From favorite to least favorite:
1: Mordin. Ethical issues despite his conviction of the necessity of the genophage, hilarious conversations about Shepard's sex life, and he sings! He seems to be the only squadmate who realizes how important the mission is compared to all other problems and thanks Shepard for giving him the opportunity to be there. I loved talking to him, even though I don't agree with him. And he's pretty damn useful in combat, too. "Flammable! Or inflammable. Forget which. Doesn't matter!"
2: Thane. Any dude who quotes Hobbes is fine in my books. His recruitment mission is a lot of fun, and I like how he remains slightly suspicious of you even after learning who you are. His loyalty mission is my favorite in the game, because it lets me abuse my status as a Spectre and punch Thane's son/shoot a politician in front of the police without anyone caring. He was only ever really useful in combat on my Adept playthrough, though. The warplosions were epic.
3. Garrus. My naïve, impressionable younger buddy from ME1 grew up into the g*ddamn turian batman! I wish he'd have more to talk about if Shepard isn't romancing him, but oh well. *brofists Garrus*
4: Miranda. I understand her troubles about her self-esteem because of being engineered to be perfect, only to run into the Mary Sue that is Shepard, but Miri loses all my sympathy when she tries to defend Cerberus. Seriously, Bioware; you make me work for the bad guys, you give me a cheerleader for their cause, and all she can say about their screw-ups is "It wasn't us, not really." She's lucky she's so useful in combat, or she'd never be this high on my list.
5. Legion. Interesting concept, but rather boring execution. Also not very useful in combat until he gets the Widow, because he can't spam combat drones like Engineer Shepard. He gets points for doing the robot. :3
6. Grunt. What's that? Your loyalty mission is all about shooting stuff with big guns? Awesome! Let me get the Cain! I liked Grunt's weird sense of humor and his I AM KROGAN, but he was kind of boring compared to Wrex. It's always fun to watch him charge husks, though.
7. Tali'Zorah. She was boring in ME1 because she was a walking Quarian encyclopedia entry, and she's boring in ME2 because she's a total Shepard fangirl. Not to mention her continued whining that the Quarians were totally justified in trying to massacre the race of slaves they created. If Liz Sroka didn't do such a good job with her voice I wouldn't like Tali at all. Her loyalty mission is fun because it finally lets me yell at people who have their heads so far up their own @ss they're convinced their petty problems are worth Shepard's time.
8. Samara. Congratulations on being more boring than Liara. Also, what's going on with your boobs? No, seriously, what's going on down there? Do you hold them up using mass effect fields, or something? And you have the worst loyalty mission because it forces me to acknowledge the existence of Morinth.
9. Jack. Why am I recruiting a psychopath again? Samara already fills the position of powerful biotic on the team, and I see no reason why a paragon Shepard would cause a prison riot just to free one over-powered lunatic. An over-powered lunatic who turns out to be bloody useless in actual combat. And don't forget: "It's like... I'm a dangerous ****. But then I'm a little girl again." This is worse than the priiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiize.
10. Zaeed. We don't get to know much about him because he is DLC. What we do learn seems to be pretty interesting, but he ruined it for me by spending his entire loyalty mission whining about how this is his show and Shepard is just some tagalong. He hasn't been loyal... uh, ever.
11. Jacob. Dear Bioware, dudes who say things like "Doing a good deed is like pissing yourself in dark pants: a warm feeling, but no one notices." should not turn out to be such disappointing, passive-agressive douchebags. Jacob really seems to be the victim of the most schizophrenic writing in the game. On the one hand, they try to show him as the down-to-earth guy who wants to spill drinks with Shepard once everything is over, but on the other hand some of the things he does and says really makes it seem like he doesn't respect or even like Shepard very much. His romance suffers from this, too: there's lots of kissing and hand-holding, and Shepard actually has a chance to talk about her feelings about dying and having to save the galaxy, but there's also Jacob and Shepard talking to the other as if they're a piece of meat. And the priiiiiiiiiize. And Jacob has an even more useless skillset than Jack and isn't useful in combat unless you give him that Geth pulse shotgun thing. I guess he's my least favorite character because he turned out to be such a disappointment. I was so looking forward to a more relaxed version of Kaidan...

Edited because I can't count to 11, apparently.
Modifié par UnDutchable, 13 août 2010 - 09:02 .