Prime example of lame RP choice (mild spoiler).

not entirely but then through debate and study I've decided this is not a terrible example either. Which just leaves one of the Liam scenes as the only one i am truly dubious of.

Why does it make no sense? My father uploads an "unshackled" AI in my brain and I have to go with it just because he is my father? If my father did it, no matter if his "life" was ruined because of creating it, I would throw him out a window, literaly speaking.

What we know is... the Ryder siblings have the SAM implants in their heads, so they actualy did agree to this to some degree. But noone ever told them they will ahve SAM uploaded, which can pretty much control their bodies. Even when SAM reassures me all the time he won't harm me, I do not have to just agree with it and should be allowed to have objections about this matter.

But rather then giving us a choice how we react to this, we are given 2 options that are basicaly the same. This is actualy one of the reasons why MEA is not, and never will be, as great as ME1-3, the lack or real choices. Shepard was mine, the background aside, I shaped the character as I saw fit, remove the name and it was just one character, it could be anyone, it was my character, this is what roleplaying is about. MEA... I play Ryder and this char is done, no matter what I do, everything is made in context of the Ryder character. You know, even if I run my Ryder 90% of the game logical and professional, one would think, the char is more serious then and a casual answer, or even emotional, which are sometimes more appropriate for a situation, would be based more on logic/professionalism but no, 90% logical/profesional and when I pick casual, it is the same old sarcasm and weird approach like before. (And yes I am aware of the fact how many variables this would mean and how many dialogues the voice actors would have to record to fit all the possible variations, but well, that comes with this 4-side options, rather then the simple good-neutra-bad approach from previous games.) Whatever, I want my Ryder to be professional, I have to pick professional everytime, even when it does not fit the situation and the line is actualy quite awkward. And nevertheless, at the end, it is still Ryder and not "my playcharacter". This whole thing feels like I am an observer and not the protagonist.

Well, you can't cover each and every possible choice. SAM was too important for the game to let a conflict between SAM and Ryder become an issue. Still it may be something to think about in future issues.

Basically everyone has to be aboard Walters synthesis train. Doesnt matter if a lot of us hate it.

Always find it quite peculiar what people choose to complain about.

Joining a terrorist organisation of space racists, where you're constantly accompanied by an AI, without as much as even a beep? After you've been risen from possibly the deadest state a human being can be in, aside from just desintegrating?

Best game ever.

Not complaining about an AI in your head in a game where the AI makes the entire setting possible?

Worst game ever.

Whatever.

Kek, people didn't complain about working with Cerberus? Tell me more about it.

Cora has an implant. It was ready. Alec decided to transfer the Pathfinder title and job to Ryder instead of Cora. Maybe he did that because he wanted to keep it in the family, or maybe he thought his kid would do better than Cora because (at least I did this) on Habitat 7 Ryder explored and learned things and 'Pathfound' (I'm kicking myself for using that). Maybe transferring SAM to Ryder is what allowed Ryder to survive after their helmet broke, and Alec knew that SAM would be able to help save them. The point is, Cora has the implant, and even she expected that it would have been transferred to her before anyone else. It's a point that she's sore about through most of the game, even though she says she's 'fine'.

I do agree the SAM is too central to everything and that it was as much as the main character as Ryder was, if not more. Though considering how much better AI are at doing complex tasks than we mere biological creatures are, it makes sense that it can translate and interface with things better than we can. (That is also ignoring that alien tech and MW tech should not have been able to interact that easily. But hey, it's a game, I give that bit a pass, like I did with the Mass Relays, FTL travel, and the Universal Translators that work so flawlessly and quickly that conversations can happen in real time.) SAM does basically make Peebee useless as an expert, I totally agree with that.

She has? Hm, missed that, twice. Reading through the codex, no info about that.

While I agree with you on "Ai better at doing complex tasks", it is still a very very very bad approach. If you have one thing solve everything, it is called Deus Ex Machina and that is, frankly, the worst plot device ever. It do work on some occasions, like in thise greek mythology dramas that "invented" Deus Ex Machina, because they are all about the journey and not the conclusion. But MEA is all about the journey (it actualy did work in ME3, because ME was about Shepards journey and not about how to solve the Reaper problem... the problem with ME3 is actualy that disappointment, when BioWare fed us all the time how important all the decisions are for the ending/conclusion... and in the end, yes they all carried over to some degree, but the ending was all about the last decision that had no ties to anything we did before).

I can just hope they (finaly) learn from this and upcoming DLCs/new games will not suffer in the same way.

I agree that there should have been better choices on how to react but I definitely don't want to get rid of SAM. Seems like a bit of an escalation there. I actually like SAM quite a bit.

I do hope that's not directed at me.