A critique on MEA's problems that are NOT about the animations.

Well yeah the part where she take her mother's identity is kinda forced because many companion would be highly unconfortable with a serial killer onboard, there is no way they would have accepted her as morinth especially since she loves special minds to devour and they would have check themselves constantly.

Besides, Taylor is just bland, nothing he says in his conversation is memorable. I replayed Mass effect 2 fifteen times and I have more memories of Diana allers interview than I had the conversation of jacob, allers is still the worst character due to her voice acting and well, the fact that she replace the well written emily wrong. But jacob is so bland that I barely remember anything from it, I don't hate him, he is just so forgetable, even anders that I hated from DA 2 I remember something of him, Jacob did not leave anything to the table.

Fine for me but not for thee, huh?

I never said you CAN'T compare characters from the trilogy to MEA, but for goodness sake do it fairly.  The only fair comparison, if you'd read my other post, is between ME1 and MEA.  You can't compare ME2 to MEA..  Well I suppose that you COULD but like I said in my other post, the entirety of the game of Mass Effect 2 is about building the massive roster of characters and developing them.  No other ME game is like it.  The actual "story" of ME2 is very minimal.  It's ALL about the characters.  ME1, ME3 and MEA have character development that is balanced in the midst of the games broad story and other things going on.  The characters are a huge component but not the entire game's focus like ME2.

I also never said you can't have an opinion so your over the top aggression isn't necessary.  You can hate the game all you want, but isn't it fair to have a balancing act in posting?  Or are the people who hate the game the only ones allowed to express their opinions?

Also, I never said anyone doesn't know why they like the original games.  In fact, I said I was a big fan myself.  I like the characters in ME1.  I liked the whole squad, including Kaiden who I left to die on Virmire.  What I SAID was that objectively speaking, more time is spent in MEA building and developing layered characters with the most content available amongst all the other things going on.  The characters in MEA are a big focus for depth and content, including "loyalty" missions, follow up missions, chatting on ports of worlds AND Citadel-esque Movie Night (which I haven't played yet, but know exists).  That all didn't exist in ME1 yet because it wasn't a huge focus of Bioware.

I'm saying if you are comparing MEA to the original trilogy, it's ridiculous to compare MEA to the entire trilogy as a whole.  Of course MEA is going to come out behind.  It's not three games worth of emotional investment and hours spent. 

However, go about your life.  If that's how you respond again, I won't reply to you because your anger is completely unjustified.  If you feel like responding again, just be constructive please.  

 The trilogy's problem was that it just threw Big Decisions™ in each game and then didn't have the ability to properly follow through. I didn't really see any of that here. The main quest always ends the same way, and the only difference is the fate of a few minor NPC's and the fate of the exaltation facility, which isn't that big a deal either. 

1: This is a new game series taking place in the same universe. If you can't accept it as something new, then that is your fault not the game's, or the publishers. It's like being fed two different plates of food and being angry they don't tastes the same. If you dislike the scond plate, are you seriously saying you would have liked it if it had been served under a different name?

2: The characters in ME1 did not suck, but your love for them is caused by having had your eyeballs surgically replaced with rose colored glass balls. All the characters in the first game are stock characters, well written for what they are, but nothing special. Garrus, who seems to be the most popular in the franchise, more or less dissapears from the game as a character after you complete his loyalty mission (which is unintentionally hilarious), he just stands in the corner and repeats himself. He is just a stock Dirty Harry space cop character. As someone who never played any of these games when they first came out, and has never played any of the games on their own, the first game is VERY flat in the characterization area. As a first game in a franchise the characters are much more shallow then the ones in DAO, or in Andromeda for that matter. Can anybody recall any great dramatic character moments with anyone from the game?

3: Mordin is a rare jewel of writing, but he is pretty much alone in that for this franchise. I liked Legion to (probably not as much as you do), but I simply can't believe you loved him in ME2 before playing ME3. My disbelief in that is predicated enirelyy on him barely being in the game, having almost nothing to do in the game, and haing very little to say in the game. Outside of thinking that an image of a Geth trooper with a sniper rifle and an N7 attachment on his arm is cool, I can't see how he jumps up to insta-fave. 


And for my last florish of provocation before exit...Pebee is better than Drax! ::runs like the wind::

1. Gah!  I always do food analogies to make points!  You are beating me at my own game damn it!!
2.  I loved Wrex and Garrus.  But I was raised on Dirty Harry movies, and I like the disillusioned cop shtick.
3.  No one loves Legion as much as me!  NO ONE!!!!!!!
4.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

A sensible solution would be to get rid of him entirely. I love Drack, but I think his character really said all he needed to in this game. Heck I'd even have him go out in a blaze of glory somehow in the first half of the next game (maybe even sooner, like in an expansion). 

How many characters in the trilogy had the same writers throughout? I am really asking because I don't know. Did Garrus' writer take a screenwriting course between ME1 and ME2?