Mass Effect 3 - Page 6

I get that Grunt, Jacob, Samara, Jack, Thane, Zaeed, and Kasumi were "cool" and has interesting personalities but how important were they to the story beyond gameplay? If these were cut out they could have spent more time developing Miranda for example. See how developing Miranda also means learning more about Cerberus? This is much more meaningful character development.

Interactions with ME1 characters were also crappy. I mean these are the only other people besides Anderson and Cerberus who believe that there is an apocalypse coming, and with the possible exception of Garrus and Tali all they're concerned with is petty bullshit. Hello morons we spent a game learning about how Reapers have been killing galactic civilizations off over and over again. It makes no sense to spend time doing anything but trying to find out more info about Reapers. Lair of the Shadow Broker was good but Liara needed to be after the Shadow Broker to get Reaper intel not to save a random fucking frog dude. Come on Liara you know 1 trillion more frogs are going to die if we don't stop the Reapers.

But even more importantly, I wished they'd told a different and deeper main story. If you have to kill Shepard, use a better rationale for spending so many resources on potentially maybe possibly reviving him other than he's the only one who can lead a series of straight forward assault and reconnaissance missions. Others who've complained about this have suggested that they should have revived Shepard for the Prothean information and Cypher in his head. This is a great reason for revival in terms of both plausibility and story-telling. Shepard is literally the only person in the galaxy with this info so you really do need just him and it's easy to tie this in with the story you're about to tell.

Then the rest of the story should have been about Shepard either searching for a weapon against the Reapers or trying to find out how they could come back from dark space. If you must include Collectors/human colonies disappearing have it be for something better than a human fetus reaper. I mean we're trying to stop maybe hundreds or thousands of reapers from coming back and destroying all of civilization and ME2 was about stopping one reaper in development stage you could kill with hand weapons?

Instead, make the Collectors be gathering humans to feed into and create some sort of new Mass Relay that would allow the Reapers to come back. Have Cerberus set Shepard on the right track but Shepard's unique insight into Reapers and Protheans should be the key to him discovering this. Shepard should ultimately fail to stop the creation of the new mass relay (or stop one of them but there were more or something). However he could discover more Prothean information that could help him fight the Reapers in ME3. Bam you're set up great for ME3. And this is just a shitty bare bones outline of what they could have done.

But whatever giant skeletal human fetus reaper much cooler right? I mean you can kill it fast with a hand nuke so how tough is the incoming Reaper invasion really? Russia could probably kill the whole invasion with their nuclear stockpile alone. Never mind we have no idea how the Reapers are going to return from dark space or how to fight them. My guess is they'll pack all that into ME3, have Shepard kill Reapers fast with deus ex machina weapon of doom in remaining game time, and then focus on multiplayer and achievements. And fill in the rest with expensive DLC to make more money. Goddamn I hate where the modern video game industry is going.