AdmiralCheez wrote...
ADLegend21 wrote...
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You know, of all the people you listed, it seems that the only two people who have serious trouble getting over sh*t are Jack and Garrus. And yet humans are "complex individuals," while aliens just "have more issues/trouble getting over them." You handwave any problems the humans might have as a minor trait or praise them for their "humanity," but when an alien approaches you with a similar problem or character flaw, they're "whiny." The difference in language is most telling.
Everybody thanks you for your help after their LM and receives enough closure to focus completely on the mission. You are creating a false dichotomy between those who are human and those who are not.
So yeah, you racist.
(Not saying the people who say Kaidan is whiny and Ash is a xenophonic zealot aren't also batsh*t.)
EDIT: TYPO, YOU CANNOT HIDE FROM ME.
Oh not every non human is whiny, no, and despite what you're trying to say I'm not racist toward the Aliens, but in contrast to the supremely high standard everyone sets them at on this forum, they're not all that and a bag of chips (yes I'm old...GET OFF MY LAWN) Garrus is touted as space batman when he's nowhere near the idealist, strategist, or as tough as bruce wayne, in fact he whines through the whole series. You meet him, he's whining about his c-sec investigation when he's trying to investigate a spectre. It's classified by the council get over it and find another way to do your job. AFter you recruit him he goes on with his "rules only prevent me from doing my job" funny shepard does his/her job and follows the rules, go figure. Skip 2 years into the future you find him on laless Omega pinned down my Mercenary gang he and his team pissed off. He doesn't shut up about it. Every one of hi conversations comes back to his omega team, even during the romance scene it's "I just want something to go right, not like my team on Omega, they were all good men" Shepard didn't shower and freshen up to hear you whine Garrus. *headbutt*
Tali is a naive girl who also doesn't grow much in the two years between Games. sure she's leading stike ops and recovering a distressed Quarian on pilgrimmage but she is way over her head as a commanding officer and on freedoms progress her team completely disregards her authority and tries to screw Shepard over and end up dead. That can be forgiven as lack of experience but then when you get back to knowing her she's questioning Shepard's decision to work with cebrerus (understandable) offering support Understandable and then 'oh snap my dads a war criminal let's not tell anyone or I'll hate you ok? um...WUT!? Not to mention that she still doesn't even consider that her stance on the geth and the mourning war are the least bit wrong even when there's a talking geth to prove her wrong and even explain the Geth's side and their actions over the passed 300 years. People call Ashley a racist but Tali gets off scott free for 'The Geth are villians we are victims" when it's the other way around. I honestly wanted to trade her for qwib qwib after her LM.
Wrex is also put up on a pedestal that he doesn't deserve. He's sort of boring in ME1 and is sort of a Krogan wikipedia, though he does have that one story about Saren to switch things up. He then throws a tantrum on Virmire which is understandable because it's a genophage cure, but of course it's in the wrongest hands it could be in and he does relent and go on to lead the Krogans to the right path without the Genophage. He should get credit for being important until the two characters mentioned above him
In contrast to the 9 Alien squadmates who are "cool yo" the 7 "boring ass" humans in my opinion do have the best writing and it's not jsut because their human, it's that they represent all the different faces of humanity in Mass Effect. Kaidan represents the first generation of human biotics since he had to endure brain camp. Ashley represents the dedication soldiers of the Alliance have even though the Williams family is blacklisted (until ME3 it seems as she's now a Spectre) Jacob represents the part of humanity that wants to take the fight to the Reapers since he switches from the Alliance to Cerberus to help the colonies being attacked by Reaper agents. Miranda represents the Cerberus point of view as she's been a part of them her entire adult life. Jack represents part of the under belly of humanity and cerberus. She was raised a s a test subject and after she escaped that she was a criminal. Zaeed was a Mercenary for the last 20 years of his life after founding one of the merc groups you just obliterate throughout the course of ME2 and has stories that no one else besides maybe Samara could match.
I do love the characters and backstories of Mordin and Samara. They both have interesting views on the Galaxy and have done some pretty important things for the Galaxy and it shows in their characters. But this whole "Aliens are awesome humans suck" is the wthing I'm trying to fight since hte Aleiens do tend to be overrated and the humans are vastly underrated by the BSN and various "journalists." (yeah I'm looking at you writer that called Ashley and kaidan 'lesser humans')
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