Ryder too soft

BTW, I've never played a BW game any other way, so yeah.

I remember being near a comm buoy and having Joker ring up the Council.  I'd listen to them.  Then, Sparatus would make one of his racist comments and I'd hit that disconnect button.  Never felt bad about it.  What's odd, though, is that Shepard was never fired or reprimanded for it.

Ryder is actually in a better position.  The special SAM implant can't be removed without risking Ryder's life.  SAM might not be okay with that, especially having been emotionally(?) attached to Alec and then the twins.  They might have to do without a human pathfinder if choosing to remove Ryder from the position.  And, given how advanced the Hyperion SAM is, perhaps he could even influence the other SAMs.  

1. that was scripted not roleplaying.

2.pull a gun means nothing if you can't do anything with it.

3.Do people not read this? " Shepard could not do jack because the sc mission was not done yet" ....Sc meaning suicide mission.

wait Addison is one thing but Tann is just a bootlicker that's cliging to power. You can call him out on his crap and  curse at him...he just rolls with the punches. He's too spinless to get in your face and too ready to ride on your coat tail of you success. you say he disrespects you i ask when?

Only time that he does stand his ground is when there is a legitimate risk and even then when you are done he just rides your coat tails again.

Sure, maybe they didn't outright tell Tann to go screw himself but they still plotted to go directly against his orders.  Cora actually raises that point when Ryder mentions they're going to Meridian. Then Tann realized he'd been wrong.  Ryder did the equivalent of what Shepard did in stealing the Normandy to go to Ilos.

You do understand I'm taking about a scripted event where the play has no control over Shepard at all right?

Like telling Sloane off to her face and disarming Kaetus?  Or getting into a bar brawl with Drack? Maybe going to Meridian against direct orders not to do so?  Promotion of visiting Kadara Port while Tann is telling people to avoid it?  Allowing Knight and Sloane to be assassinated?  Letting Aroane be dropped into a bottomless pit?  

Ryder isn't Shepard.  Whether or not Ryder could grow into a similar role is not the point.  Ryder has a set background and the personality grows out of it.  It's not like being an Earthborn Butcher of Torfan (though I've done that and played Paragon anyway).  If Ryder isn't shooting allies in the back because they disagree with him it's because his role is to make things better not worse.  You could argue that the seriousness of Shepard's missions allowed for more extreme measures but the same can't be said for Ryder.  As I said, he could possibly grow into that role but at 22 and being forced into a role he didn't expect, it's taking some time to find his feet.  I'd say the major win at the end of MEA would give him a confidence boost and should help him grow should BioWare choose to put him in MEA2.

Not leaving the factory works behind to die is the only way for it to happen but still Shepard pulls the gun with no player input what so ever.  My comment was a counter to someone saying that a scripted action was Shepard doing something about Zaeed pull a gun on him ignoring the point that I made that you could not kick him off the ship for doing that unless you do the mission after the suicide mission.

read my addendum above on my last post

This is not an unreasonable objection.

In ME1, I was a loyal Alliance marine (even as a Spectre, there still seemed to be loyalty to the Alliance, especially if you did all those UNC missions). I fought Cerberus in ME1 and saw that they were terrorists. Then, in ME2, I wake up in a Cerberus facility and work for them. To me, that's a major disconnect. Where was my option to bail on Cerberus? How come I couldn't RP that?