Skillz1986 wrote...
Just think i should make it clear. i did not really have problems on benning, just didn't enjoy it. i do not like to play me or any COVERBASED 3rd person shooter (rpg in this case) in a run and gun manner. just doesn't feel right. i like to proceed tactically, like knocking two guys on their asses wit concussive shot/slam/throw, while focusing on the third and/or pushing forward. On benning his was not possible due to constant backspawns.
Agreed. I still don't know how anyone got less trouble at Benning than Sanctum, but I feel exactly the same way about the run and gun crap. I seriously hate grenades in this game. They serve very little purpose other than to force you into that run and gun. And on insanity (probably hardcore too) it's OHKO. OHKOs suck ass in general.
Uncle Jo wrote...
Same here. my dream-team was Grunt/Legion. With them I felt invincible. I still can't get over the fact, that none of them was playable in ME3... It's a big loss...
Widow and Claymore. That's some terrifying backup you've got there.

I thought the amount of ME2 characters that were playable again was atrocious. We really only had the "core" that's stuck with Shepard since the first: Garrus, Liara, and Tali. I could understand losing his team after dying and spending 2 years on a mad scientist's table... but a few months in the brig and everybody's gone? 'the hell?
Legion: No good reason he couldn't join Shepard on a few missions between the geth dreadnought and the final Rannoch mission. Also, I feel his death was pretty much just an excuse why he wouldn't be a permanent squad member. And I still don't see why he couldn't be. What, is there some rule that we can only have 1 of any alien race and EDI already had dibs on synthetic? Stupid, stupid, stupid. I want my geth BFF!
Mordin: I can kind of understand Mordin's. He couldn't join on missions because he was busy in the lab. And afterwards... well, very few veteran players had him live because you have to kill both Wrex and Eve. New players who didn't import and get that douchenozzle Wreav (I don't know about Maelon's data how that goes), well, they wouldn't really appreciate Mordin the same way anyway. Unlike Legion's, I didn't think Mordin's death was really forced. It was done beautifully and as much as I love Mordin I'd rather he got the death he truly wanted, one of atonement, than spend an extra few weeks shooting stuff with Shepard and then keel over of old age in a month.
Thane: Again, very understandable. For obvious reasons.
Jacob: I don't
want that maggot back.
Miranda: I don't really understand her either. And God, I wish she'd shut the hell up. "Shepard, my father has Oriana!" "Okay, let's go get her." "Nah, it's okay." Over and over. Neurotic pain in the ass.
Jack: She was written out of it in a very nice way, but she definitely seemed to be written out. It struck me as "find a good reason Jack can't come back with Shepard" rather than "I guess if she's doing this now, she can't help Shepard."
Samara: Pretty much Jack's summary. Except the "very nice way" part.
Zaeed: ... Honestly, I just didn't care. But it's better he stays away anyway. I'm not sure the fabric of reality can handle the sheer concentrated scarrage of him and Hackett in the same room.
Kasumi: She never should've been a squad member in the second game to begin with. No offense to her fans. She's just not a fighter. It says right in her bio, she specializes in avoidance, not combat.
Earthborn_Shepard wrote...
The whole Quarian/Geth arc made me almost hate the Quarians and love the Geth
To be fair to the quarians, it was hundreds of years ago. I'm sure the quarians of current day had no idea how it truly played out. In fact, one of the admirals... I forget her name. Tali's aunt? I talked to her after the geth server mission once and she said how disturbing the report was, as it was
nothing like what they were taught happened growing up. But the quarians of 300 years ago? Yeah, total pricks.