll find out that Jacob and Ish worked together sometime in the past. And Jacob does not like it one bit. I forgot to take him with me when I had Shep tell Ish that blackmailing Aria is suicidal.

On Thessia, the only way to activate the beacon was the cipher that Shepard got from Shiala who got it from the Thorian. The Thorian watched and studied the protheans. When they died, it consumed them. They became a part of it. So it was just a fluke that Saren and then Shepard got the cipher? Had that Thorian never been found, the reapers would've succeeded, might be wrong about that, with Sovereign opening the Citadel relay.

What I find odd is that when Javik is taken on Thessia, he will say to Liara, "Your species was deemed to have potential. A pity you didn't live up to it". Since the protheans were helping the asari, why didn't they give the cipher, if that was possible, to the asari who pass that to other asari to pass down to other asari and so on. If they did  that or were able to, the asari would've been able to unlock the beacon letting Vendetta tell them all about the reapers, crucible and catalyst long before Shepard showed up. And a good chance that the reapers be destroyed a long time ago.

Now I might be wrong about the second part, but the first part does seem like dumb luck that Shepard was able to get the cipher. I don't know.

I bet they make their "dad" an N7, as some kind of emotional connection.

Which is still stupid.

That whole game seems conjured by EA marketing to me. They asked long ago in a survey "What does N7 mean to you?" It was some lame attempt at salvaging the brand. This is the sum of their efforts.

But as far as I'm concerned, they lost that chance by writing Mass Effect as a trilogy originally. It wasn't a franchise. It was a trilogy. There's a difference. And when Hudson torched it, there isn't much to say anymore. I would have liked a franchise and more longevity to the setting, personally, but I don't like the way they're going about it now.

My suspicion is that the beacon was meant to only give the asari information in dribs and drabs.  You know, to avoid the whole "uplifting the krogan" thing and keep them from nuking themselves back into the stone age.

What doesn't make sense is the beacon deliberately withholding information on the Reapers and the Crucible until the Reapers are knocking on the front door, then it just goes "Oops, too late!" 

All species work in their own self-interest. Asari are not any different than anyone. The beacon intended to uplift them enough so the galaxy would be prepared for incoming invasion and instead the Asari use it to further their own dominance over the galaxy. However, I don't think the Asari Matriarchs knew Vendetta exist and they seem to treat the beacon like they're studying artifacts, extracting usable technology to advance their species.

Again, there's another person who have the cipher, Shiala. Why isn't she around?

Why isn't Shepard given the option to bring her before the council to tell them what she told Shepard?