Killjoy Cutter wrote...
Again, MEH.
It would be utterly contrived if every single one of them had a personal reason to go after the Collectors. They were recruited for their abilities or their previous loyalties to Shep (Tali, for example), not for their personal grudges against the Collectors.
This whole "WHY AREN'T THEY CONNECTED TO THE MAIN PLOT BY PERSONAL ISSUES?!?" thing was one of Smudboy's complaints back before he was banned here, and my response now is the same as it was then.
Then why doesn't the personal mission connect them?
Let me give an example:
Tali's loyalty mission is probably my favorite among them. Combines combat with dialogue and I felt like my choices will actually matter. But it has nothing whatsoever to do with the main narrative (the Collectors) So why couldn't it have been linnked in somehow?
Maybe Tali comes up with the idea to talk to her father to find out if there's any sign of the Collectors and geth working together, as they both serve the Reapers? Only to find the Fleet in an uproar and tali charged with treason?
Or they arrive at the Fleet to get schematics for the Cyclonic Barrier?
Maybe the original purpose to revisit the Teltin facility was to get plans for a prototype amp for Jack, and while searching through the place, she decides she want to nuke it when they go?
The Normandy doesn't have all the materials needed for a Thanix (What, you seriously think a gun's made entirely of platinum?) so they decide to hit a Blue Suns base for parts. While there, Garrus learns that Sidonis was currently hiding out on the Citadel.
It's less a matter of "Why aren't they connected to the plot by personal issues?" It's "Why aren't they connected to the plot at all?" Why do their stories have to be reduced to nothing more than checkmarks on a list of variables?