Unpopular Opinions?

Oh boy do I agree with this so much, if my only choices were Havarl or the frozen waste of Voeld, I'd choose the latter, I'm not bothered by the critters, it's getting around Havarl that irritates the hell out of me, but them I'm not a platform fan, it doesn't help that I have to use that annoying game mechanic in the vaults either.

I'm not sure if this counts as unpopular (or if anyone cares), but I wish Bioware would replace the dialogue wheel in future games. Even with a voiced protagonist (and despite any redundancy), I would prefer a list of what is actually being said. The emotional cues and paraphrases don't always help when the protagonist says something I wasn't expecting.

There was a neat mod for Fallout 4 that listed the spoken dialogue, replacing the wheel. Some kind of toggle in the preferences menu between the wheel/listed dialogue would be nice.

Part of the reason the krogan chose Eladden was because they didn't think anyone else would want it. I assume you are referring to the moon where Drack's loyalty mission takes place? We don't know much about that moon. Just because there is water doesn't mean it's livable or good for farming. It looked like mostly sheer cliffs, which would be hard to grow crops on. It could also be tidally locked and be perpetually twilight/night there, much like Eladden where it is always daylight (except during eclipses).

It was stupid for Bethesda to ever get rid of showing you exactly what your character would say to begin with.  I don't know why they replaced the vast dialogue options they had before for Bioware's vague dialogue wheel.  Even with the voiced protagonist, if a mod author can make that option, Bethesda had no excuse.  I love, love, love Fallout 4, but that was a stupid design choice.  It's obvious they were really inspired by Bioware games when making Fallout 4 over Fallout 3 (both games I love individually).



On topic:  I don't know if this is necessarily unpopular - I'm basing it on people that wanted Andromeda's story to be more grim and gritty like Mass Effect 2 - I enjoy the more lighthearted touches to this story, in addition to really enjoying the more happy, uplifting conclusion to the game akin to ME1 as opposed to ME2 and ME3.  There's enough dark and depressing already in real life.  When a game lets me become a champion that others look up to with a happy ending, I'll take it!

I've seen a lot of people hating on Cora because of her obsession with the Asari which, if you talk to her enough, can easily be understood and even resolved during her loyalty mission. I think she gets so much undeserved hate because of it. The only criticism I accept is that it's a shame she's not bi, but we can't do anything about that, can we? Aside from that, I think the fandom is VERY hypocritical when it comes to it since people seem to forget how obsessed Peebee is with the Remnant for literally no reason at all. Literally all Peebee talks about is: flirting, the Remnant, leaving. Like? How is that... interesting? Her romance arc is weirdly paced and awkward especially if you take the full romance path and her unfounded obsession with the Remnant right from Eos up until the end of the game is so obnoxious. So yeah, Peebee should be the one considered "boring" and "annoying" instead of Cora because at least she has some depth.

You will find no shortage of folks annoyed by PeeBee. With Cora "all she talks about are Asari!" is a men-speak for "she does not have long flowing locks and improbably large luminous eyes." Add an extra foot of thick wavy hair - and she could have had three lines of dialogue, and be a fan favorite.

I disagree, tbh, because it actually took Gil quite a bit of time to talk to me about Jill, I remember talking to Cora mostly about hydroponics and gardening, rather than Asari, and PeeBee has barely mentioned commitment issues, and was more about needing to discover something new. This is standard dialogue writing for BioWare, all of their characters have two or three main topics they will keep bringing up in their sequences. If you overall like the char, or interested in the topic, it's not grating. If you don't like it, you go, oh, boy, not that same crap again.  It's been that way since BG2 and never changed. But, as time went on, characters started to comment more on game's events, and so they do in Andromeda.

I think overall people need to chill. The fandom does tend to hate on human squadmates a lot more than alien ones because they consider them "boring". The problem with Liam and Cora though, and I've heard more complains about Cora, is that they're not bi or gay. So people who expected them to be romanceable by the same gender can't help hating on them and being bi myself, I don't understand it. I really wish they were both bi too, but not to the point of dismissing their personalities and hating them because of it. At the end of the day, it is what it is and we just have to be satisfied with mods. I just get so annoyed by how much hate they get. Same thing happened with Miranda and Jacob with ME2...

Nah. Rather, the game would be even better if Liara had smuggled herself aboard the human ark and became a seventh squadmate, right? Then we'd get to have her hit on Ryder, spy on him/her, and put a piece of your pathfinder armor on display in her room for purely platonic purposes...



Seems to be the case from what I've seen of Miranda. All she ever talks about in ME2 and ME3 is her father, a plot that to me was boring to begin with, yet she's a fan favorite.

I think TW3 did a better job of the dialogue paraphrases.  But TW3 benefits from having only one potential protagonist, with a predictable tone (gruff and snarky) for most of his dialogue.  That's probably easier than juggling four different tones like ME:A did.  

True. I, for one, used to hate Liara with a passion. She just annoyed me all throughout the trilogy. Her basically worshipping Shepard especially in ME1 got on my nerves real fast but by ME3 I thought she'd become much more interesting. Obviously she'd had character development (with the Shadow Broker and all), to the point where I actually considered romancing her in another playthrough and if I'm not mistaken, I think she's rather popular among the fandom in general. She's still not my favorite but where other squadmates just didn't do it for me in any games, I actually changed my mind about her a bit later thanks to ME3 and probably Lair of the Shadow Broker too. Though I'm surprised that Miranda would be a fan-favorite. From what I've heard, she's either hated or idolized to be honest.